Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
"I HAVE BEEN . . . TRYING TO GET RID OF MY CRUTCHES" ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. Typed Letter Signed, to Dorinda R. Bakenhus ("My dear Miss Bakenhus"), declining to contribute to the Goucher College endowment because of expenses relating to his disability. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; mounted to board trimmed to size, faint toning at side edges, folds. Hyde Park, 2 December 1925

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". . . 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. . . ."