[Rarebooks] FS: Franklin D. Roosevelt Writes to His Son about Football, Warm Springs, and Building a Dam

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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. (#013351)        $10,000.00

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