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141. Valuable Authograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents

Auction House:  Sotheby
Date:  tuesday 13 and wednesday 14 march 1979
Title auction:  Valuable Authograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents including the Mercator Atlas of Europe
Details:  The Papers of the Explorer James Augustus Grant including his Autograph Journal for his celebrated journey in search of the Source of the Nile (1860-1863) and the original water-colours made on the Exploration - the Papers of General Sir Eyre Coote (1762-1823) - the Papers of Georges Frederic Watts "England's Michelangelo"- the Papers of Sir Harry Luke -the Papers of Enid Bagnold author of National Velvet - a Love Letter of Nelson to Lady Hamilton - an Autograph Letter by Andrew Marvell - Documents signed by Sir Walter Ralegh and Guy Fawkes - Autograph Poems by Jane Austen, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, William Cowper and William Wordsworth ("The Solitary Reaper") - the Autograph Manuscript of an unrecorded story by Swinburne entitled "A Nine Days Wonder" - important series of Letters by Churchill, Dickens, Dodgson, E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, T.E. Lawrence, David Livingstone, W.M. Thackeray and Edward Fitzgerald, John Ruskin and P.G. Wodehouse (to Guy Bolton) - a Letter written by Coleridge sixteen days before his death  and a cheque signed by Charles Dickens made out for the day after his death 
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Auction House:  Sotheby
Date:  tuesday 13 and wednesday 14 march 1979
Title auction:  Valuable Authograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents including the Mercator Atlas of Europe
Details:  The Papers of the Explorer James Augustus Grant including his Autograph Journal for his celebrated journey in search of the Source of the Nile (1860-1863) and the original water-colours made on the Exploration - the Papers of General Sir Eyre Coote (1762-1823) - the Papers of Georges Frederic Watts "England's Michelangelo"- the Papers of Sir Harry Luke -the Papers of Enid Bagnold author of National Velvet - a Love Letter of Nelson to Lady Hamilton - an Autograph Letter by Andrew Marvell - Documents signed by Sir Walter Ralegh and Guy Fawkes - Autograph Poems by Jane Austen, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, William Cowper and William Wordsworth ("The Solitary Reaper") - the Autograph Manuscript of an unrecorded story by Swinburne entitled "A Nine Days Wonder" - important series of Letters by Churchill, Dickens, Dodgson, E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, T.E. Lawrence, David Livingstone, W.M. Thackeray and Edward Fitzgerald, John Ruskin and P.G. Wodehouse (to Guy Bolton) - a Letter written by Coleridge sixteen days before his death  and a cheque signed by Charles Dickens made out for the day after his death