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Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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CARVER, George Washington (1860s-1943). Autograph letter signed (“G.W. Carver.”), as Director of Research and Experiment Station at Tuskegee Institute, to Grady Porter. Tuskegee, 17 February 1935. 1 page, 8vo, on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, with envelope, light creasing.
To Grady Porter of the Tom Huston Peanut Company in Columbus, GA, a fellow peanut researcher. Their correspondence began as early as 1931 and continued through at least 1942. Here, Carver continues an on-going conversation possibly regarding the 1934 implementation of tariff rate quotas on peanuts: “’Peculiar condition’ is correct and just how we are going to pull out of it is a very serious problem. Just think of it, $110.00 per ton for peanuts, phenomonal. [sic]”