Theodore Roosevelt, Typed Letter, Signed, on White House Stationery, on Japanese Immigration

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Theodore Roosevelt writes th a prominent collector of  Japanese art, commenting on Japanese immigration.

In Full: I am very much obliged to you for sending me that book of Schilling’s. Even if not as good as the first, it will doubtless have much of interest in it. // As for the pamphlet, I shall read it, and would like to trepan the various editors who are striving to cause trouble with Japan. The Japanese, however, seem to have their own yellow press, and it seems to be about as obnoxious as ours. Our people act infamously when they in any way wrong the Japanese who are here. But they are absolutely within their rights when they announce that they will restrict immigration hither en masse of any people which they think for economic or other reasons will not make a good addition to our citizenship. // I am delighted to hear that they are all well at Nahant, but very sorry to hear that you have been under the weather and hope that you will soon be all right in spite of the fifty-seven summers. // Ever yours…”

Roosevelt, Theodore. Typed Letter, signed “Theodore Roosevelt” Oyster Bay, N.Y.: 26 July 1907. Written on The White House stationery to Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow, Boston.,  4to.; 1-1/2 pages.