£1025 LETTER.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10, 8 August 1911, Page 7

£1025 LETTER.

| The sale of the Huth collection of fautographs was continued at Messrs 1 Sotheby's rooms on June 13, over : boob. ; * letter writ? 4 ten bjr"Mifirjf'Queen ofS<S6t» while in f captivity, which fell at the remarkable ■' of £1025. The letter was acquirby the late collector for two guifteas w d 10 per cent, commission. ; Another item was a letter written by ; Katherine of Arragon, Queen of Henty 1 Vlllfrom Buckden, February 8, 11534, to her nephew the Emperor ! Charles V. It relates to the subject of 'her divorce, and entreats the Emperor, u the only friend she has in the world, ■to aid her to obtain justice. She closes 1 the appeal with the words: "I was alimost determined not to trouble your Majesty any more with my letters, but i entrust the declaration of my justice I • to God and accept this as a remedy for I my troubles and a oonsolation for my . life. Yet it seemed to me as if in so | doing I should be tempting God, esi pecially when I see that the sin wherel . in the King my Lord lives brings about 3 other sins every hour, as it would ap--1 pear from the attempt they have lateit lv made without fear of God and to the great scandal of all Christendom against the authority of the Holy See." ? After spirited bidding the letter, * which Mr Huth bought for £26, was knocked down at £BOO. ■ A letter by another of Henry VIII.'s - wives, Katherine Parr, to her brother, Jjord Parr, had reference to her marriage to the King. She observes that "it liathe pleased his Highness to take me of all others, most unworthie to his , w ief, whiche is, as of reason it ought to be. the greatest joye and comfort that could happen to me in this world.'' This realised £175, the price origin--BJly paid by Mr Huth being £27.