Price: $75

New York: October 29, 1930. ‘Skittles and Beer’. A sincere letter a man considered one of the most versatile actors of his day that opens with the mention of a recent illness (Mann died less than a year later from cancer) and touches on his early days acting alongside actors.....  Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed "Louis Mann" (to Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the key to success in life Add to Wish List

Item #310487

Price: $200

New York: December 2, 1930. German-born investment banker, Otto Hermann Kahn (1867-1943), was a well-recognized public figure who was immortalized in song by Fanny Brice and was the inspiration for the cahacter Roscoe W. Chandler in the Marx Brothers’ Animal Crackers, though he appears to belie his notoriety in this.....  Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed "Otto H Kahn" to "Mr. Halpern" (Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the key to success in life Add to Wish List

Item #309379

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London: 15th Feburary, 1930. "An Ability to Concentrate'. An engaged response from the British novelist attributing the traits of his success to his mother, the famous Victorian novelist, Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Reading in part: “…I think it is possible that any success I may have achieved in the realm of.....  Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed "W.B. Maxwell" to "Mr. halpern" (Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the key to success in life Add to Wish List

Item #309307

Price: $250

n.p: December 10, 1930. ‘I’m Just About Dripping Everyday…’. A fun, candid, and all-together whimsical letter from one of “the fathers of industrial research,”reading in part: “Writing, and even talking, is terrible stuff. Our words are never perfect fits for our ideas. I can’t think of the word “success” attached.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed "Willis R. Whitney" to "My dear friend Halpern" (Seymour Halpern" in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the keys to success Add to Wish List

Item #310339

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Indianapolis (IN): June 1, 1929. Written while the National and Indiana State Commander of the American Legion, Democrat, Paul V. McNutt (1891-1951) used his position in the influential veterans organization to help him win election as Indiana’s 34th Governor in 1933. Reading in part: “Whatever success I have attained I......  Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed "Paul V McNutt" to "Dear Friend" (Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the key to success in life Add to Wish List

Item #310609

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New York: [c. 1931]. A letter from an author better known for her advocacy of social justice. Reading in part: "To work, opportunity and curiosity about life. Have you read my last book Strike!? Sinclair Lewis reviewed it…." Author, journalist, and novelist Mary Heaton Vorse (1874-1966) was a prolific writer.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed ("Mary Heaton Vorse") to Seymour Halpern in response to Halpern's query regarding the key to success in life Add to Wish List

Item #310115

Price: $75

Washington, D.C: April 2, 1930. A letter from one of the founding organizers of the National Research Council. Reading in part: "If I have had any success, I attribute it to finding out in early life my special field of interest, and then devoting myself to persistent study and work.....  Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed "Vernon Kellogg" (Vernon Lyman Kellogg) to "Seymour" (Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the key to success in life Add to Wish List

Item #309424

Price: $125

New York: April 3, 1929. 'To Claim Success Means to Admit Defeat…'. A thoughtful and detailed letter from one of the century's leading newsmen reading in part: "To claim success means to admit defeat, because none of us has really achieved success while there is yet more than we can.....  Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed "Roy W. Howard' to "Seymour" (Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the keys to success in life Add to Wish List

Item #310272

Price: $100

Philadelphia: 1928. A one-line response from Dutch-born magazine editor and author, Edward William Bok (1863-1930). Reading: "Never begin anything that you cannot finish - " Bok is best known as the long-serving editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, which during his editorship became the first magazine to garner one million.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph note signed Edward W. Bok" in response to Seymour Halpern's inquiry regarding the key to success in life Add to Wish List

Item #310101

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Johannesburg [South Africa]: 17/6/31. A modest letter from one of the most popular South African novelists in English. reading in part: … as I am not very clear how successful I am I can’t, I’m afraid, tell you to what I attribute that success.” Born in Lithuania, Sarah Gertrude Millin.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed "Sarah Gertrude Millin" to "Seymour Halpern" in response to Halper's inquiry regarding the key to success in life Add to Wish List

Item #309294

Price: $65

Dartmouth [UK]: Oct. 9 [circa 1930]. A short and somewaht melodramtic letter fom the English actor best know for his titular role as Grumpy, a retired barrister turned sleuth, that Maude made famous on the stage, and eventually the big screen. Reading in part: "…I don't know you well enough.....  Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed "Cyril Maude" To "Mr. Halpern "Seymour Halpern" in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the keys to success Add to Wish List

Item #309422

Price: $100

n.p [New York]: February 9, 1930. An autobiographical letter from the journalist turned playwright briefly sketching his interests as a school boy, to his transition to a professional playwright. Reading in part: “A great American has written that the man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.....  Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed "Augustus Thomas" to "Seymour Halpern" in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the keys to success in life Add to Wish List

Item #310156

Price: $100

Washington, D.C: Sept 18 (c.1931). "GOOD HEALTH AND ATTENTION TO DUTY" A no-nonsense reply from he 15th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Reading in part: “I do not attribute my accession to my present position to anything unusual, but mostly to good health (I did not have to retire) and.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Note, Signed "B.H. Fukker," to Seymour Halpern, in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the keys to success Add to Wish List

Item #309398