TLS signed “F. D. Roosevelt,” one page, 8 x 10.5, Navy Department letterhead, December 5, 1917. Letter to Charles H. McCarthy, in part: "You are hereby transferred from private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy at $2400 per annum and, under the approval of the President of April 30, 1917, of an allotment of the appropriation 'National Security and Defense,' contained in the Deficiency Act." In fine condition. Roosevelt served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1913 to 1920, in the administration of Woodrow Wilson.
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