Cody, William F. ("Buffalo Bill")

Autograph letter signed ("W.F. Cody"), 2 pages (11 x 8 1/4 in.; 280 x 210 mm) on "Miller & Arlington Wild West Show Co." letterhead reproducing a famous advertising poster, Norwich, Connecticut, 10 July [19]16, to an attorney Henry Hersey (here "Hearsy"), discussing contracts and negotiations. Half morocco and decorated cloth clamshell box, gilt stamped title label and leather fringe on spine.

Buffalo Bill is feeling his age. Hersey was a Denver attorney who represented Cody. From the postscript: "Sometimes I feel like giving up—and letting everything go. Here at my age to find myself pressed on all sides for money — and I am working — where realy[sic] I should go into a hospital and be opperated[sic] on for an enlarged prostrate[sic] gland. The horse back work hurts. And with rain, opposition, war scare etc. I get no dividends and every $100 I get a dozen people want it."