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THBAviator CHARLES A. LINDBERGH Autograph Letter Signed About His Family History
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Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh Writes About His Own Family History, an Account From the American Revolutionary War Regarding His British Loyalist "Tory" Relative "John Land"
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH (1902-1974). Historic American Aviator, Author, Inventor, Explorer and Social Activist.
July 22, 1967-Dated, Exceptional Content and Quality Typed Letter Fully Signed, "Charles A. Lindbergh," in vivid deep black ink, 1 page, measuring 8" x 10" on fine quality "Fidelity Onion Skin" watermarked paper, Les Monts-de-Corsier, Vaud, Switzerland, Choice Crisp Near Mint. Written to Prof. North Callahan, Bronxville, N.Y., being a wonderful and very personal Letter. Typewritten letter thanking Callahan for sending his book titled, "Flight from the Republic", stating that he had already purchased seven copies for his family members, including his cousin Admiral Land, and his own personal library. Fully titled, "Flight from the Republic: The Tories of the American Revolution" by North Callahan, Published by Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967.
Lindbergh tells of his family story regarding a "Revolutionary War incident." This involved a distant relative "John Land" who was a "Tory" carrying dispatches for the King's forces, and fired on as he fled through a swamp being hit by a bullet. John had also been told his wife and children had been massacred by Indians. John's wife had been informed her husband had been killed by Revolutionary forces. Later, they discovered each other to be alive and reunited in Canada. Lindbergh goes on to say how "Several years ago, my wife and I visited the old Land-family house on the banks of the Delaware." The magnificent deep rich black ink fully executed Signature, "Charles A. Lindbergh" measures just over 2.5" long, along with his typed name below. This wonderful Letter come together with its original Colorful Swiss Postmarked Air Mail Postal Envelope having Charles Lindbergh's return address in Darien, Conn. typed on the reverse top flap and in near Mint condition. (2 items).
Charles Lindbergh became a hero overnight after his historic 33 1/2 hour solo non-stop transatlantic flight from New York's Roosevelt Field to Le Bourget Air Field in Paris (May 20- 21, 1927) in his Ryan monoplane - "The Spirit of St. Louis" - which won him the Orteig Prize (given by Raymond Orteig) of $25,000, as well as the Congressional Medal of Honor.
In 1932, his son Charles was kidnapped and murdered, which led to a federal law against kidnapping, popularly known as The Lindbergh Act. From 1935-39, Lindbergh lived in Europe and assisted Dr. Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), Nobel Prize-winning French surgeon and biologist, in the construction of the perfusion pump, used in keeping organs alive outside the body. With Lindbergh, Carrel authored the book The Culture of Organs (1938). His autobiography, The Spirit of St. Louis (1953), won a Pulitzer Prize.
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