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Scarce FDR ALS to His Youngest Son

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Scarce FDR ALS to His Youngest Son
Scarce FDR ALS to His Youngest Son. Autograph letter signed ("Your devoted Father"), on "Roosevelt & O'Connor / Counselors At Law" letterhead, 1½ pp, 11x8½", Warm Springs (Ga.), November 2, 1927. Written to FDR's youngest son, John Aspinwall (1916-81), who was eleven years old: "I'm glad to hear from Mother that you have made center on the school football team - & I hope that you are also on the honor roll again! Do send a line some day to Gordon Foster, he so often speaks of you and Franklin. Soon you will be off for Cambridge & Groton. I wish I could be there too. I hope you will see a Harvard victory, but so far Yale seems to have much the stronger team. Everything goes well here & the weather continues like summer, & everything is very dusty & dried up. Write me soon. I miss you much. Your devoted Father." Fine condition.

John, like all the Roosevelt sons, attended Groton (class of 1934) and Harvard (A.B., class of 1938). John and Franklin Jr. spent their early years in the White House and enjoyed a very close relationship with their mother. John served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, being discharged in 1946 as a lieutenant commander. He was involved in business on the West Coast until 1952, at which time he and his family moved to Stone Cottage, next to his mother's home at Val-Kill (Eleanor died in 1962). John sold the Val-Kill properties in 1972 and lived in Tuxedo, New York until his death in 1981. He married twice and had four children.
Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000.
Ex Christie's, Feb. 14-15, 2001, Sale 9690, Lot 159.

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