LA. Group Lot of New Orleans Bank Checks, 1861 Business Correspondence

Louisiana...., Lot of 2 items. Includes a partially-used checkbook leaf from the Bank of America, New Orleans (printed by Paulin Durel, 37 Chartres St.), comprising three check forms; one is completed and dated July 27, 1868, with payee and amount partly obscured by a period ink stain and signed, apparently, "M. Gonzalez," the remaining two checks unused. The verso bears manuscript pencil lyrics titled "Louisiana Day," describing a visitor's tour of a New Orleans exposition — cotton-spinning machinery, a military band, and a whirlwind "visit" to Texas, California, and Kentucky before returning to Louisiana to "celebrate her day"; the exposition imagery is consistent with New Orleans's 1884–85 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, suggesting the lyrics may be a later pencil addition to the blank check leaf rather than contemporary with it. Also included is an autograph letter signed by S. Murdoch, dated October 2, 1861, to a Mr. Shriver, returning $10.00 of

Estimate:$140

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