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Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
EXTRAORDINARY ASSEMBLAGE (ALBUM.) Autograph album containing over 300 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by 18th-20th-century musicians, authors, politicians, artists and others, including many letters, some calling cards or clipped signatures, few drawings or musical quotations, few documents, kept by Helen Bronson Hart. Most laid down, few laid in, many identified, an average leaf contains six autographs on recto and verso. 4to, morocco with gilt lettering, worn. Vp, vd
Lewis Carroll. Autograph Note, unsigned, 16 lines, concerning a trick to amuse children. Np, nd Louisa May Alcott. ALS, to Miss Wall, thanking her for a ghost story. 4 pages. Np, 4 September no year Jules Verne. ALS, in French. 1 page. Amiens, 19 December 1898 Mark Twain. AQS: "For a Christian to lose his temper is bad enough; for a razor to do it is worse." Florence, 9 November 1903 Ulysses S. Grant. Partly-printed Document Signed, as President, 4-language ship's papers for the ship Horatio. New Bedford, 8 August 1877 Thomas A. Edison. Brief TLS, thanking for birthday wishes. Orange, 17 February 1927 Anthony Trollope. ALS, concerning the Committee of the New Temple Club. 1 1/2 pages. [London], 25 December 1873 Franklin Pierce. Partly-printed Document Signed, as President, 4-language ship's papers for the ship Alice Maudell. New Bedford, 9 August 1855 John Tyler. Partly-printed Document Signed, as President, 4-language ship's papers for the ship Abraham Barker. New Bedford, 24 September 1845 Oliver Wendell Holmes. AQS. 1886 Frederic Remington. Ink drawing Signed, sketch of bucking horse John Hart. Signature on a 12 Shilling New Jersey note Henry W. Longfellow. Signature and date on a slip of paper. 1876 Ralph Waldo Emerson. Signature, on a calling card James Russell Lowell. Check accomplished and Signed. Cambridge, 20 April 1872 Charles Dana Gibson. Brief ALS. Chicago, [1 September 1893] Theodore Roosevelt. Brief TLS, as President. Washington, 11 February 1908 Harry Houdini. Brief TLS, concerning the Odd Volumes Club. New York, 6 January 1921 Kalakaua; King of the Hawaiian Islands. Signature on a card Charles A. Lindbergh. Brief TLS, concerning an invitation to Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory. New York, 25 June 1928 Andrew Carnegie. Brief TLS. New York, 6 February 1914 John J. Pershing. Brief TLS, declining an invitation. Washington, 29 April 1924 Benjamin Franklin Butler. Brief LS. Fortress Monroe, 10 January 1864 James Buchanan. Clipped Signature William T. Sherman. Signature and rank, on a calling card Jay Gould. ALS, concerning a railroad line staying on their side of the river. 3 1/2 pages. Irvington on Hudson, 10 August 1880 George Dewey. Brief LS. Washington, 28 September 1900 Herbert Hoover. Brief TLS, concerning teaching a youngster. New York, 14 January 1921 Woodrow Wilson. Brief TLS, declining an invitation. Princeton, 2 January 1911 Booker T. Washington. Brief LS, acknowledging a contribution. Tuskegee, 5 October 1901 Amy Johnson. TLS, concerning privileges while traveling on ocean liner. 1 full page. New York, 6 November 1933 Eleanor Roosevelt. Brief TLS. Washington, 31 July 1933 others.
