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Robert Stroud

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Robert Stroud

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Auction Date:2011 Apr 13 @ 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
ALS signed “Bob, Robert Stroud, #594,” one page, lightly-lined both sides, 8 x 10.25, Alcatraz prison stationery to which he adds his full name and prison address at top, August 26, 1955. Stroud writes to his sister Mamie discussing health matters, childhood memories, and historical political matters. In part: “Your letter comes at the usual time this evening and I am glad to hear and to know that you are well. I also had a nice lettre [sic] from Marc and he seems to think that everything is going fine in what he is trying to do for me, and it may be, I do not know enough to be able to judge. He says that he is doing all right with the gall bladder and thinks that he can avoid the operation. He probably can if he sticks to the diet. I have only had two very slight attacks in the last two years, and both times because I ate something I know I had no business eating.

Yes, I remember the circuses, and I remember going out [to] Beacon Hill to see that baloon [sic], but I don’t remember seeing it. All I remember is that I did not like the trip. I was tired. I also remember the one at Leoski Park that failed to go up. The first one I saw was at Madison Park, and in that case, the baloonist [sic] broke both his legs. He jumped out at about a thousand feet and when he came down the wind caught his parachute and whipped him against a fence. I do not remember if you were there or not. I don’t think you were. I was with some other kid my age…The same day we watched the swallows fight a hawk.

They call Jefferson a Democrat, but there was no democratic party at that time. He belonged to the Whig Party, but he stood for most of the principles upon which the Democratic Party was founded, but it was not founded until about 1830. Jackson was the first Democratic president. Yes, Jefferson was the auther [sic] of the Declaration. His was one of a committee of five appointed to draw it up. Because he was undoubtedly the best writer on the committee, he was chosen to do the writing. Franklin was on the same committee, but he did not write the bill of rights. He was in France at that time. But he is the author of the Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty, and he fought for the addition of the the [sic] bill of rights to the Constitution, as did Patrick Henry. Actually, most of the classes in the bill of rights, are taken word for word from the English Bill of Rights. I’ve read the whole history several times but do not remember all the details.

Mother had a good education in history, and she taught me a lot of it even before I went to school and then, I’ve been reading it for myself for sixty years, and for the last 47 I’ve been studying something all the time, and I have covered a lot of territory in that time. Now I do it in five languages and when I read I look up every word I don’t know. At the moment I am reading The Contract Social by Rousseau. The eddition [sic] I am reading is for use in English Universities. The text is in French and it has notes and quotations in English, French and Latin. I am not to [sic] good at the Latin yet.” Light ink transfers from where the letter was folded on itself, small stamps, and pencil notations to top, otherwise fine condition. A lengthy demonstration that Stroud’s knowledge was more far-reaching than just ornithology!
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