Sold – President Theodore Roosevelt Accepts the Material for His Inaugural Suit, From the Same Firm That Made the Inaugural Suits of Presidents Garfield, Harrison and McKinley
Roosevelt was elected President in his own right on November 8, 1904, in a landslide. The popular President was to be inaugurated on March 4, 1905. While arrangements were being made for the inauguration, TR received a letter offering cloth for his inaugural suit, from the same firm that had provided the...
Roosevelt was elected President in his own right on November 8, 1904, in a landslide. The popular President was to be inaugurated on March 4, 1905. While arrangements were being made for the inauguration, TR received a letter offering cloth for his inaugural suit, from the same firm that had provided the cloth for the inaugural suits of Presidents Garfield, Harrison and McKinley. This seemed like a capital idea to Roosevelt, and he readily accepted in this letter.
Typed Letter Signed, on White House letterhead, Washington, December 22, 1904, to Thomas W. Sykes, owner of the North Adams (MA) Manufacturing Company. "I have received your letter of the 20th instant, stating that you had made the cloth for the inauguration suits of Messrs. Garfield, Harrison and McKinley, and that you wished to give me the cloth for a similar suit. I accept it with the utmost pleasure. Will you please send the material to M. Rock, Tailor, 315 Fifth Avenue, New York, who will make it up for me?" Syke's' firm was one of the nation's premier wool manufacturers, and their history of supplying the material for the inaugural suits of Presidents Garfield, Harrison and McKinley was too tempting for Roosevelt to decline.
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