Lot 44
[First Ladies and First Relatives]. Collection of thirteen items: Edith Roosevelt, signed ("Edith K. Roosevelt") and inscribed personal card engraved"Mr.s Theodore Roosevelt", 2½ x3½".; Eleanor Roosevelt, signed 3 x 5" index card, listing her favorite Christmas Carol as "Silent Night." With a signed postcard thanking a lady for her "gift to the children of Porto Rico"; Bess Truman, a personal card engraved and signed "Bess Truman", the Bess is slightly smeared, but still very ledgeable; Mamie Doud Eisenhower, card signed, along with one unsigned, engraved card "The President and Mrs. Eisenhower,"; Lady Bird Johnson; signed personal card, sepia, 4 x 6", with vignette of the Johnson Ranch in Stonewall, Texas.; Betty Ford, signed engraved card, "The White House / Washington"; Pat Nixon", personal engraved card ("Mrs. Nixon") signed and inscribed "with best wishes, Pat Nixon."; Nancy Reagan, typed letter signed, on personal stationery, one page, 8½ x 6½", Washington, November 19, 1990. To a Salvation Army official about a dinner which she regretted missing.;Barbara Bush, typed letter signed, on The White House stationery, one page, 8½ x 6½", Washington, D.C., January 19, 1990. Reply of congratulations to The Salvation Army, Mrs, Bush has added an autographed note; a signed ("Barbara Bush") card engraved with a vignette of the White House and "Mrs. George Bush." Collection also includes a postcard portrait of President John F. Kennedy signed on the verso, "Best wishes / Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy," and a color postcard of Billy Carter, which he has signed on the back. All very good except Mrs. Reagan's letter, which was torn and taped back together.
Estimated Value $400 - 500.
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