Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 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 as president, one page, 6.75 x 8.75, White House letterhead, July 27, 1962. Letter to Captain Horace G. Brown. In full: “Thanks so much for sending me Marion’s personal copy of ‘Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Randolph Hearst,’ along with the yearbook from UCLA’s School of Medicine and the photographs of the nearly completed Children’s Clinic to be dedicated in her honor. I am grateful, too, for your more than kind offer to use either of your two lovely homes on a future visit to California.” In very good condition, with central horizontal fold, and show-through from vertical toning on reverse from once being housed in a magnetic photo album.
Actress Marion Davies married former naval officer and stuntman Captain Horace G. Brown, a longtime friend, in Las Vegas on October 31, 1951, eleven weeks after newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst had died. Davies, Hearst's paramour since 1918, inherited 51% of the publisher's fortune, including the 1011 North Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills property, the address to which President Kennedy sent this letter. JFK’s father had rented the former Hearst mansion two years earlier to house his sons’ families during the July 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. The property also gained fame in Hollywood history as the estate of the uncooperative Hollywood producer Jack Woltz and his unfortunate prized racehorse in the film classic, The Godfather.
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