ALS signed “Wm. H. Taft,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 7.75, personal letterhead, December 24, 1916. Letter to Larz Anderson, in part: “Thank you and [Gretel] for your kind Holiday greetings to Helen and me. We reciprocate them. We are cheerful in spite of the election. It was pretty hard though. We can stand being thoroughly beaten but it is trying to feel that victory was in our hands and that we threw it away…If Hughes had made an effort to select the biggest dunderhead in the country to be the head of the campaign committee, he could not have been more successful than in his choice of Wilson…Wilson’s last peace note is to me perfectly dreadful. I don’t wonder that England is indignant. She has a right to be. However I’ll begin to swear unless I stop and profanity does not look well in ink.” In fine condition. During the Taft administration, Anderson served as the minister to Belgium and then, for a brief period, as the ambassador to Japan; Anderson resigned when Taft was replaced by Woodrow Wilson.
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