Ink signature and inscription as president elect, "The greetings of a newspaper publisher to an author, with good wishes, Sincerely, Warren G. Harding, Feby 1st 1921," on an off-white 6 x 4 sheet. In very good to fine condition, with soiling, light staining, and trimmed side edges. An atypically lengthy handwritten inscription from Harding, penned a month before his transition from "newspaper publisher" to American president.
Harding bought the Ohio daily newspaper The Marion Daily Star in 1884, and held ownership of the paper until mid-1923. Although Harding's editorial department slanted toward the Republican platform, the daily paper remained somewhat neutral due to its position as the newspaper of record for Marion County, Ohio. However, the Star's weekly publication served as the partisan arm of Harding's newspaper empire.
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