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AND THE SAME TO YOU MY DEAR

• A Book of prayer text in Hebrew and
  A Book of prayer text in Hebrew and English together with two mezzuzas and a covered jug with Hebraic '' Happy New Year '' inscription.
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Tuesday, December 28, 1937; mailed Tuesday, December 28,1937 Dearest, I certainly hope you had as fine a Christmas as I did and you were the reason for making it perfect you are just swell my dear what else can I say my dear. I will always be on time with such a clock around although I don't really think I could ever be on time for trains when I am leaving you. Please don't think that I have forgotten you but I have really been terribly busy since I last saw you. So many things have been happening here. The house has been full of relatives for the past week and I have been trying to take care of them and also keep up with the social world. I will be really glad when every thing slows up and I get back to some serious work again. I have been out to some sort of party almost every night since I left New York and I certainly have me some dim [?] people, although I did meet a young man from Maine who is very interesting and really has some brains. He is leaving for Hollywood soon where he has made some contacts to get in to the movies. I think he ought to make a success there, I'd like you to meet him. Is there any chance of you getting a hold of the current Fortune magazine Macbeth wrote and told me that there is something in it on page 158 that would interest me and I can't seem to get hold of one. I want to tell you again how swell it was of you to think of me [at] Christmas and I am counting the days until I see you. Andy [Accompanied by an advertisement for Wyeth's work at Macbeth Gallery in Fortune Magazine] Condition:
• Sgn. Robert Browning Letter On
  Sgn. Robert Browning Letter On letterhead 19. Warwick Crescent W. Dated June 29 '86. Addressed to ''My Dear Calvin'' declining an invitation and thanking the addressee for inquiring about his sisterâ¤Ts healthE
• FOUR LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH
  FOUR LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOOREFour Letters from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Friday, September 17, 1937; mailed Saturday, September 18, 1937 My Dearest Alice: The rest of the family left last Tuesday so I am now very much alone. I have been thinking a great deal about you and realizing more and more what a splendid girl you are and what little hope I have of ever becoming your husband although I know we belong together, Alice, I know it as well as my right hand and by God, I'm going to do something about it. What I want to know from you is do you love me or is it hopeless? Please tell me the truth. I wish I could make you out. [Illegible sentence, crossed out] One minute you are very warm to me and the next, oh hell I give up - excuse me. Well I heard form N.Y. today and Mr. Macbeth is planning to give me my show the middle of October which is really a very good time. That means I have to leave here before I expected to though which I am sorry about and I think its worth it, don't you? Also I have been asked to have a one man show in Utica New York at the Williams Proctor Institute, which isn't so bad either. We have been having some foggy weather here for the past week so I have been working in the studio most of the time and have enjoyed it very much. It's really very cozy with the fire going. I think I have some good pictures started too. I hope you are well and that you haven't forgotten about me. I love you I love you I adore and want you but what's the use. Andy Saturday, October 2, 1937; mailed Saturday, October 2, 1937 Dearest Darling - Please, please forgive me for not writing since I have been working so hard that I forgot all about time but not about you I never can you are on my mind day and night and how often I have wished you could be here with me. I always thought that I would never need anyone as I need you . Alice, I want you to be near me always. I need you more than you need me I know although as time goes by I think you will change - I hope so anyway. Well, I have been working in Egg Tempera for the last two weeks and by God I like it I have done several landscapes and am now working on a portrait of a fellow who to me expresses Maine of today. Mr. Sidney Chase the artist who lives in Martinsville can't seem to understand why I should want to paint the worst drunk in Martinsville, but as I told him, I am not interested in painting the picturesque Maine of yesterday but want to paint it as it is today and to me this fellow is typical of Maine of today. I really think I am getting a good one. The name of the fellow is Charles Ervine, ask Jim Balano about him. Thursday I went to the Union Fair and had a swell time, went up with several fellows from the port. Mr. Ervine went also and passed out. I will tell about it when I see you. I want to get this in the mail so I had better stop by saying that I love you so much that it worries me. Andy [Accompanied by a black and white page of an exhibition catalouge depicting "Charles Ervine" by Andrew Wyeth] Thursday, October 14, 1937 My Dearest Alice, Just received word from Macbeth Gallery that my show opens October 19th, so I am planning to arrive in Poughkeepsie Friday night. Hoping that you will be there - Much love, Andy P.S. Could you let Bill Balano know. October, 1937, a Monday after the Macbeth show; mailed Tuesday, October 26, 1937. My Dearest Alice, Just a note to let you know that I am planning to call you from New York City Wednesday night about supper time. My show has gone well. I have sold everything and most of the reviews have been good. You have been on my mind night and day and how I do miss you. I had really a swell time with you in Poughkeepsie and I want to thank you my sweet I love I love you and I love you and by God just watch me. Excuse the terrible writing and also the shortness of this. I love you. Andy Condition:
• QUEEN ELIZABETH II HANDWRITTEN
  QUEEN ELIZABETH II HANDWRITTEN LETTERQUEEN ELIZABETH II HANDWRITTEN LETTER to Reverend Prebendary Percival, January 3, 1938 on Sandringham, Norfolk letterhead and with envelope postmarked the same. Text reads: "Dear Prebendary Percival, Thank you very much for the two delightful books you sent Margaret and I. Margaret will enjoy reading it as she can now read to herself. Wishing you a happy New Year. From Elizabeth." Elizabeth was 11 years old at the time of the letter.
