Fine Selection of Autographs - Session 1

(1671 - 1729) Scottish financier and creator of the Mississippi Company, an investment scheme which saw the company's shares skyrocket and then...

(1901 - 1966) American artist, film producer and businessman, creator of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, producer of the first animated film with sound,

(1818 - 1903) American businessman and inventor of the precursor of the machine gun, the Gatling gun. His invention was used with great effect during

(1831-1888) Confederate cavalry officer who served the South from May 1862 until the end of the war. In 1886, an Atlanta prohibition law persuaded hi

(1818 - 1881) American businessman who organized Wells Fargo & Co. and American Express, he later operated the Pony Express. Rare partly-printe...

(1883 - 1946) Influential English economist who advocated government intervention in national economies in times of recession. T.L.S. "J. M. Ke...

(1900 - 1949) American author, a Pulitzer Prize winner for her epic novel "Gone With the Wind". Outstanding and most important, late T.L....

JOHN P. JEWETT (1814-1884) American abolitionist and publisher of Stowe's landmark tale Uncle Tom's Cabin which he promoted to government an...

(1922 - 1969) American novelist whose publication of On the Road made him the foremost figure of the Beat generation of the Fifties and Sixties. An e

(1819 - 1892) American poet whose volume of verse Leaves of Grass was initially rejected by the public and cost him his job in the federal government