Auction Date:2010 Dec 08 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.25, White House letterhead, January 11, 1938. FDR writes James T. Farley, postmaster general and a longtime Democratic ally. In full: “This is in reply to your letter of December 28, 1937, enclosing one received by you, dated December 17, 1937, from Mr. Tom R. Hutton of the Binghamton Press, Binghamton, N. Y. relating to the construction of the Arkport and Whitney Point dams, forming parts of the project for flood control works for the protection of Binghamton, Hornell, Corning, and other towns in Southern New York and Eastern Pennsylvania, authorized by the Flood Control Act of June 22, 1936. You may advise Mr. Hutton that I have authorized the Secretary of War to proceed with the construction of these two dams.” Double cloth-matted with a Pach Bros. portrait to an overall size of 19.25 x 14.75. In fine condition, with a slight brush to the end of his signature. Construction on the Arkport Dam was completed in 1940 with Whitney Point finishing construction in 1942.
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