CLARE BOOTHE LUCE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/13/1944 - HFSID 174604
Sale Price $150.00
Reg. $180.00
CLARE BOOTH LUCE. TLS: "Clare", 1p, 5x8. No place, 1944
November 13. On personal letterhead to Zosia (Mrs. Paul) Kochanski, New
York, N.Y. In full: "Thank you so much for your warm letter of
Congratulations. The affection and admiration of friends is just the tonic
the doctor ordered after so wearying and close a battle as the one I have just
been through." Accompanied by unsigned typed envelope on matching
paper, addressed to Mrs. Paul Kochanski, New York, N.Y., postmarked Port
Chester, N.Y., November 14, 1944. After marrying her second husband,
publisher Henry R. Luce, Clare Boothe Luce wrote three successful plays:
The Women (1936), Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938) and Margin for
Error (1939). She later served as a war correspondent before representing
Connecticut in Congress from 1943-1947. In 1953, Luce became the first
American woman Ambassador to a major country when President Dwight D.
Eisenhower appointed her as Ambassador to Italy (1953-1956). In 1983,
four years before her death in October 1987, Luce received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom. Slightly creased. Fine condition.
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