[ Autograph ] Cordell Hull 1871-1955 American statesman, Secretary of State under Franklin D. Roosevelt, awarded the Nobel Prize 1945 T.L.S. on Secretary of State letterhead, 1p. 4to., Washington, March 27 1933 to noted publisher Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. In part: "...I apologize for failure to make earlier acknowledgment I have been under such press of emergency duties that it has not been possible tokeep up with my mail... shall be glad to have you call at the department for a conference, when you return to America...' Very good