[Rarebooks] FS: Outstanding Henry Ford letter to the Vice President of the United States asking for a pardon

[Charles Agvent]

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FORD,  Henry. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to the Vice President  of
the  United  States  asking  for a pardon for one  of  his  employees.
Detroit:  11  Feb.  1915. A fine two-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED  to  the
Honorable  John  R. Marshall, Vice President of the United States,  on
Ford's  personal  letterhead  regarding an employee  whose  vindictive
wife    and  mother-in-law  keep  having   him  arrested  for   parole
violations.  Ford  begins the letter by pointing out to Marshall  that
he  met the young man when he was governor of Indiana. He comments  on
his  quality  of character: "He has risen rapidly in our  organization
and  we  think a great deal of him.... I ask you, who have  known  the
boy,  to  kindly look into the case, believing with all my heart  that
he  represents  the kind of manhood that is a credit to our state  and
our  nation,  and  I  believe him fully entitled  to  a  complete  and
absolute  pardon....  I am not taking this matter up with you  in  any
perfunctory  way,  -  I know this young man personally, and  his  case
represents  an  opportunity  for doing constructive  good  to  manhood
which,  I believe you will agree with me, is one of the best and  most
genuinely satisfactory things we can accomplish in life." Ford adds this
typed P.S. after his SIGNATURE: "I am sorry to trouble you about such
a  matter,  when  affairs of state demand so much of  your  time,  but
having  met you and appreciating your sense of and desire for  justice
for  brother  men, I feel privileged to call this to your  attention."
Some  wrinkling  to  each page but still a fine  presentation.  Normal
creases from folding. Very Good with fine content.            $4500.00

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