The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-02

is represented In the collection. His letter recommends to the consideration of the American Minister at Berlin a young friend of Caihoun's. The letter was written in ts40.
 John Earl of Marlborough.
 A letter from the great Duke of Marlborough, the first of his name and race, calls to memory the war in Fiand- CTS. It certifies that Art Van Floy had followed and was in his army from Ghent to Brussels. from Brussels lo Rotterdam and from Rotterdam to Helvestur. The certificate to Van Floy's services was signed with the high sounding title of John, Earl of Marlborough, General and Commander of Their Majesties' Forces in the States of the Central Provinces" and 1t bears date of November If. l6Ss, There has lately been added to the collection a letter from the Duke of Wellington.
 It is a far cry from the Great Duke to the Swamp Fox of Revoiutionary fame, but Francis Marion has place in the collection side by side with John Earl of Marlborough. The Marion document Is a receipt for food and forage. confiscated by the Colonial Army and for which the Swamp Fox had no money in hand to pay.
 A curious and interesting exhibit IS an autograph copy of an essay m madaeval Italian. written by Pope John XXI. It was Pope John o wno directed the suppression of the order of the Knights Templar. The essay has a special interest First of all. II is written In the scholarly handwrit' ing of the monks who attained cler- teal excellence in the days before type and printing were invented.
 In a draw of the collection is kept a large pay sheet of an American regi- ment of King George, III. This pay sheet for the monarch's troops doing duty in America bears the signature of both King George and his Minis fer. Lord North. The pay sheet shows that the three leading officers or the regiment were Leutenant-G General whitman, Sir Jeffrey Amherst and Lord John Murray. The regiment was called "The Kings Own Regiment or Foot"
 His descendant and successor to the crown or England, Queen Victoria, IS represented in the collection by let ter directed to her sister-in- law, the Duchess of saxe-Coburs.
 A Papal Document.
 .yexed by the so-calied Reforma- tion." Cardinal Brescius. who later oe- came Pope Plus VII, wrote strong essay against Martin Luther ana his Successors in 1771. The essay came into the hands of Mir. Brown and Is carefully preserved with the other au- tobiographical curiosities.
 To Alaba mians there Is special in- terest attaching to the letter Of Gen- eral and Bishop Leonidas POLK bearing date of Feb. 4. 1882. Bishop FOLK writes from tho field to give his Epis- copal consent to the consecration or Rishop R. H. Winner as Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama.
 There Is in the collection a contract signed by that picturesque character or southern and Southwestern history Sam Houston. after he bad made his Texas raappearance. The contract was made in Liberty County of that State in 1888 and had to do with some land. It was sigr ed also by William Walliss, the party of the second part.
 There Is nothing rarer in the entire collection than the pay sheet of the Lord Lieutenant of the Tower of Lon don in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Sir John Payton was in charge of the Tower at that time. The payroll was for the quarter ending Christmas. 1902, and Is countersigned by Lord Robert Cecil, famous minister of queen Elizabeth as we'll as by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The payroll Is nlled with good old English names and 1t Is
 
 thirty eight turnkeys received 3S cents A day. Lord Lieutenants, however, got an annual salary of $1.000, which was equivalent to $5,000 year in the pres ent time
 Ar ether interesting exhibit shows tho rapid fire governmental change in France in the times of Napoleon. The paper Is signed by the famous Keller man. The document was written on l-l- .lexl.. .II iokN aVNaf for the French Monarchy, put before 1t was used the French Republic had been established. The printed letter head originally bore the words The Nation, the King" but the astute Kel- Herman drew his ren through the hated word, king and wrote over 1t the words, The Law" The document is a rcccmner dation for tho promotion of Francis Joseph, Nicholas, a Bedonin. who was in charge of the portage of tac of Kellerman's expeditions.
 From Thomas Jefferson.
 MT Brown has. too. a letter accom- panvins a gift from Thomas Jefferson to his particular frieno. Norbonne Nich- ols. Governor of Virginia. The Jeffer- son letter Is farked by one of Jeffers- on's published works in the Louisiana Purchase, with corrections and annota- tions in the handwriting of the Sage of Monticello
 These are in the main the most in teresting of the autographic curios of Mir. Brown. The list could be pro- longed by :he addition of a score or more of letters and signatures of other men who held a prominent place in history. There are, for instance, sey- eral papers bearing upon the illustrious career of Robert E. Lee. the signature of King George l.. of Raphael Semmes and of the Great Commoner, Henry Clay.
 he sturdy and its signatory museum affords most pleasant hour for any man who has liking for things his-