Oct 28, 2021 - Sale 2584

Sale 2584 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 8,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
WILSON, WOODROW. Archive of 51 Typed Letters Signed, 43 as President, to Democratic National Committee Chairman William Frank McCombs, mostly brief and concerning recommendations for various appointments. Together 52 pages. 4to, official or personal stationery, most with integral blank; generally good condition. Vp, 1912-16

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10 August 1912: "If [Edward F.?] Goltra is right, the . . . information is very serious. I think you will . . . deal with it by taking it up directly . . . with [Albert S.?] Burleson himself and perhaps with [A. Mitchell?] Palmer. I must believe that a good deal of it is imaginary."
22 January 1913: ". . . Frankly, I attach very little importance to [Henry W.] Dooley, but Mr. George Fred Williams is always interesting and I shall ponder his letter. I do not remember that he and I had any conference about the Mexican situation at all."
10 March 1913: "It will give me real pleasure to take up the matter of Mr. [Abram Isaac] Elkus' appointment with the Attorney General [Wilson appointed him Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1916]."
14 December 1914: "I have your letter . . . about Governor [of AL, Emmet] O'Neal. . . . I have had this suggestion from a number of quarters and certainly Governor O'Neal is a capital man and a man of real ability."
4 December 1916: "The generous words and good will manifested in your kind letter of congratulation [for having been elected to a second term as president] gave me the keenest gratification . . . ."
With--Woodrow Wilson. Typed letter, with stamped signature, to L.W. Tolman, thanking him for sending extracts from [Abraham] Lincoln's speeches. 1/2 page, 4to, personal stationery. Sea Girt, 25 July 1912.