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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE
<b>122. THEODORE ROOSEVELT </b>(1858 - 1919) Twenty-sixth President of the United States who started the Panama Canal, settled the Russo-Japanese War, broke up Standard Oil and encouraged conservation. Superb intellectual content T.L.S. as President on White House letterhead, 1p. 8vo., Washington, May. 11, 1904, to Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1854-1927), Professor of Philology and President of the University of California. In part: "<i>...Speaking from the standpoint of utterly superficial knowledge, I had come to just the conclusion that you had about Bernard, excepting that I think it perfectly possible that the Greek poets had used Phoenician recitals of trading voyages...as giving material for the framework of certain incidents. Your speaking of relaxing yourself by reading philological works suggests that I have been reading an interesting Italian book on the Indo-Europeans...I have been much impressed with it owing to the clear grasp by the author of the differences and relationships between language and race...for instance, Aryan is a linguistic and not biological term...</i>". With several holograph emendations, boldly signed, very good.<b>$1,000-1,500</b>