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Auction 32 · Lot 261

(MISCELLANEOUS)

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Description

Group of five items: Israel Zangwill (1864-1926. English author). Two Autograph Letters Signed: 1. On stationery of Hon. Judge Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia. Zangwill writes that he is pressed to return to London to produce a comedy. In closing, he reports “a very interesting talk with [Rudyard] Kipling the other day on cognate matters.” 1899. * 2. Concerning Judge Sulzberger and the Jewish Publication Society. 1892. * Benjamin Disraeli(1804-1881. Prime Minister and Earl of Beaconsfield). Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Curzon. Framed alongside photographic portrait * Louis Brandeis (1856-1941. Supreme Court Justice). Autograph Letter Signed on letterhead of Supreme Court of the United States. 1924. Framed alongside photographic portrait * René Samuel Cassin (1887-1976. French jurist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1968, for his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Typed letter Signed in his capacity of President Alliance Israélite Universelle, with a handwritten postscript suggesting names of potential donors to the United Jewish Appeal. Paris, 1973
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