Catalogue of valuable autograph letters and historical documents ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, 2nd of June, 1919
Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Published: 1919
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Notes: 221 lots.

Sale code: Oakwood.

" ... comprising manuscripts, deeds, &c. relating to the city of Coventry, from the library of Hugh G. Doggett, Esq.  Musical manuscripts by J. Brahms, a remarkable autographed fan, &c., the property of Sir George Henschel. Autograph poems of Robert Burns, the property of Lady Graham.  The original, and the final versions of "D'ye ken John Peel," by J.W. Graves, the property of the late George Coward, Esq. ("Sidney Gilpin"), of Carlisle.  Sold by order of the executor.  The papers of William Smith (d. 1793), chief justice of New York and afterwards of Canada.  The property of the late P.A.S. Hickey, Esq. (deceased).  Sold by order of the executors.  And including:  a portrait in oils of Chief Justice William Smith by John Wollaston--a magnificent series of twelve holograph letters from George Washington to Arthur Young--a series of papers relating to James II, III, and IV of Scotland, and to Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney-- an autograph diary of Thomas de Quincey-- a collection relating to Robert Seymour, the caricaturist--a list of New Years' gifts to and from Queen Elizabeth, 1596--letters odf Lord Nelson, P.B. Shelley, Thomas Carlyle, &c."

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: June 2, 1919.