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Lot 1350:
Henry Ho
Signature
July 30, 1964
Chinese Nationalist Naval Commander Henry Ho Signed Note, 1964
Chinese Nationalist Naval Commander Henry Ho Signed Note, 1964 1p, measuring 5.5" x 7.25", N.p., dated July 30, 1964. Signed "Henry Y. Ho Commander Chinese Navy" on Mrs. Kinney’s personal letterhead. The page has an additional note in Chinese characters, untranslated. With the original transmittal envelope. The note has a flattened mail fold and is boldly signed. Light foxing to the envelope.
Commander Henry Ho entered the Second World War as a young naval cadet and was dispatched to Portsmouth, England for two years. There, he and fellow crewmen were trained by the Royal Navy to take command of the HIMS Aurora, a light cruiser that would become the SS Chongging, the most powerful warship in China and flagship of the Nationalist Navy. Ho served during several conflicts between the two Chinas in the Taiwan Strait before emigrating from Taiwan to the United States. He published several Chinese translations on naval and seafaring topics, but also translated "The Story of The New York Times, " by the late Meyer Berger, into a 1,900-page manuscript, written by hand, containing 500,000 Chinese characters.
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