1908 Vintage file copy of a letter written to a sports writer at the New York Globe who was asking for images of the Chicago White Sox for his newspaper. The response from Charles Comiskey to Charles Mathison indicated he would be including a photograph of himself but he did not have photos of the other players. After the letter was written an annotation in the hand of secretary Harry Grabiner has added that there was a photographer in Boston that had photographs of the ballplayers named "Charles" Horner. It is likely this information was added to the response after this file copy was preserved in Charles Comiskey's scrapbook and it is a fun touch that they had his last name right, but his first name wrong. We know Carl Horner today as the most important early baseball studio photographer of all time, but when this letter was written, the top club owner did not even remember his first name! Offered here for the first time ever, from the scrapbook of Charles Comiskey and the holes on the side are from when the letter was bound into the Comiskey scrapbook.

Size: 8.5x11
Designation: Letter
Condition: 2/5
Quality: 5/5
Overall Grade: 7/10