Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : 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, 8 x 10.5, United States Senate letterhead, July 28, 1953. Letter to James Flaherty, Chairman, Board of Directors, Washington County Soil Conservation District, in Fort Edward, New York. In full: “This is to supplement my letter of June 15th to you. I am enclosing a copy of the letter which I have received from the Department of Agriculture [not present].
I have stated on the Senate floor my interest in the most comprehensive development of our New York and New England water resources, and small upstream watershed programs emphasizing soil conservation as well as other aspects are a necessary part of such development.
I agree with the Department of Agriculture that your organization is following the proper procedure in urging this development, and you may be sure that I shall support required legislation to aid you.”
In very good condition, with several intersecting folds, a block of light toning over text and signature from previous display, pencil file notations to top right, staple holes to top corner, and scattered creases and wrinkles. Kennedy’s signature is very bold.
The 1950s saw a series of droughts in the United States that forced farmers to dig thousands of new irrigation wells, causing a crisis as underground aquifers fell. With his Boston roots, JFK knew nothing about agriculture, but that did not prevent the future president from doing what he could to back legislation that assisted agencies like the Washington County Soil Conservation District in New York Kennedy once commented, ‘Anyone who solves the problem of water deserves not one Nobel Prize but two—one for science and the other for peace,’ reflecting the difficult nature of the topic.
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