This lot includes a 6 ?” x 10 ?” cardboard mailing advertisement for the March 31, 1903 fight between Terry McGovern and Young Corbett which Corbett won by knockout to retain his Featherweight Title. Tack holes in the corners and one piece is chipped. Illustrations of both fighters. Second is one of the earliest boxing envelopes advertising a fight we have seen. This is a Police Gazette envelope which advertises the famous fight between Robert Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher as well as Dixon-Marshall, Walcott-Collins, Everhardt-Leeds and Barry-Murphy. A beautiful vintage 1896 envelope which has been used, but which remains in excellent condition. Next is a photocopy (not an original) of the birth certificate of Robert Fitzsimmons (EX). There are also a group of interesting telegrams. One dated 1908 is from Jim Corbett asking to put down twenty five dollars for the Dixon Movement Fund (the signature is not Corbett’s). Another is from Lord Lonsdale to Nat Fleischer of The Ring complimenting him on a recent writing. Next is a telegram requesting a performer be allowed to sing the national anthem at the Patterson-Liston I Fight. And lastly there is a telegram from Stanley Ketchel to Julie Ketchel in which he simply states, "Won championship 32 rounds hard fight Young Ketchel." This was a reference to his September 2, 1907 fight with Joe Thomas in Colma, California in which he stopped Thomas in round 32 (VG condition).