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Charles Lindbergh

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Charles Lindbergh

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Auction Date:2011 Sep 14 @ 18:00 (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 signed “Charles A. Lindbergh,” one page, 7.75 x 10.5, June 3, 1968. Lindbergh writes Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. of Virginia. In part: “I apologize for the lateness of this reply to your February letter. I have been travelling a great deal, and am inundated with mail. The stacks are hopelessly high. I have just skimmed your letter out from hundreds of unopened envelopes. (I have not set up an organization to handle mail, and do not keep a permanent secretary. Almost all of my letters, like this one, involve two-fingered typing.) It was most considerate of you to forward the certificate of honorary membership in the Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Company, and I deeply appreciate the honor…I remember fairly clearly meeting you at your father’s home in Richmond—it is hard to realize that it was forty years ago. I had some wonderful times with your father and his other guests in Virginia, and of course I saw him on occasion at his office in Washington too. I like to think of you taking his place in the Senate. It gives a continuity and a stability to life that we badly need these days. I have just returned from two weeks in Europe, for meetings in New York. I leave for the west later this week, and am due in Tokyo for conferences at the end of the month.” Matted and framed to an overall size of 16.25 x 19. Intersecting folds with a vertical fold passing through his first name, light wrinkling, light show-through from a notation on the reverse, faint paperclip impression at the top of the page, and a faint office date stamp at the top right corner, otherwise fine condition.

Following his historic May 1927 flight, Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis embarked on a cross-country tour that took him to Virginia in October, including a nearly three hour flight from Winston-Salem to Richmond for the dedication of the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field [now Richmond International Airport]. Upon his arrival, he was greeted by Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd—aviator and uncle of this letter’s recipient. The next day, Virginia Governor Harry F. Byrd was treated to a 10-minute flight piloted by the history-making aviator.

Later, Lindbergh was escorted to the Governor's Mansion for a reception and presented with the Richmond Medal of Distinguished Service. This was the visit to which Lindbergh here refers, confessing “it is hard to realize that it was forty years ago.” The elder Byrd was a dominant figure in Virginia politics who reorganized and modernized the state’s government and represented Virginia as a US Senator from 1933 to 1965. By 1967, the father had been replaced in the Senate by his son—a change that received Lindbergh’s blessing as it provided “a continuity and a stability to life that we badly need these days.” Striking associative content between Lindbergh and the respected Byrd family.
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