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Bold pencil signature and inscription, “To my friend, Peter Marisca, Al Capone,” on an off-white 6 x 9 sheet of stationery from Chicago's Lexington Hotel. In very good to fine condition, with edgewear and a few tiny holes along the intersecting folds. Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder.
The recipient, Peter Marisca, was the personal chauffeur to millionaire publisher and writer Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., who interviewed the Chicago Outfit crime boss in Suite 430 at the Lexington Hotel on August 27, 1931, just a few months before Capone was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
Accompanied by a 12-page carbon copy of Vanderbilt’s article on his interview with Capone for the publication Liberty Magazine. In the historic article, published on October 17, 1931, as ‘How Al Capone Would Run This Country,’ he quotes Capone as saying, ‘Us fellas has gotta open our pocketbooks, and keep on keeping them open, if we want any of us to survive. We can't wait for Congress or Mr. Hoover or anyone else. We must help keep tummies filled and bodies warm. If we don't, it's all up with the way we've learned to live. Why, do you know…America is on the verge of its greatest social upheaval? Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can't afford to let it in. We've got to organize ourselves against it.’
The Marc and Mary Perkins Collection.
