Description

Description: In this typed letter signed, Major General Butler writes in full: “In compliance with your [the collector Mrs. Kate Warren Green’s] request contained in your letter of recent date, attached hereto please find the writer’s autograph.” Signed, “Very truly yours, S. D. Butler / Director.”

Typed and signed on 8 ½” x 11” ivory stationery of the “Department of Public Safety, Office of the Director, City Hall, Philadelphia” and dated May 27, 1924. Item #A01954

Major General Samuel D. Butler (1881-1940), fondly known as “The Maverick Marine,” was the most decorated Marine in the U. S. Military around the time of his death. He fought in the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, the Banana Wars, and WWI. In 1924, he was appointed the Director of the Department of Public Safety in Philadelphia, where he was charged with reducing crime in the city. He became  outspoken in his lectures about war profiteering and was a spokesperson for the American League Against War and Fascism. His book, War is a Racket (1935), was an exposé of war profiteering.

Condition: Mailing fold lines, mounting remnants on verso and an arrow-like mounting tab on recto at top blank margin. Generally in good condition.