[Rarebooks] FS: Fine FDR letter to Edwin Gould raising money for Warm Springs

[Charles Agvent]

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ROOSEVELT,  Franklin  Delano. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)  TO  EDWIN
GOULD.  New  York:  2 August 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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