Three post-presidency TLSs from Herbert Hoover, each one page, 7.25 x 10.5, dated between April and May 1938, personal letterhead. Each addressed to Edmund D. Lyman of Overton, Lyman and Plumb, in relation to a libelous article in the Congressional Record associating Hoover with the Pacific Dock and Terminal Corporation. The first letter, dated April 13, 1938, in part: “Please find enclosed herewith a copy of an extract from the Congressional Record. I wish you would look up and see what the People’s Daily World is, and who is Congressman Byron N. Scott. And also examine it as to whether we could go after them for libel of the first order. This story is being circulated all over the country,” with the referenced abstract stapled to the upper left corner; the second letter, dated April 23, 1938, in part: “I have no idea of bringing the matter to a libel suit. But there is such a thing as having it in the Congressional Record, and with the authority of the Record, the thing is going all over the country. The best way to do is to bring pressure on Scott. What I rather had in mind was some reliable and established firm such as yours addressing a letter to Scott, informing him of the complete untruth of his statement, that I had never heard of the company and was never a stockholder, and asking him as a public man to make a public retraction”; and the third, May 7, 1938, in full: “Many thanks for your note of May 5th. I think we will get Senator Nye to correct this mess, so you don’t need to bother any more of it.” Includes additional related correspondence from Lyman and others. In overall very good to fine condition.
