ALS signed “G. W. Carver,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, November 29, 1931. Handwritten letter to "My great spiritual boy Mr. Hardwick," in part: "How I wish you knew just what your visit has and is meaning to me. Marvelous, I cannot explain it myself. I have faced every trying problem in such a triumphal way ever since you were here. Dear, the main season for this feeling of triumph is the fact that you never had left me, your great spirit is ever with me sustaining and urging me on…I picked up dozens of dead twigs, such as old okra stalks, bean vines, dead leaves that had fallen from the trees, etc., etc. All were teeming with the most simple (in some cases) and the marvelously complex compound, microscopic life. How I longed for my great spiritual boy the pioneer for all the dear little family. I wanted him to see that by the thing we call death in the plant is only a preparation for myriads of actual microscopic plants, that could not have existed had these plants not have given up their life." In very good to fine condition, with a small area of paper loss touching a couple of words of text.
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