Two items: a TLS signed "W. J. Bryan," one page, 7.5 x 10.5, Department of State letterhead, May 8, 1915. Letter to Oscar Strauss, in part: "I received a letter from you some time ago asking me to send a manuscript or something in my own handwriting for a bazaar in which you were interested...I have...taken from the concluding pages of a little book entitled The Royal Art ten rules for the student of the Science of Government. If it is too late for the occasion which you had in mind you can keep it for some future occasion of the same kind." Bryan makes a single correction to the text. Included is the referenced autograph manuscript, ten total pages on five sets of adjoining sheets, each 7 x 8.75, Secretary of State letterhead, signed on the last page in fountain pen, "W. J. Bryan," with Bryan also signing his full name at the top of the first page, " The Royal Art-pages 43-46 by William Jennings Bryan, Fleming H. Revell Co." In part: "Ten Rules for the Student of the Science of Government. The social ideal toward which the world is moving requires that human institutions shall approximate toward the divine measure of rewards and this can only be realized when each individual is able to draw from society a reward proportionate to his contribution to society." In overall very good to fine condition, with light perimeter toning, and a split along one horizontal fold. Bryan's transmittal letter has tears, paper loss, and is completely separated along its central horizontal fold. Accompanied by Strauss's unsigned response to Bryan, dated May 26, 1915.
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