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- GLC#
- GLC05508.219-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 October 1914
- Author/Creator
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- Title
- to Bishop Walker T. Sumner
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 24.1 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- The Politics of Reform
Roosevelt congratulates Sumner on being elevated to Bishop. He comments that bishops tend to grow "mentally inert" and apart from ordinary people (which he also sees as a tendency among successful professionals and businessmen), and is glad to group Sumner in with the exceptions.
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