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ROOSEVELT, Theodore (1858-1919) Typed letter signed (“Theodore Roosevelt”), to J. H. Snodgrass, New York, 3 July 1918.
One page, 275 x 212mm, on Kansas City Star letterhead, with several autograph emendations and corrections in his hand.
Theodore Roosevelt opines on the size of the Allied Expeditionary Force while expressing his disappointment over not being involved in the war effort: “Mr. Wilson has not the slightest intention of using me under any condition.” At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Roosevelt campaigned strenuously for the United States to enter the conflict on the side of the Allies while roundly denouncing Wilson’s neutrality policy. When the United States finally declared war on the Central Powers, Congress authorized Roosevelt to raise four divisions modeled on his Rough Riders. However, Wilson issued a public statement to the press that he would not be sending Roosevelt and his men to France, instead forming a larger expeditionary force under the command of John J. Pershing. In the summer of 1918, as American soldiers took up positions on the Western Front, Roosevelt betrays his naiveté about modern warfare, opining that “I think only a small contingent of allied troops would be necessary; I am sure that Mr. Wilson has not the slightest intention of using me under any condition.” [With:] ROOSEVELT, Theodore. 4 typed letters signed (“T. Roosevelt” and “Theodore Roosevelt”), New York, 4 March 1913 to 21 May 1914, to Ernest Harvier. Together four pages, 190 x 170mm, accomplished on The Outlook stationery. Roosevelt’s correspondence with Ernest Harvier in part concerns his ongoing battles with Republican Boss William Barnes, Jr., owner and publisher of the Albany Times-Union as well as the successful outcome of his libel suit against a man who accused the former president of drunkenness.
One page, 275 x 212mm, on Kansas City Star letterhead, with several autograph emendations and corrections in his hand.
Theodore Roosevelt opines on the size of the Allied Expeditionary Force while expressing his disappointment over not being involved in the war effort: “Mr. Wilson has not the slightest intention of using me under any condition.” At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Roosevelt campaigned strenuously for the United States to enter the conflict on the side of the Allies while roundly denouncing Wilson’s neutrality policy. When the United States finally declared war on the Central Powers, Congress authorized Roosevelt to raise four divisions modeled on his Rough Riders. However, Wilson issued a public statement to the press that he would not be sending Roosevelt and his men to France, instead forming a larger expeditionary force under the command of John J. Pershing. In the summer of 1918, as American soldiers took up positions on the Western Front, Roosevelt betrays his naiveté about modern warfare, opining that “I think only a small contingent of allied troops would be necessary; I am sure that Mr. Wilson has not the slightest intention of using me under any condition.” [With:] ROOSEVELT, Theodore. 4 typed letters signed (“T. Roosevelt” and “Theodore Roosevelt”), New York, 4 March 1913 to 21 May 1914, to Ernest Harvier. Together four pages, 190 x 170mm, accomplished on The Outlook stationery. Roosevelt’s correspondence with Ernest Harvier in part concerns his ongoing battles with Republican Boss William Barnes, Jr., owner and publisher of the Albany Times-Union as well as the successful outcome of his libel suit against a man who accused the former president of drunkenness.