[Rarebooks] FS: Hayes -Tilden: CIPHER DISPATCHES

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

[Whitelaw, Reid]. THE CIPHER DISPATCHES. EXTRA NO. 44. New York: New 
York Tribune, 1879. iv, 44 pp. Sm. 4to. Stitched paper wrappers. 
Galland: Bibliography of the Literature of Cryptology, p. 133. 
Reprint of Extra edition. Contemporary reprint with new introduction 
and small amount of new material.

Before Bush-Gore there was Hayes -Tilden. Describes an incident in 
the election of 1876, the most contested of the 19th century and 
includes a series of cipher dispatches of alleged secret Democratic 
plans to buy off legislators and others in Florida. South Carolina, 
and Oregon to swing the presidential election to Tilden. Introduction 
signed in type R.W. [Reid Whitelaw]. Signed on the front wrapper by 
Ossian Ray (1835-1892) solicitor for Coos County, New Hampshire, a 
member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, delegate to the 
Republican National Convention in 1872, and later a Congressman. A 
very good copy, minor soiling, scattered foxing.  [28391] $250.00

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