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37. Carver, George Washington. Autograph letter signed 
(“G.W. Carver”), as Director of the Research and Experiment 
Station, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, 2 pages (8.5 
x 11 in.; 216 x 279 mm.), front and verso. Tuskegee Institute, 
Alabama, 11 August 1933, to Mrs. Olivia Anderson, Chipley, 
Georgia. With original postmarked envelope addressed in Carver’s 
hand. Fine condition.
George Washington Carver tells the mother of one of his 
students that her son has “a very unusual mind, just the kind 
out of which Edisons are made. I wish you could have been with 
us in the laboratory, and heard him name some of the sweet potato 
and peanut products...”
Carver writes in full: Sorry you could not come down with the dear 
boys, I trust you are feeling quite well by this time. I wish you knew what 
a Joy it is to have your son come down, he is in every way a dear, sweet, 
wholesome boy, With a very unusual mind, Just the kind out of which 
Edisons are made. I wish you could have been with us in the laboratory, 
and heard him name some of the sweet potato and peanut products, also 
the Clay and minerals. The dear boy remembered them without any 
coaching of mine. How I wish he was nearer to me so I could have him 
often when I was testing out some simple things that he could understand. 
He tells me the pimples on his face begins to come and go sometimes they 
are almost gone. This is fine. Just what I had hoped to hear as they should 
grow less and less until they disappear altogether. With no rough, coarse 
skin. The thing that makes me the most happy is his right leg. I want you 
to examine it and see how the muscles are developing. how the veins are 
swelling. Please pray with me that God will bless every means employed 
to the healing thereof. I am so confident that he will grant our request. The 
dear boy has such fine powers of description, he described a moth he found 
so perfectly that I could tell just what kind it was.
On 28 August 1934, Dr. Carver wrote Mrs. Olivia Anderson’s son, 
Floyd, in part, “Some time dear, I wish you write me a brief story 
of your case, and how the treatment has benefitted you. Dear, you 
are my first patient and it would be such a treasure to have it from 
you...” From the 26 January 1936 edition of “The Montgomery 
Advertiser,” in an article titled “Infantile Paralysis and the Oil 
Therapy.” In part, “Dr. George W. Carver, of Tuskegee Institute ... 
has already proved conclusively that peanut oils offer a possibility 
at least of adding to a man’s means of treating the after-effects 
of infantile paralysis...” Dr. George Washington Carver developed 
over 250 different peanut products, the accomplishment for which 
he is most remembered. In the last 35 years, only one Carver letter 
mentioning peanuts has sold at a major public auction. 
$800 - $1,200
38. Chagall, Marc and Joan Miro. (2) Printed exhibition bills 
signed. Including: (1) Poster printed in black and gray and signed 
in black grease pencil (“Marc Chagall”), on (9.75 x 11 in.; 247 x 
279 mm.) paper. In French, advertising the Marc Chagall Musée 
Des Arts Décoratifs – Palais Du Louvre, Pavillon Marsan, 107 De 
Rivoli- Tous Le Jours De 10 H. A 17 H. Sauf Le Mardi. With 
minor edge bending. In very good condition. (2) Color printed 
poster signed in faint ink (“Miro”), on (8.5 x 10.75 in.; 215 x 273 
mm.) paper. In French, advertising the Joan Miro Constellations, 
Pierre Matisse Editeur, Exposition Chez, Bergruen – 70 Rue De 
L’Université – Paris. Printed by Mourlot IMP. Paris. During the 
1950s the renowned French printer, Mourlot Freres, printed most 
of the “original” posters of the most important artists of the day. In 
1959 they printed the series “Affiches Originales” for collectors. 
They are reduced lithographic versions of the “original” posters 
created by the contemporary masters, Picasso, Chagall, Braque, 
Matisse, Miro, Leger, and Dufy. $200 - $300

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39. Castro, Fidel. Autograph manuscript, 2 pages (6 x 8.75 in.; 152 x 222 mm.), (ca. 1961), the notes are written in blue ink by Castro, 
in Spanish, on a single piece of paper, with cross-outs and marginal notations. 
A unique Castro handwritten manuscript. Notes for a speech possibly given at the U.N., decrying U.S. actions in the 
wake of the Bay of Pigs.
It seems like they are worried within the Justice department of the United States Government, every time the anger and desperation 
increases, because of our solid activity and the victorious and uncontrollable development of our revolution…
Castro writes in full: Hiram of Lubrijón [?] The Revolutionary Government is very aware of the desperate efforts that is [illegible] the efforts that reflect 
in the last days [lined out on text] the open [lined out on text] activity that the imperialism has been realizing during the last weeks in order to promote 
at all cost [illegible] revolutionaries, terrorism acts, murder attempts and all type of fights that have a tendency to interfere with the revolutionary process 
[illegible]. That activity has been doubled after [lined out on text] reports have been expressed to the ONU to the Prime Minister of the Government. 
It seems like they are worried within the Justice department of the United States Government, every time the anger and desperation increases, because 
of our solid activity and the victorious and uncontrollable development of our revolution that translates each time in a less dissimulated support of anti-
revolutionaries, the war criminals and the worse [lined out on text and partly illegible] traitors, mercenaries of all type that [illegible] of service. Disembark 
between Moa and Baracoa [?] group of expatriates and gringos coming from [lined out on text] They left the United States. They are 27 in total Leader 
dead. One hurt and another prisoner [illegible lined out on text] quickly attacked combated [lined out on text] by the army forces and militia’s farmers. 
[Next all lined out on text] The Ministry of the Arm Forces communicates the following: In the day of yesterday (illegible] communicates the headquarters 
of [illegible] Militia of the West.
In March of 1960, a French freighter unloading munitions from Belgium exploded in Havana taking 75 lives and injuring 200, some 
of whom subsequently died. The U.S. denied Cuba’s accusation of sabotage but admitted that it had sought to prevent the shipment. 
And so it went, reaching a high point in April of the following year in the infamous CIA-organized invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. 
Over 100 exiles died in the attack. Close to 1,200 others were taken prisoner by the Cubans. It was later revealed that four American 
pilots flying for the CIA had lost their lives as well. The Bay of Pigs assault had relied heavily on the Cuban people rising up to join 
the invaders, but this was not to be the case. As it was, the leadership and ranks of the exile forces were riddled with former supporters 
and henchmen of Fulgencio Battista, the dictator overthrown by Castro, and would not have been welcomed back by the Cuban 
people under any circumstances. Despite the fact that the Kennedy administration was acutely embarrassed by the unmitigated defeat-
-indeed, because of it--a campaign of smaller-scale attacks upon Cuba was initiated almost immediately, under the rubric of Operation 
Mongoose. Throughout the 1960’s, the Caribbean island was subjected to countless sea and air commando raids by exiles, at times 
accompanied by their CIA supervisors, inflicting damage upon oil refineries, chemical plants and railroad bridges, cane fields, sugar mills 
and sugar warehouses, infiltrating spies, saboteurs, and assassins, anything to damage the Cuban economy, promote disaffection, or make 
the revolution look bad. Taking the lives of Cuban militia members and others in the process, pirate attacks on Cuban fishing boats and 
merchant ships, bombardments of Soviet vessels docked in Cuba, an assault upon a Soviet army camp with 12 Russian soldiers reported 
wounded, a hotel and a theater shelled from offshore because Russians and East Europeans were supposed to be present there. These 
actions were not always carried out on the order of the CIA or with its foreknowledge, but the Agency could hardly plead “rogue 
elephant”. It had created Operating Mongoose headquarters in Miami.  $12,000 - $15,000

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