The Marguerite "Missy" LeHand Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection

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MARGUERITE A. (“MISSY”) LEHAND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT COLLECTION

GLENN HOROWITZ BOOKSELLER, INC. 1

THE MARGUERITE A. (“MISSY”) LEHAND - FDR ARCHIVE An Introduction On the evening of July 30, 1944, Marguerite A. (“Missy”) LeHand went to the movies in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her sister, Anna Rochon and a friend. Just over three years earlier, in June 1941, she suffered a massive stroke that left her partially paralyzed and barely able to speak. Recently she had regained enough strength in her hand to write Franklin Roosevelt a letter. “I did so enjoy your letter,” FDR wrote her in response; “grand work—keep it up. Your writing is very good & I am proud of you.” But the movie outing got cut short when a newsreel came on showing a gaunt and haggard FDR on an inspection tour in San Diego. Missy became upset and asked to be taken home. Just after midnight Anna checked in on her in the house they shared at 101 Orchard Street, in Somerville. She saw the light on, Missy sitting up in bed. But there was something horribly wrong. Missy’s head was slumped downward, in her hands old photos of her and FDR, when both were younger and vibrant. An ambulance rushed Missy to the Chelsea Naval Hospital where doctors diagnosed a cerebral embolism and pronounced her dead at 9:05 a.m. She was just six weeks shy of her 48th birthday.

The LeHand family notified the White House. Missy’s immediate family may have been in Somerville, but she had a second family, one she had spent far more time with over the last 20 years, and they had to know. White House press secretary Steve Early cabled President Roosevelt, then at sea bound for Alaska. “Memories of more than a score of years of devoted service enhance the sense of personal loss which Miss LeHand’s passing brings,” FDR told the press. “Faithful, painstaking, with charm of manner inspired by tact and kindness of heart, she was utterly selfless in her devotion to duty. Hers was a quiet efficiency, which made her a real genius in getting things done. Her memory will ever be held in affectionate remembrance and appreciation not only by all the members of our family, but by the wide circle of those whose duties brought them into contact with her.”

“She was a member of our family for a good many years,” Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her “My Day” column, “and gave the kind of service to the President which is never paid for, but for which he and all those around him have always been extremely grateful.” Eleanor went to the funeral on August 2, FDR being unable to cut short his inspection tour. She reflected the following day, “Miss LeHand leaves a host of friends besides her family. Perhaps the way in which she bore the last few years of illness will have a greater influence on those around her than the many years in which she lived and worked in public life, when she did a valiant and important job.” When FDR got back to the White House on August 15, Grace Tully, Missy’s closest friend and associate, dating back to 1928, said: “You and I lost a very dear friend.” The comment put FDR—as well as Tully—on the verge of tears. “Yes,” FDR said, “poor Missy.”

This archive documents what was arguably Franklin D. Roosevelt’s closest personal relationship between 1920 and 1941. While Missy’s official papers long ago moved to the FDR Library in Hyde Park, this collection constitutes the personal letters, signed books, photos and speeches she received from her boss, dating back to the 1920s. His 14 letters to her after she left the White House following her 1941 stroke—the only FDR letters to LeHand extant from this period—are a rare and remarkable example of affection and concern which he showed for few

