Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 76

Manuscript Sale

Reformers

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 234		Addams, Jane (1860-1935) Pioneer social worker; founder of Hull House; winner of 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. Photo inscribed and signed, "Faithfully yours Jane Addams" in the lower border, 8 x 10 in. Photo is imprinted "1924-Moffett, Chicago." With six 4½ x 2¾ in. cards inscribed and signed, "Faithfully yours / Jane Addams / Hull-House / Chicago." Fine. Estimated Value $250 - 300 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $204
Lot 235		Anthony, Susan B., Alice Stone Blackwell, and Harriet Taylor Upton. Check signed by Susan B. Anthony as President, Alice Stone Blackwell as Recording Secretary, and Harriet Taylor Upton as Treasurer of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, 6¼ x 2½ in. The check is drawn on the Association and paid to the United Typewriter Supply Co. in the amount of three dollars. Anthony and Blackwell signed in pencil; Upton signed and filled out the check in black ink. NAWSA was the largest and most important suffrage organization in the United States; its members pushed for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote, and was instrumental in winning the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution in 1920. Estimated Value $600 - 800 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $360
Lot 236		Frances Perkins, Dorothea L. Dix, and Mary A. Livermore. Frances Perkins (1880-1965) was U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945; she was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. Typed letter signed as Secretary of Labor, on official letterhead, one page, 8 x 10½ in., Washington, Nov. 12, 1934. Thanking Mr. Dornuf of Omaha for a note and a clipping. Dorothea L. Dix (1802-1887) was Superintendent of Nurses for the Union; she lobbied for care for the mentally ill, prisoners, and the disabled, and was responsible for the first American insane asylums. Signature ("D.L. Dix") and closing from a letter, 6 x 1¾ in. Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905) was a journalist and women's rights advocate. Certificate granting membership in the Library of Sacred Art Association of Melrose, Mass. signed by Livermore, 1904 or '05. (3 items). Estimated Value $200 - 300 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 237		Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity; winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. A long typed letter signed and inscribed "God bless you.," one page, 7½ x 12½ in., Calcutta, India, April 11, 1981. To George F. Cratty of Farmington, CT, who was distressed by the images of emaciated children he saw on T.V. Mother Teresa replies, in part: "Thank you for your letter which tells me that God has spoken to your heart inviting you in some way to be the expression of His love and concern for poor and suffering people." She talks about the Passion of Christ and quotes Jesus, then encourages Mr. Cratty, "…God has spoken to your heart throught the T.V.…See how you can be in some way, no matter how small it may be--the expression of His Provident Love…." Laid to board. This is the finest content Mother Teresa letter we have seen. Estimated Value $600 - 900 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $690
Lot 238		Parks, Rosa (1913-2005) African-American civil rights activist; her refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white person prompted the Montgomery Bus Strike and played an important role in launching the Civil Rights Movement. Two autograph documents, one written in pencil on lined notebook paper, 2 pp, 8 x 10½ in. and one written in ink, one page, 8¼ x 11¾ in., n.p., n.d. These are notes Mrs. Parks made, probably for her autobiography, regarding Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement, including her own arrest on a Montgomery bus. "I met Dr. M.L.K. Jr. in August 1955. He had accepted the call as pastor of the Eexter Ave Baptist Church April 1954. His father was not pleased with his choice. He had married Miss Coretta Scott June 18, 1953 at her parents' home in Marion, Alababma. His father, Rev. M.L.K. Sr performed the ceremony. She was a classical singer. She graduated from Antioch College, and then went to study at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music. After much delay, Rev. MLK Jr delivered his first sermon as resident pastor to the Dexter congregation on Sept. 5, 1954. He presented a document, 'Recommendations to Dexter Ave Bapt. Church for the fiscal year 1954-1955,' which contained several changes of church. He set new goals. A social and political action committee would promote membership in the NAACP, sponsor forums & mass meetings before elections to discuss the issues. 'Every member of Dexter must be a registered voter.' Following my arrest Thurs. Dec 1, 1955, the early morning, Mon. Dec 5, the Montgomery buses were almost empty of black passengers. After my trial, the MIA was formed by clergymen and other citizens. Dr. King was chosen as spokesman and leader of the bus protest at the overflow mass meeting Monday evening at the Holt Street Baptist Church. The crowd both inside and outside of the church voted una[ni]mously to remain off the buses until satisfactory changes would be made in favour of the black riders. Dr. King's home was bombed." A second piece of paper, 8¼ x 11¾ and written in ink, is about the bus company and the boycott. In part: "…Three times I've gotten off the bus because I could not countenance the treatment of Negroes….Twice I have heard a certain driver with high seniority mutter quite audibly 'black ape.'….It is interesting to read the editorials on the legality of this boycott. They make me think of that famous one that turned America from a tea- to a coffee-drinking nation. Come to think of it, one might say that this nation was founded upon a boycott…." Written on the back of the paper is "Holly Tree Inn," which was an inn at Hampton Institute, a historically black college in Hampton, Virginia, where Mrs. Parks was offered a job as a hostess after being fired from her job as a seamstress for a local department store in Montgomery. Mrs Parks worked at Holly Tree Inn for a year, beginning September 23, 1957. She later moved to Detroit, Michigan and worked as a secretary and receptionist to U.S. Representative John Conyers from 1965 to 1988. These notes are all in Mrs. Parks' hand, recounting events that changed the course of U.S. history. Estimated Value $15,000-UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $18,000