". . . I believe that your experience in Germany will be of peculiar service to Mr. Whitney who, as you can see, is as seriously bent upon doing the best possible practical service to the Navy in this position as if he were being paid some very large sum to render the service to the General Electric."
with--typed copy of Theodore Roosevelt's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, unsigned but with holograph "Copy" at upper edge, introducing Whitney. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery. Oyster Bay, 4 November 1915.
Willis R. Whitney (1868-1958) led the research laboratory at the General Electric Company through the 1920s; in 1915, he was appointed to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels's Naval Consulting Board, chaired by Thomas A. Edison, whose purpose was to put American technology to service in the war effort.