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Franz Schubert autograph manuscript of eight songs
Beethoven’s autograph sketches with drafts for the Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, opus 73, known as the Emperor Concerto and an ALS asking a favor for a lady and discussing his Sonata in F. Major, Opus 17
A questionnaire in Voltaire’s hand with Frederick the Great’s autograph replies
A collection of 300 artists letters, many illustrated, including Monet, Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Renoir, and Degas
Albert Einstein manuscripts including his formulas for the Special Theory of Relativity (E=mc2) and the General Theory of Relativity as well as hundreds of pages of scientific manuscript

Einstein autograph

Autographs written by every president of the United States including autograph letters of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy
Napoleon proclaiming his coronation as Emperor of France
Martin Luther King, Jr. letter referring to his “I Have a Dream” speech
One of only six known letters written by Sigmund Freud to his mother as well as his last will and testament complete with a Freudian slip (He wrote “guilt edged” instead of “gilt edged!”)
A highly important archive of Alfred Dreyfus material relating to his arrest and trial
Antoine Saint-Exupery’s heavily annotated typescript of his masterpiece, Le Petit Prince
An unpublished love letter from Felix Mendelssohn to his new bride, one of only two extant letters from Felix to Cécile and the only one in private hands
A letter signed by Queen Elizabeth I in 1583 about “Important affairs which pertain to the defense and propagation of true religion”

A complete autograph musical manuscript of Hoagy Carmichael’s masterpiece Stardust
A menu from the last luncheon served aboard the Titanic and other ephemera from the Titanic
Several marriage contracts signed by Napoleon and Josephine and a historic Napoleon letter about his return to France from Elba
An autograph letter signed by Jane Austen to her biographer about her “eccentric tastes” in “Heroes & Heroines”
A diminutive Lewis Carroll letter measuring just 2 by 3 inches and conveying Christmas greetings to a little friend
A Wilkie Collins letter about The Moonstone, the first English-language “locked room” detective novel
Signed photographs of Stephen Crane, Buffalo Bill Cody, Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison, Robert Goddard, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Johannes Brahms, Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Ernest Hemingway, and Robert Frost
George Washington’s hand drawn survey map of the western edge of his property near Mount Vernon, as well as a fragment from his handwritten draft of his first inaugural address, and an unpublished letter written on Christmas Day 1785 to “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, thanking him for his gift of trees

A rare Oliver Cromwell ALS written shortly after Charles I’s beheading
A document signed by Ben Franklin granting land to an American Revolution veteran
An Ernest Hemingway letter about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein
Thomas Jefferson’s last letter to Thomas Paine
A document protesting the destruction of Diego Rivera’s mural at Rockefeller Center, signed by him, Frida Kahlo and 80 other artists
A letter written by John F. Kennedy about “The historic space flight of our first astronaut, Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. …a truly significant event in America’s history”
An 1860 autograph letter signed by Abraham Lincoln to the head of the Pennsylvania Republican Committee
A letter describing the autopsy of Lincoln’s brain by the attending surgeon
Holograph additions for Arthur Schopenhauer’s most famous work, The World as Will and Representation
An autograph musical quotation from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4
Harvey Milk’s last two passports
An autograph letter signed by Oscar Wilde mentioning his masterpiece The Picture of Dorian Gray
An extremely rare announcement of the formation of the Rothschild Bank signed by Mayer A. Rothschild and his sons
Important musical manuscripts of George Gershwin
A four-page handwritten letter by Jacqueline Kennedy about the deaths of John and Robert Kennedy