2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/8/2023
Printed Invitation 5" x 8", penned to Gen'l de Cesnola, in part "The pleasure of your company is requested to meet General Ulysses S. Grant at Delmonicos Saturday, February 5th 1881 at eight o'clock PM in behalf of the United States International Commission of 1883." The committee members are listed, the most noted New Yorkers such as J. Pierpont Morgan, Samuel Sloan, Roswell G. Rolston ... Luigi Palma di Cesnola, (1832-1904), went to New York in 1860, founded an officer training school at the outbreak of the American Civil War, and, for services with the Union Army, was promoted to brigadier general
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