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A GROUP OF CORRESPONDENCE TO CLAYTON AND KATHERINE STURGES KNIGHT. EARHART, AMELIA, et al. Typed Letter Signed ("Amelia"), 1 p, image 1
A GROUP OF CORRESPONDENCE TO CLAYTON AND KATHERINE STURGES KNIGHT. EARHART, AMELIA, et al. Typed Letter Signed ("Amelia"), 1 p, image 2
A GROUP OF CORRESPONDENCE TO CLAYTON AND KATHERINE STURGES KNIGHT. EARHART, AMELIA, et al. Typed Letter Signed ("Amelia"), 1 p, image 3
A GROUP OF CORRESPONDENCE TO CLAYTON AND KATHERINE STURGES KNIGHT. EARHART, AMELIA, et al. Typed Letter Signed ("Amelia"), 1 p, image 4
A GROUP OF CORRESPONDENCE TO CLAYTON AND KATHERINE STURGES KNIGHT. EARHART, AMELIA, et al. Typed Letter Signed ("Amelia"), 1 p, image 5
A GROUP OF CORRESPONDENCE TO CLAYTON AND KATHERINE STURGES KNIGHT. EARHART, AMELIA, et al. Typed Letter Signed ("Amelia"), 1 p, image 6
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A GROUP OF CORRESPONDENCE TO CLAYTON AND KATHERINE STURGES KNIGHT.
EARHART, AMELIA, et al.
Typed Letter Signed ("Amelia"), 1 p,

5 December 2018, 10:00 EST
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A GROUP OF CORRESPONDENCE TO CLAYTON AND KATHERINE STURGES KNIGHT.

EARHART, AMELIA, et al. Typed Letter Signed ("Amelia"), 1 p, 275 x 210 mm, December 21, 1935, folds, minor soiling. WITH: 3 Typed Letters Signed, each 1 p, from John Huston ("Maj John Huston," June 13, 1945), Eddie Rickenbacker (July 28, 1969), and Fiorello La Guardia (January 20, 1937), usual folds with some overall toning and soiling.

The Knights possessed a wide range of accomplished and interesting friends from a multitude of worlds, including many stemming from Clayton Knights experiences as a pilot in the first World War. Here, legendary flyer Amelia Earhart writes: "I have just returned from several weeks of one-night-standing and find that G. P. [Putnam, her husband] has a charming drawing which you have inscribed to me. Thank you very much indeed for your kindness. Of course the Lockheed Vega is dear to my heart, and an accurate and lovely portrait warms the cockles thereof." Also included is a humorous letter from Major (and filmmaker) John Huston, extending profuse apologies for failing to write ("I'm a perfect dog and a shit"); and letters from Mayor La Guardia, thanking Mr. Knight on the gift of his book Ships Aloft (1936) which his children were in particular enjoying, and World War I fighter pilot Rickenbacker sending condolences to Mrs. Knight on the death of her husband.

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