Thomas F - Madigan | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

WORD SHADOWS OF THE GREAT The Lure of Autograph Collecting By THOMAS F. MADIGAN WITH FOETf-ONB 1EIWRODOCTIONS HALF-TONE AN0 TWELVE IN LWB FREDERICK A, STOKES COMPANY NEW Y O 1 K MC MX X 3C To MY WIFE EDITH IN APPRECIATION OF HER NEVER-FAILING SYMPATHY AND HELPFULNESS THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED CONTENTS FOREWORD CHAPTER I THE INTIMATE HOBBY ....... 3 A Gift for the Mikatl Goethe and Poc on the Significance of Autographs Jetfcrsnn on Prohibition Webster as a Critic o Puritan Traits The Dif ference Between the Autograph Collector and the Autograph Fiend Growing Interest In Autograph Collecting From 1,000 to 19,500 in Ten Years What Determines Value Influence o the Typewriter The Definition o an Auotgraph. CHAPTER H-SQME NOTABLE COLLECTORS AND THEIR COLLECTIONS ... ... ..... I9 The First Autograph-Alba Amicoram Pioneer American Collectors The . Pierpont Morgan Cc lection.-The Henry E, Htmtington Collection The Alfred Morrison Colleciinn Other Notable Collections Two Interest ing Autograph Find World War Autographs The Rare Autograph of Edith Gavell Lees Tribute to His Army and to Stonewall Jackson Frank lins KpitaphHis Charming Letter to a Little Girl on the Death o Her I et SquirrelFulton and Edison CHAPTER HI-SAINTS AND SINNERS ....... 43 How ant What to Crtllect- Specialiauition versus Generalization Autographs of American Composers A Privates Letter Describing a Battle More Valu able Than a General Letter to His Tailor Private Bachcller Describes the Battle of SaratogaThe Last Letter of Father Damien, the Martyr of the Lcpers-M - 2ari inai Mundclcins Collection of Autographs of Saints The Rare Autographs of John Wilkes Brx th and Mrs, Surratt Famous Love Letters Lord Ndwm andLady Hamilton. CHAPTER IV HOW DO YOU KNOW IT IS GENUINE . 63 The Fabrications of Robert SpringThe Affmre Vmn Lucas Forged Auto graphs j Bolton Cwinac and OthersThc Ubiquitous Galignam-Byron FacsimileThe Hahn t-incoln Lithograph Other Facsimiles Which MJas queratle ai Orlginals-Mtstakeri Ideatity A Resjponsible Dealer the Col lector Bc t Protccttoa Agaiaic Spurious Autographs, V AMERICANA-COMMON AND PREFERRED 78 The Trend of American Collecting Colonial Celebrides John Eliot, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather William Peon The Perfect American Collection lite Generals of Ae EcvoltttioaEarities of the GJODUP The Value of Illiteracy on CONTENTS - General Putnams Reply to Sir Henry Clinton Mac Anthony Wayne Deserves His Sobriquet-John Paul Jones Tells of the Fight Between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis - Traitor vs. Spj - Naval Auto graphsCivil War Autographs-Rarities Among Them-The Emanating Story of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth John Browns Last Letter. CHAPTER VI FIFTY-SIX WHO HUNG TOGETHER . . 104 The Signers of the Declaration of Independence Some Facts Regarding the Most Important Transaction in American History The Declaration o Inde pendence Signed on August 2nd Thomas Lynch, Jr., and Button Gwin nett Their Careers and the Reason for the Rarity o Their Autographs--Sales and Prices of Lynch ami CJwinnctt Autographs - Early Collectors of the Signers Other Rare Signcrv Obj. curity Equals Razity - Relative Scarcity of the Signers from the Rarest to the Commonest John, Hancocks Letter Transmitting the Declaration of Independence Thomas McKcans Letter Recounting What Occurred in Independence Hall on the Occasion of the Signing Price Records of Sales of Four Great Collections of Signers Jefferson Defends His Authorship of the Declaration of Independence...