Queen Elizabeth I Letter, Stuyvesant Land Grant, and Jefferson–Madison Appointment to Auction

A 1510 vellum warrant signed by King Henry VIII and a 1601 letter signed by his daughter Queen Elizabeth I excusing the Archbishop of York from attending her final Parliament are among the highlights at RR Auction's latest sale.

Closing March 26, other leading lots in the auction include:

• a May 15, 1664 land grant signed by Peter Stuyvesant issued at Fort Amsterdam four months before he surrendered New Netherland to the English
• a 1681 indenture signed by William Penn conveying 5,000 acres to one of Pennsylvania’s original 'First Purchasers'
• a dual-signed 1801 vellum appointment document bearing the signatures of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison appointing William C. C. Claiborne governor of the Mississippi Territory
• a 1955 autograph letter signed “Jack” by John F. Kennedy written on United States Senate letterhead and sent to Swedish aristocrat Gunilla von Post in which he writes, “I am coming to Stockholm... write to me right away as I shall be leaving for Europe in 2 weeks.”
• a signed United States Marine Corps enlistment application of Lee Harvey Oswald documenting his early military service years before the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963
• a letter by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his cousin 'Bäsle' explaining that "The aria will be finished"
• a signed letter by Albert Einstein featuring hand-drawn experimental sketches
• a signed first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
• letters by Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, Charles Darwin, Frédéric Chopin, and Johannes Brahms
• a complete signed 1968 concert program by The Doors
• a Japanese pressing of Led Zeppelin II signed by all four members of Led Zeppelin in Tokyo
• original handwritten lyrics for Grateful Dead's Doin' That Rag by Jerry Garcia