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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS signed “Papa, Edgar Rice Burroughs,” one page both sides, 8 x 10.5, USS Cahaba letterhead, May 27, 1945. Letter to his daughter Joan, from “somewhere in the Pacific.” In part: “It meets task forces and gives them gas and oil at sea. I am looking forward to seeing this operation which must be thrilling. Am living and eating much better than I do at the Niumalu. The Captain installed me in his quarters—two big rooms, a swell bath, a steward and a mess attendant. I have been eating with the Captain, but shall go to some of the other messes occasionally. As usual, everybody is swell to me. Unlike the merchant tankers, this is an all-Navy ship. It has a complement of about 21 officers and 250 men, and, thank the Lord, a slew of guns…Yesterday we had a fire drill and also fired at balloons released from the bridge…The night is beautiful—a calm sea, a full moon, the Southern Cross quite high above the horizon, a soft and balmy wind. Our white wake stretched out for miles behind us, plainly marking our zig-zagging course…This is a big ship…it is kept scrupulously clean. There is no formality, but the discipline is fine. The men are in dungarees, and the officers discarded their neckties and opened their shirts as soon as they came aboard. So did I. I already hate to think of leaving her, but as she may be out for a year I shall probably have to. My travel orders permit me to return at any time on any Navy ship or plane that can take me.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature.
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