MCKINLEY WILLIAM Autograph Letter Signed as President to Bri

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PRESIDENT WANTS TO GIVE HIS NEPHEW A GOOD PLACE IN SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR MCKINLEY, WILLIAM. Autograph Letter Signed, as President, to Brigadier General Leonard Wood ("Dear Gen'l Wood"), requesting that he help his nephew become a "good soldier." 2 pages, 2 3/4x4 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

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"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."