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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President. An archive of 9 typed letters comprising three signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), five with stamped signatures and one bearing secretarial signature; all but one as Governor of New York, to Colonel William Cary Sanger, New York, Oyster Bay and Albany, 15 December 1898 to 2 May 1900. Together 9 pages, 4to and oblong 8vo, on Republican State Committee and Governor's stationery, with a few handwritten emendations, lightly browned.
THE FORMER ROUGH RIDER ON THE BOER WAR: "HEAVENS AND EARTH, WHAT A MUSS THE BRITISH HAVE BEEN MAKING OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN BUSINESS!"
A series of outspoken letters commenting on international and domestic politics: 25 April 1900: "I am in receipt of...your report. It seems to me it is excellent. I have not a suggestion to make...You must, of course, recollect that the Boer war at any rate gives the appearance of complete breakdown to the English military system and that this will discredit to a certain extent any lessons drawn from that system..."; 2 May 1900: "...I am just closing up my thirty day bills...so that I have some misgiving about either signing or vetoeing them; and I must do one or the other...Heavens and earth, what a muss [sic] the British have been making of the South African business! For instance I cannot understand...such ambuscades as that in which Broadwood lost his seven guns. The British outnumber the Boers at least four or five to one, and it is extraordinary how these rough, hard-fighting peasants stand them off..."; together 9 items. (9)
THE FORMER ROUGH RIDER ON THE BOER WAR: "HEAVENS AND EARTH, WHAT A MUSS THE BRITISH HAVE BEEN MAKING OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN BUSINESS!"
A series of outspoken letters commenting on international and domestic politics: 25 April 1900: "I am in receipt of...your report. It seems to me it is excellent. I have not a suggestion to make...You must, of course, recollect that the Boer war at any rate gives the appearance of complete breakdown to the English military system and that this will discredit to a certain extent any lessons drawn from that system..."; 2 May 1900: "...I am just closing up my thirty day bills...so that I have some misgiving about either signing or vetoeing them; and I must do one or the other...Heavens and earth, what a muss [sic] the British have been making of the South African business! For instance I cannot understand...such ambuscades as that in which Broadwood lost his seven guns. The British outnumber the Boers at least four or five to one, and it is extraordinary how these rough, hard-fighting peasants stand them off..."; together 9 items. (9)