Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 407

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Group of autographs, photographs, and ephemera relating to Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and his family. 164 items, various sizes and conditions; sleeved in 5 loose-leaf binders. Vp, 1924-41 and nd

Additional Details

Includes 2 signed photographs; 16 Letters Signed to various recipients, 1930-41; 1924 gubernatorial campaign material; and 90 photographs. In one letter dated 22 October 1932, he comments huffily from the Philippines about the impending election of his distant cousin Franklin: "I don't like the tone of the political news that comes from the U.S. It looks as if the country were determined to change administrations." Another from 1934, written as president of the National Republican Club, declares that "the policies of the so-called New Deal are unsound economically and subversive of our American form of government."