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Thursday, August 12, 1937; mailed Friday, August 13, 1937 My Dearest Alice, I can't tell you how thrilled and please I was to receive your grand letter. You are a perfect darling. I certainly am a lucky fellow to have a person like you to write to. You are on my mind constantly and it makes me feel very bad to think of you being so far away from me and especially in all of that heat. For the past week the weather here has been very foggy and rather warm for Maine but today its cleared much to my joy although I really don't mind fog because I am in one most of the time. Well I think my painting has made a big jump ahead since you last saw it. Today I did two of my best water colors I really think they are darn good. One is of the Glenmere Church [Second Baptist Ridge Church, Martinsville, Maine] looking through two tomb stones. I think it makes a very effective picture. I must have given a crazy impression to the people that passed the church seeing me painting among the tomb stones. The other one is a landscape done early in the morning. I am also working on a portrait of a young fisherman which is coming along very well. By the way, I sold a picture the other day to a lady from Boston. It was a small water color which I did the day after you left. It brought me in [crossed out word] I received a note from Jim Balano today. He told me that he stayed in and saw you all [in margin] < That's what happens when I read Gone with the Wind) and had a grand time. He probably told you that I am planning to stop off at your place on the way to Chadds Ford. I expect to stay here alone until the end of November. The rest of the family are leaving in about a month. When I look over this letter I wonder how I have the courage to send it to you. I do love you so very much my dear that it's very hard for me to wait to see you again. Good night my dearest darling I love you. Andy Condition:
• Winston Churchill signed letter,
  Winston Churchill signed letter, four typed lines on Hyde Park Gate, London, printed letterhead, December 31, 1958, to Brigadier Sir John Smyth, "Thank you very much for your letter. In view of what you tell me, I can only say how honoured I am that such an Illustrious association should wish to have me as its President. Yours Very Sincerely" signed "Winston Churchill" in dark brown ink, 6-3/8 x 8-1/8 in. Laid down on cardstock, foxing Collection of Donald Nelson, Williamsburg, Virginia.
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Mailed Sunday, November 5, 1938 My Dearest, I have been doing through hell for the past week. I always felt that I could handle things so that nothing could bother me outside of my art but I certainly was wrong, in fact, I have been sick since I came home from Boston. To tell you the truth, when I first received your letter in Boston, I was the most happiest person alive, but when I began thinking of how long it would be before I could marry you it made me feel very sad, and I thought it best that I tell you not to wait for me. But this last week I have felt so lonely and blue thinking of you marrying someone else, but now I am mad, so just see what I do this next year. I am going to work like hell and really do things, and if you don't let me see you I will go crazy or some thing. Don't forget you are coming down to Carolyn's party. Write damn you my darling Andy [Accompanied by a newspaper clipping of a review of an AW exhibition] Condition:
• Robert Browning (1812-1889)
  Robert Browning (1812-1889) Autograph Letter, one page, octavo, signed and dated Feb. 9th [18]55, with stamped, addressed envelope postmarked Florence, Feb. 10, 1855, to Mr. Alexander Gilchrist (1828-1861), reading: "Dear Sir, I well remember the occasion of my writing Mr. Etty, & the feeling with which I wrote, writing more. I can readily believe, however, you have done me as little harm, by printing the note, as good - except in the honor of apostilating my name, even in so slight a matter with that admirable and loveable man's. Your book has only reached me partially as yet - by the extracts in review - but these are of very pleasant promise. Pray let me thank you very cordially for your kind expressions to myself, & assure you that I am, Dear Sir, Yours very sincerely, Robert Browning", accompanied by a clipping of the letter's description in the original sale catalogue of New York Bookseller Emily Driscoll, catalogue 11 (1950), item 23. This letter is clearly in reference to the flattering letter Browning sent in 1849 to the artist William Etty (1787-1849), and which Gilchrist published in his 1855 Life of William Etty, R.A., v. II. p. 280.
