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TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, March 15, 1909. Letter to writer and journalist Robert Underwood Johnson, in full: "I have your letter of March 12th and thank you for your approval of my inaugural address. I have not thought it wise to go into any particular schedules in the tariff, so therefore I could not refer to the question of free art. Whatever I can do I shall be glad to do in that direction, however." In very good to fine condition, with light edge creasing, and slight blurring to the type and signature. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.
On March 19, 1909, the New York Times reported on the 'new Tariff bill admitting duty free all works of art twenty years old or more,' speculating that the measure would lead to the repatriation of some of the world's finest art collections, including those of J. Pierpont Morgan, then kept in London, and Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose collection of early Italian paintings was in France.
From the Collection of Paul K. Carr, former UACC President and Noted Expert.
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