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Rare President Herbert Hoover ALS Handwritten Letter Signed
$ 501.59
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You are viewing an extremely scarce (ALS) handwritten letter written by President Herbert Hoover. Hoover ALS' are very hard to come by and few are known to exist.Hoover was once quoted as saying:
It takes more time from their work to write a letter than it does for a good secretary to prepare one,"
Hoover says.
“And people sell them. One of mine was sold.”
“Most men,”
he adds,
“don't like such trafficking in their letters.”
2pp, measuring 7.25" x 10.5", no place, dated "Friday" February 1948. Signed "Herbert Hoover" and addressed to Jerry Milbank on personal stationery. A kind note from Hoover, refusing money from his friend. Reading in full:
"I cannot accept the inclosed [sic]. This family had some what pinched time for a few years but finally the boys brought their affairs around with handsome results. And this excursion of the last two years is the joint celebration of it. The pleasure of having you and Kitty as part of that celebration does not permit of an admission fee! Nevertheless we do appreciate deeply the feeling which lead you to propose it. Allan has gone to Guatemala with some hope which I will tell you about." With flattened mail folds. Large and bold signature.