Catalogue of autograph letters and historical documents and relics ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, December 22, 1919
Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Published: 1919
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Art collections
Notes: 215 lots.

Sale code: Columbine.

" ... including letters and relics of Napoleon I, with specimens of other French statesmen, sovereigns, revolutionaries, etc.; letters of great American interest by W. Penn, G. Washington, S.L. Clemens [Mark Twain], etc.; fine letters of W.M. Thackeray, Lord Tennyson, C. Dickens, and other celebrities of the Victorian period; a collection formed by Miss Hannah Carter about one hundred years ago, including autograph poems by Burns and Byron; an extensive collection relating to the Cochrane family, including many letters of the famous Earl of Dundonald, the property of F.E. Wood, Esq., 3, Bullingham Mansions, Kensington, W.; a large silver watch inscribed Mr. Weller, Senr., the property of the Rev. Canon Smith, St. Mary's, Little Crosby, Liverpool; Charlotte Brontë's gold watch and Charles Dickens' silver shoebuckles; with an important series of 81 letters from Lord Nelson to Capt. William Locker, 1777-1800, and valuable relics of Lord Nelson, formerly the property of Lieut. William Rivers, R.A., and of Admiral Sir G.A. Westphall, both of whom were present at Trafalgar, and the plain anval service sword, specially taken from his cabin on the Victory, sold by order of Mrs. Treharne.

Priced.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: Dec. 22, 1919.