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to an unidentified recipient re: business affairs & profitability of his estate

Written as President

GLC02793.015

to John Vaughan re: purchase of books at a Philadelphia auction

Written as President

GLC02793.017

to Mary E. Polk re: his health, Major Donelson, presenting a miniature to Polk

Written as President. Presenting a miniature of his wife, her Aunt. Donelson's wife, Emily, was dying. Major Donelson is Andrew Jackson Donelson, the president's nephew.

GLC02793.019

to Emily Ward re: lock of hair and thanks for wishes (with hair)

Written as President. Emily Ward was the daughter of General Ward.

GLC02793.020

to Anna Harrison

President Tyler sends William Henry Harrison's widow congressional condolence communicating "the deep sympathy felt by the representatives of the States and of the people" upon the death of her husband (not included). President Harrison had died on...

GLC02793.024

to John Ewing re: an appointment to see Ewing

Written as President, inthe third person

GLC02793.026

to William Weaver Danenhower re: his time constraints & Illinois appointments

Written as President. Not in Basler.

GLC02793.033

to Mary Todd Lincoln

Addresses his wife as "Dear Mother." Sends a draft for $50 and states that any merchant in New York will give her money for it. Written on Executive Mansion stationery.

GLC02793.034

to Dr. Robert King Stone re: prescription for Mrs. Lincoln's headache

Written as President. Not in Basler, but compare Basler 7: 161 and 179.

GLC02793.035

to Gideon Welles re: furnishing coal for the Government

Written as President. Not in Basler. Lincoln writes to his Secretary of Navy about a woman's proposal to supply coal. He suspects she is insane.

GLC02793.036

to Joseph Holt re: trial of Simon Ready before military court

Written as President on Executive Mansion stationery. Basler 8: 22. Ready has not been identified and no response is known. Joseph Holt was Judge Advocate General.

GLC02793.037

to his father Jesse Grant re: declining to intervene in an appointment

Written as President

GLC02793.039

to Mrs. Adelia T. Johnson re: improving health of his wife

Written as President

GLC02793.045

to Gen. Curtis Guild

Signed as President. Roosevelt writes that his "Southern policy" is to "take the best man white or black."

GLC02793.054

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

Written as President

GLC02793.063

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

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

GLC02793.074

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

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

GLC02793.081

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 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