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other people. FDR’s legendary “first-class temperament” came with a curious emotional barrier, one that not even his wife and children could penetrate. Missy was the exception. The vast scope of this archive testifies to the depth and intensity of his connection with her. It comprises some 1,400 pieces altogether, including 67 signed and inscribed books from FDR, many of them rare first editions and Christmas Books; over 40 signed speeches, including his Inaugural Addresses, the “Arsenal of Democracy” speech of December 1940, his announcement of the Four Freedoms in January 1941, and other historic addresses; some 300 photos of FDR, LeHand and their circle, many of them unknown, candid shots of FDR relaxing at Warm Springs in his bathing trunks, exposing his normally concealed legs; some 30 signed and inscribed photos of FDR to LeHand; over 700 invitations to LeHand for Inaugural ceremonies, White House functions, and diplomatic receptions, including a small archive of documents relating to the crucial pre-war visit of the British King and Queen to Hyde Park and Washington in June 1939. There is correspondence from key members of the Roosevelt circle and Cabinet, such as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes (providing important historical information about FDR’s alarming decline in health in mid-1944), Ambassador to the Soviet Union and France, William C. Bullitt, with whom LeHand was romantically involved for many years; as well as Missy’s own letters to her family. This is the only archive of such a central figure in FDR’s life still in private hands. There will be no other opportunity to acquire such a historic archive from the Roosevelt Era. Marguerite A. LeHand was born on September 13, 1896 in Potsdam, New York, the third of four children to an Irish Catholic gardner. Her parents separated, causing her mother Mary to move with the children to Massachusetts, where Marguerite studied secretarial science at Somerville High School. In 1917 she took a job as a typist at the Bureau of Ordnance during World War I but hated the monotonous work and the regimented working conditions. She returned home to Somerville but then moved to Philadelphia to take another government job at the Emergency Fleet Corporation. There she impressed the Corporation's secretary, Charles McCarthy, who had previously been an aide to a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1920 McCarthy was helping run FDR’s vice-presidential campaign headquarters, and he asked LeHand to come aboard. She had very little contact with the candidate during the campaign. In fact, she only saw him once. But after November Eleanor Roosevelt asked Marguerite to come up to Hyde Park and help deal with the voluminous postelection correspondence. She and FDR got on immediately, and he asked her to become his secretary at his new law firm, Emmet, Marvin & Roosevelt. In those days FDR divided his workdays in half, mornings at the law office and afternoons at the Fidelity & Deposit Company.

LeHand—now dubbed “Missy” by the Roosevelt children who could not negotiate “Miss LeHand”—said she was reluctant to get stuck with boring legal work. Roosevelt assured her that these positions were merely places to hang his hat while he planned his next important political move. Then disaster struck.

In August 1921 Roosevelt contracted poliomyelitis, probably from a Boy Scout camp he visited earlier that summer. Plunged into despair, his political career, if not his life, seemed over.

Missy LeHand was one of a small band of trusted intimates who stayed by his side through these grueling early years of recovery: the others being his chief political advisor, Louis Howe and, after 1922, D. Basil O’Connor. They pulled him out of his black hole of depression and despair.

The emotional ballast they provided allowed Roosevelt’s innate stoicism to reassert itself. He

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became determined to remain positive and cheerful, to never feel sorry for himself, and above all to recover and to someday walk again.

He discovered the soothing, restorative powers of the waters at Warm Springs, Georgia, ultimately buying the property and turning it into the nation’s first polio rehabilitation facility.

Missy stayed with him in his cottage there. Each winter in the mid-1920s he took to his houseboat, the Larooco, off the Florida coast, accompanied at times by his political guru, Howe, and occasionally entertaining Florida political figures. But apart from the crew, the only two permanent passengers were FDR and Missy. They passed many quiet, solitary days and nights together, playing cards, dispatching correspondence. Once when FDR fell and tore knee ligaments during a storm, Missy comforted him until they could get to a doctor in Miami.

Biographer Geoffrey Ward pointed out in A First-Class Temperament, that between the years 1925 and 1928—a span of 208 weeks—FDR spent 116 of those weeks away from Hyde Park.

“Eleanor was with him just four of those 116 weeks…Missy LeHand was with him for 110 of them.” Several of the candid, informal photographs in the archive date from this crucial period.

She was at his elbow the night at Warm Springs in 1928 when he took the call from New York as the Democratic Party leaders urged him to run for governor. “Don’t you dare—don’t you dare!” Missy told him. She was convinced he was making progress in his rehabilitation and that a return to politics would destroy his chances at recovery. That was a pipe dream. He would never walk again, whether he ran for office or stayed in Warm Springs. But once he plunged back into public life, Missy knew she had lost much of her exclusive claim on his time and attention. After FDR decided to run she fell ill and was bedridden and out of commission for most of the gubernatorial campaign. Some FDR biographers see LeHand’s illness as a psychological reaction, even a nervous breakdown, reflecting her sadness over the loss of their intimate life together and her realization that she had lost him, so to speak, to the public realm.

The question of Missy’s health inevitably gets caught up with the nature of her relationship with FDR. Most FDR biographers have been unable to resist depicting Missy’s health problems in romantic terms, as if she was some swooning character out of Victorian fiction, suffering from a broken heart for her unrequited love for FDR. But there was a simpler, physiological reason for her illnesses and eventual stroke: Missy contracted rheumatic fever as a child which left scarring on her mitral valve. She suffered recurring bouts of atrial fibrillation for which she took digitalis. That medicine is known to cause mood swings, depression and anxiety.

