KING (MARTIN LUTHER, JR.)
Large signature ('Best Wishes Martin Luther King Jr.'), inscribed for producer Hugh Burnett on the day of his interview for the BBC television programme Face to Face, blue ink on single sheet of paper, the signature approx. 30 x 180mm. with flourish, the sheet 290 x 240mm., [29 October 1961]; together with 4 gelatin silver print press photographs (MLK with producer Hugh Burnett; with interviewee John Freeman; with artist Feliks Topolski, 2 images from contact sheet; sheet with 5 sketches of King by Topolski); typed letter signed by King's secretary Miss McDonald to Hugh Burnett giving consent for the text of his interview to be used in the Face to Face book [a copy of which included with the lot], one sheet, folio, Jackson, At., Southern Christian Leadership conference, 19 June 1962; telegram to Hugh Burnett, from Barbara Vesey Brown, alerting him that 'Doctor King willing to meet you Tuesday afternoon Montgomery Alabama after court hearing... He staying with Reverend Abernathy...', on page, 8vo, Canadian Pacific Telegram, 8 June 1961 (small group)
Footnotes:
Provenance: Hugh Burnett (1924-2011), producer of ground-breaking television interview series Face to Face which ran from 1959 to 1962, and included the interview with Martin Luther King Jnr. on 29 October 1961.