EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969), President . Autograph letter signed ("Dwight D Eisenhower") as President, to Senator Edward Martin (1879-1967), Washington, 22 November 1954. 1 page, 4to (10 x 7 1/8 in.), boldly penned in dark ink on Eisenhower's personal "DDE The White House" stationery, minor discoloration along left-hand edge where once mounted. A 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL RARITY: EISENHOWER PENS AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FOR AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING SENATOR A fine example, boldly penned, bearing a full signature, of one of the great rarities in presidential letters and documents. One and a half years after taking office, Eisenhower obligingly furnishes an autograph letter for the collection of Pennsylvania Senator Edward Martin: "I am happy to add this note to your collection of documents personally written by Presidents of the U.S.A. With warm regard." Martin's lengthy and prestigious career in politics included single terms as Pennsylvania's Auditor General, State Treasurer and Adjutant General and a term as Pennsylvania Governor (1943-1946) before his election to the United States Senate in 1946 and reelection in 1952. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF EISENHOWER WRITTEN IN OFFICE ARE EXCEEDINGLY RARE. None are illustrated in the usual reference works on Presidential letters (including those by Charles Hamilton and according to American Book Prices Current only one example has been offered at auction since 1975 (a one-page ALS dated 29 June 1954, sold at Doyle's on 20 June 1985 for $11,000). The present is the only full ALS as President we have ever seen, valued or handled. Taylor, writing in 1989, notes that "Eisenhower's autograph is common in LSs, both of presidential date and otherwise," but "his ALSs as president are among the scarcest of the presidential series; I have never seen one advertised" ( John M. Taylor, From the White House Inkwell , p. 196).
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969), President . Autograph letter signed ("Dwight D Eisenhower") as President, to Senator Edward Martin (1879-1967), Washington, 22 November 1954. 1 page, 4to (10 x 7 1/8 in.), boldly penned in dark ink on Eisenhower's personal "DDE The White House" stationery, minor discoloration along left-hand edge where once mounted. A 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL RARITY: EISENHOWER PENS AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FOR AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING SENATOR A fine example, boldly penned, bearing a full signature, of one of the great rarities in presidential letters and documents. One and a half years after taking office, Eisenhower obligingly furnishes an autograph letter for the collection of Pennsylvania Senator Edward Martin: "I am happy to add this note to your collection of documents personally written by Presidents of the U.S.A. With warm regard." Martin's lengthy and prestigious career in politics included single terms as Pennsylvania's Auditor General, State Treasurer and Adjutant General and a term as Pennsylvania Governor (1943-1946) before his election to the United States Senate in 1946 and reelection in 1952. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF EISENHOWER WRITTEN IN OFFICE ARE EXCEEDINGLY RARE. None are illustrated in the usual reference works on Presidential letters (including those by Charles Hamilton and according to American Book Prices Current only one example has been offered at auction since 1975 (a one-page ALS dated 29 June 1954, sold at Doyle's on 20 June 1985 for $11,000). The present is the only full ALS as President we have ever seen, valued or handled. Taylor, writing in 1989, notes that "Eisenhower's autograph is common in LSs, both of presidential date and otherwise," but "his ALSs as president are among the scarcest of the presidential series; I have never seen one advertised" ( John M. Taylor, From the White House Inkwell , p. 196).
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