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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1485

Peabody, George American-British financier and philanthropist (1795-1869); a cotton trader, he established what would later become JP Morgan Chase; endowed colleges, museums, and libraries, becoming "the father of American philanthropy." Pair of Autograph Letters Signed "Geo Peabody," each 2 pages, 8vo, Georgetown, MA, December 1856 and May 1866. Both are to John S Wright of Boston, the first saying that after Peabody´s illness "the complaint is removed and I have nearly recovered my usual strength..." He also must decline the offer of a place to stay during his visit because he has refused all others. In the second, during his last visit to his country of birth, he notes that Wright is "my OLDEST acquaintance in Boston, ourfirst meeting in Vermont having occurred 60 years ago!" Both letters VG/F. The two men were old friends indeed, having met when Peabody was just ten or eleven years old! As the financier had settled in London in 1837, later letters written in the United States are especially uncommon. [2]

Estimate
$500 to $750