Lot 1586
(China) "Agency Pacific Mail Steamship Company, San Francisco June 2, 1870", letter to E.W. Kingsley reading "After having seen for yourself the City of San Francisco, and observed the great commercial advantages as well as its importance not only to this Coast, but to our whole country; also having inspected the property of the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company, including their Steamers employed on the China route; I beg it consistent with your views of propriety that you will obtain the signatures of sich of the meinent gentlemen of your Hon. Board of Trade of Boston. [as would be willin to aid our Company in procuring an increase of subsidy] to a telegram addressed to the Hon. Wm. Twitchill. Chairman of the House Committee on Postal Service asking him to use his best efforts in furtherance of that object. Be assured Sir, I feel that the future control of the Asiatic trade, the command of the commerce of the Pacific and the supremacy of our Country's flag in this hemisphere depend on the success of the petition of this Company now before the Congress of the United States. An I deem its succress an object of such paramount greatness, as to justify me in seeking the iad of the excellent and substantial men, who now represent the noble City of Boston in California…Yours with Sincere regard, Oliver Eldridge", Very Fine and interesting letter concerning the PMSS contract.Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $450