THEODORE ROOSEVELT

REGRETS HE CAN NOT SPEAK AT A WOMAN’S CLUB MEETING  FINE TYPED LETTER, BOLDLY SIGNED, ON HIS NAME-IMPRINTED THE OUTLOOK STATIONERY 

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE.  (1858-1919).  Twenty-sixth President of the United States (1901-9).  Typed Letter Signed, “T. Roosevelt”, on his name-imprinted The Outlook stationery.  One full page, octavo [approx. 8 x 7 inches].  “287 Fourth Avenue, New York”, July 18, 1910.  Excellent condition, though typed portion is slightly light. [See accompanying illustrations].  To “Mrs. Robert C. Morris, 1081 Lincoln Ave, Toledo, Ohio.”   Roosevelt writes:

“My dear Madam: I wish I could accept your invitation to speak to the Woman’s Educational Club of Toledo, but it is a simple impossibility.  You have no conception of the multitude of requests to speak and invitations to attend banquets and reunions which I have received.  It is physically impossible for me to accept even one in a hundred.  I am deeply touched by the courtesy shown to me in asking me to go to these meetings and reunions and make these speeches, but I could not possibly accept more than a relatively small proportion unless I absolutely abandoned all thought of doing anything else of any kind or sort—and I mention this as applying to the invitations which I should like to accept.  Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt”.

 

A very nice TR letter with a bold signature, and the added appeal of commentary on Woman’s issues in 1910,  a full 10 years before the passing of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote in elections.                                                                                                                               

$950.00