Group of letters related to Oswald's efforts to return to the United States from the USSR, including: a TLS to Oswald by American Consul John A. McVickar, one page, July 24, 1961, in part: "Dear Mr. Oswald: We have received your letter of July 15, 1961, in regard to your desire to return to the United States with your wife and to your application for Soviet exit visas. You will recall that further action on your petition for nonquota status for your wife is pending the receipt from you of a copy of your marriage certificate"; a TLS by Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations Frederick G. Dutton to Senator John G. Tower, one page, February 9, 1962, forwarding "copies of correspondence containing the most recent information we have received from our Embassy at Moscow regarding the case of Lee Harvey Oswald…The correspondence sent to you by Mr. Oswald is being returned," plus a carbon copy and typescript of the letter; typescript and mimeograph copies of a letter by Oswald dated January 5, 1962, each one page, in part: "This letter is to inform the Embassy of the expiring of my former document of residence in the USSR…and the granting of a new document…As I have already informed the Embassy, exit visas for myself and my wife have already been granted…Since I and my wife wish to leave the USSR together, I shall delay requesting my visa until such time as documentation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and the American Embassy is completed on my wife"; and a mimeograph copy of a letter to Oswald by Samuel G. Wise, two pages, January 15, 1962, in part: "On January 13, the Embassy received official notification…of the issuance of an exit visa to your wife valid until December 1, 1962…There are several other documents connected with your wife's immigrant visa application which are still lacking…evidence required by law to show that your wife will not become a public charge to the United States has not been presented to the Embassy…In view of these circumstances, you may wish to reconsider your decision to defer your departure until Mrs. Oswald's documentation is complete, particularly insamuch as it may prove difficult to provide the necessary financial support evidence while you are still in the USSR…We have made note of the fact that you have been issued a new Soviet residence document which will expire on July 5, 1962. We have also noted that Mrs. Oswald is expecting a baby in March." In overall very good to fine condition.
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