Two items: a one-page typescript headed "The Front Cover," 8.5 x 5.5, signed below in black ballpoint, "Clyde W. Tombaugh," which reads, in part: "…is an imaginary picture of what we think the surface of Pluto would look like from a close approach of a space craft sometime in the future. The surface would probably be cratered from collision impacts as we have seen on the satellites of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, also on our moon and the planet Mercury." The second item is a one-page typescript headed "Discoverer of Pluto Has Led a Star-Struck Life," 8.5 x 11, signed below in black ballpoint by Tombaugh, who annotates portions of the text in his own hand, in part: "At +/- a few minutes 4 p.m., using an instrument called a Blink-Comparator, he found what he had been looking for—the long-sought, mysterious Planet X, as it was known to astronomers then…'Contrary to popular belief, I didn't discover Pluto by looking through a telescope. It's almost impossible to see through a telescope because it has the brightness of a candle seen from 300 miles…You have to check millions of star images for one image that shifts position—the only clue of identification." In overall fine condition. From the Collection of Dr. Lawrence E. Miller.
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