Catalogue of autograph letters and historical documents
1921
60 p. ; 25cm Sale code: Icarus Place of sale: London Date of sale: Apr. 11-12, 1921 Comprising the Redgrave Hall muniments, an extensive collection of medieval deeds, charters, etc. relating to monastic and other landed property, and of 16th and 17th century documents connected with the Bacon family, including many letters of Lord Keeper Bacon; letters of Sir Edward Coke, Sir Francis Walsingham, Lord Burghley, Sir Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) and other leading figures of the period; documents signed by James I, Charles II, William II, etc., the property of G.R. Holt-Wilson, esq.; the property of the honble. Mrs. Maxwell Scott (deceased), of Abbotsford (great-granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott), including the autograph mss. of works & reviews by Sir W. Scott and a remarkable series of more than 5,000 letters addressed to Sir W. Scott by the leading men of his day; an extremely important series of letters from Benjamin Franklin (many apparently unpublished). The property of H.S. Chamberlain, esq.; and other properties, including three letters in the hand of Robert Burns; letters of Charlotte Brontë, George Cruikshank (a series), Lod Nelson, Napoleon I; the autograph manuscript of a poem by Longfellow; etc Date given as Apr. 11, 1921 and following day
