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World War I-dated TLS, one page, 8.25 x 11, personal Metropolitan letterhead, April 19, 1917. Letter to Charles C. Hommann, Jr., of P.F. Collier & Son, in full: “That’s mighty nice of you. I appreciate your letter, especially coming from a nephew of my old friend, Major Elliott. I shall be very glad to have you do as you propose.” In very good to fine condition, with light wrinkling and uniform age toning.
“Maj. Elliott,” is ostensibly Major Howard Elliott, who entered government service in 1899 as a special agent in the Treasury Department and personal representative of L. H. Roberts, Treasurer of the United States. In 1907, at the time of the opening of the National Tehuantepec Railway, President Theodore Roosevelt sent him to Mexico to devise methods of protecting American interests in customs. Major Elliott resigned from government service to enter the real estate business, but when America entered World War I, he returned to Washington as chief disbursing officer and director of finance for the Signal Corps.
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