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Leon Trotsky Personal ALS

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:750.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD
Leon Trotsky Personal ALS
<Our item number 141096><B>Trotsky, Leon.</B> &#40;1879-1940&#41; He organized the 1917 November Revolution with Lenin, served as secretary of foreign affairs and war, and created the Red Army. Exiled by Stalin to Mexico, he was murdered by Stalin&#39;s agent. Important Typed letter signed with autograph closing, &#34;Warm wishes,&#34; in French, 1p, 11x8½ in., Coyoacán, D.F &#40;Mexico&#41;, 14 Jan. 1939. To Gérard Rosenthal, Trotsky&#39;s lawyer and agent in Paris, with a copy to &#40;Alfred&#41; Rosmer regarding the disposition of the letters of Léon Sedov, Trotsky&#39;s son who died in 1938 after an appendectomy. Trotsky is determined to keep Léon&#39;s affairs out of the hands of Léon&#39;s first wife. &#34;I cannot tolerate any control from Jeanne Molinier over things that do not concern her. I refuse to grant the least trust in her…&#34; He writes, : &#34;I am giving to my friend Jim Cannon [chairman of the American Communist Party] full power to take Sieve [Tr otsky&#39;s grandson from his eldest dauther who committed suicide in 1933] to America….&#34; Much more interesting content. Fine. With English translation. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;1,500 - 2,000. <BR><BR>Our item number 141096<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/49jpegs/141096.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/49jpegs/141096N2.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>