Autograph letter signed, one page, 5,25 x 6,5 inch, 4.01.1926, to Mrs. (Marie Mattingly) Maloney* - concerning the death of Meloney`s husband, written and signed in dark ink "Irene", attractively mounted (removable) for fine display with a photograph, shows Irene Joliot-Curie as scientist (altogether 11,75 x 8,25 inch), with a horizontal letter fold - in fine to very fine condition.
"Dear Mrs. Maloney,
I was very sad when I heard of the bad news about your husband; you know that I had always the greatest sympathy for him, though I knew him very little. He was among the people whose personality inspires sympathy for their country and I shall always remember the pleasure I had to talk with him.
Yours affectionately - Irene"
* Marie Mattingly Maloney (1878-1943) , who used Mrs. William B. Meloney as her professional and social name, was one of the leading woman journalists of the United States, a magazine editor and a socialite who in the 1920s organized a fund drive to buy radium for Marie Curie and began a movement for better housing. In the 1930s, nicknamed `Missy`, she was a friend and confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt.
