Archive of six TLSs from Hoover to Lewis Strauss, including five signed “Herbert” and one signed “H. H.,” totaling 12 pages, all dated 1961. All are in reference to his museum and archives. The first concerns the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum at his birthplace in West Branch, Iowa. In part: “The Congressional provision for taking over West Branch by the National Archives is now law. The next problem is to secure the appointment of a ‘Director’…The future of the place will depend on the choice of this first man. He should be a man with an historian’s outlook and enough administrative ability…I think he should be a man sympathetic with my ideas—it does not matter to which political party he belongs.” The second letter discusses the logistical concerns in coordinating the transfer of his papers from Stanford to his presidential library. The third continues these ideas, in part: “The left-wing faculty in Stanford University is constantly conspiring to get control of the Hoover Institution. In their communist-pattern operations, they have submitted me to great indignities and anxieties, and I have little confidence of its independence in the future, so far as my Archives are concerned.” The fourth, fifth, and sixth letters continue the search for a museum director and discuss various administrative actions. Several carbon copies of letters and typed memos are stapled to Hoover’s letters. In overall fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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