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Auction archive: Lot number 46

HISTORIANS - EDUCATORS]. Group of 11 ALS and 1 autograph quotation signed. Matthew VASSAR, founder of Vassar College (1 page, 8 o, on engraved stationery of Vassar Female College, 19 March 1867, replying to a request for information, rare), Henry War...

Auction 22.05.2000
22 May 2000
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$4,230
Auction archive: Lot number 46

HISTORIANS - EDUCATORS]. Group of 11 ALS and 1 autograph quotation signed. Matthew VASSAR, founder of Vassar College (1 page, 8 o, on engraved stationery of Vassar Female College, 19 March 1867, replying to a request for information, rare), Henry War...

Auction 22.05.2000
22 May 2000
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$4,230
Beschreibung:

HISTORIANS - EDUCATORS]. Group of 11 ALS and 1 autograph quotation signed. Matthew VASSAR, founder of Vassar College (1 page, 8 o, on engraved stationery of Vassar Female College, 19 March 1867, replying to a request for information, rare), Henry Ward BEECHER (3 pp., 8 o, 1884, defending a friend who had been accused of being a 'lunatic'), Mary Baker EDDY (4 pp., 8 o, 1899, advising "resist the temptation that would cast you down from the pinnacle", with envelope) Cardinal GIBBONS ("Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called the children of God"), Francis PARKMAN (1 page, 8 o, 1877), Charles Eliot NORTON (2 pp., 8 o, 1865. "I cannot aid in supporting a journal in which political opinions are maintained which I regard as injurious to the country".), Henry GEORGE Robert G. INGERSOLL, John Lothrop MOTLEY, Noah PORTER, William H. PRESCOTT and George BANCROFT. (12)

Auction archive: Lot number 46
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2000
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

HISTORIANS - EDUCATORS]. Group of 11 ALS and 1 autograph quotation signed. Matthew VASSAR, founder of Vassar College (1 page, 8 o, on engraved stationery of Vassar Female College, 19 March 1867, replying to a request for information, rare), Henry Ward BEECHER (3 pp., 8 o, 1884, defending a friend who had been accused of being a 'lunatic'), Mary Baker EDDY (4 pp., 8 o, 1899, advising "resist the temptation that would cast you down from the pinnacle", with envelope) Cardinal GIBBONS ("Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called the children of God"), Francis PARKMAN (1 page, 8 o, 1877), Charles Eliot NORTON (2 pp., 8 o, 1865. "I cannot aid in supporting a journal in which political opinions are maintained which I regard as injurious to the country".), Henry GEORGE Robert G. INGERSOLL, John Lothrop MOTLEY, Noah PORTER, William H. PRESCOTT and George BANCROFT. (12)

Auction archive: Lot number 46
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2000
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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