Born Giovanni Battista Montini.  Pope and Saint. Archbishop of Milan. Papal Substitute Secretary of State.
 
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed, one page, 10 December 1958. Cordial letter to a professor-friend. Excellent content. Accompanied by a b/w newswire photo of Montini as Substitute Secretary of State.  Letter reads: Dear and illustrious Professor, I owe you a cordial and renewed thanks for the homage paid to me by the extensive, accurate and significant report on the spiritual conditions of graduates in Lombardy and especially in the Ambrosian diocese. I am pleased with a work of such original and delicate investigation and such instructive results. And I hope that the diagnosis will be followed by the cure, the assessment of the needs, the state, the spiritual possibilities of a social class of such importance and such difficult assistance, will be followed even more broadly and profoundly by theactivity, already fervently and fruitfully begun, of our valiant group of Catholic graduates, over which you worthily preside. To you and your collaborators the expression of my satisfaction and my wishes, accompanied by my blessing. GB Montini, archbishop. 
 
(NOTA BENE: autograph biglietto sold separately).