ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, to the Reverend H. A. Bridgman of the Congregationalist and Christian World, Oyster Bay, New York, 15 July 1908. 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery, lightly soiled. The President politely declines the request of a clergyman: "...I am not planning any literary undertakings for next year, barring my African trip. Now, my dear sir, I would like to do anything you ask, but somehow I do not think I could write the kind of article you wish. Doesn't it seem to you that the fact that I go to church ought to make a much stronger appeal than anything I could write about going to church? I could not write any article at present now..."

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, to the Reverend H. A. Bridgman of the Congregationalist and Christian World, Oyster Bay, New York, 15 July 1908. 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery, lightly soiled. The President politely declines the request of a clergyman: "...I am not planning any literary undertakings for next year, barring my African trip. Now, my dear sir, I would like to do anything you ask, but somehow I do not think I could write the kind of article you wish. Doesn't it seem to you that the fact that I go to church ought to make a much stronger appeal than anything I could write about going to church? I could not write any article at present now..."