Typed Letter Signed by George C. Lodge on Harvard University Letterhead to Rowland Evans

Boston. Very Good. 1979. Letter. Autograph; 1 pages; Typed Letter Signed by George C. Lodge on Harvard University Letterhead to Rowland Evans "June 25, 1979 // Mr. Rowland Evans / 3125 O Street, N.W. / Washington, DC 20007 // Dear Rowly: //Thank you so much for your thoughtful note. It / was a joy hearing from you. // Are you ever up this way? If so, I would be / delighted to take you to lunch. Or better still come and / stay with us. // I read your column devotedly and admiringly. / Love to Kay and the kiddoes -- / As ever, / George [Signed] / George C. Lodge // GCL:pp" Printed letterhead: "Harvard University / Graduate School of Business Administration / George F. Baker Foundation / George C. Lodge / Professor of Business Administration / Soldiers Field / Boston, Massachusetts 02163" George Cabot Lodge II (born July 7, 1927) is an American professor and former politician. In 1962, he was the Republican nominee for a special election to succeed John F. Kennedy in the United States Senate, but was defeated by Ted Kennedy. He was the son of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who lost reelection to the Senate in 1952 to John F. Kennedy. His father was also the vice presidential nominee for the Republican party in 1960, an election won yet again by Kennedy. Prior to entering federal civil service, Lodge was a political reporter and columnist at the Boston Herald. PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. He left Yale and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 during World War II and was discharged in 1944 because of malaria. In 1963, Mr. Evans and Mr. Novak began writing ''Inside Report,'' an insider's view of politics that was published four times a week until Mr. Evans retired in 1993. Mr. Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in the early 1960's, a time when newspaper columnists wielded outsize influence in national politics. The pair pioneered in transferring that influence to the medium of cable television with the political discussion program ''Evans & Novak'' -- carried on CNN from that cable network's beginning. Rowland Evans and his wife Kay (Katherine Winton Evans), also a respected writer and editor, were mainstays on the Washington social scene, hosting many memorable gatherings in their handsome Georgetown house -- to which flocked influential and remarkable people drawn from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. Both Evans and Novak became more predictably conservative over the years, particularly during the Reagan years. Reportedly, both columnists voted for JFK in 1960 and for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Evans earned a place on Richard Nixon's infamous "Enemies List." Novak reported that Evans had JFK as a guest for the first dinner party the latter attended as President Elect. Kay and Rowland Evans has a particularly close friendship with Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their family.; Signed by Author .