This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/1/2021
Interesting typed letter, signed in black ballpoint pen “H. G. Rickover,” in which Vice Admiral Rickover writes of Benjamin Franklin, for whom the submarine he was then onboard was named. Consisting of three single-sided pages, 8” x 10.5,” on “USS Benjamin Franklin” letterhead, August 30, 1965, the lengthy correspondence to Robert L. Michaels reads, in part: “We have just successfully completed sea trials of the USS Benjamin…we have in operation twenty-two attack type nuclear submarines, making a total of fifty two…The ship is named for Benjamin Franklin…one of the most illustrious of our Founding Fathers…No American child ought to grow to adulthood without having read the Autobiography of this talented, wise and good man, who personified all that is best in America.” In fine condition.
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