?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
INCLUDES FDR LETTER WITH RARE MENTION OF HIS CRUTCHES (PRESIDENTS.) Group of 4 letters, each Signed by a U.S. President, to various recipients: Rutherford B. Hayes * Grover Cleveland * William H. Taft * Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hayes. ALS, "R.B. Hayes," to Thomas Donaldson, declining to meet because he must place his daughter at Miss Porter's School [Farmington, CT]. Cleveland. ALS, to Charles Kirchbaum, sending a letter to be published [not present] and remarking that he is "tired of having letters I write so miserably printed that they appear ridiculous. . . . [T]ake a little pains . . . that it is correctly published." Taft. TLS, "WmHTaft," as Chief Justice, to Saturday Evening Post publisher Cyrus H.K. Curtis, thanking for the opportunity to have been a contributor to the People's Ledger. Roosevelt. TLS, to Dorinda R. Bakenhus, declining to contribute to Goucher College due to his heavy investment in "trying to get rid of my crutches" [he was busy building the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation]. Each 1 page, 8vo or 4to; Roosevelt mounted. (SFC) New York, 8 October 1885; Np, nd; [La Malbaie], 20 July 1921; Hyde Park, 2 December 1925
Roosevelt, 2 December 1925: ". . . I wish very much that I . . . could help . . . in the campaign for the endowment, but I fear it is impossible as I have been under very heavy expenses of late in trying to get rid of my crutches. . . ."
