[Rarebooks] FS: Handwritten Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Son Expressing Sympathy over Football Leg Injury

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to his son 
James about his injured leg. Marion, Nov. 19 [@1925]. A 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." In full: "It is mighty nice news that the leg is getting on 
well & that nothing happened to a nerve or bone - but it must be hard to 
lug around a heavy plaster cast. My heart went out to you that Wednesday 
on the first play - I have never known quite such a piece of hard luck - 
and to have lost the game would after that have been too much - I can't 
tell you the number of old grads from Bob Emmons down who came up & 
sympathized with you & me - & nearly all of them made the point that you 
had done your full share in the building up of the team, & that you 
share fully in final victory. I am sending you 'One Increasing Purpose' 
by Hutchinson - I like it & I think you will if you can get into it past 
the first 100 pages-- I expect to get to Aunt Margaret's on Thanksgiving 
Day at about noon & hope to find both you & Elliott - I take it you both 
will go back to school [Groton] that night. Write me details - I will 
return to Marion at 4 p.m. so on to let Ray & John have their 
Thanksgiving Dinner that night. Ever your affectionate Father." James 
Roosevelt broke his leg during his final year at Groton, ending his 
football career. He 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. Normal creases 
from folding. Near Fine. (#013349)        $7,500.00

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