[SOA] The Alexander Hamilton Collection: The Discovery, Curation and Sale presented at The Aldus Society

[The Aldus Society via OHIOARCHIVISTS]

On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 730 PM, *The Aldus Society* presents *The
Alexander Hamilton Collection: The Discovery, Curation  and Sale* with
speaker, Sotheby’s Selby Kiffer.


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.


Held in the Hamilton family for 200 years, the collection included “’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.  “Without this,” he said, “we very likely wouldn’t be sitting
here talking about Alexander Hamilton.”’



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  *The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn*; and, most recently, four early notebooks of Walt Whitman
that had been missing from the Library of Congress for more than 50 years.



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.



For more info, contact Membership Chair, Leah at 614-390-6080 or
membership.aldussociety at gmail.com.
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