A two-page letter signed by President George Washington on October 3, 1789, addressed to Conn. Gov. Samuel Huntington, sold for $162,500 in an online-only Rare Auto-graphs, Manuscripts & Books auction held December 11th by University Archives in Wilton, CT. Also, a ship’s passport signed in 1841 by the shortest-serving U.S. President, William Henry Harrison, signed by him in advance as a blank and used by customs agents for a whaling ship, earned $118,750.
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