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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1662

Roosevelt, Theodore Incredible association Book "Message of the President of the United States...to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-Eighth Congress." Government Printing Office, Washington, 1903. 8vo, red cloth with gilt title. Signed "Theodore Roosevelt / Jan 6th 1905" on free front endpaper and inscribed "To / Lt. Daniel Moore / with a happy new year..." Scant foxing of extremities, VF/F. Lt. Dan Moore was an aide to President Roosevelt and had, like his chief, served in the Spanish-American War. Both men were boxers, so Moore became the president´s sparring partner. During one match, he struck Roosevelt so hard in the eye that he caused permanent damage to the president´s vision! With an elaborate, frame-like wooden case with a glass cover, and with a wooden lid over the glass bearing an explanatory plaque. Roosevelt signed this shortly after his lopsided re-election victory. Just days earlier, Japan had captured Port Arthur from Russia, and soon Roosevelt would begin the negotiations that would earn him the Nobel Peace Prize.

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