Typed Letter, Signed, with Original Mailing Envelope
Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973)
Published by Austin, 1969
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A nice letter on Johnson's post-Presidential stationery with a clear, bold signature. Includes the original free franked mailing envelope. Johnson expresses his gratitude for a very complimentary letter from a private citizen who states that: "Historians will surely regard you as the president most conscientious about the needs and wishes of the American people." The correspondent's carbon copy of his handwritten letter to which Johnson is replying is included. Near fine. Folded once to fit in envelope. Some slight edge wear. Seller Inventory # 942
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Title: Typed Letter, Signed, with Original Mailing ...
Publisher: Austin
Publication Date: 1969
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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PROVIDING A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE JOHN SMITH FAMILY OF ANSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLNA, in a five-page typed letter (double spaced, with 15 substantial manuscript corrections and additions and a number of typographic corrects), signed by Meachum, 22 August 1913, to Mrs. Charles C. Burns of Wadesboro, North Carolina; Providing a detailed account of his knowledge of the John Smith family of Anson County, North CarolinaAccompanied by (1) a copy of a one-page proposed foreword to a genealogy of the John Smith family, (2) five pages of pencil notes in an unknown hand, providing more family details (approximately 500 words), and (3) the original mailing envelope
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Anderson, TX, 1913
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Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
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4to. 5 pp., approximately 1250 words. Meachum (1844-1926) emigrated with his family from Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, to Texas in 1859, enlisted in the C.S.A. as a private in 1862, and ended the war as sergeant major of Co. D, 8th Texas Infantry. Following the war he read law, eventually becoming one of the leading lawyers in Grimes County. In eight numbered paragraphs and a three-page autobiographical sketch, Meachum here describes members of his immediate family and their connections to the family of John Smith, also providing names and addresses of other family members who might offer even more details. The separate five-pages of pencil notes seem to provide names of married couples, the names of their children, and occasional brief remarks about the individuals. The separate five pages of pencil notes show wear and chipping around the edges, otherwise a very good lot. All material folded for mailing. (9912). Seller Inventory # 67224
Typed Letter, signed "Hunter" to his friend Paul Semonin, with original typed mailing envelope
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Written by Thompson when he was living in New York, working for Time Magazine (and using their envelopes), after having left the Air Force only a few months earlier. He writes to his friend Paul Semonin, from Louisville, and a fellow member of the Athenaeum Literary Association. Semonin went to Yale and kept in touch with the younger Thompson via letters. In the early 1960s, Semonin would tag along with Thompson in the Caribbean, while Thompson was working on the manuscript of what would become The Rum Diary, and was marooned in Bermuda with him for a time. At the time of this letter, Semonin was enlisted in the Marines, and Thompson commiserates with his experience of Bootcamp, and tells him: "what you are seeing is a cross-section of 'the world we live in,' rather than an invasion of flotsam from some distant land," and that "intellectural myopia is not a disease limited to dolts and mental defectives". He goes on to offer his thoughts of the politics and culture of the day, in his characteristic voice: "As for me, I have no hope for any of us: If Khrushchev and Mao don't get us from the outside, either the Arthur Schlesinger Walter Reuther faction or the William Buckley Gerald L.K. Smith faction will paralyze us internally. The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rotand it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear. Is it any wonder that Billy Graham is so popular? Oh God give us anything but reality!" He then discusses some of the finer negociating points of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, and ends with these fatal words: We cannot afford to back down and we cannot afford war: jesus help us all if it is NOT a bluff. If the Reds have decided that the time has come for a big push, then you'd better learn to like that uniform. My next address with be somewhere in Mexico." The letter appears in the book of Thompson correspondence, The Proud Highway. General light wear to envelope; letter near fine with original folds, light creasing. Seller Inventory # 352952