Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

61 c   (ISRAEL.) SZOLD, HENRIETTA. Autograph Letter Signed, to Rabbi Solomon Goldman, welcoming him to Israel and informing him that a botanist hopes to meet with him in Jerusalem concerning the founding of a “Garden of the Prophets” in the U.S. 2 pages, 8vo, personal stationery [“Henrietta Szold” in Hebrew], written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; horizontal fold. [Jerusalem], 30 July 1939 [300/400] “Welcome to Palestine! . . . [W]e are all pleased that you came to see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears what theYishuv does and thinks before Geneva discusses and decides. “. . .This note . . . is being written at the urgent [request] of Dr. H. Reubeni, whose work in Biblical botany is known to you. I tried to assure him that . . . if you could you would see him . . . . “He wants to have an interview . . . about getting to the United States in the interest of his long-cher- ished plan to plant a ‘Garden of the Prophets,’ according to the pattern of the Shakespeare Gardens. . . .” 62 c   KENNEDY, ROBERT F. Typed Letter Signed, to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Central Immigration Office (“Gentlemen”), sending documents [not present] concerning employment certification of a Swiss national on behalf of the Hertz Corporation. 1 / 2 page, 4to, “United States Senate” stationery; horizontal folds. New York, 25 July 1966 [80/120] 63 63 c   KENNEDY, ROBERT F. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “For Sherwood Smith / With Best Wishes,” bust portrait by Halsman, showing him looking into the camera. Inscribed in the image, lower left. 10x8 inches; portion of signature written in black ink against dark background. Np, nd [400/600] with — Strom Thurmond. Typed Letter Signed, to Sherwood M. Smith, Jr., thanking him for his help in Thurmond’s Senate office. 1 page, 4to, “United States Senate” stationery. [Washington], 1 September 1966.