Roosevelt’s Widow Writes Old Family Friend Thomas Newkirk Phillips

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Edith Roosevelt was a widow only two months when she corresponded with friend Thomas Newkirk Phillips. She had also become a grandmother when her son Archie, himself just 26 years old, had a son in 1918.

Autograph Letter Signed on her letterhead, Oyster Bay, February 28, 1920, to Phillips, then...

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Roosevelt’s Widow Writes Old Family Friend Thomas Newkirk Phillips

Edith Roosevelt was a widow only two months when she corresponded with friend Thomas Newkirk Phillips. She had also become a grandmother when her son Archie, himself just 26 years old, had a son in 1918.

Autograph Letter Signed on her letterhead, Oyster Bay, February 28, 1920, to Phillips, then working at national headquarters of the Red Cross in Washington. “Use the card in the Junior Red Cross and keep the original. I must ask for another photograph as the one you sent arrived in bad condition. Think of Archie the head of a family. With all good wishes…” Comes with an unsigned holograph on her personal card and the two free franked envelopes in which the items were contained in.        

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