Personal Documents, Love Letters & More Set for HAMILTON Auction at Sotheby's

By: Nov. 02, 2016
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Beginning January 18, 2017, Sotheby's New York will present Alexander Hamilton: An Important Family Archive of Letters and Manuscripts. According to the auction house, the exclusive sale will tell the story of Hamilton's brief but momentous life through hundreds of documents that have descended in THE FAMILY for the last two centuries.

The material in the auction will include highly personal documents, such as love letters exchanged between Hamilton and his wife Eliza, as well as the condolence letter, sealed with black wax, his father-in-law, Phillip Skyler, sent to his daughter after Hamilton was killed in the duel with Burr.

His public career will also be represented with notes he wrote for one of Washington's annual addresses to congress as well as legal papers from his private practice, among many others documents. Perhaps the most poignant relic in the sale is a lock of Hamilton's hair with a letter of presentation from his wife Eliza.

Hamilton's popularity has been on the rise in recent years due to Ron Chernow's best-selling biography Alexander Hamilton, and Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip hop Broadway musical HAMILTON, winner of 11 Tony awards, recipient of the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Hamilton is being further honored this winter with exhibitions at the New York Public Library and the New York Historical Society.

Click here for more details on the HAMILTON auction

Image courtesy of Sothebys.com


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