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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed as President, to Univ. of California President Benjamin I. Wheeler, Oyster Bay, New York, 8 September 1905, 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery , on U.S. policy towards Chinese immigration: "Your letter was interesting from several standpoints...I agree with you that the presumption must be that where Chinese students are not sent to America it is because of our foolish policy toward them..." -- ROOSEVELT. Typed letter signed as President, to the same, Washington, D.C., 11 May 1904, 1½ pages, 4to, White House stationery, with a few emendations in TR's hand, a fine letter on French literature, his reading and the classics: "Speaking from the standpoint of utterly superficial knowledge...I think it perfectly possible that the Greek poet or poets had used Phoenician recitals of trading voyages...as giving material for the framework of certain incidents...I have been reading an interesting Italian book on the Indo-Europeans. As I have never studied Italian I have read it very slowly...Aryan is a linguistic and not a biological term..." -- ROOSEVELT. Typed letter signed as President, to the same, Oyster Bay, 5 September 1904, 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery : "...I think you are right to stick to your university. That was Nicholas Murray Butler's unhesitating decision here [at Columbia Univ.]..." -- TAFT, WILLIAM H., President . Typed letter signed as President, to University of California President Benjamin I. Wheeler, Washington, D.C., 2 April 1902, 1 page, 4to, integral blank, White House stationery , a brief note: "I have your letter about Hill. I don't expect to relieve him very soon, certainly not before you shall have seved your professorship there..." -- WILLIAM LOEBS, Personal secretary to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft . Four typed letters signed to the same, Washington, D.C., Oyster Bay, N.Y. and Colorado Springs, 6 May 1905-13 June 1908, together 4 pages, 8vo, White House stationery , all concerning letters received by Roosevelt and Taft and forwarding information. Together 8 items . (8)