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FLORENCE HARDING TO A SEVERELY WOUNDED SOLDIER

FLORENCE HARDING (1860-1924) First Lady of the United States. Typed Letter Signed, "Florence King Harding," on gold-embossed White House Washington letterhead bearing a gold-embossed U.S. Seal. One page, 5" x 8". Washington. July 21, 1922. Harding writes to Lieutenant Milton B. Mackall, an American soldier whose severe spinal injury forced him to remain in a bathtub almost continually from 1918 until his death, which occurred just four days after Harding wrote this letter. Harding writes, in part: " I have asked the President to autograph a photograph for you, and am sending it under separate cover. I know so well the monotony of hospital life and thought perhaps you might be interested in having the picture … " Very Fine.