Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 228
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(PRESIDENTS--1908 CAMPAIGN.) Archive on the delegation sent from Roosevelt's home district to the Taft inauguration. 48 items (0.2 linear feet) in one box: 38 letters (most addressed to Charles F. Lewis of Mineola, NY) and 10 other manuscript or typescript documents; condition generally strong, many letters with original mailing envelopes. Vp, December 1908 to February 1909
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Relating to the delegation sent by the Republican Party of Nassau County, NY (the home county of outgoing president Roosevelt) to the inauguration of President Taft in Washington. Travel and housing arrangements are discussed in detail, along with efforts to absorb a competing delegation from the Bug House Hose Co. of Freeport, NY, a volunteer fire company. A receipt for $60 was issued by one local man for "ferrying Roosevelt's neighbors."