FIRST LADY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/30/1955 - HFSID 176558
Price: $300.00
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Eleanor Roosevelt sends a typed letter of thanks for the
brochure.
Typed Letter Signed: "Eleanor Roosevelt", 1p, 6x8. Hyde
Park, New York, 1955 May 30. On letterhead of Val-Kill Cottage to Mr.
Raymond. In full: "Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness in
sending your brochure to me. I am so glad to hear that your forum is meeting
with so much success. With all good wishes". Val-Kill Cottage had been
built as a retreat for Eleanor by FDR on his Hyde Park estate in 1925. She
used it sparingly for many years, but moved into the stone cottage after
President Roosevelt died in 1945. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) had
married her distant cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1905 (her uncle, President
Theodore Roosevelt, gave her away). She would serve as First Lady for 12
years and 39 days (March 4, 1933 until her husband's death of a cerebral
hemorrhage on April 12, 1945), longer than any other woman.Eleanor, who
had previously been First Lady of New York when FDR was Governor of the
state (1929-1933), later became known as "First Lady of the World" for her
humanitarian efforts, including getting the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights adopted by the United Nations. Appointed by President Truman, she
had been a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations from
1945-1952. Lightly creased with folds, not at signature. Slightly soiled at
blank areas. Fine condition.
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