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WARREN G. HARDING

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WARREN G. HARDING
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>WARREN G. HARDING </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>TLS as President, 1p, 8vo, Washington, DC, May 1, 1923. On White House letterhead to Col. John Hays Hammond in Washington, responding to his letter “<i>in behalf of former Senator DuBois, of Idaho. I shall certainly keep in mind the friendly things I said to you when you called in his behalf. I am instituting inquiry now as to the situation relating to the Boundary Commission.</i>..” Boldly signed three months before his death. Mounted. Minor stain at top edge; o/w VG/Fine. <b>John Hays Hammond</b> (1855-1937) was an entrepreneurial mining engineer, diplomat, and a cofounder with Cecil Rhodes of the King Solomon Mines in South Africa. He had moved to Washington in 1908 to be a ‘power behind the throne.’ After Harding died, Coolidge appointed <b>Fred Thomas DuBois</b> (1951-1930) to the International Joint Commission to prevent disputes regarding the use of the boundary waters between the United States and Canada. This letter apparently references the formation of this commission.</span></p>