ALS from Theodore Roosevelt Jr. to Dorothy Hancock Tilton [as "Miss. Hillyer"], the wife of poet Robert Hillyer

Kentucky, 1930. Single leaf folded twice horizontally for mailing. Single leaf on Twenty-Sixth Infantry letterhead, folded twice horizontally for mailing, manuscript in black in in the hand of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; a near fine letter and interesting association. Single leaf folded twice horizontally for mailing. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wrote this letter while Commander of the Twenty-Sixth Infantry to poet Robert Hillyer's wife at the time, Dorothy Hancock Tilton, a literary editor for the Houghton Mifflin publishing house. In it responds that he has no photograph to provide her but does give a memorable quote; "Defense of this country is the first duty of a citizen. (Inventory #: 346067)