[Rarebooks] FS: Henry Ford Writes to the Vice President of the U.S. to ask for a favor, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $2000 NET

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 by pointing 
out to Marshall, whose first name was actually Thomas, 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." Dark pencil notation in upper left margin. Wrinkling to each 
page but still a fine presentation. Normal creases from folding. Very 
Good with fine content.

Marshall, incidentally, coined the saying: "What this country needs is a 
good five-cent cigar." (#013011)        $3,000.00

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