John Reed 1887-1920 American Journalist who observed the Russian Revolution in 1917 and wrote of it in his Ten Days That Shook the World, an organizer of the Communist Labor Party in the United States fled to Russia and buried in the Kremlin. A.L.S. 3pp. 4to. on The American Magazine letterhead, Mar. 11 [1911-121 Reed writes to the mother of his deceased very good friend and classmate, Alan Osgood, with whom He lived with while at Harvard. He writes: "... I wanted to send you a copy of this book of mine, which was written last year, about the crowd of us who lived at Forty- Two [Washington Square]... I treated Alan in just the way I always treated him... after He was gone, I thought that I would simply leave the manuscript unchanged, so as to keep him living... This book was to be a sort of little memorial from me to Alan; and that is how I published it...." With holograph envelope, and a carbon of a T.L. S. Reed had earlier sent the lady. Fine condition.