Premium pages left without account:

Auction archive: Lot number 82

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") with autograph postscript, to Michael Schaap, a progressive delegate to the New York state assembly, New York, N.Y., 22 February 1915. 1 full page, 4to, 240 x 196 mm. (9 1/2 ...

Auction 20.05.1994
20 May 1994
Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$9,200
Auction archive: Lot number 82

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") with autograph postscript, to Michael Schaap, a progressive delegate to the New York state assembly, New York, N.Y., 22 February 1915. 1 full page, 4to, 240 x 196 mm. (9 1/2 ...

Auction 20.05.1994
20 May 1994
Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$9,200
Beschreibung:

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") with autograph postscript, to Michael Schaap, a progressive delegate to the New York state assembly, New York, N.Y., 22 February 1915. 1 full page, 4to, 240 x 196 mm. (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.), on Roosevelt's personal stationery. ROOSEVELT DECRIES "PROTESTANT FANATICS" AND STATES HIS BELIEF IN "ABSOLUTELY NON-SECTARIAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS" A fine, outspoken letter, reacting to a bill in the New York legislature to make Bible readings compulsory in the public schools: "Some time or other come in to see me. I see you appeared against the bill making compulsory the reading of the Bible in the Public Schools. If I were in the Legistlature or Governor, I should vote against or veto that bill, because I believe in absolutely non-sectarian public schools. It is not our business to have the Protestant Bible or the Catholic Vulgate or the Talmud read in those schools. There is no objection whatever, where the local sentiment favors it, for the teacher to read a few verses of the [e]thical or moral parts of the Bible, so long as this causes no offense to anyone. But it is entirely wrong for the law to make this reading compulsory; and the Protestant fanatics who attempt to force this through are playing into the hands of the Catholic fanatics who want to break down the Public Schools system and introduce a system of sectarian schools. I shall ask you to treat this letter as private, because I have so many fights on my hands that there is no use my going into another; and just at present our people do not wish me to embark on a general course of lectures to them as to what they should do in the public schools." In a handwritten postscript, Roosevelt adds: "You can show this letter, however, to Hamilton Fish, our one Progressive legislator, if you wish." Schaap (1874-1957) a Progressive, had joined Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Party in 1912 and was Progressive Party floor leader in the 1913 and 1914 sessions of the legislature. In 1914, the only Progressive who had won re-election was Hamilton Fish.

Auction archive: Lot number 82
Auction:
Datum:
20 May 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") with autograph postscript, to Michael Schaap, a progressive delegate to the New York state assembly, New York, N.Y., 22 February 1915. 1 full page, 4to, 240 x 196 mm. (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.), on Roosevelt's personal stationery. ROOSEVELT DECRIES "PROTESTANT FANATICS" AND STATES HIS BELIEF IN "ABSOLUTELY NON-SECTARIAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS" A fine, outspoken letter, reacting to a bill in the New York legislature to make Bible readings compulsory in the public schools: "Some time or other come in to see me. I see you appeared against the bill making compulsory the reading of the Bible in the Public Schools. If I were in the Legistlature or Governor, I should vote against or veto that bill, because I believe in absolutely non-sectarian public schools. It is not our business to have the Protestant Bible or the Catholic Vulgate or the Talmud read in those schools. There is no objection whatever, where the local sentiment favors it, for the teacher to read a few verses of the [e]thical or moral parts of the Bible, so long as this causes no offense to anyone. But it is entirely wrong for the law to make this reading compulsory; and the Protestant fanatics who attempt to force this through are playing into the hands of the Catholic fanatics who want to break down the Public Schools system and introduce a system of sectarian schools. I shall ask you to treat this letter as private, because I have so many fights on my hands that there is no use my going into another; and just at present our people do not wish me to embark on a general course of lectures to them as to what they should do in the public schools." In a handwritten postscript, Roosevelt adds: "You can show this letter, however, to Hamilton Fish, our one Progressive legislator, if you wish." Schaap (1874-1957) a Progressive, had joined Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Party in 1912 and was Progressive Party floor leader in the 1913 and 1914 sessions of the legislature. In 1914, the only Progressive who had won re-election was Hamilton Fish.

Auction archive: Lot number 82
Auction:
Datum:
20 May 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Try LotSearch

Try LotSearch and its premium features for 7 days - without any costs!

  • Search lots and bid
  • Price database and artist analysis
  • Alerts for your searches
Create an alert now!

Be notified automatically about new items in upcoming auctions.

Create an alert