WILLIAM C. REDFIELD - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/27/1914 - HFSID 291660
Price: $220.00
WILLIAM C. REDFIELD
Friendly personal letter from the Secretary of Commerce to the Clerk
of the US House of Representatives, discussing a familiar post-Thanksgiving
problem
Typed Letter signed: "William C. Redfield" as Secretary of
Commerce, 1 page, 7¼x9. Washington, D.C., 1914 November 27. On
official letterhead to Mr. South Trimble, Clerk of the House of Representatives,
Washington. In full: "We have eaten that turkey, or rather we have
twice eaten at that turkey and shall have to try it again. Now that I
have had this practical experience with it the same problem about which I wrote
you before arises fresh. If you are as good a fellow for a man as that turkey
was for a turkey, then you are good indeed, and I think you are. Gratefully
yours". William Cox Redfield (1858-1932) was the first Secretary
of Commerce (1913-1919), after the Departments of Commerce and Labor were
split at the outset of the Wilson administration. A New York businessman who
represented that state for one term in Congress (1911-1913), Redfield had
attended the breakaway Indianapolis convention of "Gold Democrats" who refused
to support William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 Presidential election. Mailing
fold through center. Lightly creased. Toned on verso. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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