TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, December 7, 1928. Letter to Mr. Daniel, at the Warm Springs Foundation, in part: “O’Connor has told me of your very delightful offer to make a contribution to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. I have, I think, told you of the work we are doing here and of the very excellent results in putting these children, who are victims of Infantile Paralysis, back on their feet. Just at the present time we are trying to pay for a number of small cottages which we need for additional patient room. We now have a capacity for sixty and hope during the coming year to build this up to one hundred. It is a practical work in a pioneer field and I am glad to say that our efforts here are being copied in other parts of the country so that eventually there will be far better provision for the three hundred thousand cases scattered throughout the United States, which are now receiving inadequate treatment.” In very good condition, with central vertical and horizontal folds (a vertical line passing through a single letter of the signature), moderate toning and creasing, small tears and paper loss to the top and bottom edges, scattered spots of foxing to the creased right and bottom, pencil notations and a small area of soiling. In 1924, FDR 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 partnered with Basil O’Connor to purchase the resort and develop it into a world-famous polio treatment center—the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA.
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