Auction Date:2012 May 16 @ 18:00 (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
TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, November 6, 1930. Letter to addressed to Darwin P. Kingsley, president of the New York Life Insurance Company. In part: “I have accepted the State Chairmanship in New York of the Committee which is making an appeal on behalf of the impoverished children of Porto Rico…Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico is the Honorary Chairman of the National Committee and actively engaged in the work…as a result of the survey…at the request of President Hoover…over 150,000 American school children are seriously undernourished—some slowly starving…The feeding of these children is a part of the unified endeavor to raise $7,300,000 over a period of six years…The Porto Rico hurricane…destroyed crops, roads and homes, left all but destitute more children in peril of death from malnutrition and the scourge of tuberculosis than anywhere under the American flag…. Black coffee without sugar or milk is the only breakfast for tens of thousands of children in Porto Rico today tells its own story…. I am sure that we all want to help in this good work. It will be gratifying to me if you will accept a place on the New York State Committee.” Small punch hole to top center, and several vertical creases and wrinkles along the right edge, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by a TLS, signed "W. H. Woodin," dated March 12, 1930, one page, 8.5 x 11, also addressed to Darwin P. Kingsley. In part, "About a year ago we had a dinner for the Governor [Franklin D. Roosevelt], at which he described the restorative treatment which is being carried on at Warm Springs, Georgia. Many of the guests asked me afterwards if they might have some share in the expenses of this sanitarium…[it seems no one has yet to] invite you to join us in the finances…I am, therefore, taking the liberty of asking you to help on this fund.”
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