ALS discussing fungi affecting peanuts, figs, and peaches

by George Washington Carver

$5,000 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

Tuskegee, Alabama: March 28, 1931. Exceptional ALS addressed from George Washington Carver to his friend Grady Porter, a researcher at the Huston Peanut Company, a peanut processing plant in Georgia. Dated March 28, 1931. One sheet of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead 220 x 280 mm , 2 pp. Near Fine, with original creases and one wrinkle at top edge of leaf. With Tuskegee Institute envelope 150 x 90 mm addressed to Grady Porter at the Tom Huston

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