ALS signed “Charles A. Lindbergh,” one page, 5.25 x 7.25, personal letterhead, April 23, 1935. Letter to British author, Harold Nicolson, concerning some errors Nicolson made in a book describing Lindbergh’s trip to Mexico in the Spirit of St. Louis. In full: “I hope you will excuse my taking the liberty of making a few notations in the pages of your book dealing with my flight to Mexico in the Spirit of St. Louis. They are in regard only to facts of which I have personal and definite knowledge.” Double suede-matted and framed with an engraved plaque and a photo of Lindbergh posing in front of the Spirit of St. Louis to an overall size of 18 x 14. In fine condition, with central horizontal and vertical fold. As part of a late 1927 goodwill air tour of Latin America following his triumphant transatlantic flight, Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Mexico, a nation to which his then-future father-in-law, financier Dwight Morrow, had recently been appointed as ambassador by Calvin Coolidge. It was during this Mexican trip that Lindbergh met Morrow’s daughter, Anne, whom he would marry in 1929. Although amicable in its brevity, the relationship between Lindbergh and Nicolson, a fastidious and shrewdly intelligent writer who wrote a biography on Dwight Morrow in 1935—the book in which Lindbergh is no doubt referring to—deteriorated as the ‘Lone Eagle’ began his transformation from a shy national icon into an intense and formidable politician hardened by the pressures of his ‘Crime of the Century’ accusations.
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