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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Two items: Typed Letter Signed, as President *
Signature, on a typed quotation. The letter, with a holograph correction, to William
Wingate Sewall (“Friend William”), expressing concern about Sam’s family, promising
appointments for him and Sam, and longing for a rest in the woods. 1 page, 4to, White
House stationery; minor fading to signature and text, horizontal fold. The signature, on a
slip of paper on which a collector has typed three sentences from his essay, “The Nation’s
Debt to Washington and Lincoln,” published in Thomas W. Handford’s
Theodore Roosevelt:
The Pride of the Rough Riders
, Chicago, 1899. 4x5
1
/
4
inches. Both matted together and
framed. (TFC)
Washington, 4 December 1905; Np, nd
[1,000/1,500]
The letter: “. . . If I can get you that collectorship I think we can put in Sam all right as post-
master.When shall I speak to Representative Powers? . . .”
The quotation: “The nation’s debt to Washington and Lincoln is not confined to what it owes
them for its material well-being . . . . [E]very American is richer by the noble deeds and noble
words ofWashington and Lincoln. . . .”