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Last week Brother Tikytt's psalter appeared in Manhattan as a principal item in an auction of the library of the Marquess of Lothian at the American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc. Not in two decades, it was claimed, had such an important sale of manuscripts and incunabula occurred...
First night's prices, $356,260 for 89 lots, so encouraged agents of the Marquess of Lothian that they considered it likely that he would send to the U. S. for sale a collection of fine furniture and paintings from his two estates, Blickling Hall, Norfolk, and Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian. The Marquess is better known to U. S. citizens as Philip Henry Kerr, lecturer and onetime private secretary to David Lloyd George. He was a member of last summer's Round Table Conferences on India. Second cousin to the Duke of Norfolk, he succeeded to his title last...
Second night of the sale, devoted to minor items, was interrupted by the disposal of one major item of Americana which came, not from the Lothian library, but from that of George Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam. of Milton, Peterborough, England. Addressed "to the KINGS most excellent majesty," this musty sheaf of papers has had a career so interesting that most U. S. collectors value it second only to the Declaration of Independence.* Written in a neat spidery hand which is almost certainly that of John Dickenson of Pennsylvania, it was the final petition to George III by the American Colonies...
...Robert Schomberg Kerr, Marquess of Lothian: B. Seebohm Rowntree, sociologist, maker of Rowntree's Chocolates...
Numerous other diversions were provided. Oldtime fiddlers had a contest, rasped out "Money Musk," "Soldier's Joy," "Leather Breeches." At the live stock and horse show blue ribbons went to Best Steer Lothian Count IV, to Best Mare Margot. Samuel McKelvie Sr.. father of the Federal Farm Board's Samuel Roy McKelvie, won prizes on his Poland China hogs. Flyers from four States competed in an air derby. Governor Weaver, presented with a Diamond Jubilee plaque, said: "Nebraska has no mines of gold or silver or precious stones, but ... a soil that will last forever . . . salubrious climate...