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Description: United States Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon typed and signed this brief letter to Mr. Erold B. Beach of Marblehead, Massachusetts thanking him for sending birthday greetings. Mellon writes in part: “I appreciate your good wishes, and thank you for your congratulations on the honor which the American Institute of Chemists has so kindly proposed to extend to my brother and myself.”

Typed on an 8 1/4″ x 6 1/8″ sheet of “The Secretary of the Treasury Washington” imprinted stationery. Item #A01899

Andrew Mellon served as Secretary of the Treasury under three presidents: Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. He presided over the booming 1920’s and the Wall Street Crash of 1929. After his service as Secretary of the Treasury, Mellon went on to become the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1932-1933) under Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mellon is remembered as a conservative Republican who aimed to lower taxes and opposed direct government intervention in the economy. He also helped to establish the National Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, and Carnegie Mellon University.

Condition: Mailing fold line, lightly toned around perimeter, otherwise very good condition.