Presented here are three signed letters and three envelopes from Harry Truman to Charles F. Pewitt. Truman, the future President of the United States, typed and signed these letters in 1938. At the time, he was a US Senator for the great state of Missouri. Pewitt, Truman’s correspondent, was a former soldier, and a member of what would become the Air Force during World War I. Pewitt was also a native Missourian, and served from 1917 until he received an honorable discharge in 1919. In these three letters, Truman discusses a “lake project” run by a “Matthew S. Murray” of the Works Progress Administration that was being undertaken on Pewitt’s land in Lafayette County, Missouri. Carbon copies of two of these letters are attached to Truman’s correspondence with Prewitt. Truman signed each typed letter in black pen. Additionally, there are facsimile signatures in the upper right hand corner of each of the three envelopes the letters were sent in. Each signed letter comes with a LOA from JSA.

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