Sikokrsky Sends Personal Letter to the Novelist Grebenstchikoff

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Sikorsky was a Russian born aeronautics genius whose VS-300 was the first successful helicopter developed. TLS. 1pg. 7" x 10 ¼". February 25, 1943. Bridgeport, CT. A typed letter signed "I. Sikorsky" to "Dr. George Grebenstchikoff". Grebenstchikoff was a Serbian-born novelist who, in 1925, founded an artist's asylum in the woods of Southbury, Connecticut along with Illya Tolstoy, who was Leo Tolstoy's son. They named Churaevka after a fictional city created by Grebenstchikoff. In part: "Would you be good enough to reserve a room for me at some good hotel where I would be assured of quiet and rest. The last few weeks have been rather strenuous and I would like to use this opportunity to get some rest, and also to write a few ore pages which will complete my book, 'The Mysterious Encounter." If suitable accommodations and privacy are available at your Club, I would have no objections to staying there during my whole visit." The letter is in fine condition on Sikorsky's personal letterhead

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