American Art Association: The Josiah H. Benton collection of notable autograph letters. The American Art Association, Madison Square South, New York City., 1920Mar12,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 12, 1920 - March 12, 1920
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Crane (W. Murray--United States Senator from Massachusetts) | A.L.S. | 1901 |
USD - | 1.50 | |
| 202 | Craven (Elizabeth, Countess of) | A.L.S. | 1791 |
USD - | 1.50 | |
| 203 | Crawford (William H.--Secretary of the U. S. Treasury; Senator from Georgia) | A.L.S. | 1821 |
USD - | 1.50 | |
| 204 | Crawford (William H.--Secretary of the United States Treasury, Senator from Georgia) | A.L.S. | Montpellier | 1823 |
USD - | 1.50 |
| 205 | Crockett (David--American pioneer, hunter and politician) | A.L.S. | Washington City | 1834 |
USD - | 60.00 |
| 206 | CrownInshield (Benjamin W.--United States Secretary of the Navy) | A.L.S. | Salem | 1823 |
USD - | 5.00 |
| 207 | Crowinshield (Richard, Jr.--would-be poet, condemned to death, Salem, Massachusetts, 1830) | A.L.S., 3pp. folio, Salem 22 May 1830. to Dear Sister; Salem 15 May 1830, to Dear Sarah; ... | USD - | 5.00 | ||
| 208 | Cruikshank (George--celebrated English author and illustrator) | A.L.S. | USD - | 5.00 | ||
| 209 | Cunningham (Allan--the biographer of Robert Burns) | A.L.S. | Lower Belgrave Place | 1825 |
USD - | 3.00 |
| 210 | Curtis (Benjamin R.--Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed. 1851) | A.L.S. | Northfield | 1831 |
USD - | 3.00 |
| 211 | Curtis (Benjamin R.--Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1851) | A.L.S. | Boston | USD - | 3.00 | |
| 212 | Curtis (Benjamin R.--Associate Justwe of the United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1851) | A.L.S. | USD - | 3.50 | ||
| 213 | Curtis (Benjamin R.--Associate Justwe, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1851) | A.L.S. | No place | No date |
USD - | 3.50 |
| 214 | Curtis (George William--American author) | A.L.S. | Staten Island, New York | 1869 |
USD - | 6.00 |
| 215 | Curtis (George William--American author) | A.L.S. | Ashfield, Massachusetts | 1871 |
USD - | 6.00 |
| 216 | Curtis (George William--American author) | A.L.S. | Ashfield, Massachusetts | 1875 |
USD - | 6.00 |
| 217 | Cushing (Caleb--Brigadier-General in the Mexican War; Attorney-General of the United States, and Minister to Spain) | A.L.S. | Newbury Port | 1839 |
USD - | 6.00 |
| 218 | Cushing (Thomas--Member of Council of Massachusetts, Lieutenant-Governor, and Member of Convention that ratified the Federal Constitution) | A.L.S. | Boston | 1776 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 219 | Cushing (William--Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1789) | A.L.S. | Scituate | 1800 |
USD - | 5.00 |
| 220 | Cushman (Charlotte--American actress) | A.L.S. | Detroit | 1851 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 221 | Cushman (Charlotte--American actress) | A.L.S. | Newport | 1860 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 222 | Cushman (Charlotte--American actress) | A.L.S., (initials). | New York | USD - | 1.50 | |
| 223 | Cushman (Charlotte--American actress) | A.L.S. | Swampscot | USD - | 1.00 | |
| 224 | Dallas (George M.--Vice-President of the United States) | A.L.S. | 1825 |
USD - | 2.00 | |
| 225 | Dallas (George M.--Vice-President of the United States) | A.L.S. | USD - | 2.00 | ||
| 226 | Dallas (George Mifflin--Vice-President of the United States) | A.L.S. | 1852 |
USD - | 2.00 | |
| 227 | Daniel (John Warwick--United States Senator from Virginia) | A.L.S. | Washington, D. C. | 1903 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 228 | Daniel (John Warwick--United States Senator from Virginia) | A.L.S. | Lynchburg Virginia | 1904 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 229 | Daniel (John Warwick--United States Senator from Virginia) | A.L.S. | Washington, D. C. | 1909 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 230 | Daniel (Peter V.--Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1841) | A.L.S. | Richmond | 1841 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 231 | D'Aubigne (J. H. Merle--author of History of the Reformation) | A.L.S. | London | 1862 |
USD - | 1.50 |
| 232 | Davenport (Edward L.--American actor) | A.L.S. | Boston, Massachusetts | USD - | 1.50 | |
| 233 | Davenport (Edward L.--American actor) | A.L.S. | Baltimore | [no year] |
USD - | 1.50 |
