Autograph letters and historical documents, estate of the late James G. Barnwell, dec'd, late librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and sold by order of The Philadelphia Trust Co., executors., and from other sources ...
Subtitle: to be sold Friday afternoon and evening, May 27th, 1921
Publisher: Stan. V. Henkels
Published: 1921
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Important autograph letters and historical documents, estate of James G. Barnwell, and sold by order of The Philadelphia Trust Co., executors and for other accounts
Notes: 789 lots.

"Catalogue no. 1280."

Cover title: Important autograph letters and historical documents, estate of James G. Barnwell, and sold by order of The Philadelphia Trust Co., executors and for other accounts.

" ... including important letters relating to the mutiny in the Pennsylvania Line in 1781; letters from the Committee of Congress appointed by request of Genl. Washington to examine into the condition of the Continental Army in 1780; letters from President Samuel Houston, of Texas, in reference to admitting Texas into the Union; original deed of East New Jersey from Lady Elizabeth Cartaret to Wm. Penn and the other eleven proprietors; the original agreement relating to survivorship between Wm. Penn and the other proprietors and signed by them all; many other very early important papers relating to East New Jersey; manuscript essay by Benjamin Franklin on hygrometers; many important letters of the presidents, Revolutionary generals, signers of the Declaration of Independence, literary characters, statesmen, eminent foreigners, &c., &c."

McKay, 8343

Place of sale: Philadelphia.

Date of sale: May 27, 1921.