Lot 608
Roosevelt, Theodore. Typed letter signed with added holograph "Private", on "Metropolitan / 432 Fourth Avenue New York / Office of Theodore Roosevelt" stationery, 2 pages, New York, September 28, 1916. Toning, paperclip mark at left top margin; four inch tear top of second page. To Mr. Henry L. Stoddard, Esq., 203 Broadway, New York City. Excellent Roosevelt letter explaining and defending his reported past and future behavior towards President Taft and Elihu Root: "Over a year ago Taft and I were both pallbearers at the funeral of Professor Lounsberry…He came up, spoke to me, and shook hands with me. In my judgment it would have been silly for me to refuse to be a pallbearer….on the ground that Taft was also one; and it would have been merely bad manners on my part for me to refuse to recognize him when he came up to speak to me. The newspapers made a great hulabaloo about it at the time.…are now making another hulabaloo over the Union League Club meeting….Among the members of that Club who will be at that reception are a number of men, including Elihu Root, who shared Taft's guilt four years ago. Indeed, if there must be a choice between them, I think that Root's offense was as rank as Taft's and more wanton…for me to refuse to come to the Union League Club Hughes reception because Taft was to be there, would be a very, very unwise thing."
Estimated Value $900 - 1,200.
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