| 234 | Davis (David--Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1862) | A.L.S. | Bloomington, Ills. | 1864 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 235 | Davis (Jefferson--President of the Southern Confederacy) | A.L.S. | 1848 |
USD - | 1.00 | |
| 236 | Davis (Jefferson--President of the Southern Confederacy) | A.L.S. | Washington, D. C. | 1853 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 237 | Davis (Jefferson--President of the Southern Confederacy) | A.L.S., 1p. 4to, War Department, Washington, January 5, 1856. To Hon. Timothy C. Day, House of ... | USD - | 1.00 | ||
| 238 | Davis (Warren R.--Representative in Congress from South Carolina) | A.L.S. | Washington | 1833 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 239 | Day (William R.--Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1903) | A.L.S. 1p. 8vo, 1301 Clifton Street, Washington, D. C. January 20, 1909. To Mr. J. H. Benton, Jr ... | USD - | 1.00 | ||
| 240 | Delano (Columbus--United States Congressman from Ohio, and Secretary of the Interior) | A.L.S. | Ohio | 1892 |
USD - | 1.50 |
| 241 | Depew (Chauncey M.) | A.L.S. | St. Augustine, Fla. | 1915 |
USD - | 1.50 |
| 242 | De Quincey (Thomas--British author) | A.L.S. | Lasswade | 1853 |
USD - | 5.00 |
| 243 | De Quincey (Thomas--British author) | A.L.S. | USD - | 8.50 | ||
| 244 | Dexter (Samuel--Member of the Supreme Executive Council of the State of Massachusetts at the outbreak of the Revolution) | A.L.S. | Washington | 1801 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 245 | Dexter (Samuel, Jr.--United States Senator from Massachusetts, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury) | D.S., 1p. royal 8vo, Charlestown, Massachusetts, August 21, 1792. Appointing John Kean Esq ... | USD - | 1.00 | ||
| 246 | Dibdin (Thomas F.--British bibliographer) | A.L.S. | (1825) |
USD - | 1.00 | |
| 247 | Dickens (Charles--popular English author) | A.L.S. | Yorkshire | 1844 |
USD - | 17.00 |
| 248 | Dickens (Charles--popular English author) | A.L.S. | Boulogne | 1856 |
USD - | 22.50 |
| 249 | Dickens (Charles--British author) | A.L.S. | USD - | 26.00 | ||
| 250 | Dillon (John Forrest--Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa, United States Circuit Judge) | A.L.S. | New York | 1904 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 251 | Dix (John A.--Major-General, U. S. A.; Governor of New York) | A.L.S. | New York | 1849 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 252 | Dixon (James--State and United States Senator from Connecticut) | A.L.S. | Washington | 1867 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 253 | Dodge (Mary Abigail--American authoress) | A.L.S. | Washington, D. C. | 1859 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 254 | Dodge (Mary Abigail--American authoress) | A.L.S. | Hamilton, Massachusetts | 1886 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 255 | Doe (Charles--Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court of New Hampshire) | A.L.S. | USD - | 2.00 | ||
| 256 | Donelson (Andrew Jackson--Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Prussia and later to Germany) | A.L.S. | 1800 |
USD - | 2.00 | |
| 257 | Doran (John--British writer) | A.L.S. | USD - | 2.00 | ||
| 258 | Douglas (Stephen--American statesman; debated with Lincoln) | N.S. | Washington | USD - | 11.00 | |
| 259 | Douglas (William W.--Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island) | A.L.S. 1p. 12mo, Providence, April 22, 1905. To Mr. Benton. Relative to the death of his brother ... | USD - | 11.00 | ||
| 260 | Drake (Samuel Gardner--author of Drake's History of Boston) | A.L.S. | Bromfield St. | 1858 |
USD - | 11.00 |
| 261 | Dudley (Joseph--Colonial Governor of Massachusetts) | A.L.S. | Portsmouth | 1703 |
USD - | 11.00 |
| 262 | Dudley (Joseph--Colonial Governor of Massachusetts) | A.L.S. | Roxbury | 1710 |
USD - | 7.00 |
| 263 | Dumas (Alexandre--author of The Three Musketeers) | A.N.S. | USD - | 1.00 | ||
| 264 | Dumas (Alexandre--author of The Three Musketeers) | Two A.L.'sS. | No place | No date |
USD - | 3.00 |
| 265 | Duvall (Gabriel--Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1811) | A.L.S. | Marietta | 1829 |
USD - | 3.00 |
