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“DEEP CONCERN”ABOUT “THE DISLOYALTY OF
THE GERMAN-AMERICAN PRESS”
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WILSON, WOODROW. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to Mrs. Henry F.
Osborn, assuring her that the matter of the allegiance of the German-American Press con-
cerns him greatly. 1 page, 4to,White House stationery, with integral blank; horizontal fold.
With the original envelope. (TFC)
Washington, 23 July 1917
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“
I thank you sincerely for . . . sending me the copy of the Atlantic containing Mr. Olds’ article on
the disloyalty of the German-American Press. I know only too well the foundations for his state-
ments and you may be sure that the matter has been giving me a great deal of deep concern.”
THE MAKING OFWILSON’S GEORGEWASHINGTON
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WILSON, WOODROW. Two Typed Letters Signed, concerning illustrations for
his book,
George Washington
. The first, to illustrator Howard Pyle (“My dear Mr. Pyle”),
describing the three parts of his biography of Washington and the visual images that struck
him as illustrative for each part. The second, to Harper and Brothers (“My dear Sirs”),
promising to send the text for last chapters and requesting proof copies of illustrations.
Together 6 pages, 8vo, each written on single folded sheet; some uneven discoloration and
ink docketing to first page of second letter. (TFC)
Princeton, 11 December 1895; 17 September 1896
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1895: “Only about one half of my third paper onWashington is written. . . . [T]he whole of the
paper being pretty thoroughly in my mind in detail, let me tell you what it is to contain . . . .
“
The article culminates in the sending of delegates from Virginia to the first Continental
Congress: and the illustration which most ‘sticks in my head’ is one which would represent the
three delegates,Washington, Patrick Henry, and Peyton Randolph, getting to their horses in
front of the door at Mt.Vernon, to set out for Philadelphia. . . .”
1896: “. . . I am able to send you to-day . . . revised copy for chapter ten and last.The narra-
tive is so knit together in this last part that I found it impossible to cut it into two chapters, as I
had wished to do. . . .
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I hope that you will let me have separate proof copies of the illustrations for the last article, as
of the others, to complete my collection.”
WITH
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WoodrowWilson.
GeorgeWashington
. 333 pages. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, spine dark-
ened; bookplate on front pastedown; chemise and
1
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4
leather slipcase with gilt-lettered spine.
NewYork, 1897.
FIRST EDITION
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