Name/Title
Fountain Pen - correspondenceEntry/Object ID
2022.1.00002bScope and Content
Letter addressed to Mr. Kahn signed by the secretary to the President gifting the fountain pen used by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 to sign the Chinese Exclusion Bill H.R. to Julius Kahn.Context
Transcription of letter: My Dear Mr. Kahn: In accordance with the President's direction, I have much pleasure in sending you herewith the pen with which he signed H.R. No. 13031. "An Act to prohibit the coming into and to regulate the residence within the United States, its territories, and all territory under its jurisdiction, and the District of Columbia, of Chinese and persons of Chinese descent. VTY, Secretary to the President; dated May 1, 1902.