Desirable vintage fountain pen signature, "M. Curie,” on an off-white 5.5 x 4 card from her "Institut du Radium," affixed to the first free end page of a leatherbound book: Pierre Curie by Marie Curie, published in New York by Macmillan in 1923, 5.75 x 8.25, 242 pages. The signed card is in very fine condition; the book is in good condition, with both boards cleanly detached at the joints.
From the personal collection of President Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, consigned by Hoover's great granddaughter.
Marie Curie visited Herbert Hoover at the White House in 1929, where the president presented her with a bank draft for $50,000 to purchase a precious gram of radium for research to be conducted at a new research institution in Warsaw, Poland. The Associated Press reported that the 'President said the gift was an expression on the part of the American people of their gratitude for the 'beneficient service Madame Curie has given to all mankind.''
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