Ballpoint signature, "Approved, Harry S. Truman, 10/21/58,” at the close of a TLS from his daughter Margaret Truman, typed on 8.5 x 10.75 Theatre by-the-Sea (Matunuck, Rhode Island) letterhead, July 13, 1954, in full: "It was so very kind of you to write to me and to send the clipping from the Youngstown paper. I appreciated your thought of me and am especially grateful for your esteem and good wishes for my father." In very good to fine condition, with two stains and three file holes.
Provenance: from the estate of Senator Carl Levin. A lifelong Democrat, ardent advocate for civil rights, and staple of the United States Senate from 1979 to 2015, Senator Levin was also a longtime client of RR Auction. As a collector, he favored his political heroes—Harry S. Truman, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr.—as well as those figures emblematic of the American spirit, like Robert Frost, Joe Louis, and Helen Keller.
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