Heritage Auctions – Historical Manuscripts Including Texana
August 8
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Revolutionary War: Cornwallis Surrender Broadside. Boston: B. Edes and Sons, October 26,1781. 8 1/2×10 3/4 inches. Bearing the headline “Cornwallis TAKEN!”announcing the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown, the effective end of the American War of Independence. Starting Bid: $35,000
Juneteenth: 27th Anniversary of Emancipation in Texas Broadside. 12 x 20 1/4 inches, Corpus Christi, Texas; June 19,1892. One of a series of 19th century broadsides featured in the auction advertising Juneteenth festivities in Nueces County. Starting Bid: $2,500
Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed. One page Springfield, Massachusetts; May 16,1859. A newly discovered letter in which he declines an invitation to attend a commencement ceremony at Lombard University, citing that he “lost nearly the whole of last year.” Lincoln had spent the previous year campaigning for the Senate and famously debating against Stephen A. Douglas. Starting Bid: $10,000
Richard S. Hunt and Jesse F. Randel. Map of Texas, New York: J. H. Colton, 1839. With accompanying text and original boards. Starting Bid: $15,000
Pope Francis Autograph Letter Signed in a Christmas Card. Written from the Vatican on Christmas Day, 2013. A chatty letter to Spanish writer Juan Manuel Centelles recalling his early days in Rome. Starting Bid: $2,500
[Tuskegee Airmen]. Archive of Flight Officer James C. Ramsey of the 332nd Fighter Group, 302nd Fighter Control Squadron. More than sixty pages of letters and documents related to “Red-Tail Angel” James Chapplear Ramsey’s life and training in the Tuskegee Air Pilot Program. Starting Bid: $10,000
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Paul R. Minshull #16591. BP 25%; see HA.com/84184
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