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Show High Prices for Autographs. High prices were obtained at 'the sale by the Merwin-Clayton company yesterday of the fine autograph collection collec-tion of William R. Weeks. A series of interesting political letters let-ters between John Quincy Adams and his ' father-in-law. Joshua Johnson, 1796-1800, sold to F. W. Morris for $155. Sev?n letters of a correspondence between be-tween Mrs. Louisa C. Adams and Nicholas Nich-olas Frye in 1S47 went to G. D. Smith for $50. ' Four letters of Benedict Arnold, Ar-nold, dated New Haven, Jan. 9, 1770; Boston, Sept. 4. 1772; Ticonderoga, July, 6. 1775, and camp, near Quebec, March 9, 1776, and purchased by Dodd, Mead & Co.. for $19. $20, $57 and $31. The original autograph manuscript of the last speech and confession of Moses Dunbar, written just before his execution in 17777 for high treason against his native state. Connecticut, was bought by G. D. Smith for $22.50. Four long letters, written by Governor Thomas Johnson of Maryland to his brother, Joshua, the American agent in France for purchasing supplies, and dealing with the outbreak of the revolution, revo-lution, were sold to Joseph Sabin for $28.y Trie manuscript diary kept bv James Madison, father of President Madison. April. 1777, to November. 1779. was sold to W. R. Hearst for $65. New York Times. |