Two ALSs signed as first lady, “Edith Kermit Roosevelt," totaling five pages on adjoining sheets of White House letterhead, 4.25 x 5.75, both to Mildred McLean Dewey, the wife of Admiral George Dewey. One thanks Mrs. Dewey for the "forget-me-nots" and in return she sends something (likely about Admiral Dewey) "copied from my scrap for you some time since. He certainly 'found the one to make him happy.'" The other, likely written when Roosevelt was about to leave office, in full: "My Dear Mrs. Dewey—The President wished to send his thanks to you and to the Admiral for the lovely basket of flowers, but I can't but add a few words of my own. A word of thanks too for the unfailing kindness you have shown to us, all these seven long busy years,—such kindness helps more than anything when one is trying to tread with some discretion a path which is set with more than an occasional thorn among the roses." In fine condition. Accompanied by one of the original transmittal envelopes.
