[Rarebooks] FS: Important letter by Franklin D. ROOSEVELT raising funds for WARM SPRINGS

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT,  Franklin  Delano. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)  TO  EDWIN
GOULD.  New York: 2 Aug. 1927. Two-page, single-spaced letter of  @550
words  to  Edwin Gould as Vice President of the Fidelity  and  Deposit
Company  of  Maryland attempting to raise money for the  Georgia  Warm
Springs  Foundation.  Roosevelt begins: "As you probably know, I  have
become  very much interested in the therapeutic value of Georgia  Warm
Springs.  For  three years, with the assistance of Mr. Henry  Pope  of
Chicago  and various orthopedic surgeons, we have conducted  important
tests  with  thirty  or  forty  patients,  most  of  them  victims  of
polio-myelitis  or  infantile paralysis.... So far the work  has  been
financed  almost  wholly  by myself, but it is necessary  to  put  the
future  on a definite and self-sustaining basis. In order to do  this,
I  am  trying  to  raise  not by general  public  appeal  but  through
interesting  my  personal friends, a three year budget  ...  totalling
$400,000."  SIGNED  "Franklin  D. Roosevelt" with a  typed  postscript
noting  that  contributions are exempt from income tax. Gould was  the
son  of the notorious financier and railroad magnate Jay Gould.  Edwin
was  hired as a young man by his father after the younger Gould made a
profit  of  one million dollars speculating in stocks within just  six
months.  Though successful in his own right, he differed from his more
famous  father  in  that he generously contributed to  many  charities
including  his own Edwin Gould Foundation for Children. This is a fine
example  of a Roosevelt letter about a subject of extreme personal and
public  importance.  Folding  creases,  otherwise  Fine  with  a  bold
signature.                                                    $3500.00

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