Typed letter, signed, on United States Senate stationery, to Mrs. R. Brinkley Snowden of Memphis at Ashlar Hall
1945. 1 typed letter, dated Dec. 29, 1945, signed by Kenneth McKellar, on United States Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads stationery, to Mrs. R. Brinkley Snowden of Memphis (Sara Eliza Day Snowden (1871-1956)). Kenneth McKellar (1869-1957) represented Tennessee in the House of Representatives from 1911 to 1917 and in the U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1953. He was the chair of the Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, as well as the Civil Service Committee and the Appropriations Committee. When he ran for his 7th term as senator in 1952 (at the age of 83), he was defeated by Al Gore. McKellar's younger brother Don had died on Dec. 19. McKellar thanks Mrs. R. Brinkley Snowden for her gift to the Goodfellows Fund of the Memphis newspaper the Press-Scimitar in memory of Don. She is at 1397 Central Ave., Memphis, the mansion known as Ashlar Hall, which was designed by her husband, Robert Brinkley Snowden (1869-1942). On the reverse, is a letter in pencil signed "Love Mother" noting that Don was Kenneth McKellar's "close Secretary" and "buffer." Presumably, this was the recipient, Sara Eliza Day Snowden, sending McKellar's letter on to one of her children who knew McKellar. In Very Good+ Condition: light creasing; clean and solid. Very Good +. Item #007319
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