An unusual and unique collection of autograph letters and historical documents including the collection of J. Bayard Taylor, poet and traveller, of the late Robert H. Sayre, Esq. of South Bethlehem, Pa., and of a well-known Baltimore collector ...
Subtitle: to be sold Wednesday afternoon, April 8, and Thursday morning and afternoon, April 9, 1908
By: catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels
Contributors: Henkels, S. V. (Stanislaus Vincent), 1854-1926, auctioneer
Publisher: Davis & Harvey
Published: 1908
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Autograph letters, literary manuscripts, historical documents
Notes: 986 lots.

Cover title: Autograph letters, literary manuscripts, historical documents.

"Catalogue no. 975."

"... embracing full sets of presidents and their cabinets; American authors and poets; foreign authors and poets; signers of the Declaration of Independence; generals in the Revolution, War of 1812, and Civil War; naval officers; members of the Continental Congress; statesmen; scientists, &c., &c.  Also, manuscript of Bret Harte and Henry W. Longfellow."

McKay, 6502

Place of sale: Philadelphia.

Dates of sale: April 8 and 9, 1908.