TYPED LETTER TO JAMES B. POND SIGNED BY MARTIN EGAN, AMERICAN WAR CORRESPONDENT AND LONGTIME STAFF MEMBER OF J. P. MORGAN & CO.

Egan, Martin. (1872-1938). American war correspondent and journalist. From 1914 a staff member of J. P. Morgan & Company.

Published by New York: November 2, 1933., 1933

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- 67 words typed on an 11-inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide cream-colored sheet of note paper with J. P. Morgan's Wall Street address printed at top left. Signed "Martin Egan". There is a small very light stain at top right. Folded 3 times for mailing. Near fine. Egan writes to James B. Pond of the Pond Lecture Bureau regretting that he and his wife are unable to accept Pond's invitation to attend actress Dorothy Sands' show.Martin Egan [1872-1938] was an American journalist who wrote for newspapers and magazines in America and Canada and for the Associated Press in New York, London, Tokyo, Peking and Manila. He was a correspondent during the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Uprising and the Russo-Japanese War. He edited the Manila Times from 1908 to 1913. He was personal assistant to H. P. Davison, Chairman of the American Red Cross War Council in 1917 and an aide to General Pershing in 1918. For the last twenty-five years of his life he was on the staff of banking house J. P. Morgan and Company. Seller Inventory # 36566

Bibliographic Details

Title: TYPED LETTER TO JAMES B. POND SIGNED BY ...

Publisher: New York: November 2, 1933.

Publication Date: 1933

Condition: Very good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)