TLS as president signed “Harry,” one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, July 1, 1947. Letter to friend and former business partner David H. Morgan, in full: "I appreciated very much your letter of June twenty-seventh. Don't worry about Henry—his conversations to date have not made much impression and I am very sure that all he can do is just to keep misrepresenting the facts. Thanks for the map of the McSpadden Block which I'll place in the file. I hope you will be able to wind up things so you can make your proposed trip." In fine condition. Accompanied by a carbon copy of Morgan's letter, as well as by the original White House mailing envelope.
The "Henry" Truman refers to here is Henry A. Wallace, the Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and then, under Truman, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Despite his being an integral part of Truman's Cabinet during the first half of 1946, Wallace sabotaged his own career when he broke with administration policies in September 1946, delivering a speech in which he stated that 'we should recognize that we have no more business in the political affairs of Eastern Europe than Russia has in the political affairs of Latin America, Western Europe and the United States.' Truman stated that Wallace's speech did not represent administration policy but merely Wallace's personal views, and on September 20 he demanded and received Wallace's resignation. Shortly after leaving office, Wallace became the editor of The New Republic, a progressive magazine that did not balk at criticizing the president or his Truman Doctrine and Executive Order 9835.
In 1916, Truman had become one of David H. Morgan's partners in Morgan & Company, an Oklahoma oil well firm that leased thousands of acres in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. When Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany in April 1917, manpower and investors disappeared, and Truman left to fight in Europe, leaving Morgan to run the business alone. Although the business went bankrupt, Truman and Morgan remained lifelong friends.
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