Rare ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, lightly lined, 6.25 x 8, 1882. Letter to the Gibson Brothers Publishing Company, in part: "This book seems to linger. I wish you send me all the proof Monday. I have advertised the book to nights 'Star,' & it is important to get it out at once. I have asked you about the following matter. 1. I sent a paragraph to close Part II, but have had no proof. Have you got it? 2. I sent you a sketch, two months ago, headed 'Away with Corkhill & the experts.' Have you got it? 3. I sent you a newspaper slip from the Baltimore Sun about my treatment in jail & my improved appearance. Have you got it. If you have these items send me proof at me. I want the sketch to go in between Part II, & the Appendix. I ordered a word cut of it when I sent it. Please send me a written answer by…Monday." In very good condition, with light creasing and toning, and portions of the text (and the entire signature) quite light but fully legible. Accompanied by a letter addressed to Guiteau by an admirer Clara Augusta Davis, who hopes to visit the prisoner, in part: "Father goes to Washington Friday Evening. I have extorted a promise that I may accompany him, and that he will take me to Court; but he will not promise, but refuses, to take me to the jail. Unless I can coax him, before his departure, to do this, or let some friends take me to the jail, I shall pout and be disagreeable—and stay at home." Guiteau was found guilty of the murder of President James A. Garfield and sentenced to hang on June 30, 1882. While awaiting execution, Guiteau composed The Removal, a sequel to his 1879 religious tract,The Truth, a Companion to the Bible. The condemned prisoner employed Gibson Brothers of Washington to print the book as The Truth and The Removal.
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