Auction Date:2010 Oct 13 @ 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, one page, 7 x 9, National Air and Space Museum letterhead, April 20, 1976. Letter to Anthony Cipriano offering to donate a cover to a fund raising effort for Roger Chaffee’s father. In full: “Thank you for your recent letter concerning Mr. Chaffee’s auction. I enclose a cover which may be auctioned. I‘d prefer that my name be kept out of it, as I am besieged by similar requests, and it is difficult to explain to people why I have made an exception in this case. With all good wishes for a successful auction for this most worthy cause.” In fine condition, with a few scattered light creases. Accompanied by a signed hardcover edition of Collins’s book Carrying the Fire, signed and inscribed on the half-title page to the letter’s recipient, “For Tony Cipriano, with all good wishes, Michael Collins,” and also signed by Curator of Astronautics, Walt Flint. Also accompanied by an unsigned glossy 8 x 10 photo of the Apollo 11 crew seated at a conference table, most likely at the Air and Space Museum, with a copy of Collins’s book on the table. Less than a year before his death, Roger Chaffee asked his father to promise he would do all he could to support the space program should “I buy the farm.” Donald Chaffee kept his promise to his son by traveling the country and speaking to civic and school organizations, all at his own expense. By 1974, the father had lost his business and was $78,000 in debt. The space community in conjunction with the International Association of Space Philatelists (IASP) held a benefit auction to help the father.
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