PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/20/1918 - HFSID 4586
Sale Price $1,695.00
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WOODROW WILSON
The President accepts an invitation from Rupert Hughes to join
General Hind Quarters, a humorous association of literary spies.
Typed Letter Signed: "Woodrow Wilson" as President, 1p,
7x8¾. The White House, Washington, 1918 November 20. To Rupert
Hughes, Washington, D.C. In full: "Of course I appreciate
sincerely the good fellowship of the members of the General Hind Quarters in
electing me a member. I wish, though I can hardly hope, that it might be my
pleasure to foregather with them." President WILSON signed this
letter just nine days after the armistice was signed, ending WWI. It is
addressed to author, composer and film director Rupert Hughes
(1872-1956). While serving in the Military Intelligence Division of the
War Department during World War I, Hughes and other literary lions formed
General Hind Quarters. According to member Kenneth Roberts, the
purpose of this club was "to encourage the physical, moral and intellectual
development of the world ... to foster among its members a love for all that is
beautiful, spontaneous and soporific in the realm of literature, science,
veterinary surgery, psychoanalysis, kinetic stability, free lunch, optometry and
military intelligence." Creased. Soiled. Bold, slightly damp stained
signature.
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