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Orville Wright

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Orville Wright

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Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (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 trimmed to 7.25 x 5.5, personal letterhead, December 14, 1938. Letter to Albert T. Bell declining an invitation to an engagement. In full: “I thank you for your letter of December 10th. The Dayton Chamber of Commerce has arranged a local celebration on the anniversary of our first flight which will keep me in Dayton on the seventeenth of December.” A light block of toning over left half of letter (and first three letters of the signature), and two office stamps to upper right, otherwise fine condition. Of course, the celebration refers to the 35th anniversary of the first manned flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. Dayton newspaper accounts at the time recount not only the historic flight, but also reference the fact that Dayton’s then-67-year-old native son was still flying and working ten hours a day.