Items signed by Einstein, Davy Crockett, Lee Harvey Oswald are in University Archives' August 7th online auction

WILTON, Conn. - July 22, 2024 - PRLog -- A letter handwritten in German and signed by Albert Einstein from 1937 and a two-page letter written and signed by Davy Crockett in 1834 while he was a U.S. Congressman from Tennessee are just two of the expected top performers in University Archives' online-only Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Americana auction planned for Wednesday, August 7^th.

The auction will start promptly at 10:00 am Eastern time. All 572 lots in the catalog are up for viewing and bidding now – on the new and improved University Archives website – UniversityArchives.com  – as well as Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be taken.

"The August 7^th auction is bursting with exceptional items from every imaginable collecting category, from U.S. Presidential, Science, and Americana, to World Leaders, Literature, and Sports," said John Reznikoff, the president and owner of University Archives. "As in our June sale, our August sale will feature a grouping of unique historical pieces deaccessioned from the prestigious Forbes Collection, as well as a significant number of lots relating to Ronald Reagan."

Lot 541 is the one-page autograph letter in German signed by Albert Einstein, dated October 9, 1937, and addressed to fellow physicist Cornelius Lanczos. The letter features about 100 words in Einstein's hand as well as around six mathematical formulae including two instances of Rik = 0, Einstein's second-most famous equation after E = MC2. The letter investigating general relativity through tensor calculus has an estimate of $35,000-$50,000.

Lot 521 is the two-page autograph letter signed by Davy Crockett, then a U.S. Congressman from Tennessee, dated April 9, 1834 and addressed to a Maine publisher. In the letter, Crockett is critical of President Andrew Jackson's executive overreach, writing, "… Jackson shall wield both sword and purse. His will is to be the law of the land." The letter should bring $18,000-$24,000.

Lot 71 is the two-page autograph letter signed by Lee Harvey Oswald dated November 30, 1961, less than two years before the Kennedy assassination, while Oswald was self-exiled in the Soviet Union. Lee asks his older brother Robert to send him an American football and play diagrams so that his Russian friends can learn "a little bit of American sport" (est. $8,000-$9,000).

Here is a link to the catalog on the University Archives website: https://www.universityarchives.com/auction-catalog/Rare-Autographs,-Manuscripts,-Books-&-Americana_ZC3S226UO8/

For more information visit www.universityarchives.com.