JOHN GUNTHER - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED CIRCA 1947 CO-SIGNED BY: VIRGINIA PEARSON, FREDERICK FEIKEMA MANFRED, ELIZABETH R. ROBERTS - HFSID 29601

JOHN GUNTHER Co-signed by FREDERICK FEIKEMA MANFRED, VIRGINIA PEARSON, and ELIZABETH R. ROBERTS
This collection of messages from various signers were given to cookbook and children's author Rose Oller Harbaugh
Autograph Note Signed: “Once more my best thanks to Rose Oller Harbaugh / in old friendship, and in memory of the / days when I was always “inside” Marshall [illegible] / John Gunther”, “Feike Fred Feikema”, and on verso “Virginia Pearson” and Elizabeth R. Roberts”.Three other unknown signers also wrote notes. 7½x11½. One page, double-sided. Signed by each individual on different days throughout 1947. Every signer wrote a short note to Rose Oller Harbaugh, an author who wrote cookbooks and children's books,includingFavorite Torte and Cake Recipes (1951) and Eddie Elephant Has a Party (1947).All of these notes indicate a strong friendship with the author, with many notes including tongue-in-cheek comments. John Gunther (1901-1970) was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the “Inside” books, including the best-selling Inside U.S.A., published in 1947. For this book series, he did intensive research, interviewing prominent leaders and other residents in each state. From 1924-1936, he travelled throughout Europe as a foreign correspondent for the Daily News' London office. Later in life, Gunther claimed to have worked in every European country but Portugal.He is mostly known today for the memoir Death Be Not Proud (1949) regarding the death of his teenage son. This book was later turned into a television movie in 1975. From September 7, 1959 to September 17, 1960 he hosted and narrated a television program on the ABC network entitled John Gunther's High Road; the program consisted of travelogues of various nations around the world. Gunther's previous experience travelling throughout the world while a journalist served him well as narrator. Frederick Feikema Manfred (1912-1994) was born as Frederick Feikes Feikema VII. A third-generation Frisian American, he first published his novels under the name Feike Feikema. Years after making his debut with The Golden Bowl (1944), the author changed his name to include the surname Manfred and published Lord Grizzly (1954), the first in a series titled “The Buckskin Man Tales”. The book became a bestseller and was a finalist for the 1954 National Book Award. Virginia Pearson (1886-1958) performed with theater companies in New York and Washington before becoming a screen actress, cast as a vamp in films like Blazing Love (1916) and Wilderness of Youth (1922). In 1925, she appeared in silent versions of Phantom of the Opera and The Wizard of Oz, the latter featuring a young Oliver Hardy as the Tin Man. Pearson and her husband, screen actor Sheldon Lewis, got divorced in 1928, in an era where it was considered bad for box office receipts if the leading lady was married, but they continued living together until their deaths thirty years later. They died only a month apart. Elizabeth R. Roberts was an author who wrote the children's bookRoger the Lodger (1947). Page removed from book, with marks and wear on left edge. Toned around edges. Right edge lightly worn. Otherwise, fine condition.