Letter

Letter to Queen Elizabeth I written after Robert Dudley’s marriage lacks the earlier flirtatious tone

Letter sent from Holyrood implores a nobleman to support his course in the middle of the Jacobite Rising

Famed for his range of characters, Barry Humphries was also a bibliophile of great taste

Turned down by several publishers, Beatrix Potter shouldered the expense of privately printing The Tale of Peter Rabbit with Strangeways Printers in December 1901.

“I’ve been an auctioneer for 30 years now and it took me two hours to sell 34 lots – so you get the idea of the interest and levels of bidders.”

A previously unseen Winnie the Pooh archive is on offer at Stourbridge saleroom Fieldings on January 16.

Belgian city’s council was successful with pre-sale deal to buy queen’s plea on behalf of political prisoners

A letter written to John Constable by a key patron formed part of the sale of Old Masters and 19th Century Art at Chiswick Auctions on September 18.

More than a dozen letters and cards from Diana, Princess of Wales, to her family’s former housekeeper were sold at a recent auction at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium).

William Strutz’s library built within his home in Bismarck, North Dakota, consisted of some 15,000 books, which the attorney began assembling while in college in the late 1950s

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) epitomised the power of words and, on June 25, that is what bidders had the chance to own in the form of those penned by the political and spiritual leader himself in a letter to his friend, South African architect Hermann Kallenbach (1871-1945).