ANS signed “W. H. T.,” one page, 5.5 x 9.25, White House letterhead, February 22, 1912. Taft makes a handwritten addition to a TLS from his secretary to Wendell Phillips Stafford of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The secretarial letter reads, in part: “The President has requested me to thank you for the copy of your address before the New York County Lawyers Association….” Taft’s handwritten addition reads: “I have read your address with great enjoyment and intense approval. Thank you for sending it to me.” Mild handling wear and subtle haloing of ink, otherwise fine condition. Auction LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
