Two Typed Letters SIGNED to Professor William Gardner Hale and his daughter, Virginia
FDR praises Woodrow Wilson “… our greatest president…” and his “… wonderful dreams of a better world…” In the one-page TLS to Professor Hale, Franklin Roosevelt voices his strong support for New York Governor Al Smith, Democratic candidate in the 1928 Presidential election and his equally strong lack of support for Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt states "...that under Governor Smith our country stands far more chance of returning to the path blased out for us by our greatest President, than under the materialistic and self-seeking advisers who surround the other candidate..." He ends the letter with encouragement to receive Hale's decision of support to his New York address. The letter is dated September 24, 1928 and is on his personal letterhead; lacking the original envelope. The second one-page TLS is addressed to Hale's daughter, extending sympathies for the deaths of her parents (William Gardner Hale and Harriet Swinburne Hale), and referencing President Wilson and Governor Smith. The letter is dated December 5, 1928 and is on his Vice President Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland letterhead, in the original mailing envelope with the Warm Springs postmark. This lot also includes a two-page handwritten letter from William Gardner Hale's daughter, describing the above Roosevelt letters, dated May 20, 1946. It is signed, "Naya", as Virginia was known to friends. From the Family of Xavier Martinez (1869-1943), Elsie Whitaker Martinez (1890-1984), and Micaela Martinez DuCasse (1913-1989). Virginia S. Hale was a close friend to Elsie Martinez and her partner, Harriet Dean. Item #21807
Price: $1,000.00