MacVeagh, Lincoln. (1890-1972). Distinguished American soldier, diplomat and archaeologist who later in life became a director of publishing firm Henry Holt and Company and founded the Dial Press.
Two Typed Letters Signed by Soldier, Diplomat and Founder of the Dial Press Lincoln Macveagh, Trying to Arrange a Lecture Tour for His Author Ralph Hale Mottram.
New York: May 24 and July 11, 1927. 1927. - Two letters to tour manager James B. Pond dated May 24 and July 11, 1927 and each typed on a cream colored 10-7/8 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet of Dial Press letterhead with MacVeagh's name and the Dial Press address & logo printed at the top. The first letter fills 1 side of the sheet, the second, shorter letter is 1 paragraph long. Both are signed "Lincoln MacVeagh". There is a tear to & a piece out of the May 24 letter where 2 fasteners have been removed. The bottom edge of he July 11 letter is lightly creased & there are 2 rust marks from paper clips to its top edge. Folded 3 times for mailing. Together with an unsigned carbon copy of Pond's July 7 reply to the May 24 letter. Very good.
McVeagh writes to James B. Pond of the Pond Lecture Bureau in New York City: "Mr. Ralph Hale Mottram..author of 'The Spanish Farm Trilogy'..which The Atlantic Monthly calls 'the best treatment of a war-time motif yet achieved in fiction', winner of the Hawthornden Prize and introduced to the public first by John Galsworthy, would like to make a lecture tour of America. As his publishers, we should be glad to help in any way we can." After a discouraging reply from Pond who says he was unable to meet with Mottram in England to assess how good a lecturer he would be ["so many who write well, speak very poorly"], McVeagh responds July 11. He writes that he thinks Mottram would succeed as a lecturer but that he will forward Pond's letter, "having already written him myself something very similar."
Lincoln McVeagh [1890-1972] was a distinguished United States soldier, diplomat, business man and archaeologist. He served a long career as the United States ambassador to several countries in difficult times. After seeing active service in World War I he became a director of the publishers Henry Holt and Company. In 1923 he left the company and founded the Dial Press. Very good .

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