Auction Date:2011 Apr 13 @ 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
Autograph notes, in pencil, on an off-white 8 x 10.5 sheet, relating to expenses at FDR’s Warm Springs Foundation. Roosevelt writes: “Contingent Fund, New Buildings-equipment, pools, $300,000. Debts 75,000. Polio Experimentation 50,000 / 325,000 / Balance / Endowment Fund $700,000.” Also included is an ink signature, “Franklin D. Roosevelt,” on a 5 x 2 off-white clipped slip; provenance penciled on reverse of signature stating this signature was written “as President on White House paper” and signed by noted presidential collector, Raleigh De Geer Amyx. In fine condition, with a paperclip impression to top of notes.
FDR contracted polio in 1921 following a family vacation in Canada, paralyzing him below the waist. Though physically debilitating him, polio also strengthened his resolve to heal the damage, and in 1924 he learned of Warm Springs, Georgia, and the waters’ curative properties that had been used by Native Americans and Victorian-era residents. After spending several weeks there swimming and exercising in 1925—and impressed by his improvement—he purchased the property and conducted some research of his own...research referenced in this document as Roosevelt allots $50,000 for “Polio Experimentation.” FDR so loved his time in Warm Springs that he had a simple white wooden cottage built overlooking a wooded, deep ravine. He moved into his vacation home on May 1, 1932. After he was elected president in 1933, his cottage was dubbed ‘the Little White House.’ Historic piece of presidential memorabilia linking FDR to his beloved cause.
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