• TO SIR, WITH LOVE MOVIE POSTER
  TO SIR, WITH LOVE MOVIE POSTER Staring Sydney Poitier, 42 x 28 in., framed.
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Sunday, August 21, 1938; mailed Monday August 22, 1938 My Dearest, I am very glad to tell you that Mr. Macbeth was very pleased with my work, in fact, he bought eight water colors outright which I hear is quite good, but what please me most is that he seems really surprised at what I had done this summer. I certainly am glad that's over now and that I can get back to my work. Now the next big thing for me is seeing you again so please don't disappoint me by not coming up. Well, Ann had an eight pound boy last Thursday morning and both of them are perfect. My father and mother are going home to see them in a couple of days, so Carolyn and little Peter and myself and also the cook, Alice will be here alone so you had better come up over Labor Day and keep me company. In fact, I need you very much as I have been under the weather for the past few days with the same bug that my father had. But I think I am better today, but even if I'm not better I am going to paint tomorrow or I will go crazy. I do miss you so much these days and long for you to be near me. I have been wondering what you have been doing these past few weeks. Finished "Wuthering Heights" this morning and got a kick out of every page. She certainly did load drama into that story, but there is something much deeper in it than that. There is a soul in it which makes it live in your mind. This is a book I will always remember. Excuse this short note my sweet as I must get to bed and get some sleep. I am thinking of you. Much love, Andy Condition:
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Sunday, August 14, 1938; mailed Monday, August 15, 1938 Dearest: Your letter gave me one of those thrills that I will not easily forget. For once I almost believe you do care a little for me, I do so much want to believe that some times I feel as if I would like to hold you so tight and tell you that I love you again and again and that I will not let you go, and then I wonder if you do love me enough to want me for life. Oh my sweet, when I think of you being with any one else I feel terrible and when I think of how wonderful it was when your pure body was next to mine and the feeling of you moving against me is one of those things that seems like heaven. You will please excuse this poor attempt at writing as this is something that I can't write about and make sense but I know you know what I mean. I guess the reason is that I feel it too deeply to be able to write it. Before I forget it I must tell you that this man [Siskin?] is hard to get rid of, so I would think twice before I would invite him down to Poughkeepsie. You know the old saying, "you give a Jew a inch and they will take a mile" don't take me wrong now. Just got my water colors back all matted and mounted and I think they look like they ought to do something for me. I have done ten of my best water colors since you left, five of them are large ones; one of the best is of a dory coming through the fog in the early morning. I'm sure you would like it. My father seems very pleased with what I have done. By the way, he is feeling much more like himself again and looks much better. I expect Macbeth here sometime this week so wish me luck. Say, "Wuthering Heights" is one of the most moving and powerful stories I have ever read. Emily Bronte writes the way I would like to paint. The trouble is I find this book hard to put down. The write James Boyd dropped in on us the other day. He is truly a splendid fellow and I think one of the best writers we have of his kind. Do you know his work. I certainly hope the weather is clear tomorrow so that I can get over to the island and finish that picture. Please take care of your self my love and remember I am thinking of you always. Andy Will write soon and write a good one Condition:
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Sunday, January 16, 1938; mailed Monday January 17, 1938 Alice my dear, I have just come down from the studio where I have spent most of the day. Been thinking of you a great deal and wondering what gave you the strange idea that I don't like to hear from you. I really think you ought to be ashamed of your self. You have too much sense to act that way and you ought to know me well enough by now to understand I am very slow in getting things done and that isn't only in writing letters either. The truth is that after I receive a letter from you, it takes me quite a while to get over the feeling that I shouldn't even try to write letters to you. Well, enough of this, but I hope you understand that I want to hear from you . Read some more of Eugene Delacroix's journals today, and he spoke of making some studies of a female model and unhappily, he said she carried off part of the energy that he wanted for the day's work. It is a good thing you are not around me because I am sure I would have the same trouble. I seem to be getting along with my anatomy study. It takes me quite a while to get it but once I do, it sticks, by God. Did some fencing yesterday afternoon and got along pretty well too. You ever do any its good fun I think. My great grandfather was [sketch of two figures fencing, with other figure studies below, in margin "excuse this my dear"] So you see I might have a chance. Now keep at your writing and don't forget that I am thinking about you. Love Andy Condition:
• A French gold love token
