TO NYC MAYOR ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION I REQUEST THAT YOU APPEAR

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TO NYC MAYOR ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION: "I REQUEST THAT YOU APPEAR BEFORE ME" FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Typed Letter Signed, as Governor, to New York City Mayor James J. Walker, confirming the telegram summoning him to a hearing in Albany to answer to charges filed by Judge Samuel Seabury. 1 page, 4to, "Executive Chamber" stationery; moderate staining along upper and lower edges verso from remnants of prior mounting, minor smudging to signature, horizontal folds. Albany, 5 August 1932

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". . . I request that you appear before me at the Executive Chamber in Albany on Thursday August eleventh Nineteen hundred thirty two at one-thirty P M Daylight Saving Time in order that you may be heard in respect to the charges filed with me by Honorable Samuel Seabury . . . and others and your answer thereto . . . ."

On August 11, 1932, Mayor Walker appeared at a hearing arranged by Roosevelt acting as the state's Chief Magistrate to record Walker's response to the corruption charges prepared by Judge Samuel Seabury. Walker declared at the meeting that his over 20 years of political service were blameless; nevertheless, on September 1, 1932, Walker resigned from office and left the country.

WITH--The original telegram from FDR to Mayor Walker, conveying the same message as that of the letter in the present lot, with receipt time stamp at upper edge: "1932 AUG 5 PM 8 00."