FIRST LADY BESS W. TRUMAN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 06/16/1977 - HFSID 297289
Price: $280.00
BESS W. TRUMAN
The First Lady responds to a man from New York, telling him she has
no autographs of her husband available.
Typed Letter signed: "Bess W. Truman", 1 page, 6x8¼.
Independence, Missouri, 1977 June 16. On letterhead of 219 North
Delaware, Independence, Missouri and addressed to Mr. Thomas Connolly, Maspeth,
New York. In full: "Dear Mr. Connolly: In reply to your recent letter,
I am happy to send you my autograph as you requested. However, I regret that I
have no autographs of my husband available. Sincerely," Truman
(1885-1982, born Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Missouri)
married the future 33rd U.S. President, Harry S. Truman, in 1919; they
got engaged before he left for France and World War I in 1918, cutting short
their courtship. Truman generally abstained from comment on public policies and
only participated in Washington social life when necessary. Unlike her
predecessor, Eleanor Roosevelt, she gave no press conferences and usually
responded to any questions with a terse "No comment". She tried to curb her
husband's salty, blunt language. When one society matron complained that the
President had used the word "manure" in public, Bess replied that it had taken
her 20 years to get him to say "manure". She lived longer than any other
First Lady, dying at the age of 97. Normal mailing folds. Fine condition.
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