GILBERT PINCHOT | SIGNED LETTER TO FREDERICK GARDNER COTTRELL
1925. 1-page TLS from American politician and important figure in the history of U.S. wildlife conservation and natural resource management Gifford Pinchot to Cottrell, dated December 9, 1925, discussing Cottrell’s potential interest in a report of the Giant Power Survey Board due to its relation to his work in fixed nitrogen. In Very Good condition. As the 4th Chief of the Division of Forestry, Pinchot, alongside President Theodore Roosevelt, helped establish the United States Forest Service, where Pinchot would serve as the first chief. At the time of this letter’s writing, he was in office as Governor of Pennsylvania. Letter is on Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor’s Office letterhead. Very faintly wrinkled along edges, with some staple punctures and rust marks in top left corner. Signed by Pinchot in black ink: “Gifford Pinchot”. Shelved at DuPont Cottrell binder.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $300
NOTES
This piece comes from a large collection of letters to, from, and concerning Frederick Gardner Cottrell, a prominent American inventor and physical chemist. Best known for his invention of the electrostatic precipitator, a device which revolutionized emission-heavy industries, Cottrell rose to prominence for his endeavors to fund American scientific research through the establishment of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Cottrell was highly regarded by the other leading scientific minds of his age, a fact reflected in this collection of his letters with historic figures in research, academia, and American politics. Among these are Cottrell’s correspondences with Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Nobel laureates William Ramsay (discoverer of the noble gases) and J. J. Thompson (discoverer of the electron), as well as exchanges with two American presidents, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson.