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Theodore Roosevelt Corresponds with Edwin Willard Deming, Artist of Plains Indians



1p typed letter signed by former 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) as "Theodore Roosevelt" at center. Accompanied by a 1953 First Day Cover envelope featuring Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt's Long Island estate.



The letter dated March 1, 1915 was written on cream stationery with a "Theodore Roosevelt / Thirty East Forty Second Street / New York City" letterhead. The signature and typed text are slightly faded but still legible. With expected paper folds and overall toning. Trimmed at top and bottom. An attempted repair to an isolated closed tear at lower right. A few reversible pencil tracing marks. Else very good. 6.5" x 7.5".



Roosevelt addressed this letter to Edwin Willard Deming (1860-1942), an American artist known for his realistic depictions--both in oil paint and bronze--of American Indians. The artist lived and worked among the Crow, Cheyenne, and Sioux people, enabling him to achieve a level of detail and drama in his works. Deming's creations were collected by Teddy Roosevelt, and were also exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution during the artist's lifetime. Deming's artist studio "Eight Bears" was located on Macdougal Alley in New York City.



Roosevelt wrote in full:



"[typed] My dear Mr. Deming:


I enclose 2.00 for these tickets. I hope I shall be able to be present; but I fear it is impossible. Have you any preference as to where I should send the tickets in case I should find myself unable to come?


Sincerely yours,


[signed] Theodore Roosevelt.


[typed] Mr. E. W. Deming,

5 Macdougal Alley,

New York City."



The First Day Cover envelope at top has a cachet at left depicting Roosevelt and Sagamore Hill, entitled "Home of Theodore Roosevelt / Sagamore Hill Oyster Bay, L.I." Bearing a cancelled 3 cent Sagamore Hill stamp and postmarked from Oyster Bay, Long Island on September 14, 1953.



Sagamore Hill, the primary residence of Teddy and Edith Roosevelt, was a 23-room Queen Anne shingle-style bungalow near Oyster Bay on northern Long Island designed by New York architectural firm Lamb & Rich during the early 1880s. It was known as the "Summer White House" and frequently used for entertaining during Roosevelt's presidency.



This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.



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