In the five-days' sale at "Sotheby's," which commenced on December 2, 1901, books and autographs were mixed. The total reached £6,216 11s. 6d. Amongst the autographs figured:—
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| MS. of Isaac Watts's Address to the Church of Christ assembled in Mark Lane | (1702) | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| A.L.S. Isaac Watts | (1735) | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| A.L.S. Thomas Gray | (1758) | 15 | 10 | 0 |
| A.L.S. Thomas King, actor, to Garrick | (n.d.) | 6 | 15 | 0 |
| Holograph Prayer by Samuel Johnson, Jan. 1 | (1784) | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| A.L.S. Charles Lamb | (n.d.) | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| A.L.S. Lord Tennyson, 2 pp., 8vo | 7 | 5 | 0 | |
| "Gathered Leaves," collected byEdmund Yates, includingabout 100 A.L.S., includingtwo from Dickens and onefrom Thackeray | 49 | 0 | 0 | |
(At the sale of Mr. Yates's Library in 1895 "Gathered Leaves" had fetched £65.)
There was a two-days' sale on December 9 and 10, 1901, devoted solely to autographs, in which 478 lots brought £473 12s.
| £ | s. | d. | |||
| A.L.S. | Allan Ramsay, 1 p. | (1732) | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Sir Walter Scott, 3 pp. | (1811) | 9 | 15 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Lord Tennyson, 1 p. | (1854) | 3 | 17 | 6 |
| A.L.S. | Earl of Chesterfield, 2 pp. | (1762) | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Thomas Doggett, 2 pp. | (1714) | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| A.L.S. | Edward Gibbon, 4 pp. | (1789) | 13 | 5 | 0 |
| D.S. | Robespierre (M.) | (1793) | 4 | 15 | 0 |
Fifteen A.L.S. of Charles Dickens ranged in price from £6 to 10s.
Of the autograph sales at "Sotheby's" in 1902 the most interesting took place on December 11, 12, and 13. The 865 lots sold realised a total of £1,373 4s. 6d.
Amongst the MSS. sold may be noted:—
| £ | s. | d. | |||
| A.L.S. | Thomas Chippendale | (1813) | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Garrick to Hannah More | (1777) | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Mendelssohn, 3 pp. | (1841) | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | W. M. Thackeray, 2 pp. | (1849) | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Samuel Foote, 4 pp. | n.d. | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | David Garrick | (1759) | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Samuel Johnson, 2 pp. | (1771) | 11 | 15 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Bishop Percy to S. Johnson | (1783) | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| (The value of this letter was evidentlydetermined by the person to whom it was addressed.) | |||||
| A.L.S. | Verdi | (1863) | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| A.L.S. | Sir T. Fairfax to Duke of Buckingham | (1663) | 21 | 10 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Hugh Peters, Regicide | (1652) | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | George Eliot, 5 pp. | (1859) | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| " | " | (1859) | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| " | " | (1863) | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Samuel Richardson | (1746) | 4 | 18 | 0 |
| D.S. | William Penn | (1682) | 5 | 17 | 6 |
| A.L.S. | Sarah Siddons | (n.d.) | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| A.L.S. | Sir W. Scott | (1814) | 12 | 15 | 0 |
| 23 A.L.S. Thomas Campbell | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||