EARLE OVINGTON - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/28/1924 - HFSID 4511
Price: $500.00
EARLE OVINGTON
Earle Ovington sends a typed letter of thanks for the
meeting.
Typed Letter Signed: "Earle Ovington", 1p, 8½x11. Santa
Barbara, California, 1924 May 28. On his letterhead as a "Consulting
Engineer" to Curtis Freshel, New York, New York. In full: "Glad to get
yours of the 19th. As always I am glad to hear from you. It certainly will be a
pleasure to meet Mr. E. Alma Baker and I am indebted to you for the opportunity.
As to fishing, he will find it better here than at Catalina Island. We don't
talk as much as they do down ther [sic] but we have the virgin fishing
grounds. My last one, on light tackle, weighed 368 pounds - yes, all one fish.
He was a sea bass. I do wish you were not so far away. When you get what you are
after, come to Santa Barbara to live. It's as near heaven as I ever want - or
expect - to get." Handwritten postscript: "Going out this
afternoon to fix my next airplane. That's the life!" Earle Ovington
(1879-1936), an aeronautical engineer and early barnstorming pilot, carried
the first mail (640 letters and 1,280 postcards) by air. After a journey of 5½
miles above Long Island on September 23, 1911, Ovington dropped the mailbag from
a height of 500 feet. Lightly creased. Folds, light vertical fold between
the "Ov" in Ovington. Chipped at lower edge, left blank corner missing, ½x½-inch
paper loss at blank right edge. Overall, fine condition.
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