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ACK'D
JULY 29 1913

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THE WHITE HOUSE
JULY 28 1913
RECEIVED

July 27

Dear Mr. President:-

I am heartsick
over the announcement that you
have appointed a negro to boss
white girls as Register of the
Treasury. Please let me as
one of your best friends utter my
passionate protest. Unlesss you
can withdraw his name the
[Smith?] can never forgive this.

We have [?]
from the Negro Equality ideas in vogue.
When Cleveland, a Democratic President

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