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Robert E. Peary

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Robert E. Peary

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Auction Date:2013 Feb 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
Two letters: TLS, signed “Peary,” one page, 8 x 10, June 17, 1910. Letter to Senator W. M. Crane. In full: “I enclose for your information a letter which I have sent to our Ambassadors in London, Berlin, Vienna and Rome. In regard to the honors noted in that letter, I have also been awarded the Gold Medal of the Swiss Geographical Society of Geneva (their highest honor), but the Medal has not yet been presented to me, owing to my inability to include Geneva in my itinerary.”; and a carbon TLS of the letter mentioned by Peary, signed in pencil “R. E. Peary,” four pages, RMS Mauretania letterhead, no date. Letter reads, in part: “My sole and primary object in making a European trip this spring, has been to accept the complimentary invitations of various Geographical Societies, to address them upon my discovery of the North Pole. I have received invitations from organizations of that character, as follows…” 17 are listed; he accepted 11. Peary lists 11 honors he has received including six gold medals, a trophy, and the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Edinburgh University. In very good condition, with scattered toning, edge tears and paper loss to first letter, and scattered creases.