TLS signed “Charles,” one page, 7 x 9.5, March 30, 1967. Letter to his close friend and neighbor in Maui, Sam Pryor. He explains his his reasons for refusing an interview, in part: "Press contacts involve a life I am determined not to re-enter—it is too distracting, superficial, and time consuming, and I don't want to be surrounded by its values. I think it is now close to a quarter century since I have taken part in a newspaper interview." He adds a postscript about his environmental activism: "Whenever you get a chance to talk whales to Japanese, please do so—just to keep them interested in whales if nothing else. Japan, as you know, has been a bigger obstacle than Russia in getting whale-kill quotas down below the reproduction rate." In fine condition, with trimmed edges and intersecting folds.
Sam Pryor was a pioneering aviation industrialist who had been an executive for Pan American World Airways and was a close friend of Charles Lindbergh. During World War II, Pryor oversaw the building of 56 secret airfields in North Africa and Latin America, for which he was awarded the Legion of Merit by President Harry S. Truman. He also introduced Lindbergh to Maui—Hana in particular, which became the remote village where Lindbergh chose to retire, and where he is now buried.
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