TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD. Typed Letter Signed, "WmHTaft,"

"I LOVE HISTORY" TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD. Typed Letter Signed, "WmHTaft," to author William Roscoe Thayer, granting permission to print the address he delivered to a Phi Beta Kappa meeting, praising his history of Cavour [Life and Times of Cavour, 1911], and, in a 9-line holograph postscript: "Your history is one of the books I would like to read again. I love history but I have read nothing that has given me great pleasure." 1 page, 4to, personal stationery, with integral blank; horizontal fold. With the original envelope.New Haven, 9 March 1914

". . . I shall be glad to have the Graduates' Magazine print my address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society . . . .". . . I enjoyed reading your history of Cavour. He seems to be one of the three or four men in history. Indeed I was so much impressed with his character that I could not get up enough interest in Garibaldi to read Trevelyan's life of him."With--Ellery Sedgwick. Typed Letter Signed, to William R. Thayer, declining a submission and remarking on having dined with Taft: ". . . I . . . was much interested to hear an eloquent disquisition which he gave on your Cavour. For once he agreed with T.R. [Theodore Roosevelt?]." 1¼ pages, 8vo, "Atlantic Monthly" stationery, written on a folded sheet. Boston, 15 September 1913.