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MOSBY, John Singleton. Typed letter signed (“Jno. S. Mosby”), with three-line autograph postscript signed (“J.S.M.”) to Theodore Roosevelt, 5 October 1908. 1 page, 4to, Department of Justice stationery.
A UNIQUE ASSOCIATION OF TWO FAMOUS AMERICANS, united in their respect and admiration for Robert E. Lee. Mosby sends Roosevelt an October 1864 letter (not present) that Lee wrote to Mosby “at his headquarters near Petersburg, Virginia” in October 1864, “when Sheridan was in the Shenandoah Valley and was trying to rebuild the Manassas railroad line as a communication with Washington. The whole letter is in General Lee’s handwriting, which you have probably never seen.” Mosby asks T.R. to return the letter “as I wish to frame it and preserve it as a memento of the friendship of a great soldier and the brave days of old when I was proud to be under his orders.” He also sends the President a newspaper clipping of a piece Mosby wrote about Gettysburg, telling him the article will have “enough ginger in it to suit your taste.”
A UNIQUE ASSOCIATION OF TWO FAMOUS AMERICANS, united in their respect and admiration for Robert E. Lee. Mosby sends Roosevelt an October 1864 letter (not present) that Lee wrote to Mosby “at his headquarters near Petersburg, Virginia” in October 1864, “when Sheridan was in the Shenandoah Valley and was trying to rebuild the Manassas railroad line as a communication with Washington. The whole letter is in General Lee’s handwriting, which you have probably never seen.” Mosby asks T.R. to return the letter “as I wish to frame it and preserve it as a memento of the friendship of a great soldier and the brave days of old when I was proud to be under his orders.” He also sends the President a newspaper clipping of a piece Mosby wrote about Gettysburg, telling him the article will have “enough ginger in it to suit your taste.”