WILSON, WOODROW, President. Typed letter signed as President, to Grant Squires, Washington, D.C., 28 November 1920, 1 1/4 pages, 4to, White House stationery, with envelope, regarding an appointment: "I would be glad to use my appointing power to Annapolis in the way you suggested in your letter...if it would not be certain to get me into a peck of trouble..."; WILSON. Typed letter signed as President, to Dr. Roland Cotton Smith, Washington, D.C., 5 January 1917, 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery, a personal letter: "Your letter...shows that you understood me and I want you to know that I equally understand your position and have no word of criticism to utter..."; WILSON. Typed letter signed as President of Princeton University, to Alexander Black, Princeton, 20 February 1907, 1 page, 4to, integral blank, Princeton stationery, refusing to comment on national affairs: "The task you ask me to undertake for the Sunday World is much too great a one. It would be extremely difficult to express in just terms any brief...estimate of our national situation..."; WILSON. Typed letter signed to John S. Phillips, Princeton, 5 March 1898, 1 page, 4to, lightly browned, declining to submit an article: "I wish I could say at once that I would write the essay you want...The trouble is I am not a ready writer..."; together 4 items. (4)

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WILSON, WOODROW, President. Typed letter signed as President, to Grant Squires, Washington, D.C., 28 November 1920, 1 1/4 pages, 4to, White House stationery, with envelope, regarding an appointment: "I would be glad to use my appointing power to Annapolis in the way you suggested in your letter...if it would not be certain to get me into a peck of trouble..."; WILSON. Typed letter signed as President, to Dr. Roland Cotton Smith, Washington, D.C., 5 January 1917, 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery, a personal letter: "Your letter...shows that you understood me and I want you to know that I equally understand your position and have no word of criticism to utter..."; WILSON. Typed letter signed as President of Princeton University, to Alexander Black, Princeton, 20 February 1907, 1 page, 4to, integral blank, Princeton stationery, refusing to comment on national affairs: "The task you ask me to undertake for the Sunday World is much too great a one. It would be extremely difficult to express in just terms any brief...estimate of our national situation..."; WILSON. Typed letter signed to John S. Phillips, Princeton, 5 March 1898, 1 page, 4to, lightly browned, declining to submit an article: "I wish I could say at once that I would write the essay you want...The trouble is I am not a ready writer..."; together 4 items. (4)