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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : 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
Bank of New York Company check, 8.25 x 3, filled out and signed by Roosevelt, “Georgia Warm Springs Foundation Patients Aid Fund, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pres.,” made payable to E. T. Curtis, Manager, for $166.00, February 11, 1928. In very good condition, with expected stamps and cancellation holes, and show-through from a stamp on the reverse.

The future president had earlier purchased a Georgia resort and established the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in the hope of finding a cure for, or at least treatment of, his paralysis. To run the operation, Egbert T. Curtis was named manager of the Warm Springs Foundation. To ensure that no one in need was ever turned away, FDR established a Patients’ Aid Fund. When that fund was depleted, he asked the bills of those patients who could not afford the cost be sent directly to him for payment.