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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 to Henry B. Adams

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05792 Author/Creator: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1882/11/20 Pagination: 4 p. : + envelope Height: 20 cm, Width: 12.5 cm Order a Copy

"I am quite in sympathy with democratic principles; it is democratic practice that I object to... Jefferson has always been my pet aversion; to me he seems merely an intriguing doctrinaire, mighty in word and weak in action, revengeful but timid, of enormously overrated abilities, and standing about on a par with Jefferson Davis -- minus the latter's boldness."

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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