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GARFIELD SIGNED AS PRESIDENT. Printed Check Signed ("J.A. Garfield") as President, accomplished in manuscript in the amount of "$65.38" to White House Steward W.T. Crump, who tended Garfield after he was shot July 2, 1881,
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GARFIELD SIGNED AS PRESIDENT.
Printed Check Signed ("J.A. Garfield") as President, accomplished in manuscript in the amount of "$65.38" to White House Steward W.T. Crump, who tended Garfield after he was shot July 2, 1881, 1 p, 190 x 73 mm, drawn on Riggs & Co, Washington, DC, April 1, 1881, noted No "16" and "Incidental expenses and cook hire," endorsed to the verso, "Wm. T. Crump," old folds, small tears to folds.
WITH: Typed Letter Signed from the President's son ("James R. Garfield") to Mr. T. Proud presenting the signed check in response to an autograph request, 1 p, 4to, on his Law Office stationery, Cleveland, November 1, 1937.
Provenance: Presentation from Garfield's son (letter enclosed); by descent.
RARE CHECK SIGNED BY GARFIELD AS PRESIDENT for his steward William T. Crump who nursed him through his final illness. According to Congressional Records, Crump cared for Garfield so intently that he permanently damaged his own health, "a complication of nervous and organic diseases" (Senate Report 1376, "for the relief of William T. Crump," 1891). Of his patient Crump would faithfully report, "He was always so cheerful and had so much nerve. Why, he used to astonish me with his jokes, even while he was suffering horribly. Suffer? I should say he did. The first week or ten days it was his feet. He kept saying, 'Oh, my God! my feet feel as though there were millions of needles being run through them.' I used to squeeze his feet and toes in both my hands, as hard as I possibly could, and that seemed the only relief he could get" (quoted by Pendel, Thirty-Six Years in the White House, 1902). Garfield served just 200 days in the office, cut short by the bullet of a disgruntled civil servant, William Guiteau. Garfield survived the July 2, 1881, shooting and was nursed valiantly by Crump and his doctors at the White House until the beginning of September, when he was moved to the New Jersey seaside where he died on September 19, 1881. Autographs from Garfield's time in the executive office are rare.
WITH: Typed Letter Signed from the President's son ("James R. Garfield") to Mr. T. Proud presenting the signed check in response to an autograph request, 1 p, 4to, on his Law Office stationery, Cleveland, November 1, 1937.
Provenance: Presentation from Garfield's son (letter enclosed); by descent.
RARE CHECK SIGNED BY GARFIELD AS PRESIDENT for his steward William T. Crump who nursed him through his final illness. According to Congressional Records, Crump cared for Garfield so intently that he permanently damaged his own health, "a complication of nervous and organic diseases" (Senate Report 1376, "for the relief of William T. Crump," 1891). Of his patient Crump would faithfully report, "He was always so cheerful and had so much nerve. Why, he used to astonish me with his jokes, even while he was suffering horribly. Suffer? I should say he did. The first week or ten days it was his feet. He kept saying, 'Oh, my God! my feet feel as though there were millions of needles being run through them.' I used to squeeze his feet and toes in both my hands, as hard as I possibly could, and that seemed the only relief he could get" (quoted by Pendel, Thirty-Six Years in the White House, 1902). Garfield served just 200 days in the office, cut short by the bullet of a disgruntled civil servant, William Guiteau. Garfield survived the July 2, 1881, shooting and was nursed valiantly by Crump and his doctors at the White House until the beginning of September, when he was moved to the New Jersey seaside where he died on September 19, 1881. Autographs from Garfield's time in the executive office are rare.