Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Margaret Busbee Shipp
President Roosevelt was pleased to help the widow of a comrade-in-arms.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-02-13
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Shipp, Margaret Busbee, 1871-1936
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Margaret Busbee Shipp
President Roosevelt is glad to hear of the monument to William Shipp, who was killed during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt is also touched that Margaret Shipp’s boy named his “best guinea pig” after the President.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-05-31