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TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, United States Civil Service Commission letterhead, January 4, 1895. Letter to Harvard College Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, in full: “Just a line to say how much I liked your article in the Forum. By the way, I get a little irritated at the number of people who have recently taken to asserting that we have got to have a great social upheaval, and that our position is analogous to that of France in 1789. It isn't in the least, any more than it is analogous to the later Roman empire. You made a good point when you ridiculed the people who speak as though an importer must be necessarily a criminal. It is a piece of folly akin to that of the New York Nation, and others, who have gradually grown to speak of a manufacturer as if he stood on a special plane of wickedness, if contrasted with an importer or merchant. What jacks some of our good friends on both sides of the political fence are!” Roosevelt adds a couple words and corrections in his own hand. In very good to fine condition, with edge toning, slight blurring to the handwriting, and an offset notation above the first line of the text.
After returning from his ranching years in North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt reentered New York politics and, in 1886, accepted the Republican nomination for mayor of New York City. Though he campaigned vigorously, he finished third behind Abram Hewitt and Henry George. Concerned his political prospects had faltered, Roosevelt turned to writing The Winning of the West, which proved a major success. He soon reemerged in national politics, campaigning for Benjamin Harrison in 1888, and was subsequently appointed to the U.S. Civil Service Commission. Serving until 1895, Roosevelt earned a reputation as an energetic reformer, aggressively enforcing civil service laws and challenging patronage practices; despite partisan tensions, he was even reappointed by Democrat Grover Cleveland.
Albert Bushnell Hart (1854-1943) was a Harvard historian, classmate (Class of 1880), and close friend of Theodore Roosevelt. A devoted supporter, he served as a Roosevelt delegate to the 1912 Republican National Convention and later became a trustee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association (now the Theodore Roosevelt Association). From the time of Roosevelt’s death in 1919, Hart conceived the idea of compiling his writings ‘in alphabetical arrangement’ to reflect the full range of his thought and activity. This vision culminated in the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia (1941), which Hart edited to preserve Roosevelt’s legacy.
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