Earhart, Amelia

Typed letter signed, 2 pages (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.;  267 x 184mm), with four autograph emendations, New York, 27 June 1929, to Jesse Heiges, on stationery of Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan; slight marginal soiling.

Answering questions. Earhart fields questions posed by her correspondent, Jesse Heiges, who was associated with Teachers College in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Expressing thanks for Heiges's kind words regarding articles in Cosmopolitan, Earhart proceeds to address his questions. Regarding the price of an airplane, Earhart notes, "The price depends on the type of airplane you wish, and your proficiency as a pilot." On the subject of transoceanic flight, she firmly states: "Trans-oceanic flying is inevitable, and will probably come sooner than the most sanguine believes, very possibly within the next decade." Earhart closes her letter with observations on endurance flights: " In all the endurance flights made, the machine has worn out before the human being which fact is in itself a striking example of what the body can accomplish. The individual himself, in the flight, becomes the subject of a laboratory experiment."

Together with: An album containing note cards with signatures of a wide array of early twentieth-century Americans including: Calvin Coolidge, Orville Wright, John Philip Sousa, Mary Pickford and Franklin Delano Roosevelt; front cover of album detached.