| 266 | Dwight (Timothy--Educator; President of Yale College) | A.L.S. | Hartford | 1814 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 267 | Edgeworth (Maria--British novelist) | A.L.S. | Grosvenor Sq. | 1844 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 268 | Edmunds (George F.--United States Senator from Vermont) | A.L.S. | Burlington | 1869 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 269 | Edmunds (George F.--United States Senator from Vermont) | L.S. | South Carolina | 1904 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 270 | Edward VII (Albert Edward--King of England) | #NAME? | Marlborough House | 1870 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 271 | Edwards (Jonathan--Pastor of the church at Northampton, Massachusetts; Tutor at Yale College; Missionary to the Housatonnuck Indians; President of Princeton College) | L.S. | Schenectady | 1801 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 272 | Egerton (Francis--third and last Duke of Bridgwater) | A.L.S. | USD - | 6.00 | ||
| 273 | Eldon (John Scott, First Earl of--Lord Chancellor, Great Britain) | A.L.S. | 1822 |
USD - | 6.00 | |
| 274 | Eliot (Charles William--President of Harvard University) | A.L.S. | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1873 |
USD - | 6.00 |
| 275 | Eliot (Charles William--President of Harvard University) | 2 L.S., each 1p. 4to, Harvard University, Cambridge, September 22, 1903. and Asticon, Maine ... | USD - | 6.00 | ||
| 276 | Ellenborough (Edward Law--Lord Chief Justice of the King's bench) | A.L.S. | 1813 |
USD - | 6.00 | |
| 277 | Ellsworth (Oliver--Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1796) | A.N.S. | Windsor | 1872 |
USD - | 6.00 |
| 278 | Ellsworth (Oliver--Chief Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1796) | A.N.S. | Philadelphia | 1798 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 279 | Ellsler (Fanny--Dancer) | A.L.S., in German. | No date |
USD - | 10.00 | |
| 280 | Emerson (Ralph Waldo--American author and clergyman) | A.L.S. | Concord, Massachusetts | 1855 |
USD - | 10.00 |
| 281 | Evarts (William Maxwell--United States Senator from New York; Attorney General of the United States, and Secretary of State) | A.L.S. | Washington | 1881 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 282 | Everett (Edward--American orator and poet; Secretary of State under President Fillmore) | A.L.S. | Cambridge | 1850 |
USD - | 2.00 |
| 283 | Everett (Edward--American orator and poet; Secretary of State under President Fillmore) | A.L.S. | Boston | 1856 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 284 | Everett (Edward--American poet and orator; Secretary of State under President Fillmore) | A.L.S. | Boston | 1857 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 285 | Everett (Edward--American orator and poet; Secretary of State under President Fillmore) | A.L.S. | 1859 |
USD - | 1.00 | |
| 286 | Everett (Edward--American orator and poet; Secretary of State under President Fillmore) | A.L.S. | Boston | 1862 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 287 | Everett (Edward--American orator and poet; Secretary of State under President Fillmore) | A.L.S. | 1863 |
USD - | 1.00 | |
| 288 | Fairbanks (Charles W.--Vice-President of the United States) | A.L.S. | Indianapolis, Indiana | 1916 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 289 | Faraday (Michael--eminent English chemist and natural philosopher) | A.L.S. | 1861 |
USD - | 1.00 | |
| 290 | Farmers Ex. Bank, Gloucester, Rhode Island. Bank Note for Five Dollars, May 7, 1808, signed in the ... | USD - | 1.00 | |||
| 291 | Fechter (Charles--eminent Shakespearian actor) | A.L.S. | London | 1860 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 292 | Fechter (Charles--eminent Shakespearian actor) | A.L.S. | No place | No date |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 293 | Fechter (Charles--eminent Shakespearian actor) | A.L.S. | USD - | 1.00 | ||
| 294 | Fessenden (William Pitt--United States Senator from Maine, and Secretary of the Treasury) | A.L.S. | Portland | 1838 |
USD - | 1.00 |
| 295 | Field (Stephen J.--Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1863) | A.L.S. | New York | 1840 |
USD - | 2.50 |
| 296 | Field (Stephen J.--Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1863) | A.L.S. | New York | 1840 |
USD - | 9.00 |
| 297 | Field (Stephen J.--Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, appointed, 1863) | L.S. | Washington, D. C. | 1884 |
USD - | 9.00 |
| 298 | Fillmore (Millard--13th President of the United States) | A.L.S. | Buffalo | 1854 |
USD - | 2.50 |
| 299 | Fillmore (Millard--13th President of the United States) | A.L.S. | Buffalo | 1857 |
USD - | 2.50 |
| 300 | Fillmore (Millard--13th President of the United States) | A.L.S. | Buffalo | 1860 |
USD - | 2.50 |
