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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

to Harry A. Woodring re: Christmas greetings, with envelope

Signed as President to his Secretary of War. The envelope has a silver foil seal reading "Please DO NOT OPEN until CHRISTMAS." Typed on White House stationery. Alluding to wartime rationing, FDR jokes "This metal [on the envelope seal] can be...

GLC02793.084

to Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam re: opposition to prohibition

Signed as President on White House stationery. Written as a follow-up to meeting with Methodist bishops.

GLC02793.085

to Arthur J. Morris re: estates of his mother and father, income taxes

Signed as President on White House stationery. Morris was President of the Fulton Trust Co.

GLC02793.086

to Arthur J. Morris re: thanks for congratulations, questions about legacy

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.087

to Arthur J. Morris re: distribution of his mother's estate to his children

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.088

to Arthur J. Morris re: income tax deductions

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.089

to Dean Acheson re: Madame Tussaud's Waxworks likeness of him

Signed as President on White House stationery. (Accompanied by a typed copy of Acheson's reply with the Feb. 2 Truman memo reponding to his memo as .121). Quite humorous.

GLC02793.091

to J. Howard McGrath re: attacks on Truman by the Chicago Tribune

Signed as President on White House stationery to his Attorney General. Truman feels the attacks are libelous and may be criminal.

GLC02793.092

to Harry I. Schwimmer re: his intention not to seek re-election

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.093

to Edward H. Pruden re: a prayer he said since his youth, with prayer

Written as President on White House stationery, accompanied by the prayer on White House stationery. Pruden was minister at the First Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.

GLC02793.094

to Brig. Gen. Arthur S. Nevins re: rearing quail, garden plots on his farm

Signed "DE" as President on White House stationery. Eisenhower kept a farm at Gettysburg, Pa.

GLC02793.095

to Evan Aurand re: "tempest in a teapot" created by his riding in helicopter

Memorandum for Captain Aurand

GLC02793.096

to Irving Geist re: his golf game

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.097

to David Mynders Smythe re: thanking Smythe for his support

Signed as President on White House stationery. JFK has struck the official typed salutation for "Dave." Accompanied by TLS (carbon) of David M. Smythe to Kennedy 1/25/1961 to which JFK was responding.

GLC02793.099

to Rev. E. C. Leadley re: Solomon Island native who helped rescue the PT-109

Signed as President. Accompanied by a certified copy of letter from N. Biuku Gasa (certified and signed by E. C. Leadley) for the man who carried hidden messages for the crew of JFK's PT-109, with envelope.

GLC02793.100

to Dean Acheson re: thanking him for his recent letter

Written as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.101

to Emily Davis Chamberlain re: thanks for her letter of support, happy birthday

Signed as President on White House stationery, with a handwritten postscript "yours was almost the nicest letter we have received since being in the W.H."

GLC02793.102

to Seymour Halpern re: Halpern's remembrance for the loss of their son

Signed as President on White House stationery. JFK has struck the formal salutation "Congressman Halpern" and inserted "Seymour."

GLC02793.103

to Orville Poland re: placing peace & freedom above personal concerns

GLC02793.105

to Dorothy Nichols re: thanks for her support and looking forward to retirement

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.106

to Ron Nessen re: a TV interview at half time of the Ohio State-Michigan game

Written on White House stationery. Nessen was Ford's Press Secretary. Date from later typewritten note of Nessen's Secretary, with note by Nessen. Ford was a Michigan alumnus and former football player.

GLC02793.111

to George D. Vaill re: rumor that his autograph on his arm would become a shrine

Light-hearted piece signed as President. Accompanied by Vaill's sardonic query. Ford had signed Vaill's arm.

GLC02793.112

to Ruth K. Stroh re: thanking her for support, her research on genealogy

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.113

to Sarah McClendon re: her "superb questions" at press conferences

Written as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.114

Postcard of thanks to nurse at hospital

Written as President to a nurse at George Washington University Hospital

GLC02793.115

to Patti Davis re: thanking her for birthday gift, weather

Written as President on White House stationery to his daughter. Date inferred from content.

GLC02793.116

Handwritten drafts of five letters, including one to William F. Buckley, Jr.

Written as President. Date inferred from contents; one of the letters, to Jim Curtis, was discovered by a previous owner to be dated September 16, 1982. A series of written drafts on yellow paper intended for his secretary. Although the letter to...

GLC02793.117

to Dennis Fogle re: telling his paddleball buddies "I'm ready"

Written as President

GLC02793.118

to Dr. F. Terry Hambrecht re: enjoying "The Toy Shop" and a story of Lincoln

Written as President

GLC02793.119

to Dean Acheson re: uncomplimentary wax statue at Mme Tussaud's museum

Goes with GLC 2793.091

GLC02793.120

Tobias Lear papers [Decimalized .001- .178]

The collection ranges from 1785-1867, with the bulk being 1785-ca. 1796 (items as Washington's personal secretary with some surveying and business correspondence), and 1800-1809 (the majority is correspondence from Lear's service as United States...

GLC02794

Treaty between the U.S. and the Dey & Regency of Algiers (c/s Timothy Pickering)

Signed as President and countersigned by Pickering as Secretary of State. English translation from the Arabic with clerical signatures for Vizier Hassan Bashan (the Dey of Algiers), Joseph Donaldson Jr. (American negotiator) and David Humphreys...

GLC02794.001

to Benjamin Lincoln re: gratitude for getting position as Washington's secretary

"I gladly and willingly accept of the proposal which you made me of going to Virginia . . . . to render myself serviceable, and agreeable to General Washington." Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.002

to Tobias Lear re: prospects for manufacturing, prosperity in America

"Happily for America the Spirit of perfect Liberty has opperated [sic] to produce the best effects, with us, Industry, Economy & Temperance, are allowd to exceed in every Class of Citizens that of any former period & I am convinced . . . a few years...

GLC02794.003

to Tobias Lear re: lack of good fruit to send to President

Unable to fulfill Lear's request to send a fruit basket to George Washington because of poor crop. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.005