[Rarebooks] Daily Theodore Roosevelt Offering F/S First Lady Als

[Garry R Austin]

2/20/14

Each day we offer a Theodore Roosevelt related item. 

First lady Edith Kermit Roosevelt was a woman of great grace, humor and intelligence. During her time in the White House she was called upon to be hostess to World leaders, Literati, and even former Rough Riders. She was also raising two younger boys and a girl and dealing with that "perpetual boy", her husband. Her contributions in terms of Musicale Programs were significant. In this letter we see a simple invitation, on special cream stationery lettered in silver, to an artist. Yet there is a bit of whimsey as well......

We offer the following postpaid and net to all @$275.00;

An Invitation From the First Lady to Visit the White House

Roosevelt, Edith Kermit. Autograph letter signed,  (Als). Two pages on White House Stationery; Washington, D.C. December 2nd, (1905); To Mr. Eliot Gregory. The First Lady invites Gregory to the White House on January 7th, (1906). "It is the evening of the Diplomatic Reception, which is rather amusing to see from the inside." Very good with the original envelope. The envelope is addressed to Gregory at "The Mount, Lenox Mass." The Mount was the home of Edith Wharton. Gregory was a friend of Wharton's and visited her there. 

Eliot Gregory (1854-1915), American artist and author. Wrote, The Ways of Men (1900); Eliot Gregory was born in 1854 in New York City. His studies led him to Paris where he immersed himself in the art world, and then undertook a career of painting portraits of prominent people. An outspoken critic and discerning observer of people, he wrote numerous short stories and essays published in such newspapers and magazines as The New York Post, Scribner's and Harper's, which were published collectively in his Worldly Ways and Byways (1898). Eliot Gregory died in New York in 1915.


Garry R Austin
mail at austinsbooks.com
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, VT 05363
802 464-8438