Autographed letters of Gandhi auctioned in London
Pti, London
Less than ten days after India acquired a rare manuscript of Mahatma Gandhi before it was to be auctioned, handwritten drafts of a series of articles and autographed letters of the 'Father of the Nation' went under the hammer. Gandhi's manuscript and letters, written between the 1920s and the 1940s, were auctioned by auction house Sotheby's on Thursday as part of its English Literature and History sale. The lot, which included 33 pages of handwritten drafts of a series of articles for Young India from 1921 and 11 autographed letters by Mahatma Gandhi, sold for 45,600 pounds. The lot had been expected to sell for between 25,000 pounds to 35,000 pounds. The papers, which were mounted in a 79-page album included 12 autographed letters of Muhamad Iqbal, Sri Aurobindo and Sarojini Naidu.
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