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...before a bronze bust of Alexander Hamilton was unveiled atop the Palisades on the rock upon which he rested his head after being fatally wounded by Aaron Burr, a Manhattan autograph dealer announced he had acquired from the descendants of Burr's second, William P. Van Ness, the correspondence which led up to the duel. Included was Burr's opening letter wherein he told Hamilton: "I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper. . . . Mr. Van Ness . . . will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention." Hamilton...
With some pride, the New York Public Library last week announced that it had just received as a gift an arrant forgery to add to its notable collection of autographs. The document, purporting to be a brief letter in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, was gladly accepted by the library, for, according to Manhattan Autograph Expert Thomas F. Madigan, it was a fine specimen of the handiwork of Robert Spring, one of the most notorious autograph forgers in U. S. history. While hundreds of unwitting collectors have cabinets filled with Robert Spring autographs, wiseacres are willing to pay large sums...
...Robert Spring was the most expert of autograph forgers, the most blatant was a French contemporary named Vrain Lucas. Within eight years he produced and sold no less than 27,000 autograph manuscripts including a polite little note from Judas Iscariot to Mary Magdalene. His greatest mistake: composing a letter from Cleopatra to Julius Caesar in modern French...
...Manhattan pier where, with nother melodramatic dash, she sped up he crew's gangplank to the captain's cabin of the Kungsholm. Again shy Miss Garbo merged, sweeping her long lashes at her fellow passengers. Finally an 11-year-old wandered up to request an autograph. This time secretive Greta Garbo vanished for good. In Buffalo, Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty was threatened with arrest by the local S. P. C. A. if he did not stop "prodding and beating" his circus lions. Said the S. P. C. A. agent: "Lions are the nicest and bravest animals...
...celebrated passenger. They found a nervous little man who wore spats, a bright checkered scarf and a fur-lined overcoat which, for no apparent reason, he kept putting on & taking off. Once he had located the spectacles perched on the top of his head, he gladly gave his autograph. He used Russian letters but he set them down vertically, like Chinese. Deciphered, they read: '"Igor Stravinsky...