world correspondence (2 Ergebnisse)

Full leather. Zustand: Very good. Personal diary of White House Correspondence Secretary Mabel Bachelder, recording her time with President Franklin Roosevelt, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. (illustrator). Personal Diary. Three ring binder (6.5" x 9"), black leather, illustrated endpapers. Includes 22 individually typed entries and 11 pages of newspaper clippings. Includes a partial transcription of the journal. Housed in custom olive cloth clamshell, title in gilt on spine over red morocco label. A historically interesting piece of Roosevelt-era history, with details of the mundane workings of the White House to her description of the mood in the White House just prior to the breakout of World War II. "Since writing last the world has been fairly torn apart and put together again. The war was averted largely through the efforts of our own President [who] sent a personal message to Adolf Hitler and Premier [Prime Minister] Chamberlain, advocating arbitration, and later sent a personal message to Mussolini requesting him to use his influence with Hitler to persuade him to hold his troops out of Czechoslovakia until it could be discussed by the interested powers." - October 3, [1938].

Paper Letter. Zustand: Fine. Letter from an acting Corporal in Ambulance Company #16, stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, before deployment to Europe in June, 1917. (illustrator). ALS. Two-page letter, written on "Army and Navy Young Men's Christian Association" letterhead. Framed with gray matte, archival glass. This letter is written to "George" in New York. The Corporal spends most of the letter detailing camp life at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, noting that a "about 20,000 soldiers are here at present and over a thousand a day come in." He describes the offices as: "nearly all civilian doctors, who have had training and got in the officer's reserve corps. They are very decent, but occasionally make "bulls." An insightful look at camp life, shortly before deployment to the European Theater. Ambulance Company #16 was part of the 6th Division Medical Regiment, which deployed to France in early 1918. They were initially stationed along a "quiet" part of the line French-German line, between Verdun and St. Mihiel, the Toulon-Troyon sectors, to train with French medical personnel. Ambulance Company #16 arrived in Brest, France on February 5, 1918, then quickly dispatched to Blois, France where they assisted with soldier fatigue and general medical duties. On March 24, 1918, they deployed to Revigny, where they assisted in French hospitals and with evacuations of injured soldiers. Signed.