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Ty Cobb

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Ty Cobb

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Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 18:00 (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 “T. R. Cobb,” three pages on two sheets, 7.25 x 10.25, personal letterhead, December 6, 1948. Letter to Helene Champlain. In full: “It seems in my effort to be nice and polite to people generally I run into embarrassing things, now its Tom McClure for sure, I wrote you recently about him my thought was based on his #1 shock to me, where he said my son Herschel had been in Bend Oregon & made very disparaging remarks of me. I wrote these people, they absolutely denied hearing him say such, even said they had never met Herschel–so–Tom promised lots of people boxes of apples which he admits he gathers of all things, at night, I told him not to send me personally any apples as I could get them here, at near the price of express and he should not send me any, he promised many to others, and of all things sent them to me, for them express collect by me to pay…Tom is strictly an excentric [sic], baseball bug, I was polite to him on that account & let him come to see me at Lake Tahoe, I am now sorry, peculiar people in this world, which includes Mrs. La Pointe [minor theatre, radio, and Hollywood actress Lucille La Pointe] who is no longer with me. When I first met Tom, I figured him out right as has been proven. I needed a housekeeper. Knowing I was getting rid of her, Tom was told this, he has reversed charges on phone to me was getting someone etc., fine cook, turned out to be just a lumber camp cook, now and a drunk, now the enclosed is another example of Tom, have just received it, return it at once, don’t know them, never wrote them. Tom even did not inform me, out here I get the enclosed & taken to task so you can figure how I now feel about Tom. Send me the Beveridge of Jefferson as I wrote you, and write me and dont be silent as you have, possibly on account of Tom, I dont know but am guessing and I guess good sometime. Be good.” Cobb also adds a handwritten postscript, signed “T.R.C.” In fine condition. A lengthy letter bearing an unusual form of his signature.
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