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Theodore Roosevelt
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“I think it would be fine if we could have a repetition of that luncheon”
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858–1919. 26th President of the United States. Typed Letter Signed, T. Roosevelt, one page, 6½” x 7¾”, on stationery of The Outlook, New York, [New York], December 21, 1911.
Roosevelt
writes to famed social work leader John Adams Kingsbury, mentioning a report
and a luncheon
of social workers that he had attended with Kingsbury eight months before.
He writes, in full:
“I will look at that report with the
greatest pleasure, and little later I think it would be fine if we
could have a repetition of that luncheon. /
Sincerely yours . . . .”
Kingsbury (1876–1956) was one of the country’s leading social work leaders 1911
to 1935. A member of
Roosevelt’s Progressive “Bull Moose” Party, Kingsbury helped
to convince Roosevelt to include in the 1912 Progressive Party platform social
and industrial reforms that both the Republican and Democratic Parties later
endorsed and enacted into federal law.
Kingsbury began a two-year term as the director of the prestigious New York
City Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor in 1911. He
later
became the city’s Commissioner of Public Charities, the most
important public welfare position in the country. Kingsbury also
served as a member of the executive committee of the New York State
Charities Aid Association and as the secretary and a director of the Milbank
Foundation, a health research agency. After World War I, served as
assistant director of general relief for the American Red Cross in France,
and he organized American relief efforts in Serbia, touring Serbia on behalf
of the Serbian Child Welfare Association of America, of which he was the
director.
Roosevelt has signed this letter with a large 3½” black
ink signature. The letter has one normal horizontal mailing fold,
which runs between the typed closing and Roosevelt’s signature. The
letter has a staple hole in the blank upper right area and shows general
handling and soiling. Overall, the letter is
in very good to fine condition.
Unframed.
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