Tag: rare autographs

Items Signed by Jefferson, Washington and Einstein Headline University Archives’ June 4th Online-Only Auction

Wilton, CT, USA, May 20, 2025 — A six-volume set of books personally owned and signed by Thomas Jefferson; a Rev. War-dated letter signed twice by George Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army; and an archive of German-language correspondence exchanged between Albert Einstein and an unidentified physics enthusiast are a few of the expected…

University Archives’ Online-Only Auction, April 23rd, will Feature Over 60 Lots Dedicated to Lincoln

A vivid and lifelike photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Hesler/Ayres provenance, a one-page letter signed by Lincoln in 1859 and addressed to a man he’d defended in a murder trial, and a one-page autograph letter written in Hebrew in 1948 by the first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion are three of many tantalizing items in…

Items Signed by Einstein, Dillinger, Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe and Babe Ruth are in University Archives’ Dec. 11 Auction

Wilton, CT, USA, November 26, 2024 — It isn’t often that John Dillinger, Marilyn Monroe, Babe Ruth and Abraham Lincoln all meet at the same place at the same time, but that’s exactly what will happen on Wednesday, December 11th, when items signed by all four luminaries will come up for bid in University Archives’…