Desirable collection of three letters, including a rare ALS and two TLSs: the ALS is signed “H. C. Hoover,” one page, 5.25 x 5.5, no date, in full: “I beg to acknowledge yours of Nov. 30 and to accept the honor thereby conveyed”; second is a TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, March 3, 1931, in part: “The President’s Research Committee on Social Trends, now engaged in the important work of surveying recent social changes in our civilization, has developed as one of its functions the task of assessing our social statistics…it appears that Professor Stuart Rice of your faculty is the best man we can find to do this work”; and a TLS, two pages, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, April 20, 1956, in part: “I recollect explaining to you that no Food Administrator in Europe had lasted more than nine months because he had to tread on too many toes. You immediately helped mobilize the Washington press to give me suppport…That same loyalty and support was given to me in the White House, where I had to meet the cyclone of depression which swept over us from Europe…You are not only a man of skill and great character but also a man who is loyal in his friendships.” In overall fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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