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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS TLS, signed in ink twice as "Papa" and "Edgar Rice Burroughs", 2pp (single s...

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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS TLS, signed in ink twice as  Papa  and  Edgar Rice Burroughs , 2pp (single s...
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS TLS, signed in ink twice as "Papa" and "Edgar Rice Burroughs", 2pp (single sheet), May 27, 1945, 4to, U.S.S. Cahaba letterhead, from "Somewhere in the Pacific", while serving as a war correspondent, to his daughter Joan, nice content. In part, "...I am off again on another adventure...This ship is a fleet oiler. It meets task forces and gives them gas and oil at sea...The Captain installed me in his quarters...this is an all-Navy ship...21 officers and 250 men, and...a slew of guns...Am slowly getting my sea legs...It is nothing like a destroyer...we had fire drill and also fired at baloons [sic] released from the bridge...The ship is darkened from sundown to sunrise...Our white wake stretched out for miles behind us, plainly marking our zig-zagging course...it is as large as a small cruiser...did not know where the ship was bound for; and the Skipper doesn't know where we may go..." VG. $400-600