TLS as president, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 7 x 8.25, White House letterhead, July 2, 1908. Letter to Rev. William Potts George, in full: "May I thru you present to President Mead my very deep appreciation of the action of the New York Preachers' Meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church? Few things could have touched me more. Indeed, my dear sir, I hope that the Methodists of this country realize the strength and courage they have given to me thruout my term as President. I have tried my best so to conduct myself, and so to manage the great office, that they would feel that their confidence was not misplaced. I believe in them with all my heart; and I have felt that when I stood for the sturdy righteousness in which they believed, I was rendering the best possible service I could render to the country that is so dear to all of us. I wish I could accept your invitation, but I have had to refuse literally hundreds of invitations for this summer that it is out of the question for me to accept this. I could not do it without seeming to slight good and worthy people whose previous requests I have had to refuse." Wonderfully matted and framed with a portrait and the original white House mailing envelope to an overall size of 21 x 21.75. In very good to fine condition, with creasing to the letter, apparently caused by related creasing to the envelope during mailing.
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