Lot 111

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PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE OF GEN. GEOFFREY KEYES
GEOFFREY KEYES (1888-1967) Highly decorated Lieutenant General who commanded the II Corps during World War II. During the war, Keyes was Chief of Staff, 2nd Armored Division, commanded the 9th Armored Division, Dep. Commander, 7th Army [Sicily], Commander 7th and 3rd Armies (assuming Patton's old command), and headed occupation forces in Austria. Keyes was George Patton's invaluable chief of staff, leading Patton's I Corps in Morocco, and accepting the surrender of Palermo. He later served with distinction under Mark Clark at Anzio, Cassino and before Rome. Large grouping of Keyes' personal correspondence, about twenty percent war-date, consisting of about 50 letters to his wife in various formats and generally signed "Geoff" with multiple self-censored envelopes or envelopes signed in the return address. Letters vary in length from a single page to eight pages, and Keyes was careful concerning what he wrote: most content consisted of family news and routine "camp" news. Most date from 1944-47, with a few letters from There is scattered mention of generals Patton, Truscott, and Patch, inspection of D.P. camps, oversight of the German document holding center, the Nuremburg trials, etc., with a lengthy account of the proceedings upon the return of the stained glass windows to the cathedral at Strasbourg. Also included are 88 V-Mail (photostat) letters each 1p. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2, sent by Keyes to his wife from November, 1944 until the end of 1946, also bearing routine content despite the Battle of the Bulge and the drive through Germany all occurring during the same period. Overall fine, and perhaps worthy of a bit of research.

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February 18, 2014 11:00 AM EST
Chesapeake City, MD, US

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