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When Amy Guest wanted to sponsor the first-ever flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean, she asked George Palmer Putnam, who had published Charles Lindbergh's autobiography We, to find a suitable candidate. His choice: Amelia Earhart, who, despite being little more than a passenger on that flight, returned to the United States as a national hero. (Four years later, she would become the first woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic.) Putnam subsequently dedicated himself to the business of promoting Amelia Earhart: he published her autobiography, organized a national lecture tour for her, and negotiated the use of her likeness for various comercial endorsements. And along the way, they became intimate and eventually married. This is one of several Christmas cards Earhart and Putnam sent to friends in the United Kingdom during their marriage.
