Feb 17, 2022 - Sale 2595

Sale 2595 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CASTRO, FIDEL. Autograph Letter Signed, to "Duyos" [engineer Oscar Duyos Durruthy?], in Spanish, in red ink, requesting that he quickly develop a plan to fertilize coffee plants with 12,000 tons of ammonium nitrate using 20,000 soldiers. 1 page, 12mo; loss to small portion of upper edge affecting two letters of text, faint scattered soiling, folds. La Maya, 1 October 1966

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"I am going to the Cauto area. As a task for you and the group that came, I would like you to help Saiz for a few days, in order to organize a plan to use twelve thousand tons of ammonium nitrate on the coffee plants with 20,000 men of the army. Meet with him immediately and start to work."