3266 VERY RARE NEVIN CUSTER LETTER TO GEORGE CUSTER.

Category Firearms & Military
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 500.00 USD
Estimated at 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD
6 page ALS signed "Nev", written over 2 days, March 2-3, 1870 from Tontogany where he was selling the original Custer family homestead, written in pencil, this is only Nevin Custer ALS to his brother George we are aware in private hands. Nevin Custer (1842-1915) was the 2nd oldest of the Custer brothers and only one to survive Little Big Horn. All Custer memorabilia passed from either his children or Libbie as neither George, Tom, or Boston Custer had offspring. He tells George he will not arrive at Fort Leavenworth unannounced. The original envelope addressed to G. A. Custer at Fort Leavenworth accompanies missing stamp. "My dear brother.... I have been looking for a letter from you for some time to see what you thought was best for me to do. What do you think I had better do if I was to buy in Kan[sas] I would like to have a place of about eighty acres or nearly that close to some town pretty well improved with an orchard any way... I would like to go in April. Witch [sic] would be the best if I went to Kan[sas] to come out and look first or move right along. What town do you think you would buy near... If them soldiers would catch us coming in to the fort we would be arrested and put under guard for ninety days. We would not want to stop in Leavenworth no longer then to change cars for our destination...". CONDITION: very good. PROVENANCE: Swann's 2004; Martin Lane Historic & Western Americana Lifetime Collection. (02-21889/JS). $1,000-2,000.