Typed letter signed in black ink on unlined paper with the printed letterhead of the Air Service of the U.S. War Department.
William Lendrum Mitchell was a United States Army general who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force.
SCDIRB copy (barcode 39088020039665) is the gift of H.W. Lende, Jr. and has Lende accession number M-19.
SCDIRB copy has source: Charles Hamilton Autographs, New York, October 29, 1982.
SCDIRB copy is housed in an archival box together with other manuscripts from the H.W. Lende, Jr. Manuscript Collection, filed in Dibner accession number order.
Summary:
Letter to U.S. Solicitor General Beck thanking him for sending 2 books and briefly discussing his appointment to attend the 1921 Conference on the Limitation of Armament and a trip to Dayton, Ohio, to observe "experimental work" in aeronautics by the Army's Engineering Division.