Auction Date:2010 Oct 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 7 x 9.25, personal letterhead, December 23, 1913. Nine months after leaving the White House, Taft writes George H. Blackslee, a professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. In part: “My lecture on the Monroe Doctrine was published in full in the Independent, and I have pleasure in sending you, under separate cover, a copy of it. The addresses which you sent me were of much assistance to me in the preparation of my paper, and I thank you cordially for your courtesy in this matter. I shall be very glad to receive the next issue of the Journal of Race Development which you say will contain these papers in printed form.” In fine condition, with a horizontal fold and scattered creasing. Blakeslee, this letter’s recipient, taught history and international relations at the Massachusetts college and was also founder of the Journal of Race Development, the first American journal devoted to international relations. The “lecture on the Monroe Doctrine” that Taft references here was delivered to the Peace Society in New York City on December 11. The following day, the New York Times reporter sent to cover the event detailed not only the speech but also the startling revelation that Taft had lost ‘exactly 69 pounds of flesh since he left the White House.’ Appreciative content from a much thinner former chief executive.
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