MATERIAL: Hand-Written/Painted
TYPE: Documents (Bound)
COMPONENTS: 1p, 4to,
CONDITION: folds
ITEM ID: 2712
Letter to Carl Haverlin
DATE
Decade: 1950s
Century: 20th (1901-2000)
Autograph Letter signed “Lee and Marie” to Carl Haverlin, from Lee De Forest, inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting,( 1873-1961). The letter is on stationery for the Hotel Westward Ho in Phoenix, Arizona, and dated Tuesday, with no year [c. 1950s], excusing himself from a dinner, “we decided it was far more important for me to get back to my work than to attend the big luncheon tomorrow.”
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