ROOSEVELT THEODORE Autograph Letter Signed as Assemblyman to

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IMPETUS FOR HIS FIRST BOOK ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Autograph Letter Signed, as Assemblyman, to an unnamed recipient ('My Dear Friend'), thanking him for the suggestion to write the book that would not have been written without it. 4 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; horizontal folds. (TFC) Oyster Bay, 5 June 1882

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'. . . The book would never in this world have been written had it not been for your cordial sympathy . . . . I have more than once met men who have influenced my course in life . . . ; but I doubt if I owe as much to any of them as I do to you . . . . You were the first person who ever suggested to me that I should really write the book, and I do not believe that it would ever have occurred to me to do so had it not been for that suggestion. . . .'
Roosevelt's first book, The Naval War of 1812, was published in 1882.