A defective valve rather than a broken heart was the root of her physical problems.

Were she and FDR ever lovers? The two certainly shared an extraordinary intimacy.

Once she recovered from her 1928 illness she resumed her place at Roosevelt’s side. She lived in the governor’s mansion in Albany, and worked in his private study. The same arrangement prevailed in the White House four years later, where Missy took up private quarters on the third floor, and—alone among White House staffers—had an office that opened directly into the President’s. During Eleanor’s many travels during the White House years, LeHand would serve as hostess at receptions and dinners in her stead. She would would dine with FDR when there were no official guests to entertain. When FDR retired to the private quarters for the evening, Missy would accompany him, either handling more correspondence or assisting him with his stamps, books or manuscript collections. FDR granted her power-of-attorney to write his checks and pay his bills, a privilege that was not extended to her successor, Grace Tully. Eleanor Roosevelt regarded her fondly, without the slightest jealousy, as the 11 warm letters she wrote to her in this collection testify. The Roosevelt children, for the most part, also respected and cared for her.

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In 1973 Elliott Roosevelt published a book—repudiated by his four siblings—alleging that LeHand was openly FDR’s mistress, and that Eleanor Roosevelt knew and even approved the arrangement: “It was not unusual to enter his sunny, corner room [in the governor’s mansion] and find Missy there in her nightgown. There was no attempt to conceal their relationship.

Everyone within the family had come to accept the fact that Missy was a special part of our family...He made no attempt to conceal his feelings about Missy...Because we had seen the hostility between our parents, it was no great shock to discover that Missy shared a completely familial existence with Father. What did surprise us, later on, was the knowledge that Mother knew, too, and accepted the fact like the rest of us.”

“It seems clear that she was in love with him,” biographer Geoffrey Ward concludes, but “whether Franklin expressed his affection for Missy physically is unknown an unknowable.” We do know, however, that she dedicated her life to Franklin Roosevelt, and that she provided the uncritical adoration, companionship, and playfulness that seemed to be lacking in the public partnership that his marriage to Eleanor had become. It is clear from this archive that FDR loved her in his fashion, certainly in a paternal if not also a sexual manner. Several books in this collection are inscribed by him with love “from Father,” or “Popper,” a form of signature he also used with Grace Tully and other female staff members of his staff.

Raymond Moley, one of FDR’s “Brains Trust” advisors, wrote in The First New Deal, that “Missy was as close to being a wife as he ever had—or could have.” Perhaps the most perceptive insight belongs to Kenneth Davis who describes FDR’s relationship with Missy as “the fruit of Roosevelt’s temperamental addiction to the blurred, the anomalous, the ambiguous—an addiction having as its obverse an aversion to sharp clear lines of demarcation, to definitions that are mutually exclusive. This characterizes his private life as fully as it does his public one. In the latter…it has resulted in an administration that is personal to a unique degree in modern presidential history—an administration having the virtues of flexibility and openness to new ideas but…also the grave defect of a bitter personal and bureaucratic quarrelsomeness that wastes energies that could otherwise be useful and creative.”

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Leaving aside the unknowable, this archive tells us much about the obvious truth of

LeHand’s indispensable role as a political associate of FDR and not just an administrative aide.

FDR alluded to it himself in his eulogy for her, calling her “a real genius in getting things done.”

It’s worth remembering too that she was the first woman to ever serve as a secretary to a President of the United States. The title was testament to FDR’s confidence in her. And Missy had more access, and in some ways, more influence, than her male colleagues. Doris Fleeson wrote a profile of her for the Saturday Evening Post in 1938 (included in the archive) and said, her “sense of timing...is God’s gift to the trio of White House secretaries—son Jimmy, vehement Press Secretary Steve Early, and volatile Appointment Secretary Marvin McIntyre. If there is any doubt in their minds about anything that has to do with F.D.R., they clear it through Missy.” (In keeping with prejudices of the time, however, the three men each drew double LeHand’s salary.)

