NEW YORK, NY.- On March 10, Swann Galleries conducted their most successful sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana to date. The auction totaled just under $1 million. Institutions and private collectors competed for the majority of the top lots, setting some record prices along the way. Wyatt Houston Day, Swann’s African-Americana Specialist, who initiated these annual sales, said, “This auction succeeded for two very important reasons: it offered a diversity of fine, and in many cases unique material, and it attracted a number of very knowledgeable and aggressive bidders.” The auction’s top lot was an archive of Charles Harris Wesley’s published and unpublished writings, correspondence, photographs, albums, pamphlets and ephemera, so large it was housed in 35 cartons. Wesley was a noted historian, scholar, educator, minister, and writer, a graduate of Fisk University who earned his Masters