Lot #400

Joseph Stilwell

Description

“Come on, Trotsky, & give us a good blast. Put down that bottle of Bourbon, & pick up your pen & hop to it”

ANS signed in pencil, “Stilwell,” at the bottom of a TLS bearing a stamped signature, two pages, 8 x 10.5, personal letterhead, August 14, 1930. In full: “Come on, Trotsky, & give us a good blast. Put down that bottle of Bourbon, & pick up your pen & hop to it.” Uniform shade of toning and scattered areas of soiling and light foxing, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by a typed memorandum to Stilwell from the Infantry Automatic Weapons and Battalion Organization. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.

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• Dates: #377 - Ended October 12, 2011

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