5 Typed Letters Signed Dick to the wife of his mentor and old friend, Adam C. Kit Carson

by Richard Byrd

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Each one page. 1 vols. 8-1/2 x 10 inches. Final letter is torn and tape-repaired, with no loss of text; others are very good to fine. Item #25769 When Richard Byrd was just twelve years old in 1900, Adam Kit Carson, a friend and associate of his father's in the family's law firm, invited the young Byrd to visit him in the Philippine Islands. Young Byrd, characteristically, accepted immediately and enthusiastically, displaying the curiosity

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