An Extraordinary Presidential Rarity: A Previously Unknown and Unpublished Autograph Letter Signed of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President
Our first such letter, obtained by us directly from the descendants of the recipient, signed with full signature
A search of a public sale database going back over twenty years reveals but two other letters meeting this criteria
Franklin Roosevelt wrote very few letters by hand after he entered the Oval Office. Instead, he dictated to his secretaries and signed the typed correspondence. Of those few letters he did write...
A search of a public sale database going back over twenty years reveals but two other letters meeting this criteria
Franklin Roosevelt wrote very few letters by hand after he entered the Oval Office. Instead, he dictated to his secretaries and signed the typed correspondence. Of those few letters he did write by hand, the are invariably signed FDR or simply Roosevelt. A detailed public sale database search going back over twenty years reveals but two letters that break this rule and are ALSs as President with his full signature Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Now there is a third. Autograph letter signed, at sea at Martha’a vineyard, June 18, 1933, to his Hyde Park neighbor, Marion Carey Dinsmore, while she was in Edgartown, MA, declining her dinner invitation because he was leaving to avoid an incoming storm and had dined early. “I wish so much that I could! It would be like going back to the Hudson again. But we have supped, and we expect to pull out at daybreak. I do hope to see you at Hyde Park in the autumn. Sincerely, Franklin D. Roosevelt.” A Dinsmore descendant explains “She [Marion] invited the President to dinner, but he was unable to attend because of the upcoming storm. The Presidential fleet left the next morning very early.”
This is an extraordinary presidential rarity, one it might take decades to duplicate. Previously there were only 6 ALSs of FDR in private hands. This adds to that, being now one of 7. We obtained this letter from the Dinsmore descendants, and it has never before been offered for sale.
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