[Rarebooks] FS: Wonderful FDR Letter about Grace Tully and wishing he were a private citizen

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) Expressing Desire 
to be a Private Citizen. Warm Springs, GA, 30 November 1928. An 
interesting one-page letter on personal stationery to Mary O'Connor Eben 
of the Democratic National Committee. In full: "Dear Mary O'Connor:-- 
Many thanks for your mighty nice Thanksgiving greetings. All goes well 
here and the Tully child is behaving as well as possible, in view of the 
steady stream of newspaper boys who drop in here and forget the purpose 
of their visit as soon as they see her. We all leave, I think, on 
December ninth, and hope to see you when I get back. It must seem very 
queer to you to be a private citizen once more. I wish I were in your 
place. Always sincerely," and SIGNED "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Grace 
Tully started working for the Democratic National Committee in 1928, 
assigned to assist Eleanor Roosevelt who was organizing support for 
presidential nominee Al Smith. Later that year, when FDR was nominated 
for Governor of New York, Tully went to work on his staff. After 
Roosevelt's successful election, Tully served as the assistant to Missy 
LeHand, who was Roosevelt's personal secretary in Roosevelt's Albany 
office, and served with FDR for his four years as governor. Both she and 
Missy LeHand served FDR in the White House. She took over as personal 
secretary to the President when LeHand suffered a stroke in 1941 and was 
present at his death in Warm Springs in 1945. Creasing and wrinkling. 
Very Good with a Fine signature. (#021097)        $900

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