Lot of 25+, featuring written and typed letters addressed to editor and author, Henry Rood, including the following highlights:
Charles W. Furlong (1874-1967) American explorer, writer, artist and photographer. Watercolor painting of Terra-Del-Fuego Indian.
Z.B. Vance (1830-1894), CSA officer, North Carolina Governor, and U.S. Senator. ANS from Senate Chamber, May 2, no year.
Frederick D. Grant (1850-1912), first son to U.S. Grant, soldier and U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary. ALS, Headquarters Department of the East, Governor's Island, New York, March 11, 1906.
John Bassett Moore (1860-1947) authority on international law, who was a member of the Hague Tribunal and the first American judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International Justice. TLS, Sagaponack, NY, October 6, 1933.
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933), American author, educator, and clergyman. 2 TLsS from Avalon, Princeton, NJ, one dated October 17, 1907, and one dated January 16, 1908.
William Ordway Partridge (1861-1930), American sculptor. ALS written from "The Studio."
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), New York Governor, Associate Justice of Supreme Court, and more. TLS, State of New York Executive Chamber, Albany, January 30, 1907.
Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880-1970) Danish Polar explorer and author. ANS, February 22, 1906.
Thomas F. Bayard (1828-1898), Delaware politician, U.S. Senator. ALS, Department of State, Washington, November 22, 1885.
Bernice Miller, Secretary to Herbert Hoover. TLS on "Herbert Hoover" letterhead, Waldorf Astoria Towers, New York, April 8, 1946.
Dr. Charles Eastman (born Hakadah and later named Ohíye S’a; 1858-1939), Santee Dakota physician educated at Boston University. TLS, Amherst, Massachusetts, March 24, 1909.
E.H. Crowder (1859-1932), American Army lawyer who served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. Crowder is most noted for implementing and administering the United States Selective Service Act of 1917 during World War I, an act which drafted thousands of American men into military service during World War I. 2 TLsS on War Department, Office of the Provost Marshal General, Washington letterhead, one dated November 24, 1917, one dated July 22, 1916.
Theodore Burton (1851-1921), Ohio politician and member of U.S. House of Representatives. TLS, Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., January 29, 1923.
Mildred Howells, ALS on Women's Republican Club of Massachusetts letterhead, September 27, 1904.
Mounted facsimile of silhouette of Henry W. Longfellow; signed cabinet photo of Nettie Wickes Walker (?); memorial cabinet photograph of W.J. Gresham (?).
Henry Rood edited Memories of the White House: the Home Life of Our Presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt. Being Personal Recollections of Colonel W.H. Crook, some time bodyguard to Lincoln, since then disbursing officer of the executives. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1911).