  A French gold love token inscribed 'Hier Aujourd'hui Demain Toujours' to one side and 'C.F.M to L.G.M France 1914' to the other, contained in a box of book form, a silver cigarette case and a silver plated shield from a trophy, the cigarette case approximately 125gm
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Sunday, March 20, 1938; mailed Monday, March 21, 1938 Dearest Alice: What a shock it was. It's hard for me to believe that you are in the hospital. I certainly hope that you are feeling better and don't you do any worrying now do you understand, I mean it, you take it easy. I am glad that you are in a hospital because I know that they will make you rest, and another thing, don't you do any writing. When I come to New York again I am going to try and come out and see you. Well I can't tell you how impressive Maine is in the winter time but God! It's lovely as hell. Port Clyde seems deserted when you walk down its streets or I should say street. The wind whistling through the buildings makes it all the more stark and you never see a person and when you do it's only for a minute as you see them dart across the street and disappear into a house. But if you want to find the fisherman, just go in a store [sketch of four figures seated around a stove] and you will find them all. In fact, I think they spend most of their time there talking. The weather was beautifully clear while we were in Port Clyde. They have really had a very open winter, very little snow, only six inches, which is strange for Maine. It was pretty cold while we were there. I made several water colors form the car which I may do something with. Some times also made drawings. It's very interesting how different the place looks in the winter, what a deep blue and green the sea is and the rock weed turns very black, which is very effective. I must certainly spend some winters up there and paint some of these things. It never has been touched by an artist that I can recall. Stopped in Boston on the way home and saw the man that runs the art gallery of Doll and Richards. My show is all arranged for there next fall so I guess I will be pretty busy this summer. Also got a book to illustrate from Houghton Mifflin & Co., which I will do before I leave for Maine. Our visit with Kenneth Roberts was a grand one. The place he is living in this winter is a scream. It's in Kennebunkport. The house, or I should say hotel, is owned by a friend of his who let him use it for the winter. It's the most God awful thing I have ever looked at. Roberts himself thinks it terrible. [Sketch of aforementioned building] He took us all over it and made some of the best remarks I have ever heard. I have never laughed as much as I did there. I thought of a very good drawing I'm going to send to the New Yorker of two old ladies standing in front of his house holding a copy of "Northwest Passage" and saying, (So this is Maine) don't you think that would be good. I will tell you more about this visit when I see you. When I arrived home I found a letter from Mr. Macbeth enclosing a letter from the president of the Museum at Atlanta, the Museum that bought one of my water colors, asking me if I would do a painting for his office of some palm trees blowing in the wind, which ought to be swell to do. I finished the sketch for it Saturday and sent it on for his approval. [Sketch of aforementioned painting] I think I am going to do it in Egg Tempera. I want to get a great deal of color in it. I will write again soon and don't forget that I am thinking about you always. I am hoping that you are feeling better so that you will be able to see me when I come up. One thing in your being in the hospital is that you won't be going on any binges. But I really hope that you don't outgrow them altogether, please don't. Good night my sweet dearest, my darling. Andy This letter smells bad to me so hold your nose Condition:
• FRAME INK & WATERCOLOR POEMca. 1825
  FRAME INK & WATERCOLOR POEMca. 1825 dated; two-part hand written poem letter to Miss Ei Bushar sent from "her friend J.S.", the poem about "you" blushing rose, "so beautiful but beware of secret thorn", framed in a bird's eye maple frame, 9 1/4"x 10 3/4" framed; Condition: appears removed composition box, no folds observed, some foxing
• THREE LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH
  THREE LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORE AND A LETTER FROM CAROLYN B. WYETH TO ALICE MOOREThree Letters from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore and a Letter from CAROLYN B. WYETH to Alice Moore, December 12, 1938; mailed December 13, 1938 My Dear: The photographs are good and I am glad to have them, in fact, I feel very proud to have them. The profile is the best I think. Someday when your writings are known all over the world, I will be able to say I know you, and if they don't believe me I will show them the photos your letters I shall keep for my self always. You must stop having these foolish dreams about me getting married. God forbid if I ever did anything like that. Well nothing has happened here since you left that is very exciting to tell about. I have started fencing again and am getting along extremely well. I think I am getting the technique really down. My teacher tells me that I ought to make a name in it so here's hoping. Who knows, I may make it a means of support someday. You were very sweet to send my mother candy which we all enjoyed. I am planning to come to New York sometime next week and will call you and see if I can't arrange to get out and see you. Nat and Caroline were here for dinner yesterday and they both looked quite well. Caroline looks a good deal older though but seems to be in good spirits. I am starting on a large painting of a young Negro