Collection of 17 items signed and/or written by Charles Sumner, including: an assemblage of 14 ALSs, amounting to 25 total pages, ranging in size from 4 x 6.75 to 8 x 10, dated between 1848 and 1872, each addressed either from Boston or Washington, with several marked “Senate Chamber”; an LS from March 31, no year, written from the “Senate Chamber” and addressed to Charles P. Eaton; an unsigned manuscript written in the hand of Sumner, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 10, September term 1843, headed “Interrogatives to William Savage, Esqr a witness,” which features questions like: “What is your occupation? And how long have you been engaged there?…Have you been an importer of Molasses from the Island of Cuba? If yea, when & to what extent?…Do you know what was the price of Molasses of fair quality is on the Island of Cuba”; and an ADS, signed at the conclusion, “Charles Sumner, Commissioner,” three pages, 7.75 x 13, November 25, 1842, consisting of a 15-part deposition made by William Savage, in part: “I am a merchant, & have been so for forty years…I have been mostly engaged in commerce with Cuba…I have imported a great deal of Molasses from Cuba at different periods, from 1804 to 1807 I was a large importer—from 1822 to 1825 I was a very large importer of molasses—in 1839 & 1840 & 1841 I imported eight or ten cargoes.” Includes an unsigned document relating to the Savage case. In overall very good to fine condition. Accompanied by an original mailing envelope, addressed in Sumner’s own hand.
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