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Theodore Roosevelt

Call him Ishmael: Roosevelt cites Melville, “It won’t be until a year hence that I go to the Seas of Omoo and Typee and Moby Dick.”

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Call him Ishmael: Roosevelt cites Melville, “It won’t be until a year hence that I go to the Seas of Omoo and Typee and Moby Dick.”

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Metropolitan letterhead, November 24, 1916. Letter of response to a Civil War veteran. In full, “Such a letter as that of yours from a veteran of the Civil War gives me very great pleasure. I thank you most heartily for it. It won’t be until a year hence that I go to the Seas of Omoo and Typee and Moby Dick.” Roosevelt has added “Moby Dick,” in his own hand after crossing out the last word of typed text. Intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, a couple small creases to end of signature and two pinprick areas of paper loss at fold junctions, otherwise fine condition. Auction LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.

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  • Dates: #324 - Ended August 15, 2007