Letter from A. Rosenthal to President Harry S. Truman

A. ROSENTHAL, LTD. 7-4-19-49 ingrand P.P.F. Directors: A. & M. Rosenthal n-R 450 RARE AND FINE BOOKS. 5, TURL STREET, MANUSCRIPTS, OLD MUSIC. BOOKS 1906 OXFORD. EXPORT TO AMERICA. Telephone: Oxford 3093. Cables: ALBIBOOKS, Oxford. 28 April, 1949. His Excellency Mr. Harry S. Truman, Feb Washington, D.C. Mr.President, attached We have pleasure in sending you herewith the special Catalogue in which we offer for sale two newly discovered original Manuscript Documents, signed by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, relating to the Voyage to America of CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS in 1493. *627 They are the earliest documents connected with the Voyages of Columbus ever offered for sale. Indeed, none of similar age and interest bearing upon the fifteenth century Colonization of America are known to exist in any library, private or public, throughout the world. No Documents concerning the Voyages of COLUMBUS of such an early date are to be found on the American Continent. The contents and historical background x561 of our Documents are lucidly set forth in the Introduction Catatog put in Bk. Call, Its TL 4/12/59 gook