tomorrow and am really excited about it. This I feel is going to be really good. I will tell you about it when I see you. I feel I am gaining power every day and it won't be long before the world will see. I am not blowing. It may sound as if I am but I have real confidence in what I will do. [?] and many thanks for the photos my dear, looking forward to seeing you Andy [in marign: "I feel lonely tonight, I wish I was with you my love"] Thursday, December 22, 1938; mailed Thursday, December 22, 1938 Dearest Alice, This note I am writing in bed as I am sick that is the reason I didn't call you from New York. I am terribly sorry, I did much want to see you before Christmas. I have the same damn bug my father had in Maine this summer and I don't feel so hot. Will write you a real letter when I get better. Much love to you Andy Saturday, January 21, 1939 Dear Alice: When I look at the date and think how many days have passed and no word to you to thank you for the delicious candy and nuts you sent also the interesting little book you sent us Christmas, well, I feel simply disgusted with myself. We have had such a gloomy fall and winter, every thing wrong. Frist the death of Nat's baby, then Mr. Wyeth and Andy both real sick before Christmas from the same bug they had last summer. The Doctor found Mr. Wyeth had a flabby heart muscle due to over weight, which means he must lose weight, also to avoid all excitement, go slow. All this has depressed me so I really have had no heart to write you. But when Andy told me you were back in the Hospital again with your old back trouble I felt more depressed than ever not getting a note to you before this, do forgive me. Oh! yes, Peter Jr. and Ann Carol have whooping cough but at present are much better. I never had such a mess of things happen together. The Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia are giving the family a show in Phila. Carol is very busy painting a portrait of Italian boy and seems in good spirits. Andy and his father are going to Florida to look over country mentioned in the "Yearling" which Mr. Wyeth will illustrate this spring. Andy has been making some beautiful wash drawings of snow scenes around here. Such grand snow storms we have been having, and sledding parties. I just made my first batch of doughnuts for the hungry youngsters, after sledding, only wish you could be here now to enjoy this real winter of snow. I hope you are feeling better by now, and will benefit by a good rest. Let us hear from you when possible. Lots of love from Andy's Mother February 8, 1939, Key West, Florida [postcard] Dear Alice, Well here I am down with the palms and green water and coral sand and it's swell. I certainly hope you are feeling better. Love Andy Condition:
• SAMPLER DATED 1838 BY FANNY
  SAMPLER DATED 1838 BY FANNY ESHELMAN: Showing house, trees, birds, fruit bowl, deer, and motto with flowering vine border. ''Round is my ring And has no end So is My Love unto my friend / Teach me to feel Another woe To hide the fault I see That mercy I to others show Tat mercy show to me/ This work in hand my friend may have When I am in my silent grave/ Fanny Eshelman 1838''. Age related discoloration. Framed under glass. 16 1/4'' x 19'' sight. 20 1/4'' x 23'' overall.
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Mailed Mid-November, 1938 Dearest, I was very upset to hear that you are again ill. I certainly hope that you will take better care of yourself after this, but please don't try and get up before you should. I do hope you can make it to our party but if you can't I will see you soon any way. Well, I have been working hard and I think have really been doing some good work. Finished up a tempera painting and am working on another also have done several large water colors which everyone here thinks are the best I have done. I thought the Boston papers were very good to me, in fact, much better than New York. If the writers in the future are as good to me as they were I will be lucky. Boston you know is a hard place to break in to. I sold four large water colors. The trouble was is that most of my best pictures were sold before the show opened. In fact, quite a number of people want me to make copies of the water colors they liked which were sold, the damn fools . Well, my show opens tomorrow in Philadelphia. I am enclosing some clippings out of today's papers. Just wait old dear, I'll show the world what painting is. I am planning to go South after Thanksgiving for a couple weeks and I do want to see you before this. So please try and come down as I do want to see you. Will write soon, in fact, in a couple of days. Much love to you my sweet, Andy [Bottom half of page with sketched scene: a large central figure with hat, with caption "don't you wish I looked like this instead this," with arrow to sketch of himself, with figure in bed at right, captioned "you," inscribed along bottom margin, "excuse me you know I am crazy"] [Accompanied by an exhibition invitation at McClees Gallery, 1615 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, November 14 - November 26, 1938, two newspaper clippings with reviews of the exhibition at McClees Galleries, and a clipping from a Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts publication with notice of a show and reproduction of AW's painting, "Calm Morning" with a note in his hand, "This gives people the impression I am a strong person."] Condition:
• SISTER CORITA KENT. "MAY THE SUN
  SISTER CORITA KENT. "MAY THE SUN SHINE ON YOU SWEETLY," SERIGRAPH (American, 1918-1986). Serigraph in color, ed. 200, pencil signed "Corita" lr, sight size: 15 1/2 x 18 in, framed.
