Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

85 c   THOMAS, NORMAN. Three items: Autograph Letter Signed * Autograph Man- uscript, unsigned * Lengthy Letter Signed.The ALS, with a postscript additionally Signed, “NT,” to labor author John Herling, requesting that he come north to manage a relief fund. 2 1 / 2 pages, small 8vo, written on a folded sheet. With the original envelope. The manuscript, draft of an article for the Timely Topics column published in the March 3, 1934 issue of the New Leader newspaper, beginning “If these code hearings at Washington are honest they will bring out these facts which I have learned first hand.” 3 pages, 4to, written on rectos of separate sheets; folds. The TLS, to “Dear Jack,” providing instructions for organizing against Arkansas planters, responding to accusations concerning his appearance at a Howard University conference, and soliciting research for a book concerning modern warfare. 4 1 / 4 pages, 4to, written on rectos of separate sheets; small hole at upper left throughout, hori- zontal folds. New York, [20 August 1929: from postscript]; Chicago, 27 February [1934]; Peoria, 15 May 1935 [80/120] 86 86 c   TROTSKY, LEON.Typed Document Signed,“L.Trotsky,” in blue pencil, in Russian, ordering authorities to drive away animals upon the approach of Mamontov gangs and to search anyone suspicious, especially plant managers. 1 page, square 4to; two small holes punched in left margin, docketed at top in pencil in Russian, bottom margin trimmed (not affecting signature). Tula, 4 September no year [2,000/3,000] “1.The Council of the fortifiedTula region is hereby obliged to take measures for the compulsory removal of horses and livestock in the event of the advance of Mamontov’s bands. . . . ” “2.The Council of the fortified region is ordered to organize in a strictly clandestine manner general searches of any suspicious elements in the city ofTula, in particular and especially, of the factory administration.”