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The key note for this year is.... Group

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
The key note for this year is.... Group
The key note for this year is.... Group of seven letters, variously signed "H.A. Wallace" (two), "Tahn-te" (his Indian-inspired nickname?), and "H.A.W." (four). 9 pp. in all, on assortment of letterheads: "Secretary of Agriculture," Wardman Hotel (Washington, D.C.), from a notebook, etc., 1928-1938, to friends on such subjects as, "I asked Miss Perkins [F.D.R.'s Secretary of Labor] to send Nita her photo and she said she will. Have already sent mine...Have taken up Alford Roos' matter with Ickes [F.D.R.'s Secretary of Interior]...12 hours a day, 7 days a week. But it will ease soon?...A new spray must be found at once for apples...Six million trees have already been set out in government locations...The key note for this year is discrimination and discretion...." Wallace's knowledge of American Indian lore much in evidence, as is a poetic element in his persona not usually seen. Fine to very fine.