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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, to Benjamin Wheeler, President of the University of California, Washington, D.C., 15 June 1908. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery. AN OUTGOING PRESIDENT WORKS FOR THE ELECTION OF HIS SUCCESSOR.: "Your letter is really interesting and I have given it to [William H.] Taft. I am not interfering in the Vice Presidential nomination..." -- ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed as President, to the same, Washington, D.C. 3 February 1908. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery. "That is a very interesting letter of Barrows. I shall show it to Taft and then see what use we can make of it..." -- ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed as President, to the same, Washington, D.C. 6 July 1908. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery. "Your letter gives me concern...I wish...that Handley, of Yale, had not chosen this particular time, when Taft was the great feature at the Yale commencement, to confer degrees on J. Pierpont Morgan and Spooner. Still, I can not help believe we are going to put Taft through [get him elected] all right..." -- With 8 additional items: 2 telegrams from Roosevelt, 2 from secretaries at TR's direction; 3 TLS to Wheeler signed by secretaries (on White House stationery) and a carbon of a letter from Secretary of War William H. Taft to President Roosevelt, 14 May 1906, answering points raised by Wheeler in regard to emergency relief work in the wake of the San Francisco earthquake. Together 11 items . (11)