Son and namesake of the founder of IBM, he served as Big Blue’s president, chairman, and chairman of the board, having early recognized the importance of computers and the necessity of maintaining the company’s dominance in the field of high technology. TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, International Business Machines Corporation letterhead, December 8, 1937. Letter to Malcolm Davis, who had a hand in the drafting of the United Nations charter. In part, “Last spring, the International Business Machines Corporation sent a Scott radio to Paris to be installed in…the American Pavillion of the Paris Exposition. Now that the Exposition has been closed…I have written to Mr. Virgile, instructing him to deliver this radio as a gift from the International Business Machines Corporation to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.” In fine condition, with expected folds, pencil notation under date and mounting remnants to corners. R&R COA.
