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PRESIDENTWANTSTO GIVE HIS NEPHEW
A GOOD PLACE IN SPANISH-AMERICANWAR
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MCKINLEY, WILLIAM. Autograph Letter Signed, as President, to Brigadier
General LeonardWood (“Dear Gen’l Wood”), requesting that he help his nephew become
a “good soldier.” 2 pages, 2
3
/
4
x4
1
/
4
inches, written on the recto and verso of an “Executive
Mansion” card; faint scattered offsetting, remnants of prior mounting at lower edge verso.
(TFC)
Washington, 3 July 1898
[600/900]
“
I have asked my nephew James F[uller] McKinley, a private of Company I, 8th Ohio U.S.
Vol[unteer]s. to present this card & meet you. He is a manly boy, only 18 yrs old. I am very
much interested in having him make a good soldier. He is in Garretson[‘s] Brigade, Henry’s
Division. I wish you all good things.”
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MCKINLEY,WILLIAM. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “Your Sincere friend
/ WMcKinley,” cabinet card, bust portrait by Courtney showing him in
3
/
4
-view. Inscribed
in the image, lower edge. 5
1
/
2
x4 inches (image), 6
1
/
2
x4
1
/
4
inches overall; adhesive at upper
and lower edges of mount recto (not affecting portrait). (TFC)
Np, nd
[350/500]
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