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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

If you and I were gathered to our Father's and were to meet on the way to Heaven or Hell, I should expect to see you bring out of your shroud an invitation to the banquet of the Passaic Board of Trade."WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930) President of the United States. Typed Letter Signed, "WM H Taft," on original William Howard Taft, Cincinnati, Ohio letterhead. One page, 5 3/8" x 8 1/4". New York, N.Y. February 25th, 1909. With three pen corrections in Taft's hand. President-elect Taft writes to Mr. Victor L. Mason, in part: " … If you and I were gathered to our Father's and were to meet on the way to Heaven or Hell, I should expect to see you bring out of your shroud an invitation to the banquet of the Passaic Board of Trade. I mean, if possible, to go there before you and I have the necessity for a shroud, but just when it is impossible for me, within a few days of the Inauguration, to say. With warm regards and with high appreciation of the debt I am under to you for what you did in the campaign … " Victor Mason served as secretary to Elihu Root during the latter's tenure as Secretary of War and also served as Assistance Secretary of the Republican Nation Committee in charge of the New York headquarters during Taft's successful presidential campaign of 1908. Mounting trace on verso, some toning. Else Fine.