TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, embossed State of New York Executive Chamber letterhead, December 22, 1930. Letter to George R. Dickson. In full: “I did not have an opportunity while at Warm Springs to thank you for your letter of congratulations, but I want you to know that I am very grateful. It was good of you to think of me.” In very good condition, with mailing fold passing through the signature, overall toning, and show-through from toned adhesive remnants at corners. In 1924, FDR famously traveled to Warm Springs, Georgia, where he found that immersion in the area’s mineral-rich warm water was one of the few things that provided relief from his polio-induced paralysis. Shortly thereafter he purchased the resort and developed it into what became a world-famous polio treatment center—the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, still in operation today as the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. The month prior to writing this letter, Roosevelt had been reelected as New York’s governor and thus received many letters of congratulations, to which this was his general response. An important association. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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