May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
NEWLY-ELECTED GOVERNOR FILES IRS FORMS FOR HIS FOUNDATION ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. Typed Letter Signed, as Governor-Elect, with 8-line Autograph Postscript Signed, "FDR," to his law firm partner D. Basil O'Connor ("Dear Doc"), sending a [Georgia Warm Springs] Foundation application for the IRS [not present], requesting that the application be attested, and promising to thank Hoppy. The postscript, inviting O'Connor and his family to visit, expressing doubt that he would meet Al Smith, inquiring whether he should cable their "friend" [Smith?]. 1 page, 4to, "Democratic National Committee" stationery; ink received stamp at upper right, two holes punched in left margin, horizontal folds. (TFC) Warm Springs, GA, 18 November 1928
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The holograph postscript: ". . . I think it a grand idea for you to come down here & return with me. I doubt if I see [Al] Smith at all--& if I do I'll know nothing about appointments. . . ."
with--Franklin D. Roosevelt. Typed Letter, with secretarial signature, to Harry Simmons, wishing him a happy New Year and supposing "that another year will see me also trying in some kind of business to make enough money to keep my family from the poor-house." 1 page, 4to, "Assistant Secretary of the Navy" stationery; horizontal folds. Washington, 2 January 1920.