Nov 20, 2014 - Sale 2367

Sale 2367 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SIGNED "DUTCH" REAGAN, RONALD. Typed Letter Signed, "Dutch," as President, to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Thompson ("Dear Jean and Bill"), agreeing to sign photographs, explaining that he could not be in Springfield in February, and relating that he spent New Years Eve in California. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery; horizontal fold. (TFC) Washington, 12 January 1983
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"Send the pictures you mentioned and I'll get them signed between budget meetings. . . .
In 1926, young Bill Thompson witnessed Reagan saving the lives of swimmers in Dixon, Illinois; thereafter they carried on a correspondence for many years (Skinner, et. al. Reagan: A Life in Letters, p. 97, 2003).