Receipt for a foreign money transfer issued by the First National Bank of Fort Worth, Texas, number 142688, one page, 7.25 x 5.5, January 22, 1960. Oswald’s mother sends him money while he was in the Soviet Union. In part: “Received from Mrs. Marguerite Oswald…U. S. Dollars $26.65 for transfer of…$25.00 by Air Mail to Mr. Lee H. Oswald (against his receipt to be forwarded to us,) c/o Hotel Metropole, Moscow, Russia.” Signed at the conclusion by Otis Withers, assistant vice president of the bank. In very good condition, with a central horizontal fold, overall creases, and a tape-repaired tear to the lower edge. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from his older brother, Robert L. Oswald, and a newspaper article from 1998 regarding an FBI bank monitoring program that had picked up the transaction. Mrs. Oswald was sending Lee $25 to pay back part of a loan he had given her while still in the US; this transfer came after she attempted to mail him a check, which he returned with a note saying that ‘Could not use the check, of course...also short of cash and need the rest.’ She then mailed him cash, which was returned to her after he couldn’t be located. This transfer was her successful final attempt at sending money to her child, who was a world away. RR Auction COA.
