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The Panama Canal, speech of William H. Taft : Secretary of War at the St. Louis Commercial Club, St, Louis, Mo., Saturday evening, November 18, 1905
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Is sending twenty copies of the brief on the Sayward case as requested; requests copies of petition, suggestion, and briefs. Postscript and initials in hand of Taft. The Sayward case involved the seizing of a British ship in the Bering Sea in 1887 for hunting fur seals, a violation of an Act of Congress.
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William H. Taft, Washington, D.C., letter to Hamilton Holt, New York :
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Taft apologizes that he cannot write an article for the Independent about the Philippines.
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Neutrality : an address delivered by William H. Taft before the Washington Association of New Jersey
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William H. Taft, War Department, Washington, D.C., letter to Benjamin J. Horton :
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Thanks Horton for remembering him and for his kind words of congratulations.
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William H. Taft, Hot Springs, Virginia, letter to Hamilton Holt, New York :
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William H. Taft, Washington, D.C., letter to Walter J. Ballard, Los Angeles :
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Thanking him for his kind words of congratulation, his aid and sympathy. Includes addressed envelope.
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