Generous Support for Hoover from Tuxedo Park

Two Typed letters Signed (“J. Edgar Hoover”) to U.S. Representative from New York, KATHARINE ST. GEORGE.

Washington: December 19, 1950, and March 11, 1958.

Price: $750.00


About the item

One page each, on letterhead of the Office of the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1 vols. 4to and 8vo. Generous Support for Hoover from Tuxedo Park. Very good condition.

Item #39554

Interesting pair letters to Katharine St. George (née Katharine Delano Price Collier), Republican Congresswoman from Tuxedo Park, Orange County, New York, who served from 1947 to 1965. In the first letter, dated December 19, 1950, Hoover regretfully declines her invitation to serve on a “committee to make plans for a joint meeting of National leaders in Washington,” citing the “unusually heavy pressure of my official duties and the many matters constantly arising which require my personal attention during these critical days…” (This was, of course the height of the McCarthy era, in which Hoover’s FBI was busy feeding information to the House Committee on Un-American Activities). In the second letter from 1958, Hoover thanks the Honorable Congresswoman from New York for her “very generous remarks yesterday in Congress concerning my new book on communism, ‘Masters of Deceit.’ Your good words are indeed appreciated, and I join you in the hope the book will especially be of benefit to our country’s youth.”.