Oct 28, 2021 - Sale 2584

Sale 2584 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
TRUMAN, HARRY S. Archive of 14 Typed Letters Signed, to newspaper columnist Leonard Lyons, mostly on personal topics. Together 14 pages. 4to, "Federal Reserve Bank Building" or personal stationery; folds. Most with the original envelope. Independence or Kansas City, 1955-71

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13 December 1955: ". . . You had better be careful about going to Russia. I am not in a position to go over and bail you out these days."
12 February 1960: ". . . I guess you could not believe your eyes and as a matter of fact, I have never seen this picture before either. . . ." With holograph postscript: "Just received your follow up on this. Never want my picture 'sold' with the present VP [Richard Nixon]."
25 February 1963: ". . . The article on my view of Cuba [Harry S. Truman, "We Cannot Abandon Cuba," New York Standard, 24 February 1963] was a North American Newspaper Alliance release and it went to two or three hundred papers around . . . the country. . . ."
With--Three printed notes from Truman on small cards thanking for greetings. Vp, [1961]; 8 May 1964; [1966].