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TLS as president, one page, 7 x 9, White House letterhead, April 16, 1906. Marked “Personal,” a letter to Frank B. Tracy of the Boston newspaper The Evening Transcript, in full: “I am in receipt of your note of the 14th instant, with enclosure, and am so pleased that you should have had such an article about Professor Shaler. I can hardly overstate how I valued and respected him. Thanking you for what you have done.” Mounted and framed to an overall size of 12.25 x 14.75. In very good to fine condition, with fading to the typed text, and brushing to the signature.
Nathaniel Shaler (1841–1906) was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution, whose work is now considered scientific racism. A student at Harvard College's Lawrence Scientific School under Louis Agassiz, Shaler later went on to become a Harvard fixture in his own right, as a lecturer (1868), professor of paleontology (1869–1888), and as professor of geology (1888–1906). Beginning in 1891, he served as dean of the Lawrence School. During his tenure, he taught geology to a young Theodore Roosevelt, whose voluntary contributions to the classroom discussion were so copious that Prof. Shaler reportedly once stopped the show by saying: ‘Now look here, Roosevelt, let me talk. I'm running this course.’
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