ROOSEVELT THEODORE Typed Letter Signed as Governor with a 3

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"I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO . . . STRAIGHTEN THE FACTORY INSPECTION MATTER" ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, as Governor, with a 3-word holograph correction, to journalist Jacob A. Riis ("Dear Jake"), expressing both pride and humility at having been included in Riis's book, noting that he and [James Bronson] Reynolds had dined, and expressing hope that the matter concerning factory inspection would be resolved. 1 page, 4to, "Executive Chamber" stationery; a few short closed separations at folds repaired with tissue verso. (TFC) Albany, 17 February 1900

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"Needless to say, I take the greatest pride in having my name in your handwriting at the front of your book and my photograph thought worthy to be put in it. If I were foolish enough to need any reward for what I had done, I should feel that I had it ten times over in what you have said about me, old man, in this book. Most of it is undeserved . . . . But I won't pretend to say that I regret to have it in, . . . it will ever be a source of keen pride to me to show to my children.
"Reynolds has just been here . . . and I have been trying to plan out some way by which we can straighten the factory inspection matter. I think we shall be able to do it."
In 1906, Roosevelt commissioned the Neill-Reynolds report, which revealed the unsafe and unclean conditions in U.S. meat packing plants.