Author: 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.
Title: 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.
Description: 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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