Five Letters by Rabbi Aharon Kotler

Five Letters by Rabbi Aharon Kotler
Five letters signed by R. Aharon Kotler. Lakewood, New Jersey, 1953-1961.
The letters are typewritten, with signatures and additional blessings handwritten by R. Aharon Kotler. Four of the letters are in Hebrew, and pertain to fundraising on behalf of the Lakewood yeshiva. The fifth letter is in English, and contains a recommendation and confirmation of study for the yeshiva student Kalman Gruman.
R. Aharon Kotler (1892-1962), disciple of the Alter of Slabodka, and a prominent, outstanding Torah scholar (while he was still a young student, the Or Same'ach predicted that he would be the "R. Akiva Eger" of the next generation). He was the son-in-law of R. Isser Zalman Meltzer. He served as lecturer and dean of the Slutsk yeshiva, and during WWI, he fled with the yeshiva students to Poland, reestablishing the yeshiva in Kletsk. He was one of the yeshiva deans closely associated with R. Chaim Ozer and the Chafetz Chaim. A founder of Vaad HaYeshivot and member of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah in Lithuania. During the Holocaust, he escaped to the United States, and established the famous Lakewood yeshiva in New Jersey (a yeshiva which changed the face of the yeshiva world in the United States, by inculcating its students with the passion and absolute devotion to Torah study, which was typical of Lithuanian yeshivot). He was one of the heads of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah in the United States, and of Merkaz Chinuch HaAtzma’i in Eretz Israel.
5 letters, on official stationery. Approx. 26-28 cm. Overall good condition. Stains, wear and folding marks.