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460 lots.
"Catalogue no. 1262."
" ... embracing fifty letters from Benjamin Franklin to Miss Mary Stevenson, of London, over twenty letters and documents by General Washington, ten letters and documents by Abraham Lincoln; Lamb's celebrated letter to Coleridge, Cortes' celebrated letter to Charles V, fine letters of Tom Hood, Lord Byron, Percy B. Shelley, Chas. Lamb, Robt. Fulton, Gen. Grant, Jno. Paul Jones, Gen. R.E. Lee, Thomas Paine, John Howard Paine, E.A. Poe, Voltaire, presidents, generals in the Revolution and Civil War, statesmen, &c. Autograph manuscripts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, E.A. Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alex. Pope, Lord Byron, Miss Seward, Alvarado, companion of Cortes, Bret Harte, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Robert Burns, Eugene Field, Thos. Jefferson, Thomas Campbell, Schiller, and others. Association books: books from the library of Thos. Lynch, Jr., the signer, presentation copies from Chas. Dickens, Henry Crabbe Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oocar [sic] Wilde, Mrs. Piozzi, and Bayard Taylor. Documents signed by Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth, James the Second, Wm. Penn, and other great characters. Documents of the greatest historical interest, relating to the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and the Civil War, &c."
McKay, 8240
Place of sale: Philadelphia.
Date of sale: July 1, 1920.
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