Sothebys: American Manuscripts and Other Property from the Collection of Elsie and Philip Sang - bidstart 9/30

In a compelling and wide-ranging letter to his old friend Philip Mazzei, Thomas Jefferson expresses confidence in the "incalculable value" of the just-completed Louisiana Purchase

In a letter candid even by the standards of his correspondence with Benjamin Rush, John Adams discusses the site of the Federal government, appointments to the first Supreme Court, and his view of the vice presidency

George Washington plans the retaliatory Sullivan Expedition against Upstate New York Tories and their allies from the Iroquois Confederacy

Autograph music manuscript of George and Ira Gershwin's "Who Cares?" from the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Of Thee I Sing.

President Grant pardons the three Rochester, New York, election officials who allowed Susan B. Anthony to vote in the 1872 presidential election

A cosmological aphorism signed by Albert Einstein

President Andrew Johnson paroles five leading Confederate politicians, including the former Vice President and two cabinet members

Oscar Hammerstein II. Autograph fair copy of the lyrics for "Ol' Man River" and other material

A warm letter, written and signed by President Garfield in office, thanking George Bancroft for roses sent to the First Lady

Contract signed by Gershwin and others for the original production of Porgy and Bess

Against the backdrop of continuing boundary negotiations with Mexico and Texas, President Tyler offers assistance to a young relative of Chief Justice Roger Taney

John Quincy Adams explains the motivations for President Washington's retirement to Jean Luzac, editor of the highly influential Gazette de Leyde

A very rare autograph letter signed by Warren G. Harding as President

Woodrow Wilson confides to a pacifist supporter that the involvement of allied nations in World War I constrains him from publicly speaking for peace

A printed broadside letter and an autograph letter by Jacob Duché, erstwhile official chaplain to Congress

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("ABIGAIL ADAMS") AS FIRST LADY TO MRS. ELBRIDGE (ANN THOMPSON) GERRY, INFORMING HER OF HER HUSBAND'S ARRIVAL IN PARIS AS A SPECIAL DIPLOMATIC COMMISSIONER

Limited edition of "Winnie-the-Pooh," signed by A. A. Milne and illustrator E. H. Shephard

Rachel and Andrew Jackson reassign a portion of land that they had received as representatives of her father's estate

Roosevelt addresses a crowd at Cairo, Illinois, about international and domestic affairs, and governmental regulation on the eve of Panic of 1907

A letter by the future president, destined for assassination sixteen years later, mentioning the death of President Lincoln

A fine clipped signature of Martha Washington, the first First Lady

A 1774 handbill calling for a meeting of patriotic New Yorkers

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("JAMES MONROE") AS 5TH PRESIDENT, TO SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, REGARDING HIS SCOTTISH ANCESTRY

A letter from President Buchanan to Robert Tyler, discussing the merits and appointments of various candidates

Signed and inscribed photo with musical quotation to Maxie Rosenzweig, who first inspired him to become a musician