The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-03-03
AN AUTOGRAPH MART.
Value of the Signatures of Number OF
Famous Men and Women.


One of the new fads of the season is
the collection of autograph letters from
living men and women. One day this
week a Broadway shopkeeper showed
me an odd collection and told me the
prices that he hoped to get fox each
letter. One from Browning, the poet,
is marked $3.50. A humorous letter to
President Garfield, signed Mark Twain,
is held at So. The great humorist
says:
1T seems to me that it is better to
have q good mans fattering estimate
of my influence-and keep it-than to
fool it away with trying to get him an
office"
A brief note signed by Wilkie Col
Inns, the novelist, is held at $3.50.
Another from Sir Charles Dixie, the
English statesman, whose escapades
caused sucn a sensation year or more
ago, is valued at 81. One from General
John c. Fremont, the pathfinder, and
the first candidate of the Republican
party for President, is ticketed s. Is.
An autograph verse and signature by
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes is 81 25.
A short letter written by eloquent Bob
mgersoll is not valued very highly. 1t
may be purchased for IS cents. One
from the Marquis of Lorne. ex-Gov-
ernor-General of Canada, may be had
for $1.75. Justin McCarthy's auto
graph is valued at the same figure.
John Ruslin's is more highly priced.
1t is held at $3.50. Clark Russell, the
author of so many weird tales of the
sea, has name of some pecuniary
moment. 1t is marked $3.50. A scrap
of paper signed by General w. T.
Sherman will be sold for s.. A letter
of Sturgeon. the famous English di-
vine, in which he mentions the Tory
press is Outlying me very badly"
may be had for $1.25. A letter from
Charles Algernon Swinburne, the poet,
apologizing for his illegible handwrit-
ing, is valued at 81. One from Sir
Arthur Sullivan, of operatic fame, may
be had for 1915. Another from Alma
Tadema, the distinguished English
artist, is held at $1.75. A badly writ
ten note from Edmund Yates, tho En-
glish journalist, is quoted at $1.25.
The signature of Albani, the sweet sin
ger, may be had for $3.50. Horatio
Algcr, Jr., the writer of boys books,
is not so high priced His may be had
for so cents. Lawrence Barrett, the ac-
tor, can get 81 for his own signature;
George Bancroft, the historian, 81;
James Gillespie Blaine, $1.25; Benja-
min T. Butler, so cents: George
William Curtis, % cents; Samuel Sun
set Cox, the witty member of the House,
so cents; James Freeman Clark, the
eminent Boston divine, 81; Simon
Cameron, the Nestor of Keystone State
politics, Is cents; GeorgeW Childs,
Editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, 50
cents, and the signature of his old
enemy, Chas. A. Dana, Editor of the
New York San, at the same figure;
Rose Eytinge. the actress, so cents;
Edison, the Menlo Park wizard, so
cents; Emily Faithful, the English
philanthropist and writer, $1.25; Cyrus
w. Field, 81; Mary j. Holmes. the
novelist, so cents; ex-President Hayes,
so cents; Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle
Remus," so cents; James Russell
Lowell, $3.50; Modjeska, the actress,
50 cents; Levi P Morten, ex-Minister
to France, only 25 cents; Louise
Chandler Moulton, the Boston writer,
IS cents, Bill Nye, so cents, Edward E,
Rice, the theatrical manager, 25 cents,
and Stuart Robson. the comedian Is
cents; poem by Stedman, &c. sigma
ture by Carl Schurz. so cents; one by
John Sherman, rs cents; Richard A.
Proctor, the astronomer, 1925; and
lola, the French novelist, Sc. so. Three
signatures by people of the stage may
be had for so cents; they are Fanny
Davenport, Mary Anderson and Will
son Barrett. Senator Evarts, Roscoe
Conkling, ex-senator Malone, Senator
Chandler, Fred Douglass, Speaker Car
lilse, Steve Dorsey, Samuel j. Randall
and Senator Vest for % cents each.
The most costly signature is that OF
Ouida, the novelist. $3.50, and the
cheapest Boston's only Mike Kelly, the
ball tosSer, 10 ccnts.-N Y. Cor. 81.
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