Rare Alexander Graham Bell Signed 1907 Letter: "A Man is What he Makes of Himself..."

“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.”  -Alexander Graham Bell   Inventor of the world’s most important acoustical device in history.   Born March 3, 1847, Bell was a Scottish-born American scientist best known as the inventor of the telephone.  He worked at a school for the deaf while attempting to invent a machine that would transmit sound by electricity.  Bell was granted the first official patent for his telephone in March 1876, though he would later face years of legal challenges to his claim that he was its sole inventor, it resulted in one of history’s longest patent battles.  On March 10, 1876, while in his laboratory, Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the very first coherent complete sentence, “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.” This is remarkable document dated November 27, 1907, and signed in Bell's own hand, is Bell responding to a letter informing him that he may have some money available to him from the c