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BEAUTIFUL SET, WITH A TLS ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Works . . . The Memorial Edition. 24 volumes. Title-pages printed in red and black, each volume with engraved or photogravure frontispiece. 8vo, handsome full navy morocco with decorative gilt borders and gilt Federal eagle with shield motifs in spine compartments, shield with red and white leather in center of covers; blue silk moiré endleaves, top edges trimmed and gilt. Volumes 23 and 24 contain Joseph Bucklin Bishop's Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Shown in His Own Letters. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923-26
number 41 of 1,050 sets of the memorial edition, signed by edith kermit roosevelt. with a tls by theodore roosevelt tipped in between half-title and frontispiece of Volume 1. Addressed to H. A. Bridgman of The Pilgrim Press, Boston, Mass., stating that it is impossible to write something for his publication, as he would only write for The Outlook, adding ". . . I need hardly say how strongly I sympathise with your purpose -- and with the congregationalist!" (the last part in manuscript, as is a single correction to the first sentence. 1 page, 8vo, on "The Outlook" stationery; small repair on verso to a clean tear in body of letter. New York, 5 August 1911.
