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REAGAN, Ronald (1911-2004). Eight draft autograph letters signed (“Ronald,” “Ron,” or “RR”) as Governor to various recipients, April 1967 to September 1968. 12 pages, ranging in size from 223 x 151mm to 310 x 200mm, with notes, emendations, and excisions in Reagan's and other hands. Ronald Reagan as Governor of California: a collection of draft letters on a variety of subjects including Vietnam, education funding, capital punishment, General Electric and his Irish family tree. A group of handwritten letters prepared by Governor Reagan for his typists. He writes on 19 April 1967: “I am convinced that [capital] punishment is a deterrent and that some citizens are alive today because of this threat to those who would murder.” His correspondents in this instance, Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Sagg, had written to criticize him for being “callous and unfeeling” in handling a case and for throwing out the first pitch at a ballgame the day of the execution. To a Mrs. Schliesmayer he says, “I don’t know what we can do until our govt. in Wash. quits pretending this war can go on in Viet Nam without the rest of us joining in as we have in every war.” On his father, Reagan tells Miss Eileen O’Reagan that he "was orphaned when he was 3 yrs. old and hence didn’t talk too much about family or his parents. I do know that his father (my grandfather Michael Reagan) came from County Cork with a sister named Margaret,” and settled in Bennett, Iowa. “That’s about the extent of my information.” [ With :] Typed letter signed from Ed Langley to Reagan, 8 November 1967, enclosing a list of eight questions relating to his time working for General Electric.