Your TR Source
Frank Ward agrees to return Theodore Roosevelt’s maple leaf insignia and thanks Roosevelt for the photo he sent. Ward says he will send the maple leaf separately from the letter.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1921-02-03
Frank J. Ward advises Theodore Roosevelt that he found Roosevelt’s “maple leaf” on the battlefield in Cantigny, France in May of 1918. Ward says he treasures the leaf as a relic of the war and asks Roosevelt for a recommendation regarding Ward’s fitness for a position as a guard at a penitentiary. Someone has written at the top of the letter that the leaf is in the glass-topped table in the drawing room at Sagamore Hill.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1920-12-18