SAMUEL P. LANGLEY
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SAMUEL P. LANGLEY (1834 - 1906) American aviation pioneer who explored the possibility of flight by heavier-than-air machines and actually succeeded in inventing such a machine which flew over the Potomac for 3 000 feet. A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. [Boston] Mar. 30 1902 to the wife of Otho Michaelis. Michaelis was a US Army Signal Corps officer attached to Langley's 1881 expedition to Mount Whitney and a close personal friend. In part: ""...Your letter makes this a happier Easter for me. I am getting old enough to feel the need of affection and to value that of your children. It is as near happiness as I come..."". With original holograph envelope very good.
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