Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 208

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(EDUCATION.) CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON. Autograph Letter Signed. Two pages on Tuskegee letterhead to a student, beginning "My very own precious boy." 9 April, 1933

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A typically effusive letter, but containing some interesting scientific information as well. "Mr Ford had decided not to push the project he wanted me to look over . . . I have what they needed worked out in the laboratory. I want them to see it. I cannot take it all up there." Henry Ford and Carver became friends during the course of the work Carver did for him in using plant weed to produce synthetic rubber and in developing a plastic material from soybeans that Ford used in parts of his automobile. Carver concludes: "Dear, the coconut (cocus nucefera) is propogated almost wholly from the seed, (the nut itself) the young plants come out from two little eye-like spots."