Auction Date:2010 Oct 13 @ 18:00 (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
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. In 1921, Roosevelt contracted polio while on a family vacation to Canada. Paralyzed below the waist, he sought to heal the damage in the beneficial waters of Warm Springs, Georgia, making 41 visits to the site beginning in 1924. Pleased with the therapy he received there, FDR decided to conduct some of his own research, in this document allotting $50,000 for “Polio Experimentation.” That work involved 23 patients who were observed for five to seventeen weeks. All showed some degree of improvement, with a detailed report of each case presented to a trio of prominent orthopedic surgeons. Each expressed unqualified approval and concurred with establishing a hydro-therapeutic center at Warm Springs. Roosevelt started the Warm Springs Foundation in 1927 to provide care for other polio victims, overseeing every detail of the facility.
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