Presidential Gifts - Fairbanks Typewriter

 On February 12, 1880, something wonderful happened at the White House.  A wooden crate arrived with a new typing machine that would change the way all Presidential Letters were written, from this day forward.  The newfangled machine was a Fairbanks and Company Improved Number Two Typewriter. 

President Benjamin Harrison's secretary, Miss Alice Sanger, was the first female White House staff member and the first to use the typewriter for Presidential correspondence. 

A letter was typewritten for President Harrison, dated April 4, 1880 and sent to Mr. Charles F. Heller, owner of a  book bindery in Philadelphia, to thank him for his gift of an olive wood box which was made especially for the new President. The letter was written on White House stationery and signed by President Benjamin Harrison.

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