TLS signed “DeWitt,” one page, 6 x 7, personal letterhead, October 1, 1928. Letter discussing a poor show by magician Howard Thurston. In part: "News is bad. Thurston opened in Boston with daughter Jane. The show was unrehearsed and miserable. When he shot the gun to vanish the Whippet car, the flash powders flashed, but the car remained unimpressed. A load slipped out of the organ pipes prematurely. In the Vanishing Donkey Cabinet, he opened the Cabinet when the donkey was only half vanished, and the swivling was only half geswivled. And I could tell you much more, but for the fact that I have a class in about fifteen minutes." In fine condition. Stetten was a top American biochemist, serving as dean of the medical school of Rutgers University, president of the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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