[Rarebooks] FS: Franklin Roosevelt writes his eldest son about attending the Democratic Convention

[Charles Agvent]

  One of several letters from Franklin Roosevelt to his eldest son, James, that 
will be part of our upcoming catalogue of SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL material to be 
posted on our website on Wednesday: http://www.erols.com/agvent.  Also included 
will be important signed and association copies of LBJ, Harry Truman, Theodore 
Roosevelt, and FDR books.


ROOSEVELT,  Franklin Delano. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED  (ALS)  to
his  son  James about attending the Democratic  Convention.  [1928]. A
one-page  AUTOGRAPH LETTER on Roosevelt's Fidelity and Deposit Company
of  Maryland  stationery, completely in FDR's hand, to his  son  James
Roosevelt  SIGNED as "Father." In full: "All accomodations are  booked
for  8:30 p.m. Friday & we'll have a grand time-- By the way find  out
about  when  you can leave Cambridge in the Spring -- what do you  say
to  your & Elliot going with me to the Houston Convention which starts
June  26th?  I  ought to get there the 24th at the  latest.  Hope  the
exams  are  coming  all right-- Much love  Devotedly  Father."  Though
undated,  this letter's reference to the Houston Democratic Convention
on  June  26  firmly  places  it in 1928. In  October  of  that  year,
Roosevelt  would  be  convinced  to run for Governor  of  New  York, a
position  he  won  by  a very narrow margin. In  the  next  Democratic
Convention  four  years later, Roosevelt would win the  nomination  as
President  and the election to his first of four unprecedented  terms.
After  attending  but  not graduating from  Harvard,  James  Roosevelt
became  an  insurance executive, a position he left in 1937 to  become
secretary  to his father in the White House. He was decorated for  his
service  as a Marine in World War II. Autograph letters completely  in
Franklin  Roosevelt's  hand are quite scarce; those to family  members
exceptionally  so.  This with the envelope addressed in FDR's hand  to
Mr.  James  Roosevelt.  Normal creases from folding.  Near  Fine  with
envelope.                                                     $4000.00

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