IRELAND, William Henry Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette New York, 30 avril 1828 1 p. in-8
Estimation :
400 / 600
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
LETTRE DU FAMEUX FAUSSAIRE DE SHAKESPEARE QUI FUT AUSSI L’AUTEUR D’UNE VIE DE NAPOLÉON “Mr Peugnet has kindly offered to be the bearer of this scrawl with which inform you" (...) “as you so often hear from this country and (as I learn) have such a constant stream of my country man visiting Lagrange, I presume I can say nothing to you of America" William Henry Ireland (1775-1835) is the famous forger of Shakespeare. He knew France where he spent more than a year (1814) and published a Life of Napoleon in 1828. We did not find evidence of his presence in America and neither of a trace of link with Lafayette. For an illustrated sample of his writing (see Schimmel collection, Bonhams, 23 May 2012, lot 44).