So perfectly attuned to “Eff Dee’s” moods and thoughts—as she alone among the White House staff called him—Missy could know just when to bring something to his attention, when to withhold it. A Newsweek cover-story profile of LeHand on August 12, 1933 said “she sometimes senses when [FDR] is beginning to disapprove of something that he still thinks he likes.” In a 1937 interview with The Birmingham News, she said, “A private secretary must understand her employer. The president is the kindest and most considerate man in the world, but he does not like for me to bring to his attention certain matters when he is absorbed by others.

The chief executive’s private secretary must be a buffer between him and thousands of persons who come to see him daily. She must learn to judge the importance of the caller and learn to turn down interviews without offending, to be efficient without being officious.” She was also the screener of any late night emergency calls for the President, and she had the authority to decide whether or not to forward the call to his bedroom and wake him. That was the procedure she followed when she received Ambassador Bullitt’s call on September 1, 1939, to inform the President that Germany had invaded Poland.

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As FDR’s “gatekeeper”—the title of Kathryn Smith’s forthcoming biography of LeHand—Missy used her own political instincts and judgment to give discreet counsel to FDR— which among the President’s many supplicants and advisors could be trusted, who needed handling at arms length. Harry Hopkins, the great liberal champion of the poor, was one of Missy’s favorites. Hopkins repaid her kindness with two warm inscriptions included in the collection, one on a photo, the other in a book. “Dear Missy,” he writes on the flyleaf of TwentySeventh Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce 1939, “I also like bridge, string cheese, New York and you. Harry.”

Missy was responsible for suggesting several crucial appointments to FDR, such as Homer Cummings as Attorney General, and Felix Frankfurter as Supreme Court Justice (inscribed books from each are included in the collection). She introduced Thomas G. Corcoran to FDR, and “Tommy the Cork” as FDR dubbed him, became one of the President’s most trusted assistants. Sometimes her suggestions went in the other direction: who should go. Missy urged FDR to dump Harry Woodring as Secretary of War, which he eventually did in 1940. FDR’s speechwriter, Samuel Rosenman, called Missy “the frankest of the President’s associates, never hesitating to tell him unpleasant truths or to express an unfavorable opinion about his work.” As a member of the hard-scrabble Irish-Catholic, New England working class, she provided him a view on life he could not receive from his Groton or Harvard classmates. Rosenman recalled in his memoir an episode where Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was reading aloud to FDR a tedious speech on fiscal policy which he hoped the President would deliver during an upcoming 1936 campaign stop at Forbes Field. “The President realized right away that it would never do,” but kept quiet so not to hurt Morgenthau’s feelings. Missy, however, got up and made for the door, saying “By this time all of the bleachers are empty and the folks are beginning to walk out of the grandstand.” Even Morgenthau felt compelled to join in the ensuing laughter.

She was, in Kathryn Smith’s apt phrase, “the Swiss Army knife of the White House.”

Several documents in the archive substantiate Smith’s point. On December 24, 1942, after Missy had retired to Somerville, Harold Ickes wrote to tell her “you are greatly missed here by your friends. You always were needed here because you filled a niche that no one else could possibly fill, but just now there is an especial need for you. I remember how I used to slip into your office when I was really in trouble or saw what I thought to be trouble ahead for the President. You were always quick and understanding and you knew how to do certain things better than anyone else…Often we speak of you, hoping that you will be back before too long to take up the load at the point where a too devoted spirit allowed itself to be worn out.” On August 11, 1943 he tells her: “I think that some things would have gone differently if you had been here.”

Ickes’s correspondence to LeHand is also an important source about FDR’s declining health and the administrative slackness that hampered the administration as a result. On May 23, 1944 he tells her, “The President is taking it easy these days…There can be no doubt that he had had a long pull which, while not critical at any time, was serious and not to be neglected…You would find many changes here, both in personnel and in procedure. He doesn’t have lunch at his desk any more…He gets to his office late. On Tuesday I had the first appointment with him which was set at 11:30. I got in 20 minutes later. He makes only a few appointments a day—not enough for us to transact important business—and then he goes back to the house where he usually lunches alone with [his daughter] Anna.” He usually left Thursdays for long weekends at the presidential retreat “Shangri La” (now called Camp David) or Hyde Park. “Of course he is preoccupied with the approaching assault upon Europe but I regret to say that many domestic

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matters of great moment are left more or less to chance. The trouble still is that there is too much division of authority which means too much overlapping, etc. Sometimes it becomes rather discouraging when one is trying to do a job.”

