$150
Estimate: $300 - $500
Auction: November 12, 2020 10:00:00 AM EDT
Albany, New York, February 26, 1929. 1 p. 10 1/2 x 8 in. (266 x 203 mm). Typed letter, initialed by Roosevelt ("F.D.R."), as Governor of New York, to his close friend and law partner, Basil O'Connor; on gold embossed State of New York, Executive Chamber stationery. Ink stamped at top right "Refer to Roosevelt & O'Connor, 120 Broadway, N.Y., 1929 Mar 21"; creasing from original folds; two hole punches on left edge; lightly toned. Lot includes an etching depicting a young FDR.
Thirty-second president Franklin D. Roosevelt writes to his close friend and law partner Basil O'Connor concerning his financial portfolio: "Dear Doc:-Thanks for sending the check to the Farmers Loan and Trust Company. I enclose the Shearer account. I do not see that he has given me credit for the interest on the C.R.I. & P. bonds or the Chateaugay Ore and Iron bonds since he has had them. Will you look into the whole thing for me and let me know exactly how I stand? I have written Woodin and will attend to the Daniels matter. I never received any Detachable Bit stock from J.B. Shearer or J.B. Shearer & Co., Inc. I guess you will have to unscramble this whole thing. Always sincerely, F.D.R."
In 1920, Roosevelt and O'Connor established the law firm Roosevelt & O'Connor in New York City. In 1927, after Roosevelt contracted polio, he and O'Connor started the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, which later became the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. O'Connor became the foundation's president, a position that he held for more than three decades. The foundation is known today as the March of Dimes.