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CHARLES A. SIRINGO - COLLECTION 10/10/1928 - HFSID 323833
CHARLES A. SIRINGO COMBINATION
Combination of the American detective who pursued Billy the Kid and
Butch Cassidy, featuring his signed autograph letter and its original signed
mailing envelope--dated 8 days before his death! Two items.
Combination: 1) Autograph letter signed: "Chas. A.
Siringo" in pencil, 5p, 7¾x10.
Altadena, California, 1928 October 10. To
Hawks. In full: "Your welcome letter of 9/28-28 - to hand. Glad
you have not forgotten me. I have fixed up a 'Den' at my Sons (Lee Roy Siringo)
home in Altadena - the town of High brows and Millionaires. It lays just north
of Pasadena, at the foot of Mount Lowe. This does away with me paying rent.
During the months of June, July and August, I had apartments at the Colehurst,
Corner Santa Monica Blvd. and Vine Street, in the new building built by the Cole
Estate. It is the finest aranged (sic)
Apartment House I ever Saw. It has
every Convenience. A man and wife cleans (sic)
the two rooms every
morning, and changes (sic)
the linen, etc. There are four floors above
the Drugstore, Café, News Stand and barber Shop, with a Self-regulating Elivator
(sic)
. I would advise you to get quarters there next winter at a cost of
$5500 a month. Your wife wouldn't have to turn her hands over, except to
get meals. And if she didn't feel like doing that you could eat at the first
class Café underneath. It is only a few blocks from the 'Water Hole.' Mrs.
Stauffer is the Manager. Her husband manages the Eleanor, a block south, owned
by the Coles. No doubt you met my friend George Townsend Cole - the Artist? My
health has been very poor, but am feeling better now. The Editor of McClures
Magazine in New York wants some short fact stories from my pen. I may make a
deal with them. So watch the Magazine each month. Write when the Spirit moves
you and give my best wishes to Mrs. Hawks." This letter was written
to William E. Hawks,
who Siringo had written to in the past as,
"Historian of the Plains", in Bennington, Vermont. Slightly creased.
Overall, fine condition.
2) Envelope signed: "Chas. A. Siringo/999
Beverly Way/Altadena", 9½x4.
Addressed by him to: "Wm E. Hawks
Esqr/Historian of the Plains/Bennington/Vermont". Partially
postmarked
Altadena, California, October 1928. Postmarked on verso in
New
York City (Oct 15, 1928) and
Bennington, Vermont (Oct 16, 1928).
Upper right torn away, removing postage stamps. Creased and soiled. Worn edges.
Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) had led a posse into New Mexico in pursuit of
Billy the Kid and his gang and then tracked outlaws for Pinkerton's National
Detective Agency from 1885-1907. Among his targets were notorious train
robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Among the many books written by
Siringo about his experiences are Riata and Spurs,
A Texas
Cowboy,
History of Billy the Kid and
A Cowboy Detective.
Siringo mentions that his health is poor. He died eight days later on October
18, 1928. Two items.
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