Typed Letter Signed from the American historian Albert J. Beveridge to Charles Gallup. With a transcript, in another hand, of a passage from Beveridge's article 'Pitfalls of a "League of Nations" (North American Review, 1882), signed by Beveridge.

Both items neatly tipped-in onto a leaf from an album. Both in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The letter is 1p., 8vo. Beveridge begins by explaining that he is late answering Gallup's letter because he has been 'working so hard for many months to finish the last two volumes of my "Life of John Marshall" that I have been forced to neglect all correspondence'. He is enclosing 'the quotation, autographed as requested'. He is glad Gallup liked the article, and 'flattered by your too partial words'. He ends: 'Thinking that you might be interested, I am sending you, under separate cover, copy of an address which I delivered at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association on the same subject.' (not present). The transcript is 1p., 8vo, and consists of twenty-one lines beginning 'The League can be established only by treaty.' Its source is given at the end as 'The North American Review.', with the date '1882' in pencil. Neatly presented, it is signed at the end 'Albert J. Beveridge'. It concludes in stirring fashion: 'The situation of the American nation is unique. Geographically it sits on the throne of the world. Its history is that of the evolution of a distinct, separate, and independent people. Its mission is no less than to create a new face on the earth and to present to mankind the example of that happiness and well being which comes from progressive, self-disciplined liberty.'