Autograph collecting
Jul 29, 2020
3 minutes
Huon Mallalieu
ONE could hardly get closer to a climactic day in world history than to hold in one’s hand two sheets of typescript sold by Sotheby’s as part of the ‘Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript’ earlier this month . It was the aide-memoire passed by Sir Edward Goschen, British Ambassador to Berlin, to the Secretary of State at the Imperial Foreign Office, Gottlieb von Jagow, in the course of meetings on the afternoon of August 4, 1914,
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