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Henry Clay Evans SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED Handwritten Manuscript Letter Tennessee 1902
Henry Clay Evans SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED Handwritten Manuscript Letter Tennessee 1902
Henry Clay Evans SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED Handwritten Manuscript Letter Tennessee 1902

Henry Clay Evans SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED Handwritten Manuscript Letter Tennessee 1902

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  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Signed by: Henry Clay Evans
  • Signed: Yes

    Description

    Handwritten manuscript signed by Henry Clay Evans, Tennessee politician. Dated 1902, and sent while Evans was posted at the American consulate in London. Measures 10.15" x 8".
    Recipient was Captain Edmund Zalinski, born in Poland in 1849, emigrated to America in 1853, and joined the Union Army in 1864 as a teenager. He went on to a long career as a military engineer and inventor, most notably developing the pneumatic dynamite torpedo-gun (called the Zalinski gun). This letter comes from a large archive of material received by Zalinski around the time of the Spanish-American war which he then presented to Gertrude Whiting for her autograph collection.