The sale of 201 American historical documents from the Forbes Collection, which was started by the late financial publisher Malcolm Forbes and is now controlled by his sons, yielded more than $20 million and saw record prices paid for items from 14 different presidents, said Chris Coover of Christie’s books and manuscripts department. research leading to the development of the atomic bomb, was sold for $2.10 million, a record price for a letter. Roosevelt warning him of the potential for “the construction of extremely powerful bombs,” which helped launch U.S. historical document.Īlbert Einstein’s letter to President Franklin D. historical documents that fetched record prices.Īn autographed manuscript of Abraham Lincoln’s last speech, delivered from the window of the White House three days before his assassination in 1865, was sold for $3,086,000-the most ever for a U.S. The Enola Gay co-pilot’s log book recording the horror of having just dropped the first atomic bomb in war was the most chilling item on auction Wednesday in a sale of U.S.
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