Vice President Sherman's guest book (1911-13). Oblong octavo, full blue leather, silk endpapers, aeg., silver initial monogram "JSS" laid-on front board. Contains guest SIGNATURES in ink from the following functions: Dinner to the President Dec. 19, 1912; House guests over New Year 1911; Receiving Party January 1st, 1911; Dinner to Ambassadors Feb. 20, 1911; Luncheon to Mrs. Hale April 20, 1911; Dinner to Spanish Minister April 24, 1911; Dinner to Secretary Nagel May 4, 1911; Officers of First Regiment house guests for Inauguration March 4, 1913. Included among the signers are William Howard Taft, Helen Taft, Admiral Heihachiro Togo, George Wickersham, Philander Knox, Franklin MacVeugh, Frank Hitchock, J. G. Cannon, Myran T. Herrick, Mabel Boardman, Kate Sherman, Charlemayne Tower, James Bryce, George Myer, Beekman Winthrop, Charles Nagel, Charles Walcott, James R. Mann, Members of the Essex Troop. A unique historical item.
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