TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, United States Civil Service Commission letterhead, October 23, 1894. Letter to Senator Charles F. Manderson of Nebraska, in full: "On a train coming East from my Dakota ranch about two weeks ago I had a most violent argument with two Populist gentlemen from Nebraska in reference to yourself, we viewing the subject of your career from different standpoints. If I only had the addresses of those worthy gentlemen now I should instantly write them a full retraction of all that I said, and an offer of any help in my power to aid the Populist campaign in Nebraska. There is but one redeeming feature of your letter; that is your suggestion about Lodge. This strikes me as very good. Lodge’s style is lacking in the severity and self-restraint that characterize the artless poems of Mr. Griggs. Moreover, his diction is cramped and his vocabulary limited. I am sure he should learn a great deal from those poems, and I shall tell him that you and I think so. Seriously, I do hope that you have made up your mind to come back to the Senate, and that the Populist idiots (to use the very mildest term about them) will not be able to down us in Nebraska. I enclose a letter for you to send to Mr. Griggs." Roosevelt makes a few handwritten corrections to the body of the letter. In fine condition.
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