[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Handwritten Letter by Franklin Roosevelt to his son about football, Warm Springs, etc.

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   ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to his 
son James about football, Warm Springs, and building a dam. Warm 
Springs, 13 October 1926. A superb two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on both 
sides of Roosevelt's personal Hyde Park stationery, completely in FDR's 
hand, to his son James Roosevelt SIGNED as "Father." Roosevelt begins by 
talking about Jimmy's life at school, especially football--"your old Dad 
is keen to hear about it all-- and he was once a Freshman 
himself!"--before talking about Warm Springs from which this letter is 
addressed: "I'm working hard on my exercises down here & our medical 
experiment period has been a joint success--all of the 25 patients have 
greatly benefited. I hope this winter to get enough people to finance it 
on a much larger permanent basis" (FDR established the Warm Springs 
Foundation in 1927). "Next winter I will come here in Feb. instead of 
going to Florida & I wish much that you would come down here at the 
midyears or at Easter- I would love to have you here alone. There are 
lots of interesting problems- Just now I am organizing the fishing club 
& getting ready to let the contract for the big dam which will make a 35 
acre lake. This project should finance itself in 3 years- Lots of love-- 
Take care of yourself. Affect. Father." Wonderful content touching upon 
many of FDR's interests and foreshadowing the TVA program begun in his 
administration. 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, most especially so when to a family member. Normal creases from 
folding. About Fine.                                     $10,000.00	


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