• A Spanish mother-of-pearl, lace and
  A Spanish mother-of-pearl, lace and paper fan, circa 1900, each side with a scene of a lady in a sedan chair being engaged in conversation by a suitor on a terrace above, Cupid looking on, boxed
• TWO LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH
  TWO LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORETwo Letters from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Tuesday, August 24, 1937; mailed Wednesday, August 25, 1937 My Dearest, I'm counting the days till labor day, now please don't disappoint me by not coming or I will go crazy, I mean it. Say your letter was a swell bit of writing. I can't tell you how much they mean to me. You certainly do know how to express your self and if you write your book the way you write to me you certainly will go places. But really your letters are a great inspiration to me. You put into words things that I try to express in painting but I wish the devil I could write with your clearness. Today has been a typical Maine day with sparkling blue water and a strong north west breeze. In fact it was so windy it blew away a can I was working on up on a hill behind the port. It was lots of fun painting with one hand and holding the picture with the other. I got a good one out of it I think though. Tomorrow I got to make a trip down to Wilton, N.H. which I don't look forward to with much pleasure. But still I think it's rather important that I go. I probably told you about the E[…] who I know in New York who have bought several paintings of mine, well they have a summer home in Wilton and they have been after me to come down for the past three years and spend some time with them. I will be back here Saturday not to leave again for a good while I hope. I hope you will excuse my writing as I want to get this off in the mail. I'm crazy about you my darling and I want you not to forget me. Andy Wednesday, September 8, 1937; mailed Thursday September 9, 1937 My Dearest, It is ten thirty P.M. and I am alone at last for a few minutes. This is really the first time since you left I've had to write to you, but you have been on my mind constantly. I certainly am in a bad way about you what I mean is that I need you so God damn much and when you are not around I feel that part of me is gone. Although I know that when you are around I don't get much painting done but the only way I guess to fix that is getting married. I can't tell you how much it meant to me seeing you again. It has had a very stimulating effect on me and my work and I really feel that the next two months up here are going to mean something to me. But I want you so much Alice, that it's going to be hard to keep from rushing down and seeing you. I only hope that things will work out that we can live here together someday. I am going to keep hoping anyway. You are really something for me to work for and 'by God' I'm going to do it. If you will only learn to love me I will do anything for you, My Dear Alice anything. When I think of you and how your warm lips felt on mine I now and feel that you are meant for me. Andy [along margin] Excuse this writing Condition:
• CRAIG TENNANT (AMERICAN, B.
  CRAIG TENNANT (AMERICAN, B. 1946), YOU TOO, CURLY Oil on linen, signed at lower right, presented in an attractive burnished white gold cove frame of weathered wood.
• 1 piece. Autograph Note Signed.
  1 piece. Autograph Note Signed. Dickens, Charles. N.p., n.d. On sheet approx. 2 x 4 inches (508 x 100 mm). To Mrs. Fletcher, "I have read the book you mention'd to / me, highly praised; and I will share it / on your recommendation, forthwith / always Dear Madam, faithfully yours / Charles Dickens." Text & signature clear. Framed with modern portrait.
