Auction Date:2011 Apr 13 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, Hearst’s International combined with Cosmopolitan letterhead, September 5, 1929. Letter to Mrs. Edward Curtis. In full: “It was kind of you to take me in and send me forth so early in the morning, as you did. I am extremely sorry that I couldn’t be at Mr. Curtis’ luncheon yesterday, but I hope with Eddie Rickenbacker et al, my absence was not noticed. I reached Bethlehem in good time, though as I flew over Wilkes Barre the motor began to sputter and I had a few unhappy moments. Please believe I am not often remiss in keeping engagements and I hope I can make up for my shortcomings sometime.” Under her signature, Earhart adds a handwritten postscript which reads: “I think I left some clothes at your house. If so, will you send them to me at this office?” In fine condition, with some scattered creases and wrinkles, as well as a bit of very faint scattered light foxing, and a small separation along one horizontal mailing fold.
Earhart had just attended the 10-day National Air Races in Cleveland—an event featuring 1,000 aircraft, 500,000 spectators, and the likes of Charles Lindbergh and Eddie Rickenbacker—when she took refuge for the night at the Curtis residence. Exhausted from the festivities and pressed for time, Earhart here expresses her sincere regret of not being able to attend a luncheon in honor of her host, noting with good cheer that “I hope with Eddie Rickenbacker et al, my absence was not noticed.” In an eerie bit of foreshadowing, the aviatrix relates how, as she flew across Pennsylvania, “the engine began to sputter and I had a few unhappy moments.” A fabulous letter and comment by Earhart, who clearly would let nothing—not even potential mechanical failure—get in her way.
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