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to Adolph E. Borie re: requesting purchase of yellow cord cigar lighters

Written as President

GLC02793.042

to Rev. Roland Cotton Smith re: hopes for recovery of Smith's sons

Written as President

GLC02793.056

to John T. Stewart re: his hope to be remembered as a friend to labor

Signed as President. Roosevelt also writes that he hopes to be thought the best President for farmers, small businessmen and "Abraham Lincoln's plain people."

GLC02793.057

to George Bird Grinnell re: Grinnell's request that he write about Africa

Signed as President. Roosevelt had not been to Africa yet.

GLC02793.058

to Rev. John Wesley Hill re: declining to speak at Hadley Rescue Mission

Signed as President. Accompanied by a note on verso of recipient attesting to the President's unexpected appearance at midnight, despite his schedule.

GLC02793.059

to Katharine & Louisa Loring re: his recent trip and expected vacation

Written as President. The Lorings were neighbors of Taft at the vacation spot.

GLC02793.060

to Gertrude Bondhill re: his pleasure in her performance

Written as President

GLC02793.061

to Thomas Marshall re: thanking him for his thoughtfulness

Written as President. Date inferred from content. Marshall was Wilson's Vice President.

GLC02793.062

to Jesse W. Weik re: thanks for sample of Lincoln's handwriting

Written as President

GLC02793.063

to J. Edwin Murphy re: asking for explanation about a story on his typewriter

Signed as President. Enclosing a news story about Wilson's faulty typewriter which Wilson calls "silly and annoying." Murphy was editor of the Washington Times.

GLC02793.064

to J. Edwin Murphy re: thanking him for admitting mistake

Signed as President. Goes with #2793.064. Wilson's distress was in being seen "a fool and a sloven." Murphy was editor of the Washington Times.

GLC02793.065

to Bella W. Swope re: running for a second term

Signed as President on White House stationery. WW notes that "I look forward to the next four years with something of a sinking heart...."

GLC02793.067

to James Murrary Dewey re: his penmanship

Written as President on White House stationery, apparently in response to a request to pen a letter. Harding compares his penmanship to Horace Greeley's.

GLC02793.070

to Francis N. Whitney re: his pride in being a Mason

Written as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.071

to George DeWolfe (his step-grandson) re: sending Christmas money, with dollar

Written as President on White House stationery. Date inferred from postmark.

GLC02793.072

to Charles F. Ayling re: arrangements for a golf match

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.073

to Richard Washburn Child re: wife's illness and international affairs

Signed as President on White House stationery. Child was ambassador.

GLC02793.074

to Maj. Stephen R. Crosby re: thank you letter written 2 days after inauguration

Signed as President on black-bordered White House stationery.

GLC02793.075

to Francis Prescott re: his determination not to seek another term

Signed as President on White House stationery. Prescott was chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee.

GLC02793.077

to J. A. Hull re: his autograph

Written as President on White House stationery, remarking "This is about the third letter I have written in long hand in years!"

GLC02793.078

to Fred L. Seely re: thanks for helping his sick son Herbert

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.079

to Frederic Kernochan re: polio epidemic and boy scout jamboree

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.080

to Anna Roosevelt Boettiger (daughter) re: his hopes to see her

Written as President on White House stationery and signed "Pa."

GLC02793.081

to James A. Farley re: paying off his election bet concerning Senator Borah

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.082

to William E. Shepherd re: declining membership in the Beaux-Arts Institute

Signed as President on White House stationery. He notes he is a rank amateur

GLC02793.083