Seven items: six TLSs, each dated 1985, to Dr. Joseph De Meio, a longtime colleague of Dr. Jonas Salk in polio research, upon his retirement. Signers are Salk, whose letter reads in part: “Great progress has been made in that time and the future will unfold more than we can now imagine…There is a special quality to the time that follows a rich and meaningful professional life such as you have had”; Senator Arlen Specter; Congressman Joseph McDade; Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh; University of Wisconsin Professor Duard L. Walker; and Delbert E. Glanz. Accompanied by a 1960 TLS from John F. Enders, who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for the cultivation of polio viruses in human tissue cells, regarding a visit by De Meio to the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston. Accompanied, as well, by an autopen TLS from Ronald Reagan. In overall fine condition. RRAuction COA.
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