Other high Cabinet officials testified to Missy’s key role. After her death Secretary of State Cordell Hull wrote to her brother Daniel LeHand on August 1, 1944, gratefully recalling “the splendid cooperation which she gave my associates and me in the State Department.” Labor Secretary Frances Perkins expressed a similar sentiment to Missy’s sister Anna (August 1, 1944): “I can’t tell you how distressed I am about your sister’s death. She has not only been a friend and associate for so many years, but more than that she has been of the greatest assistance to me in innumerable ways, so that I have been missing her all the time. There was always the hope, however, that she might be returning and now that she has died I feel the loss even more…” In Felix Frankfurter’s diaries he recounts a conversation with Samuel Rosenman, lamenting Missy’s forced retirement. “Sam agreed with me,” Frankfurter wrote, “that Missy’s enforced withdrawal is a calamity of world dimensions in view of FDR’s responsibility for world affairs.”

The archive makes clear that Missy—like FDR—was a political animal. Their shared passion is vividly apparent in the scores of documents inscribed by FDR to her, including the tally sheet of the delegate vote count in the 1932 convention in Chicago, where the three ballots needed to get FDR over the top took two days to complete. FDR signed the sheet: “To Marguerite with love from FDR – Thursday & all night on Friday – June 30-July 1, 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Four years later, looking to his first re-election campaign, FDR gave Missy a sheet containing a set of predictions about the likely Electoral College totals he and his GOP opponent would achieve in November 1936. FDR is confident of victory at each of the four dates he makes his projections, starting on his birthday in January, and continuing in July, August and concluding in November, just two days before election day. But even his most confident projection—360 votes—fell far short of the astounding 523 total he achieved in one of the greatest presidential landslides in American history. The archive also includes Missy’s copy of campaign manager James Farley’s famous prediction that GOP nominee Alf Landon would indeed only get 7 electoral votes, from Maine and Vermont.

Missy seems to have made a determined effort to get signed copies of each of FDR’s important speeches. Several in the archive have notes from her to FDR asking him to “sign for me.” He repaid her with some wonderful inscriptions on historic pieces. The angry rebuke he delivered to Italy for its “stab in the back” of France on June 10, 1940, is inscribed “MAL from FDR, Spades is Spades!” Sometime he is self-deprecating. Of a 1940 campaign speech he writes, “A successful speech tho’ not a gem!”

These inscriptions illuminate another important aspect of their relationship: the sheer fun the two had working and living together all those twenty years. The Missy LeHand story has its sad and tragic aspects to be sure. But it’s misleading to see her life solely through the lens of her early death. She had a life. And she had a lot of fun. The hours could be long and grueling, as one of the letters she wrote home to her family (September 23, 1940) captures well: “I am having a devilish time trying to finish this -- the telephone, callers & that man, the P!!…We all leave here Wednesday morning for the wedding & then on to [Hyde Park] until next Monday night. A house full of Roosevelts is something!” But there was an unmistakeable playfulness among the inner circle that is well documented in the archive—scripts for skits at White House birthday celebrations for FDR, or Roosevelt’s comical inscriptions such as the split frame photo of him signing a bill, a cluster of pens before him, doubly inscribed to Missy “Penfully yours” and “Painfully yours.” Then there is the remarkable piece FDR had created and framed for her: a

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series of U.S. postmarks from towns spelling out their respective names and titles: “President [PA] Franklin [MA] Delano [PA] Roosevelt [NY]” and “Secretary [MD] Marguerite [AL] LeHand [IL].”

Among the hundreds of photographs in the collection are dozens from a trip to the movie studios in Hollywood that Missy took in 1937, along with fellow White House staffers Grace Tully and Marvin McIntyre. She is shown meeting and dining with Hollywood stars such as Spencer Tracy, Shirley Temple, and Joe E. Brown. She even met with studio head Louis B. Mayer. She wrote about it to the folks back home in Somerville after her return. “I came back feeling like a million dollars… I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. I never had such a good time.” This woman enjoyed her life. She lived it at the center of the political universe, meeting notables like the King and Queen of England, even literary royalty: Noel Coward inscribed Present Indicative to her. Margaret Bourke-White took her photo—the superb, signed portrait is included in the archive. The tragic end that we know awaits shouldn’t retrospectively cast her entire life in shadows.

