RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

Civil War-dated ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, January 8, 1865. Letter to General Benjamin F. Butler, about a surgeon, "a Nativ...

ALS signed “Your Affectionate Unworthy Father, John Brown,” one page, 8 x 12.5, July 27, 1853. Written from Akron, Ohio, a letter to

Three items associated with the Voting Rights Act of 1965: a 10-page official publication entitled "Public Law 89-110, 89th Congress, S. 1564, ...

ALS signed “Fred'k Douglass,” one page, 5 x 8, March 31, 1877. Letter to attorney and pioneering civil rights activist Albion Tourge

TLS, one page, 5.75 x 8.25, personal letterhead, November 3, 1979. Letter to Livros de Brasil, publishers of a Portuguese translation of The Diary of

Two original issues of Time Magazine featuring Mohandas Gandhi on the cover: an issue of Time from January 5, 1931 (Vol. XVII, No. 1), 8.5 x 11.5, 48

DS, signed “J.E.H.,” four pages, 8 x 7, December 13, 1951. Official United States Government office memorandum from FBI Director J.

DS, signed “J.E.H.,” five pages, 8 x 10.5, January 8, 1952. Official United States Government office memorandum from FBI Director J.

TLS signed “Martin,” two pages, 7 x 10.5, personal letterhead, December 20, 1960. Letter to entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., in full: "

TLS signed “Malcolm X,” four pages, 8.5 x 11, March 25, 1959. Letter to his prophet and teacher Elijah Muhammad, touching on deeply