Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Mr. Dana" [New York Sun editor Charles Anderson Dana?], sending congratulations, praising his use of [John Greenleaf] Whittier poems and sending a letter to be printed in his paper [not present]. 2 pages, small 8vo, "Sagamore Hill" stationery, written on two separate sheets; folds; matted with portrait and framed. Oyster Bay, 8 November 1896

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". . . Indeed you have deserved well of the country! Your use of Whittier's two poems was particularly happy. The accompanying letter is to be put in your paper or forwarded to Bartlett privately accordingly as you think best; I had the honor to speak for him in his canvass."