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WITH A RETAINED COPY OF HIS LETTERTO FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, to Captain Reginald R.
Belknap (“My dear Captain Belknap”), introducing Willis R.Whitney, sending a copy of
Theodore Roosevelt’s letter to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt [pre-
sent], requesting that he advise Whitney concerning his experiences in Germany. 1 page,
4to, personal stationery; remnants of prior mounting verso, horizontal fold. (TFC)
Oyster Bay, 4 November 1915
[600/900]
“
. . . I believe that your experience in Germany will be of peculiar service to Mr.Whitney who,
as you can see, is as seriously bent upon doing the best possible practical service to the Navy in
this position as if he were being paid some very large sum to render the service to the General
Electric.”
WITH
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typed copy of Theodore Roosevelt’s letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, unsigned but with
holograph “Copy” at upper edge, introducing Whitney. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery. Oyster
Bay, 4 November 1915.
Willis R.Whitney (1868-1958) led the research laboratory at the General Electric Company
through the 1920s; in 1915, he was appointed to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels’s
Naval Consulting Board, chaired by Thomas A. Edison, whose purpose was to put American
technology to service in the war effort.
ADMIRES NO AMERICAN MORETHAN BILLY SUNDAY
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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, to Rev. William A. Sunday,
expressing pleasure at receiving his photograph, and praising him and his works.
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2
page,
4to,“Metropolitan” stationery; three punch holes in left margin, horizontal fold. (TFC)
NewYork, 4 January 1917
[600/900]
“
Your picture pleases me very much! There is not a man in this country for whom I have
greater respect and admiration than I have for you, and there is no man, in recent years, who
has done better work than you, in this country.”
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