Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (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
Amazing ALS signed “Anne,” three pages both sides, 6 x 7, Hog Island letterhead, postmarked January 21, 1929. Letter to her old college friend Marion Reagan. In part: “Your Christmas card made me feel like a terrible sinner, although no letter or telegram had reached me! That is the trouble living in such an edge of the world place as Mexico and in such an express-car fashion: In Mexico for a month—in New York for a week or so—to Nassau for ten days to give Daddy [Dwight Morrow, then United States Ambassador to Mexico] a rest…I think you are so valiant with the English literature, I just couldn’t go on working like that. Took Spanish for about two weeks—and loved it and just got to the politenesses of greetings…when guests arrived—including Col. L. and the distractions were just too great for me.” Light toning to all pages, and light show-through from writing on opposing sides, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.
This is not just any passing reference to Lindbergh but what is the first mention of him to anyone by his future bride. Anne Morrow met “Col. L.” at the peak of his fame during Christmas 1927, just a little over a year before this letter, when he was a guest of her parents during a visit to Mexico. For Anne, whose life ambition was to “marry a hero,” things looked promising. Their courtship, underway around the time of this correspondence, would set in motion events that would make Anne Lindbergh the most envied, pitied, and hated woman of her time. An extremely rare letter with a significant reference.
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