Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
PERÓN, JUAN D. Group of 10 Typed Letters Signed, "Juan Perón," as President of Argentina, one with 5-line holograph postscript, each to Argentine Ambassador to Spain Pedro Radio, in Spanish, on various routine subjects including thanking for gifts, introducing visitors, sending greetings, etc. Together 12 pages, small 4to, personal stationery with embossed Argentine coat of arms; each with punch holes in left margin, minor scattered soiling, horizontal folds. (TFC) Buenos Aires, 1947-51

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28 March 1947: Introducing Father Benitez who is traveling to Spain for religious reasons and who is undertaking confidential missions for Perón.
9 December 1947: Inviting him to represent Perón at the wedding of an Argentine ambassador to Switzerland.
23 April 1948: Expressing satisfaction for his success in getting Spanish censorship lifted on the writings of Argentine author Manuel Galvez.
2 June 1949: Sending greetings on the occasion of "the new patriotic anniversary."
22 February 1950: Assuring him that no public statement was made concerning his desire to resign his post, and adding a holograph postscript: "Therefore we have held back, for the moment, the decision already made, until the concerns with the conclusions of the Ministry of For. Affairs are definitely resolved."
with--Alfonso Reyes. Typed Letter Signed, as Mexican Ambassador to Brazil, to R.E. Montes y Bradley, in Spanish: ". . . [T]he truth is that [French author] Paul Morand never saw the macumba. He stayed on the path, frightened. All he wanted was to . . . go home as soon as possible. . . . Morand has just published in 'Vanity Fair' a splendid article in which he recounts his bravely adventurous journey . . . and all he saw in the macumba, full of details of non-existent things very artfully woven into the real ones. . . ." 1 1/2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet. Rio de Janeiro, 17 January 1932.