1910 JOHN S. MOSBY AUTOGRAPH LETTER RE: POLITICS, THEODORE ROOSEVELT

1910 JOHN S. MOSBY AUTOGRAPH LETTER RE: POLITICS, THEODORE ROOSEVELT

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A very good condition 1-page autograph letter in ink by former Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby, the legendary Confederate raider who needs no introduction to students of the Civil War and postwar politics. This is datelined “806 12th St. Washington / July 29th 1910” and addressed to Sam King of Bristol, Virginia, where Mosby had lived just before the war with his new wife, later moving to Warrenton. Mosby had a long, eventful postwar, legal, governmental and diplomatic career that featured numerous attempts to root out corruption. Since 1904 he had been working in the Bureau of Insular and Territorial Affairs, where he was an active prosecutor of corruption, misappropriation of Indian Trust Funds, land fraud, etc., but was forced into retirement by the Taft administration.

The letter starts, “Dear Sam, you have probably heard that I’ve been removed from office. I just want to tell you that when my old friends know the reason for it they will think a good deal more of me than they did before. When you see Colonel Henderson, he will tell you all about it. Herewith with a copy of a letter to a gentleman in Boston in answer to one from him that gives the real cause for dismissing me…”

Mosby then goes on to discuss an upcoming visit by former President Theodore Roosevelt to Bristol, Virginia, where he would speak and recommends blocking efforts by Congresssman C.B. Slemp to make it a political affair, advising that Col. Henry Stewart should be a prominent part of it. (An April 23, 1910, letter from Slemp to Roosevelt in the Roosevelt papers asks him to deliver a speech on behalf the Republican party during the upcoming Congressional campaign in his district.)  “I know Mr. Roosevelt very well. A few days before he left the White House I took my two grandchildren to see him. He said ‘Colonel Mosby! I shall always be proud that you served under my administration.’ It doesn’t look like Mr. Taff feels that way, although I went to my Home at Warrenton to vote for him. . .”

He asks King to tell Roosevelt, if he does come, that Bristol was once his home, noting that, “If I had gone back there after the war I reckon I wd. be better off than I am now,” and signs off with the note that, “I don’t think you will discover in my handwriting any of the trimmer of old age. Yours Truly, Jno. S. Mosby”

A very clear, fully legible letter, by one of the most famous small-unit commanders of the Civil War with a very interesting personal and postwar history as well.   [sr][ph:L]

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