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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1675

Wilson, Woodrow Twenty-eighth President of the United States (1856-1924, served 1913-21); gained the White House when Taft and third-party candidate Theodore Roosevelt split the Republican vote; conceived the League of Nations; earlier, Governor of New Jersey and president of Princeton University; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Brief Typewritten Letter Signed "Woodrow Wilson" as President, 2/3 page, 8vo, on White House stationery, but written in Hot Springs, VA, December 31, 1915. He thanks Ashton W. Gray of Petersburg, VA, for his message, adding, "It is such things that keep a man in heart." Fold, lightly toned, VG. With original typewritten envelope. President Wilson was in Hot Springs honeymooning with his new bride, Edith Bolling Galt, whom he had married on December 18. [2]

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