A RARE BUTTON GWINNETT SURPRISES YALE, DONOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300010013-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 24, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

WASffiNGTON POST ?A 196 FOIAb3b
ArJn rr~+rc Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
D. C. Man Didn't Know He Had It
A Rye Button Gwhwtt,.,
Sur"ises Yale, Donor
t ou nowing it, a Gov- a short time after signing the
ernment employe from Be- D I ration at Philadelphia on
thesda gave his alma, mater on 1776. The following
of the. rarest and most valuably ay If he died. in a duel in
of American historical auto_
graphs. 1 Georgia, the colony he repre-
The gift -a document written sented ''in the Continental Coin;
.and signed by 9u: ton Gwinnett, gress.
signer of the eelaration of The Yale document is a re
i ndependence s announced ceipt which reads:
yesterday by Yale University.
Recd. October 12th 1762 : a#
ts do,1~ or is Craig Colgate, Jr.,
4J n " i14 RAT-n } en n.- e- Mr. Beni navies One hnnrdr&
,u- and seven pounds fourteen
~r n 'fitter e s cuss of :shillings & seven pence in Bal-
1:unity. to take back the docu- ton Gwinliett."
ment, but he decided it should
remain Yale's property. It was'
included in a group of family
papers Colgate gave to the uni-
versity more than a, year ago.
The document was not im-
mediately discovered. After
it was four , several months
were required. to determine its
a..':henticity.
A Gwinnett .letter brought
$51.000 in an auction in 1927,
and a document to which his
name was affixed brought $22,-
500 in 1926. Colgate said these
figures had not .been equalled
since, but he declined his
close the apptraised value of
the new 'find.
$y, contrast, no autograph of
George Washington 'has
brought more than,$9500.
Gwinnett's autograph is so
valuable because, he lived oni
His rare sign$ture .has been given to Yale University.
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000300010013-0