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Handsomely penned four page letter with fine autograph signature on fancy letterhead of the "United States Legation / Constantinople" Nov. 23, 1898 as the U.S. Minister to Turkey (in later years was ambassador to Turkey). To his "Dear friend Mayer Sulzberger" noted Phila. Jurist prominent in Jewish communal and national affairs. Writes of the many changes he noted in Turkey since his last visit and "…Have successfully settled five issues and [close] to settling other matters, but will not count the chicken until eggs are hatched. …Regarding the indemnity, [almost] a lost cause for all nations, I developed a new plan [by which] both England and Italy are guided by me. … the ambassador asked for and received from their gov'ts, France has already come in…British Ambassador has instructions to follow and assists me…our claims the same as theirs…Having settled two affairs I TOOK UP THE JEWISH QUESTION, which I neglected until then…so our gov't could answer questions coming to [them]. I sent you a [confidential] document yesterday... for your own information. You will see some seed [in the data] you planted several years ago begin to sprout. …Baroness Hirsch very sick. I saw her in Vienna…. I fear her days are few;…a noble woman and the greatest in ability and heart I have ever known." A letter of great significance. With lengthy bio sketches of Straus his equally famous family……

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