George Washington and Edgar Allan Poe smash auction records

 » By chopstick | the 12-05-2009 at 07:48 | 43 views (19 unique) | 1 comment | Report post!

The letter was written two years before George Washington became president.
A letter written by the first US President, George Washington, has sold at auction for $3.2m (£1.9m). The sale, at Christie's in New York, was a record for a letter written by Washington.

The four-page letter was written in 1787 to the president's nephew, Bushrod Washington, and urges adoption of the country's new constitution. A partially written poem by Edgar Allan Poe sold for $830,500 - a record for a 19th Century literary manuscript. The previous record for a letter by George Washington was $834,500 (£506,200) in 2002. In this latest auctioned letter, Washington tells his nephew - who was to be a delegate in the Virginia state ratification convention - that the two-month-old constitution was the key to uniting the newly independent territories.



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Nothing2Say
Nothing2Say
the 12-05-2009 at 21:01
Someone must have been desperate for them.

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