TLS, two pages, 7.25 x 10.25, personal letterhead, July 9, 1953. Letter to Harry Hooker, FDR's first law partner and Eleanor's attorney, in part: "The five weeks in Japan were interesting and I was kept very busy...I think I did a perfectly good job there and I have sent home a couple of articles and hope to send some more but I don't know how successful I will be in selling any of them. We spent two days in Hong Kong after leaving Japan and that was a most interesting crossroads of the world, so to speak, with everyone telling you different ideas about the situation in Asia until you knew what all the different people thought and found it difficult to make up your mind where any measure of truth lay. A British general took me to the Frontier and I looked over at the Communist Chinese guards on the other side of the bridge and thought what a really foolishly divided world we live in...In Athens we did a lot of sightseeing. We found it more rewarding to see the ruins of the Acropolis in the afternoon when the light was soft, though it was interesting going with an archaeologist in the morning and being told all the history. We saw our own excavations of the old marker place in Athens. I lunched with the King and Queen and dined at the Embassy and then we went on a motor trip to Delphu and Corinth...On Monday, July 6th, we came on to Belgrade, three days late...we did not leave Belgrade till today so we had a pretty thorough briefing from the Yugoslav people...Sarajevo, where we are now, is a most interesting place with all kinds of influences from conquests and occupations making this a curious part of the world. We will be in Bryony with Tito by the 16th and we leave Yugoslavia on the 21st for Vienna." Roosevelt makes a couple handwritten corrections. In fine condition, with splitting to fold above but not affecting signature.
Ex. Walter R. Benjamin Autographs.
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