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kestenbaum· Jul 2020

<b>(AMERICAN JUDAICA).<br />Group of seven <<Autograph Letters >>from immigrants to the United States, written to their families back home in Germany.</b> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span>Texts in German in various hands, with some Hebrew. * With: English translation.</span> <br />Several pages. 4to. <br />Mobile, Alabama: 1848-55 <br />A brief abstract of selected letters: In the earliest letter, Joseph Bloch describes to his parents and sister the 48-day journey from Antwerp to New York. He experienced no fewer than six storms, which would cause the seas to “seize up like mountains and valleys, with the ship rolling upon them like a nutshell.” Bloch nonetheless states such meteorological, windy dramas were preferable to the occasions when there was no wind at all and the ship barely moved. Bloch also describes bouts of seasickness that the passengers suffered. After arriving in New York on the last day of of Sukkot, Bloch joyfully celebrated the festival with his cousins. He recounts that his intention of becoming a rural peddler is not possible, since farmers in America live at great distances from each other and not close-by in villages as in Europe. He writes further about the difficulty of earning a living - even educated, multilingual people cannot even afford shoes. Bloch left New York on an 18-day journey to New Orleans. He describes the plantations he saw on the way - and the slavery, about which he recounts that slave-masters treat their slaves no differently than their dog. In New Orleans he met relatives, including a cousin who owned a large clothing store. Determined to make it on his own and not be a “servant,” that is, an employee, Bloch’s cousin greatly relaxed when he realized he wasn’t expected to furnish a job for his immigrant cousin. Bloch utilized his skill playing the flute to become a professional musician at a theater, where earned $5 per night. He displays “go-getter” ability, recounting how he was once asked if he can play the horn, to which he responded in the affirmative - although he indeed never had! “You have to say yes, and then everything will be alright.” The other letters are in this vein, and are a witness to the first great migration of Jews to the United States - their ambitions and their fates. <br />A brief abstract of selected letters: In the earliest letter, Joseph Bloch describes to his parents and sister the 48-day journey from Antwerp to New York. He experienced no fewer than six storms, which would cause the seas to “seize up like mountains and valleys, with the ship rolling upon them like a nutshell.” Bloch nonetheless states such meteorological, windy dramas were preferable to the occasions when there was no wind at all and the ship barely moved. Bloch also describes bouts of seasickness that the passengers suffered. After arriving in New York on the last day of of Sukkot, Bloch joyfully celebrated the festival with his cousins. He recounts that his intention of becoming a rural peddler is not possible, since farmers in America live at great distances from each other and not close-by in villages as in Europe. He writes further about the difficulty of earning a living - even educated, multilingual people cannot even afford shoes. Bloch left New York on an 18-day journey to New Orleans. He describes the plantations he saw on the way - and the slavery, about which he recounts that slave-masters treat their slaves no differently than their dog. In New Orleans he met relatives, including a cousin who owned a large clothing store. Determined to make it on his own and not be a “servant,” that is, an employee, Bloch’s cousin greatly relaxed when he realized he wasn’t expected to furnish a job for his immigrant cousin. Bloch utilized his skill playing the flute to become a professional musician at a theater, where earned $5 per night. He displays “go-getter” ability, recounting how he was once asked if he can play the horn, to which he responded in the affirmative - although he indeed never had! “You have to say yes, and then everything will be alright.” The other letters are in this vein, and are a witness to the first great migration of Jews to the United States - their ambitions and their fates.

US$8,000

chaucerauctions· Mar 2023

Apollo15 moonwalker Dave Scott and CMP Alfred Worden signed Space cover NASA Astronauts. 2001 30th Anniversary Apollo 15. postmarked cover. Superb illustration on front of scenes from the mission. Also illustrated on back with crew names and mission information. David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Selected as part of the third group of astronauts in 1963, Scott flew to space three times and commanded Apollo 15, the fourth lunar landing; he is one of four surviving Moon walkers and the last surviving crew member of Apollo 15. Before becoming an astronaut, Scott graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and joined the Air Force. After serving as a fighter pilot in Europe, he graduated from the Air Force Experimental Test Pilot School (Class 62C) and the Aerospace Research Pilot School (Class IV). Scott retired from the Air Force in 1975 with the rank of colonel, and more than 5,600 hours of logged flying time. As an astronaut, Scott made his first flight into space as a pilot of the Gemini 8 mission, along with Neil Armstrong, in March 1966, spending just under eleven hours in low Earth orbit. He would have been the second American astronaut to walk in space had Gemini 8 not made an emergency abort. Scott then spent ten days in orbit in March 1969 as Command Module Pilot of Apollo 9, a mission that extensively tested the Apollo spacecraft, along with Commander James McDivitt and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart. After backing up Apollo 12, Scott made his third and final flight into space as commander of the Apollo 15 mission, the fourth crewed lunar landing and the first J mission. Scott and James Irwin remained on the Moon for three days. Following their return to Earth, Scott and his crewmates fell from favour with NASA after it was disclosed that they had carried four hundred unauthorized postal covers to the Moon. After serving as director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California, Scott retired from the agency in 1977. Since then, he has worked on a number of space-related projects and served as a consultant for several films about the space program, including Apollo 13. Alfred Merrill Worden (February 7, 1932 - March 18, 2020) was an American test pilot, engineer and NASA astronaut who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. One of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, he orbited it 74 times in the command module (CM) Endeavour. Worden was born in Michigan in 1932; he spent his early years living on farms and attended the University of Michigan for one year, before securing an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Graduating in 1955, he elected to be commissioned in the United States Air Force, though he had no piloting experience. He proved adept at flying fighter planes, and honed his skills, becoming a test pilot before his selection as a Group 5 astronaut in 1966. He served on the support crew for Apollo 9 and the backup crew for Apollo 12 before his selection for the Apollo 15 crew in 1970, with David Scott as commander and James Irwin as lunar module pilot. After Apollo 15 reached lunar orbit, and his crewmates departed to land on the Moon, Worden spent three days alone in the CM, becoming in the process the individual who travelled the farthest from any other human being, a distinction he still holds. He took many photographs of the Moon and operated a suite of scientific instruments that probed the Moon. During Apollo 15's return flight to Earth, Worden performed an extravehicular activity (EVA), or spacewalk, to retrieve film cassettes from cameras on the exterior of the spacecraft. It was the first "deep space" EVA in history, and as of 2022 remains the one that has taken place farthest from Earth. After their return, the crew became involved in a controversy over postal covers they had taken to the Moon; they were reprimanded by NASA and did not fly in space again. Worden remained at NASA until 1975 at the Ames Research Center, then entered the private sector. He engaged in a variety of business activities, and had a longtime involvement with the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, serving as chair of its board of directors from 2005 until 2011. He made many public appearances, promoting a renewed space program and education in the sciences, before his death in 2020. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

£42