Hewlett Johnson - Red Dean of Canterbury - Stalinist - 2 TLS AUTOGRAPHS 1932/33

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Hewlett Johnson - Red Dean of Canterbury - Stalinist - 2 TLS AUTOGRAPHS 1932/33.
For your consideration: these TWO hand signed 8x10.25” typed letters (TLS) of English Anglican Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, Hewlett Johnson. His signature can be clearly seen with a salutation on the vintage letters dated August 31, 1932 and January 30, 1933. Handwritten additions of Johnson can also be seen on his official stationary.
These hand signed typed letters are in good condition with minor signs of age, folding and wear (see photos).
We are in the process of listing the estate of an autograph collector. Although we have not found a COA or purchase receipt for this autograph, we have no reason to doubt its authenticity.
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From Wikipedia: “Hewlett Johnson (25 January 1874 – 22 October 1966) was an English priest of the Church of England, Marxist Theorist and Stalinist. He was Dean of Manchester and later Dean of Canterbury, where he acquired his nickname "The Red Dean of Canterbury" for his unyielding support towards Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union and its allies.
Johnson came to public prominence in the 1930s when he contrasted the economic development of the Soviet Union under the First Five Year Plan with Britain during the Great Depression. He toured the Soviet Union in 1934 and again in 1937, claiming on each occasion the health and wealth of the average Soviet citizen and that the Soviet system protected the citizens' liberties. He collected his articles in the book The Socialist Sixth of the World (Gollancz, 1939; published in the US as Soviet Power in 1941), which included a preface by the renegade Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop Carlos Duarte Costa. Johnson defended his positive accounts of life in the Soviet Union, emphasising that he had visited "five Soviet Republics and several great Soviet towns", that he had wandered on foot "many long hours on many occasions and entirely alone" and that he saw "all parts of the various towns and villages and at all hours of day and night". It later emerged that much of the book was copied word for word from pro-Soviet propaganda material produced by organisations such as the Society of Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union of which Johnson was chairman.”