Theodore Roosevelt T.L.S. with numerous ms. emendations [March or April 1915] : to Beatrice Chanler

Theodore Roosevelt T.L.S. with numerous ms. emendations [March or April 1915] : to Beatrice Chanler

1915

[1] p. ; 15 x 23 cm. framed 51 x 38 cm.

MSS L2013F100 M [framed]

Framed with a photograph of Roosevelt with the costumed players of the historical pageant, "Children's revolution," sponsored by the Lafayette Fund of Manhattan, April 15, 1915.
Letter from former president Roosevelt to one of the pageant’s organizers was prepared as a typed letter for his signature, but he largely rewrote it in his own hand: "I am glad to hear of the success of the children's revolutionary play. There are not enough plays for children which teach American history. Washington's career is a lesson in that kind of patriotism which translates words into deeds; and Lafayette's career is a lesson in international morality. Both careers teach devotion to the peace of justice and righteousness, and scorn of the ignoble baseness of the peace of dishonor. Washington's whole career is pointless, and no man has a right to praise it, save as we accept his view that preparedness for righteous war is the only way to secure righteous peace ..."
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