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Harry Truman Autograph Letter Signed re Poker UACC

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Description:33rd U.S. President. Autograph Letter Signed, 1 page, on stationery imprinted with his name and business address, Kansas City, Missouri, July 27, 1955. Truman writes to J. Frank Rope in Kansas City, apparently about a card printed by the Union Pacific Co. that explained the order of value for various poker hands. Entirely in his own hand Truman writes: "Eddie told me you didn't believe this arrangement. It seems that Harriman & the UP are in favor of it. Suppose you bring this card to our next meeting and we'll pass on it. Maybe you'd better consult Eddie about it too..." Signed "Harry S. Truman". Truman was an avid poker player, who once or twice a week, would slip away to a stag poker party with his male friends at a private home. W. Averell Harriman during WWII was FDR's man to negotiate both with Stalin and Churchill, first ambassador to the U.K and then ambassador to the U.S.S.R in 1943, later Truman made him his Secretary of Commerce, the other man named in this letter is probably Truman's old friend and former business partner Eddie Jacobson. Jacobson would invite several of Truman's Jewish friends to his home on 72nd Street for rounds of poker. Truman's favorite poker venue while he was President was the presidential yacht Williamsburg. "You know I'm almost like a kid; I can hardly wait to start," Truman wrote to his wife Bess, as he looked forward to a poker outing on the Williamsburg. When a poker game got under way, though, the players focused on their cards and their stake. Each player started the game with a $500 stack of chips, and if anyone lost it all, he could get a second $500 stack. About 10 percent of every pot was put in a "poverty bowl," which was distributed $100 at a time to players who had lost their second stack. This was a lot of money in the 1940s. Truman liked an eight-handed game best. With original envelope addressed in Truman's hand. Comes with a copy of an article from the U.S National Archives titled, "Harry Truman, Poker Player" from 2003, that has several pages about Truman and his poker history A bit lighter in right corner with 2 small glue toning where card use to be affixed, otherwise both are in very good condition.

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