New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-01

MSS. AND DOCUMENTS
Colonial and Revolutionary
RecOrds-The Civil War
Literary Relics.
The Anderson Auction Company will
close its selling season for 1914 during
the present week with a series Of sales
OF important historical and literary au-
tographs. manuscripts and documents. on
Wednesday afternoon. June 3. will be- Of
fered the collection OF the late Rev Edwin
+. Hatfield. consisting chiefly of literary
material. but including also a few Colo
NAL, Revolutionary and early American
items, among them broadsides, letters
and documents OF Hamilton. Jefferson,
Lafayette, Israel and Rufus Putnam.
Lords 4,orth and Stirling. and OF Sam
Houston and Arson Jones. presidents OF
the Republic OF Texas.
rare Voltaire autograph comes first. 1t
refers to the famous CALAIS case. There
are also letters from Thackeray on suf-
frage, Mrs. Stowe on Uncle Tom, the
Rev S. +. Smith on the story of Amer
I ica," Swinburne on unidentified Thack-
cray items. Dickens on Cruikshank, Mary
Shelley, Gladstone, Napoleon, Maria
Theresa. Louis XIV. Twain. Bryant,
Cooper, Holmes. Longfellow, Lowell,
Bishop Berkeley. Warren Hastings and
George Sand.
On Thursday and Friday afternoons,
June and 8, will be sold the autograph
letters and original manuscripts from
the library of the late Bishop Doane, OF
Albany, together with some important
| items from other collections. This sale
will bring into the market "A number Of
desirable American historical documents,
among them Washington and Lincoln
autographs. important New York data
and manuscripts of leading American
and English authors. Mention may be
made of the Journal Of Captain John
Brown during the early part of the Rev
oiutiorary War. ending at Valley Forge.
/ and containing many entries in regard
to military engagements. including that
at Brandywine. There are Revolutionary
accounts. contracts and army records,
the day book kept at Annapolis during
the war and some exceptionally inter-
esting correspondence on the subjet. OF
Fulton's steam-propelled man-of-war be-
tween the inventor and Decatur. There
is also letter by Fulton referring to
his experiments with torpedoes.
a letter from Caleb Cushing to Daniel
Gardiner, dated July %, 1s47. describes
the battlefield at Buena Vista. the noun
tains through which the American troops
passed, Saltlllo and other Mexican
places.
There Is some French correspondence OF
the time OF the Revolution and the EN-
pire: Colonial governors. William ii.
Seward and Charles Sumner are repre-
scented: and among the literary material
are original MSS. by Crawford. Stedman,
Stockton. Henry James, Whitman and
Victor Hugo.
The gem Of the collection is a four-page
letter written by Washington on Septem-
his DEATH to James Anderson. his man
ager at Mount Vernon. who desired TO re-
sign his place. A few passages from this
businesslike document are worth quoting;
On the plain, simple. and regular sys-
TEN | resolved, undeviatingly to pursue,
shall find no difficulty in experimenting
my Farms, myselt,-lt not WIN skiiL-at
least with pconomy;-and If can make
any contrivance at the Mansion House
to cure as many Fish as Will suffice for
the use OF my family. shall feel more
disposed to Rent the Landing at the
Ferry, than to be plagued with it my
self
There would then be the Distillery and
Mill only to be disposed of.-these, II l
could | w'd Rent;-if not they might re-
main on their present fotting.-Nith
honest Miller and Dstiller, and frequent
settlements with them, matters could not
20 rery urOng.-The grain from my
Farms, of which an a/c would be rem
dered, with the purchases. would shew
the receipts;-and the Manufacturing ac-
counts, would shew how 1t was applied
You have said in your letter OF the 18th,
that II the terms on when | wouId rent
nv Mill and Distillery were made known
IN YOU. that IL might be in your power 10
help me 10 Tenant
With respect TO the iirst the MID /
shall observe. that at the time (about
or 3 years ago. when It was advertised TO
be Rented, | was frequently offered 1913
nr ann And I once refused JC0S.-The lat
Ter sum although the New Race had add
cd 10 the expence | would not lakeland
with respect TO the Distillery. and all the
apparatts belonging thereto you can Judge
better than l. the sum ! ought 10 expect
for it And whether ! Rent them or not.
n would he very agreeable 10 me (after
considering the thing maturely on Just
and EQUITABLE scale between landlord n
tenant TO let me know what YOU conceive
/ I ought to ask and insist upon
To enable you 10 do this, ! shall inform
Won that / will furnish nothing but fuel.
delivered on the spot mot from hand 10
mouth but BY the quantity. OF cords 10
he laid in, at the Alexandria price or
wood. deducting the carriage OF II TO that
PLACED A.. r,,..u
Ierv (and Mill ALSO II retained there. will
be charged at what they could be hired.
eIsevhere-SO likewise OF the Wagon,
scow. and Boat when required. and cd be
spared. ..,. ...,r,,. -
reou,red. that which Is not appropriated
IN Hogs may remain for that purpose
and 40 much OF the field by the Mil as
would be included By the Fence from
thence 10 the old Mil Race. by the Bars.
by that 20 the Tumbling Dam In the other
Race-by that again as II runs TO the
WiIlen Pond near the Post and Rail
renee leading TO the Pools Run. and by
that thence TO the Mil again-containing
hy actual measurement 81. acres.
The Manure arising from the feelings
at lie Dlstillery; over and above what
NAV suffice for the Gardens there,
should chuse 10 reserve
The most important Lincoln item is
latter written by him In 1850. during his
= ,s...ot cau,naiou In which he de-