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
Signed book: Two Ordeals of Democracy: A Lecture at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation, October 16, 1924: Later printing. Riverside Press, Boston. 1925. Hardcover. 56 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page, “For Mr. Marion M. Miller, in memory of a very happy day in Toledo. Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 1928.”; and a TLS, as president, one page, 7 x 9, White House letterhead, July 10, 1935. Roosevelt writes to Marion Miller, the above book’s recipient. In full: “In going over a lot of books at Hyde Park the other day I found this volume with an inscription-May, 1928-and although it is seven years ago, I am sending it to you. I hope you are having a good trip and that I shall see you one of these days.” Both rate in very good condition, with book having even toning and scattered foxing to signed page, as well as both pastedowns and last free end page, and some light wear to spine; letter has toning, light foxing, and several creases. In June 1922, the authorities at Milton Academy discussed how to honor the memory of its alumni, 22 overall, who had died in action during World War I. The Trustees wanted a living memorial, rather than something "static or finished" such as a statue, and thus it was decided to fund an annual series of lectures at the Academy to address" the responsibilities and opportunities attaching to leadership in democracy. "Roosevelt delivered the 1925 speech, and would later inscribe a copy of the published lecture to Miller, an Ohio banker and co-compiler of an edition of the Works of Abraham Lincoln. The book would reside in FDR’s personal library at Hyde Park until he discovered it in the summer of 1935.
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