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Sunday, August 1, 1937; mailed Monday, August 2, 1937 My Dearest Alice, I just had to write you this note to let you know how much I love you and miss you not being here. God! But its been lonely for me since you left. I know now how much I really need you and how desperately I am in love with you . I certainly hope that anything that happened the other night has not changed your feelings towards me because if it has I ought to be shot, but please, please don't let it my darling I couldn't stand it. If you do ever learn to love me and will wait for me I feel very confident that I will make a success of my art and I am sure that it won't be long. I wish I could write clearly what I mean. I know that if I had a girl like you around me long I could really do things with my painting and my dull mind. I really mean this from the bottom of my soul. If it isn't asking too much I wish you would write to me some time will you, Alice. I am writing this in my studio it's about ten o'clock PM. The rest of the family have gone to Rockland to see a show. I feel rather lonely and yet I feel happy when I think of you and then I am glad to be alone. I am getting up at three thirty tomorrow morning to go hauling so I guess I had better say good night to you my love my darling I do miss you terribly. Andy P.S. Have you a small photograph of yourself you could let me have. A. I hope you can understand this letter [Accompanied by a black and white photograph of Wyeth in a straw hat, inscribed "don't I look happy"] Condition:
• A painting on natural finished wood
  A painting on natural finished wood board of a girl with her doll annotated in pencil on the board '' To Jeanie Brough from the wretched artist '' with monogram C.AL. ascribed to Cecil Aldin.
• A lady's fan with pierced frets
  A lady's fan with pierced frets together with three other fans and a Japanese lady's haircomb also a tapestry handbag together with three horn boxes and one hardstone lidded box
• 18th century British caricature,
  18th century British caricature, man bowing before a nobleman, inscribed below "Good…church warden your humble servant./Bow not thy head to me fellow for the exalted to so high a station, I am, but a man.", circa 1760-1780, inscribed verso "J.W.H and G.L.", watercolor on paper, 7-5/8 x 7-1/2 in.; black-painted wood frame. Taped at top at two points and bottom at one point, minor foxing, light toning. Forsyth's Antiques, Nashville, Tennessee, 1991
• TWO LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH
  TWO LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORETwo Letters from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, mis-dated April 15, 1938; mailed Thursday, April 14, 1938 --> Don't put Philadelphia on your letters. Dearest Alice: It is now 10 P.M. I have just come in after taking a long walk by myself [in margine: "not really, I had my dog Lupe along] in the moonlight it was beautiful, the pale cool haze of the countryside was almost more than I could stand. It made me feel as if I could walk for ever and never tire. It also made me feel very lonely and sad to think of how time is passing and things are changing it's strange the way you never think of time when you are young. (I am talking as if I am an old man.) I am a strange person because I find that the less I see of people, the happier I am. This must sound very strange coming from such a young boy but I mean it. The more I see of cities the more I like the country. When I am in the city I am lost. Every time I go to New York, I can't tell you what it does to me, but it certainly is awful. If you can get to Maine this summer we must certainly plan to take some walks in the moonlight. That was a grand letter you wrote me Alice. It made me feel very sad to think that you can't spend all of your time writing, because your writing shows that you have the stuff. I hope you won't be to much of a different person Alice when you are fully recovered because I am still hoping, just give me a little time. I have been spending the last three weeks getting together research materials for a story at Burgundy in 1150. It's damn well written. It's by Allen French the brother of Daniel Chester French, sculptor. I am doing black and white drawings for it. Really, you would laugh to see the pile of books of research I have around me in the studio. It's a hell of a mess. [Sketch of AW surrounded by books] Also, I just finished a water color for a book on Maine with the Stephen Daye Press are publishing. When it comes out, I will send you a copy. Carolyn told me to tell you to take it easy and don't drink too much beer. Henriette's paintings look extremely beautiful in her show. I don't understand why it doesn't make more of a hit. All I can say is that New York is nuts. I wish you could have seen it, damn shame. I am really sorry that Scribner's article ever came out. I thought it was very poorly written, don't you? And I thought that the pictures were just plain bad. It's impossible for me to do Maine pictures in Chadds Ford. Well you be good now and get well and I will be up and see you. I am thinking about you, much love, Andy Monday March 14, 1938 [postcard] Dear Alice, What a place Maine is in the winter it's stunning, you don't know it until you see it this time of year. We left Port Clyde this morning at five o'clock and had breakfast with Kenneth Roberts at Kennebunkport. He is a grand person, you would like him I know. Also had a nice time with Ben Ames Wil[?] Love Andy [verso] We are spending the night here in Concord. Have you ever been here? It's lovely this time of year - rather cold but no snow, which I am sorry about. I was surprised not to find it colder in Port Clyde. Condition:
