TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, November 6, 1930. Letter to addressed to Darwin P. Kingsley, President of the New York Life Insurance Company, in part: “I have accepted the State Chairmanship in New York of the Committee which is making an appeal on behalf of the impoverished children of Porto [sic] Rico…Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico is the Honorary Chairman of the National Committee and actively engaged in the work. As a result of the survey made by Dr. J. S. Crumbine of the American Child Health Association at the request of President Hoover, it was revealed that over 150,000 American school children are seriously undernourished—some slowly starving. The feeding of these children is a part of the unified endeavor to raise $7,300,000 over a period of six years…The Porto Rico hurricane which destroyed crops, roads and homes, left all but destitute more children in peril of death from malnutrition and the scourge of tuberculosis than anywhere under the American flag. The fact that black coffee without sugar or milk is the only breakfast for tens of thousands of children in Porto Rico today tells its own story…I am sure that we all want to help in this good work. It will be gratifying to me if you will accept a place on the New York State Committee.” In fine condition, with a small puncture hole above letterhead, and trivial soiling and creasing. Accompanied by a letter from Roosevelt’s future secretary of treasury William H. Woodin to Kingsley requesting his help in raising funds for the restorative treatment of polio victims at Warm Springs. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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