[Rarebooks] FS: Franklin Roosevelt Autograph Letter to his son James on his election to Harvard fraternity

[Charles Agvent]

  ROOSEVELT,  Franklin. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to  his  son
James  congratulating  him on election to his fraternity  at  Harvard.
Hyde  Park: [October 1927]. A fine one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on  plain
paper,  completely in FDR's hand, to his son James Roosevelt SIGNED as
"Father."  In full: "Dear Jimmy-- A nice telegram last night from  the
Fly  Club  congratulates me on your election-- & I am very happy  that
my  very dear eldest son will soon be in those same four walls where I
was  in  1902 -- 3 -- & 4 -- I hope the rest of the fellows  you  were
working  for  have been elected too -- Your own admission fee &  first
year's  dues  will  be  a  Christmas present  from  me.  Your  devoted
Father."  The  Fly Club was the fraternity Alpha Delta Phi, for  which
Franklin  Roosevelt  served as librarian during his time  at  Harvard.
The  future President was only an average student who attended classes
fairly  regularly,  though he did join fellow students in cutting  out
of  one  class  by  slipping out a window at the  rear  of  the  room.
Franklin  Roosevelt  later  compared  his   Harvard  education  to  an
electric  lamp  without a cord.  He graduated in 1904.  After Harvard,
from  which  he did not graduate, 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.  Brief autograph notation on back of envelope,
possibly in  FDR's hand.  Autograph letters completely in the hand  of
Franklin   Roosevelt  are  quite  scarce;   those  to  family  members
exceptionally  so.  Normal creases from folding.  Fine with  envelope.
                                                               $6000.00

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