• TWO LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH
  TWO LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORETwo Letters from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Sunday, September 18, 1938; mailed Monday, September 19, 1938 My Dear, I find at this point that I can't paint another thing. The reason is that I am shipping all of my work off to New York tomorrow, and I have only one week left here in Port Clyde. I am so damn anxious to see you that seeing a paint brush drives me crazy. I have been thinking a great deal about your life you live in and I only wish the Hell I could do something about it. It seems to me the only thing that I am good for on this earth is art and sometimes I wonder about that. The work I have done this summer means nothing to me. In fact, I hope I never see it again. I have not started to paint yet. I am only building and that takes so long, by the time I am ready to paint I will be too old to do it. If I can move ahead quickly and sure, then I will show myself a painting that will live and then I will be happy to die. The longer I exist on this earth the less I care what people think about what I do. All the artists I know are so small, and that's why when I look at the work I have done I feel very sad because I know what I want to do, and if I don't, I'm as much a mess as the rest. But my dear I want and must have you behind me so please don't hate me when I am slow in writing. Remember we must not break up over such a small thing, we must be big people to do big things remember this. Your life must be very lonely but don't give up. I am working hard and I will show this mad world yet. Will write again before I leave. Am waiting to hold you in my arms and your lips are growing more and more to my fancy and I can't forget them. Andy Thursday, October 6, 1938; Mailed Monday, October 10, 1938 Thursday night, a week ago tonight I was in your arms my sweet. Dearest, Just a line to tell you that I am thinking of you. Am in the middle of jury duty at Philadelphia. What a life, too much for me. I feel as if I saw you a year ago and its hell. Will write a letter in a few days, but just wanted you to know that I am still on this earth. Now for God's sake don't stay in that little room of yours too much, remember you were put on this world to live. Love Andy Condition:
• A framed and signed Persian
  A framed and signed Persian miniature of a girl being courted by a man with gifts.
• HEPBURN KATHARINE Autographed
  HEPBURN KATHARINE Autographed letter signed (''K'') 1 page undated to Barbara Bush. Hepburn writes in a shaky hand: ''Dear Mrs. Bush. Just a word to you to the President to thank you both for being so enthusiastic and so generous on Sunday. You made it all such fun and so exciting - we were all thrilled. It was a lesson to all of us - Especially to me - thank you very very much.'' On yellow paper; wrinkled all over; some very small tears.
• ENGLISH SILK ON LINEN SAMPLER, 19TH
  ENGLISH SILK ON LINEN SAMPLER, 19TH CENTURYENGLISH SILK ON LINEN SAMPLER, 19TH CENTURY, silk on linen, "Tell me ye knowing and difcerning few/Where I may find a friend both firm and true/Who dares ftand by me when in deep Diftrefs/And then his Love and Friendfhip moft exprefs." with crown, Adam and Eve, dog, rabbit, peacock, exotic bird, flowering urn, "Virtue the chiefett Beauty of the mind,/the nobleft Ornament of human kind:/ Virtue our Safeguard and our guiding Star, the ftars up Reafon when our Senfes err.", house, fence, figures, surrounded by a meandering border Provenance: An Old Town Alexandria Estate
• Lladro PorcelainFfigurine ''A
  Lladro PorcelainFfigurine ''A Wish Come True''''Que Bonitas!'' #7676 depicting a young lady with large brimmed sun hat a watering can and a pot of flowers dated 1995 with blue mark to bottom 9.5'' H ''Ya Tenemos Diez Anos'' #7635 depicting a shy boy on bench being kissed by a girl his own age circa 20th century 7.5'' H x 7'' W excellent condition in original box.Estate of Eugenia Sager Plymouth Michigan.Estate of Eugenia Sager Plymouth Michigan.
• Winston S. Churchill letter
  Winston S. Churchill letter signed dated March 7 1923 addressed to ''My dear Weir'' possibly William Douglas Weir and reading ''I send you herewith a copy of my book with my very best wishes. Believe me Yours Sincerely Winston S. Churchill.'' On stationery from the Villa-Reve-Dor Canne A.M. framed sight size: H7 3/4'' W4 3/4''; together with a copy of his book THE WORLD CRISIS 1911-1914. 1 Vol. London: Thornton Butterworth 1923. First edition second state first volume of six total volumes. (2pcs) Provenance: West Virginia private collection. Letter: with folds. Book: probably not the book mentioned in the letter but we are uncertain of this; first few pages coming loose; spine splitting; pages appear to be intact.
• Watercolor titled ''Happy New
  Watercolor titled ''Happy New Year'' by noted Ct. folk artist Evelyn S. Dubiel (1922-present). Site 10 3/4'' x 13 3/4''.