Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 130

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ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. Typed Letter Signed, as Governor, to Einar Hilsen, expressing approval of his writing a book about his grandfather, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. 1 page, 4to, "Executive Chamber" stationery. Albany, 15 February 1932
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"I am glad that you are writing a book about your famous grandfather, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. We in America congratulate Norway that she has given this great poet to the world. . . . [T]his Norse stock which has become an important part of the American people has shown splendid qualities of enterprise, right thinking and patriotism."
In 1903, Bjørnson received the Nobel Prize in Literature.