The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-31
Chandler, and Benjamin Harris

United States government claimed tc
be the successor of the Confederate
government, and had seized all the
property, but he had not heard Of any
purpose to apply to the Confederate
assets thus seized to payment OF Con-
federate liabilities. In the package
with this letter Mr.. Box has placed
the autographs of all the Confederate
cabinet.
Queen Victoria's autograph appears
on license to plead. With hers are
the autographs Of Lord Palmerston.
the Earl of Dun.nore, the Duke of
Sutherland, the Duke of Northampton.
Lord Beaumont, the Duchess of
Sutherland and King KaIakaua. The
Duke of Argyle when asked for a
sentiment wrote:
Autograph hunters are bad enough.
but sentiment hunters are much
worse.
Nevertheless Mr.. Box secured q
variety of sentiments from his victims.
Bull Run RUSSELL wrote:
must say that infamous autograph
hunters have exacted too much from
US during this visit.
Oscar Wilde wrote:
To disagree with three-quarters of
the British public on all points is one
of the first elements Of sanity. Satire
is the homage which mediocrity pays
to genius.
BARLEY Campbell wrote:
Rags are royal raiment when worn
for virtues sake.
Christine Nilsson wrote:
Is this a dream? Then waking
would be pain.
Mrs. Langtry W -ote:
Gentlemen You oblige me by
you commands.
Adelina Patti wrote:
Music appeals not to class, but {"
mankind. 1t gives us not the real,
but the ideal.
Janauschek wrote:
Things without remedy should be
without regard. What is done is
done.
Barnum wrote:
After paying your several letters
with strict silence, I find it impossible
to choke you of, so must join your
innumerable caravan.
Clara Louise Kellogg wrote:
I thank all who have loved with all
my heart.
Annie Louise Cary wrote;
I do not ask for the ballot, though
my life were at stake.
In the business line, rather than the
sentimental, is one from Gen. Grant:
DEAR SIR:-This will acknowledge
the receipt of your note of this date,
enclosing frank over the Western
Union telegraph lines for the year
1882. thank the company for its
courtesy. US. GRANT.
In the same package are letters
from all the members of Grants cabi-
nets, including Colfax, Hamilton Fish
Henry Wilson, Geo. II. Williams.
Columbus Delano. G. S. Boutwell,,
Alphonso Taft, E. B. Washburne,
Gen. ]. NJ. Scho6eld, Lot NJ. Morrill,,
Borie, Richardson and Robson. The
letter from Colfax is a characteristic
one, refusing to sell at 81 some bonds
of the Western union company that
he held, which he said would 60 up
to 100 within three years. And they
did.
Robeson's propensity for appropria-
tons is shown bv the fact that he
sent his autograph, dated at Camden,
IN. j., on a sheet of the Brevoort
house note paper.
Among the titled names appear
those of King William of Germany
and Bismark, signed to commission
to the collectors father. w. j. K. Box
as consul for Germay in Holland,
dated January 25,s1S69. Next comes
the autograph of King William III.
of Holland, commissioning w. j. II.
Box as minister of justice in the Meth
erlandp, July 81, 1880. The collectors
uncle, by the way, is president of the
Transvaal, 90 that his persistent and
sturdy perserance in the persuit of au'
tographs is fair result ofhis honora-
bic Dutch ancestry. His father was
appointed master Of the Dutch lodge
of the Masonic order in Holland BY
Prince Frederick, whose name is in 8
package with the Dukes of Man
chester and Vaudeville, Sir Edward
Thornton, Sir Hugh Allan, Sir Jane.
Anderson, John Bright, Richard
Golden, Sir Charles W. Dixie
Charles Bradlaugh, w. E. Forster
and Gambetta.
i A popularity Of the collection is
rurohor If autoOranh comics of verses