The poignancy is always there, to be sure. There is a newspaper clipping in the archive from The Boston Evening American of November 26, 1940. A reporter, Inez Robb, ran into her in New York City, where Missy liked to go for short getaways to see shows and visit friends (FDR was off on his post-election vacation cruise). She asked her what she thought about the upcoming, precedent-breaking third term. “I can stand another term if the President can,” Missy joked. But she would not live to see its conclusion.

On June 4, 1941, the manager of the Willard Hotel held a party at the White House to honor FDR and his staff. In the middle of the dinner Missy turned to Grace Tully and said she felt ill. Grace urged her to go upstairs to bed, but Missy said she would wait until the President left. Just moments after FDR retired, Missy collapsed. She had suffered either a pulmonary embolism or a heart attack, but White house physician Ross McIntire misdiagnosed it as exhaustion. At first she was treated in her White House quarters, then moved to Doctors Hospital, where three weeks later she experienced a massive stroke that left her paralyzed on her right side and unable to speak. Did the postponed retirement of FDR once again trigger enough anxiety and stress to aggravate her heart condition? She certainly must have worried about his health. Did she feel, as she did in 1928, that she was losing him to the public? Losing the chance to resume their quiet life together as in the Larooco days? Perhaps. Certainly an accumulation of factors combined to create this disaster, such as her 90-hour a week job, and a three-pack-a-day cigarette habit. After making slight progress in Doctors Hospital and at Warm Springs she returned to her room at the White House in the spring of 1942. She left Washington for good in June, and went home to her family in Somerville. Not since the death of Louis Howe had FDR sustained such an important loss to his inner circle.

Missy’s archive rebuts the notion that FDR put her out of his mind after 1942. His letters to her, and to her family members, show him to be devoted and continually concerned about her welfare, writing, telephoning, getting updates from White House staffers who were able to visit her. Most significantly, in 1941 FDR changed his will to provide that one-half of the income from his estate be put at Missy’s disposal to cover her medical expenses. The other half of the income went to Eleanor Roosevelt. FDR, who had been paying LeHand’s medical expenses ever since June 1941, kept this astounding act of generosity secret from Missy, as the August 7, 1942 letter in the collection to her brother Daniel LeHand testifies: “…Much to my regret,” FDR writes, “I have had to take Missy off the Government payroll. I would not do this, of course, if Dr. McIntire could assure me that she would be able to take over her work at some definite time.

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However, he does not feel that this is possible and I am, therefore, compelled to take this action.

I wish much that I could have continued her on the payroll, but I am sure that you can count on us for anything that Missy may need, as we want her to be as comfortable and happy as possible.

I hope you will agree with my thought that it is not necessary to mention this to Missy, as it may upset her.”

His letters to her mix momentous war news with family doings, all leavened with his characteristic jaunty humor. Here is a small sampling: July 31, 1942: “I have honestly started out a dozen times to send you a note, actually got the paper & grabbed a pen. You know what a grand letter writer I am! By the way the auctions show my long hand letters are worth as much as Lincoln’s or Washington’s—the reason being that I write one every two months and they wrote ten every day! That makes mine worth a dime apiece. It is just grand to hear how well you are doing… Keep it up & gain a few more pounds & don’t swallow a quail bone again. You know all I am doing from the papers—just one tough day after another—awful hot & awful damp— and a bad nose every night. Harry [Hopkins’s] wedding was very nice today—you will like her when you see her & she will like you. Next week we have Queen Wilhelmina for 3 days.

Everybody calls her the ‘old lady’ until I remind them that she is only one year older than I am.

Lots of love—get all the fresh air you can…” November 16, 1942: “…All seems to be going pretty well in North Africa. If you have been following the news, I cannot add anything to what I have already told the Press in regard to operations there. Mrs. Roosevelt has had a busy and exciting trip to England and I expect her home very soon…”

In others he mentions Winston Churchill’s visits—at times with a perceptible undertone of dread: June 3, 1943: “I have just come back from Hyde Park where I had a few days of beautiful weather and plenty of sleep—which I needed after Mr. Churchill’s two week visit. The country looked grand and I was able to get out and drive every day. I returned to Washington yesterday morning and I am hard at work seeing the hordes of people who have been waiting my return….” September 9, 1943: “I am off for Hyde Park today to try to get a few days rest.

However, I am not too hopeful as the Prime Minister and his party plan to come up on Saturday.

