Auction of Napoleon and Gandhi's letters
BREAKING STORY (London): A love letter by Napoleon, words of comfort from John Donne, a plea for tolerance from Mahatma Gandhi are among the hand-written treasures from a private collection up for auction in London next month, Christie's auctioneers said on Monday. The extensive collection, estimated to sell for $4 million at the July 3 sale, was quietly amassed over three decades by the late Albin Schram, who kept them in a filing cabinet in his home in Lausanne, Switzerland, according to Christie's. The star of the collection is a letter by Donne, the celebrated priest and poet, which Christie's said is "the finest manuscript by his hand in existence" and is estimated to sell for $240,000). Donne wrote to Lady Kingsmill in 1624, offering consolation for the death of her husband. "Let us not, who know in God's house there are many mansions, but yet have no model, no design of the form of that building, wonder at his taking in of his materials, why he tak...