One page, typed letter signed by Roosevelt as President on White House stationery, August 2nd, 1907. “…Your letter interests me. My present intention is to appoint Sheppard as Judge. Charges have been made against him, but I am inclined to think that they are charges because he is a good man. I have sent your letter to the Attorney General; it is one of which Sheppard, Marsh, and Cubberly should be proud. If there is anything I can properly do for Mr. Cubberly, call it to my attention and I will try to do it. Is he a Republican? So far as I can I will, in the South and everywhere else, appoint men who will stand like a rock for the law, alike for the weak as well as the strong and for the poor as well as the rich…” Written to Alexander Irvine, a Congregationalist Minister who preached his brand of Socialist Christianity in Lower Manhattan and advocated for the poor. A letter of excellent content, demonstrating Roosevelt’s personal and political ethos. $3,450.
