RR Auction: January Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

Endorsed bank check, 8.25 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by James R. Osgood, payable to Stowe for $944.46, July 10, 1873. Endorsed on t

Ink signature, “Yours very truly, H. B. Stowe, 49 Forest St., Hartford, Conn,” on an off-white 3.25 x 2 card. In very good condition, with signature a

AQS, signed “Harriet Beecher Stowe,” on an off-white 5 x 7.75 lightly-lined sheet. Stowe pens two biblical verses reading, in full: “Rest in the Lord

Important Victorian British poet (1837–1909) whose “decadent” subject matter (including sadomasochism and lesbianism) made him one of the most controv

TQS on an off-white 5 x 3 lightly-lined card. Quote reads, “To-day, more than ever before in our history, the aid of spiritual power is needed.” Signe

American humorist and author (1894–1961) best known for such stories as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and for his distinctive, wittily captioned car

ALS signed “A. Tennyson,” one page, 4.25 x 7, December 8, 1869. Letter to an unidentified gentleman. In full: "I found your two volumes on my r...

Partial self-contained partly-printed DS, signed “Tennyson,” one page, 8 x 3.25, September 24, 1877. Conclusion of a larger legal document signed at t

Companion of writer Gertrude Stein, who wrote about their life together in What Is Remembered and was the subject of Stein’s Autobiography of Alice B.

Vintage ink signature, “Leo Tolstoy, 1908, 17 July,” on an off-white 5 x 2.75 card. Card is affixed to the address panel of the original mailing envel