Harding, Warren G. Extraordinary typed letter signed as President. August 22, 1921...

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Harding, Warren G. Extraordinary typed letter signed as President. August 22, 1921 Extraordinary typed letter signed ("Warren G. Harding") as President, 1 page (7 x 9 in.; 178 x 229 mm.), on "The White House Washington" letterhead, 22 August 1921, typed "Personal", written to George W. Aldridge. Accompanied by a 3.75 x 2.25 in. (95 x 57 mm.) introduction card, mentioned in the accompanying letter, imprinted "The President" on which Harding has written, My Dear Aldridge: This will be presented by Miss Britton. Warren G. Harding. Accompanied with original White House transmittal envelope typed "Personal". Both letter and card exhibit light soiling; envelope has stamp cut from corner. Warren G. Harding tries to get a job for his mistress, Nan Britton - an excessively rare documentation of their relationship. Harding writes in full: My dear Mr. Aldridge: The other day I gave a card of introduction to Miss Britton, with the suggestion that she call upon you and present the card. The young lady has a reputation of being a very excellent stenographer. She is a young woman of good family and fine character and I believe her not only to be very bright but highly efficient. She is anxious to secure a position in the service of your department in New York, if there is a place available. If there is none I told her that I thought you would be willing to make inquiry where a very competent stenographer might be desired. I know very well she will make good anywhere. My interest in her is founded upon the fact that her father, now deceased, was at one time a correspondent on my newspaper at Marion and I feel some obligations to be helpful to her and know that I am fully justified in recommending her. I would be very glad to find her a place in some of the departments here in Washington, but she is averse to living in the capital city and very much desires to be permanently placed in New York. If you can be helpful to her I will be glad. Very truly yours, Warren G. Harding According to Nan Britton, the absence of any extant letters between her and President Harding, connecting the two in their alleged affair, is that she tore up all the "heart-revealments" which proved their love because they were too intimate to be risked. Her detractors say no letters ever existed because there was no affair. It would appear that this letter about Miss Britton's needs and desires is as much evidence as is known. However, recent genetic tests have proven that Britton's daughter, Elizabeth Ann Blaesing, was indeed Harding's biological daughter, as Britton so famously alleged in her sensational book, The President's Daughter.