Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
FIRST PRESIDENT OF SOUTH KOREA AS STUDENT IN USA RHEE, SYNGMAN. Autograph Letter Signed, to Denys Peter Myers, encouraging him to send 17 cents to contribute toward the purchase of a photograph for Professor Wilson. 2 pages, 8vo, written on the first and third pages of a folded sheet; ink date stamps on first and terminal pages, horizontal fold. Cambridge, 9 June 1908

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"You may remember that we have decided to contribute 17 c. each toward the payment of $1.00 for Prof. Wilson's picture. . . . [S]end me your 17 c. as soon as you can so that we can send a picture to Prof. Wilson. . . ."
In 1908, Rhee received a Master of Arts degree from Harvard University.