ROOSEVELT THEODORE Typed Letter Signed as Vice President to

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, as Vice President, to Major W.H.H. Llewellyn, agreeing that he should not prosecute a man charged with shooting a woman, pointing out that he does not approve of shooting women--even when provoked, and recalling earlier days when some members of his regiment were surprisingly indifferent to homicide. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, 'Vice President's Chamber' stationery; folds. (TFC) Washington, 15 April 1901

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'. . . [N]either you nor I can afford to stand for what Brito did. I draw the line at shooting at women, I do not care what the provocation is.
'. . . I was delighted with one of the clippings you sent me . . . 'there are very few cases in which one man is justified in taking another's life' . . . . It brings me right back to the days of the beloved regiment, and the light heartedness with which some of its members looked upon homicide! And indeed to the earlier days of my life in the ranch country.'