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LEIGH, VIVIEN. Group of 3 brief Typed Letters Signed, each to John Klimo,
sending thanks for gifts and greetings. Each 1 page, 8vo, blue paper, personal stationery;
each with a minor stain (not affecting signature).
Np, 7 April; 13 November 1952; 15 December 1953
[350/500]
WITH
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Playbill for 1960 production of
Duel of Angels
with Leigh and Mary Ure. 8vo,
printed wrappers, stapled binding.
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LEIGH, VIVIEN; AND LAURENCE OLIVIER. Souvenir program from the
1951 New York production of
Caesar and Cleopatra
, Signed by both (“VivienLeigh” and
“LOlivier”), below their portraits on an interior page. 4to, printed wrappers, stapled bind-
ing; most signatures loose, short tears at spine ends; owner’s inscription on inside front
cover.
[New York, circa 1952]
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“THE SENATE HAVE JUST PASSED MY BILL”
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MORSE, SAMUEL F.B. Autograph Letter Signed, “Saml. F.B. Morse,” to
Representative Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith, announcing that the Senate had passed his
bill [the Act to test the practicability of establishing a system of electromagnetic telegraphs
by the United States] and requesting that he write him in New York where he expects to
be late next week.
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page, 4to, pale blue ruled paper, with integral blank. (AKF)
Washington, 3 March 1843
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“
. . . [T]he matter is decided. The Senate have just passed my bill without division and with-
out opposition, and it will probably be signed by the President in a few hours. This I think is
news enough for you at present . . . .”
In the last minutes of the final session of the 27th Congress on March 3, 1843, a vote was
cast appropriating $30,000 for the building of Morse’s experimental telegraph line between
Washington and Baltmore. It was over this line that Morse sent the words, “What hath God
wrought?” on May 24, 1844. Francis O.J. Smith was one of Morse’s principal partners.
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