This always means more conferences and late hours. Unfortunately, I shall have to be back here, at the latest, on Tuesday, because ‘our old friend, the Congress’ will convene on that day. It was such a relief to have them leave Washington for at least a few weeks…Wasn’t that grand news about Italy? [the Italian surrender and Mussolini’s flight] I hope all goes well with you and I am still hopeful of getting up to Boston to see you, but I fear I shall have to wait until things quiet down for a little bit! [in holograph] Very hectic!”

He makes several references to his trips to North Africa for the Casablanca conference and his inspection of American forces there, all the while trying to buck up her spirits. March 8, [1943]: “All goes well—& I do want to tell you all about Africa. It was very successful—but I don't like flying! Bored to death & don't feel right—but I saw a lot and it was well worth while.

We hear you are really better each month. Keep it up! Lots of love. I am surely coming to see you this spring…” April 3, 1943: “…A bird told Fala, who told me, that you are not eating very well these days. Do please take all the nourishment you can and hold that weight. As I told Babe [Missy’s niece Marguerite Collins] on the telephone, I hope to get up to see you late Spring or early Summer. I want to tell you about my North Africa trip…”

On September 9, 1943, he sends her birthday wishes and some books, several of which are included in this collection (such as A. E. Kull’s One Cockeyed World). “Many happy returns of the thirteenth! under separate cover, I am sending you a few books, as I understand you have run out of reading material. They are mostly amusing books—with a mystery thrown in—as I

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know you always went in for thrillers. As I remember it, you were very good at solving them, too.” Just a month before her death he writes, (June 14, 1944): “It was wonderful to have your note so soon after D-Day. I think, on the whole, things are going pretty well but the battle is not over by any means. I was delighted to hear, through Hacky [White House switchboard operator, Louise Hackmeister], that you were looking and feeling well. Also, she tells us that you have moved upstairs and that your new quarters are very nice. Harry [Hopkins] is coming along very well and will probably be back in Washington in a few weeks. I expect to be off for Hyde Park in a few days for a little quiet—in fact, I plan to get out of Washington whenever I can on the weekends. It helps a lot, as you know. I hope you liked my speech on the fall of Rome and also the [D-Day] prayer…”

After her death on July 31, 1944, Arthur Krock, in his New York Times column said, “The death of Marguerite LeHand…severs a shining link between these grim times and the exciting days when the New Deal and the administration were young. The death of her whom Mr. Roosevelt and many others referred to as his ‘conscience’ is a vivid reminder of that era of idealistic crusading…” Her August 2 funeral service was conducted at St. John’s Church in North Cambridge. The Boston Herald reported the church “was filled with women, only a handful of men attending.” Among them was Eleanor Roosevelt (“who appeared drawn and very pale”). Among the men, James Farley, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and Joseph P. Kennedy.

There was an outpouring of grief from the many administration figures and Washington big shots who knew and respected Missy. The archive contains Grace Tully’s transcriptions of the condolence letters she received and then forwarded to Missy’s family. Among them is a remarkable, emotional letter to FDR from D. Basil O’Connor, written the day after Missy’s death: “What in the devil can a fellow say who was so close to Missy as I was in the days, when Missy, Louis Howe and I put up the fight to instill in that head of yours, the desire to live?

Outside of Eleanor, no one knows more than I, what sacrifices Missy made for you over the years. She was one of the grandest persons who ever lived! I know how her illness, at these trying times, ate into her soul even though she knew, as she said many times, that Grace Tully could do the job equally as well and as loyally. Missy, Louis Howe and myself loved you with the devotion of a relative who loves their kin and wants nothing but the chance to serve. I’m the only one left of the trio. And I want you to know dear boy, that I’m just as fond of you personally as in the days when you used to put your arms around my neck and let me lift you. I speak of this now, because old man, right now, with Missy’s passing and all the trouble you have ahead, a human being needs to be told that somebody really cares for them…”

Roosevelt ordered that a ship in his beloved naval fleet be built and christened for Missy.

On March 27, 1945, just 16 days before his own death, he cabled: “Mrs. Roosevelt and I send warm greetings to all who attend the launching of the S.S. Marguerite A. LeHand in the hope that a craft which bears so honored a name will make a safe journey and will always find a peaceful harbor.”

