[Rarebooks] FS: Important Teddy Roosevelt Letter with handwritten corrections: "Make American democracy safe for the world"

[Charles Agvent]

  ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy). TYPED LETTER SIGNED WITH HOLOGRAPH 
CORRECTIONS: "Make American democracy safe for the world." New York, 12 
July 1917. A superb letter on METROPOLITAN magazine stationery to 
Professor Abram S. Isaacs of the Department of Semitics at New York 
University dated 12 July 1917. Roosevelt tells Isaacs that he has 
received many letters in the last few days, "but both Mrs. Roosevelt and 
I, on the whole, value your letter more than any other." He compliments 
Isaacs on his statement and concludes: "Instead of being hypocritical 
and bombastic about 'making the world safe for democracy,' let us do 
what we can actually do, if we choose, and that is make American 
democracy safe for the world." The United States entered World War I in 
early 1917. Roosevelt was upset that he was not allowed to go to Europe 
to participate, but he was gratified to learn that his efforts in the 
spring of 1917 to secure a commission and lead troops overseas were the 
immediate cause of the sending of American troops. Surely this letter is 
related to Roosevelt's stand on the war. It would be almost a year to 
the day on 14 July 1918 that Roosevelt's youngest son, Quentin, would be 
killed in an air battle in France. Some creasing and short tears at 
folds, still Very Good.         $4,500.00

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