Rare Eisenhower Autograph as President, Praising the Utica Public Library

Spectacular in its rarity if nothing else, this handwritten letter conveys President Eisenhower’s best wishes to the Board of Trustees of the Utica Public Library, and to all the visitors to that fine institution.
 
Eisenhower rarely wrote autograph letters, and almost never as President: but the Utica Public Library, apparently, must have held some sway with presidents: Theodore Roosevelt also took a moment from his White House day to hand-write a letter saluting it.

Autograph Letter Signed, as President, 1 page, octavo, on his personal “DDE” White House Letterhead, The White House, [Washington D.C.], June 29, 1954. To Warnick J. Kernan in Utica, New York.