Business leader (1893–1956) who inherited the Marshall Field department store fortune and founded the Chicago Sun newspaper. TLS signed “Marshall Field,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, March 11, 1943. Letter to journalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer. In full: “I regret so much I am unable to accept the invitation of Mrs. Davidson and Mrs. Morrow to dine on Wednesday March seventeenth. I have to be back in Chicago at that time unfortunately. I am however, very interested and am keeping in touch with the situation through Courtney Barber and other friends as to what is being done.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one passing through a single letter of the signature, and light toning to the borders. RR Auction COA.
