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CRITICIZING HER HUSBAND'S NOMINATION HARDING, FLORENCE KING. Autograph Letter Signed, to Major Reddy Baldinger, a chatty letter about her travel
CRITICIZING HER HUSBAND'S NOMINATIONHARDING, FLORENCE KING. Autograph Letter Signed, to Major Reddy Baldinger, a chatty letter about her travel plans, a mutual friend and writing that "Of course you have heard the sad news - Mr. Harding has declared himself a presidential candidate - and the pity of it all is it was forced on him. I think he felt just as I did - that his place was in the senate. Don't say anything about this. We are now in this to stay until the finish." 4 pages, two oblong 8vo correspondence cards. Washington, nd [but 1920]
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Notes: This letter written soon after the storied 1920 Republican National Convention, in which the front running candidates deadlocked and party bosses pushed through Harding's nomination on the tenth ballot.
with --A photograph of Warren Harding, Florence King Harding and Baldinger.
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