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ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Autograph letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), to [Robert?] Collier, Sagamore Hill, 27 December 1917. 2 pages, 8vo card, Sagamore Hill stationery, matted and framed .
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Autograph letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), to [Robert?] Collier, Sagamore Hill, 27 December 1917. 2 pages, 8vo card, Sagamore Hill stationery, matted and framed . "AMERICA SHALL BY DEEDS MAKE GOOD THE HIGH-SOUNDING WORDS HER PRESIDENT HAS UTTERED" " A copy of your Xmas greeting had come;" T.R. writes, presumably to the publisher Robert Collier, "now the copy comes; and the beauty of the form is worthy of Wordsworth's poem, so wonderfully prophetic of a world-struggle a century later than the world-struggle of which he wrote, and worthy of your really noble appeal that America shall by deeds make good the high-sounding words her President has uttered..." In his War Message to the Congress in April 1917, T.R.'s hated rival, Woodrow Wilson famously declared, "The world must be made safe for democracy..." [ With :] WILSON, Woodrow. Typed letter signed ("Woodrow Wilson"), as President, to Robert J. Collier, Washington, 27 December 1917. 1 page, small 4to, White House stationery, matted and framed . Wilson thanks Collier for "the Mark Twain manuscript which you send me both for its own value, which I regard as very great, and also...as an evidence of your friendship and confidence..." Together 2 items . (2)