May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to University of California President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, expressing interest in a letter from [David Prescott?] Barrows and stating that he would show it to Taft. 1/2 page, small 4to, White House stationery, with integral blank; matted and framed with a postcard showing a political cartoon featuring Roosevelt. Washington, 3 February 1908

Additional Details

"That is a very interesting letter of Barrows. I shall show it to Taft and then see what use we can make of it. It is a mighty good letter."