George Washington letter smashes auction record

A letter written by the first US President, George Washington, has sold at auction for $3.2m (£1.9m).

The sale, at Christie’s in New York, was a record for a letter written by Washington.

The four-page letter was written in 1787 to the president’s nephew, Bushrod Washington, and urges adoption of the country’s new constitution.

A partially written poem by Edgar Allan Poe sold for $830,500 – a record for a 19th Century literary manuscript.  FULL STORY

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