ALS signed at the conclusion, “Bob, Robert Stroud #594,” and once at the top in the return address area, “Robert Stroud,” one page both sides, 8 x 10.25, March 12, 1955. In a letter to his sister, Mamie E. Stroud, Robert writes, in part: “I am still having a lot of fun with the Latin, and am stepping right along with it. I am doing o.k. with the Spanish…but not having dictionaries makes to hard to make the progress that I should. I could read either of those languages right now, if I had dictionaries and I will be reading the Latin well within a month or two. And, of course, I still spend a lot of time on the French, which in my opinion, is the most beautiful language of all of them. I am reading a French book now about Carthage during the time of Hamilcar—the father of Hannibal, which was about 230 or 240 years before Christ. I am finding very interesting, the things that some of these people were able to do is most amazing, when one considered what they had to do with. Those aqueducts the Romans built, for instance, were built of stones fitted without mortor [sic] of any kind, but so accurately so, that after 2000 years many of them are still standing…their language is the same way, and is undoubtedly the most perfect language ever invented.” Intersecting folds, light toning, and a few trivial areas of spotting, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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