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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 730 PM, <i>The Aldus
Society</i> presents </span><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(53,53,48)">The Alexander Hamilton Collection: The
Discovery, Curation<span> </span>and Sale</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(53,53,48)"> with speaker,
Sotheby’s</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(53,53,48)"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt">Selby Kiffer.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(53,53,48)"><br></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(53,53,48)"></span></b></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Selby Kiffer travels the world for
Sotheby’s sleuthing out the finest of printed collections to bring to his
internationally renowned auction house in NYC. The blockbuster and
well-publicized January sale of the Alexander Hamilton papers will be the topic
of Kiffer’s talk at the Aldus monthly program.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Held in the Hamilton family for 200
years, the collection included <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">“’one of the most
consequential documents in American history,” Mr. Kiffer told the New York
Times while holding up the 1777 commission naming Hamilton, then a promising
but obscure military officer, aide-de-camp to Gen. George Washington.<span> </span>“Without this,” he said, “we very likely
wouldn’t be sitting here talking about Alexander Hamilton.”’</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(53,53,48)">Mr. Kiffer has
also played a role in the discovery (or rediscovery) of several other
bibliographical treasures, including a lost fragment of the autographed
manuscript of Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 “House Divided” speech; the first half of
the autographed manuscript of <i>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i>;
and, most recently, four early notebooks of Walt Whitman that had been missing
from the Library of Congress for more than 50 years.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(53,53,48)">Presented at The Thurber Center, 91 Jefferson Ave., Columbus.
Free parking behind State Auto building (518 E. Broad) on west side of N. 11th
St., the alley behind Thurber House.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:windowtext">For more </span><span style="font-size:12pt">info,
contact Membership Chair, Leah at 614-390-6080 or</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> <a href="mailto:membership.aldussociety@gmail.com">membership.aldussociety@gmail.com</a>.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></span>
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