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Letter from Elihu Root, Washington, to Robert Underwood Johnson, 1909 May 17 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
436351
Accession number
MA 23734
Creator
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937.
Display Date
Washington, DC, 1909 May 17.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2021.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.2 x 20.3 cm
Notes
On the stationery of the United States Senate.
Addressed to Johnson at The Century Magazine.
Provenance
Purchased from Seth Kaller, Inc., January 2021.
Summary
Regarding the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act; defending the twenty-year limit (which made artwork over twenty years old exempt); writing "It is intended to prevent shrewd importers from trying to bring in, under the 'free art' schedule, newly manufactured articles for commercial use which are not strictly works of art."