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Franklin D. Roosevelt Document Signed UACC PADA

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32nd President. Typed Letter Signed, one page, 7.25" X 10.5", dated November 6, 1930, Albany, New York, addressed to Darwin P. Kingsley, [President] 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...at the request of President Hoover...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...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...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...Very sincerely yours," Signed, "Franklin D Roosevelt". One center punch hole and the usual folds, otherwise in very good condition.Included also is a second Typed Letter Signed, "W H Woodin", dated March 12, 1930, New York, one page, 8.5" x 11", also addressed to Darwin P. Kingsley. A dear and longtime friend of FDR's, Woodin requests a donation to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, started by FDR in 1927, after contracting polio six years earlier. Light creasing and edge wear, one center hole punch, the usual folds, otherwise in very good condition.

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Catalog #: 50
Inventory #: 13113