TLS, one page, 8.25 x 11, December 8, 1903. Letter to Robert B. Roosevelt, declining his invitation, in full: “I am sorry to say in response to your letter of the 7th instant that an indisposition which has confined me to the house for the past two or three weeks and an absence from home on a trip which I intend to take as soon as I can get out, make it impossible for me to give the least encouragement as to the acceptance of your courteous invitation to attend the dinner of the ‘Sons of the American Revolution.’ You have quite excited our curiosity about your picture of Mrs. Cleveland and we earnestly hope that at some time we will be able to see it." Affixed by the left edge to a slightly larger backing sheet and in very good condition, with wrinkling and light staining from mounting.
Robert B. Roosevelt was the brother of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., and thus the uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt and the great-uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt. After serving a term in Congress, he was appointed by President Cleveland as Ambassador to The Netherlands, serving from 1888 to 1890. He was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee in 1892, the year Cleveland won election to his second term. Roosevelt was also vice president of the Sons of the American Revolution, New York chapter, which held dinners to celebrate various historic anniversaries. Another active member of that chapter was Walter R. Benjamin, the pioneering autograph dealer.
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