Provenance: This material has remained in the LeHand family ever since Missy’s death, and has never been exhibited or sold: Marguerite A. LeHand (1896-1944) — by descent to her nieces Marguerite Collins and Barbara Farwell — by descent to the present owners.

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THE MARGUERITE A. (“MISSY”) LEHAND - FDR COLLECTION

I. FDR LETTERS TO MISSY LEHAND These sixteen FDR letters to Missy include the 14 he wrote to her after her stroke—the only such letters to ever appear on the market. Roosevelt adopts a light and bantering tone in most of the letters. He gives family news about the visits of his children and grandchildren, and his wife’s travels. He jokes about the prices of his letters in the collecting market (“a dime apiece!”), and he applauds the reports that other White House visitors bring back to him about Missy’s progress. But there are grave moments as well, such as the 1936 letter on the death of his bodyguard, Gus Gennerich, who suffered a heart attack while traveling with FDR in South America. In some he chides Missy for neglecting her health or slackening her efforts at recovery.

Since most letters are written between 1942 and 1944, the momentous events of World War II are mentioned frequently, such as the American invasion of North Africa, FDR’s own travels to that region for the Casablanca conference, his summit meetings with Winston Churchill, Italy’s surrender, the capture of Rome and—in his final letter to her—the great D-Day invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

Autograph letter, signed (“FDR”) to “Miss LeHand,” December 2, [1936]. 2pp., 8vo., on U.S.S. Indianapolis stationery.

“Missy dear, We are all feeling very low – since the tragedy of poor Gus [Gennerich]’s wholly unexpected death – it was a sudden attack – he fell forward at the table never regained consciousness – was dead in less than 2 minutes – Fox & Claunch [Secret Service agents] were with him – get Eleanor to read you my letter about it – I simply can’t write it all out again. We are also all very exhausted after the 3 days at B.A. [Buenos Aires] - & tomorrow we ‘do’ Montevideo from 2 a.m. to 5.pm. – & then eight days at see reaching Trinidad. I am giving up all thought of stopping at Warm Springs because we want to bring the body straight to the W.H. for a little service there before the internment in N.Y. I’m glad you have staid on at Palm Beach till today – It must have [been] grand there – I’m glad the others got down there – I too will be rested by the time I get back! Everyone has been so kind & thoughtful & Jimmy is grand in every way – does & thinks of everything – I must go to bed now – it’s very late – but my speech for tomorrow is all done & is now being mimeographed. Lots of love – I miss you much.

Affectionately, F.D.R.”

Autograph letter signed (“F.”) to MAL, Washington, D.C., n.d. [July 31, 1942]. 3pp., 4to, White House stationery.

“Missy dear — I have honestly started out a dozen times to send you a note, actually got the paper & grabbed a pen. You know what a grand letter writer I am! By the way the auctions show

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my long hand letters are worth as much as Lincoln’s or Washington’s—the reason being that I write one every two months and they wrote ten every day! That makes mine worth a dime apiece. It is just grand to hear how well you are doing and that you can say ‘Mind your own business’ to [Somerville neighbor] Miss Vose! Keep it up & gain a few more pounds & don't swallow a quail bone again. You know all I am doing from the papers—just one tough day after another—awful hot & awful damp—and a bad nose every night. Harry [Hopkins]’s wedding was very nice today—you will like her when you see her & she will like you. Next week we have Queen Wilhelmina for 3 days. Everybody calls her the ‘old lady’ until I remind them that she is only one year older than I am. Lots of love—get all the fresh air you can. Ever affec. F.”

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Autograph letter signed (“FDR”) to MAL, Washington, D.C., October 16, [1942]. 2pp., 4to.

White House stationery.

“Missy dear — Mary [Eben] will bring you this—with lots of love. I had a grand trip. Very secret! except to 2 or 3 million people who saw me. I will tell you all about it soon. There is a big flood on the Potomac, almost as high as in 1936, but it will not reach the White House. I am so glad you are really improving every single day. Keep it up! Affec., FDR.” [After over six inches of rain fell in Washington, D.C. over two days, the floodwaters of the Potomac reached the steps of the Jefferson Memorial.]

Typed letter signed (“FDR”), to MAL, Washington, D.C., November 16, 1942. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery.

“Dearest Missy: Many thanks for your nice telegram on Election Day. It is too bad that we lost old Joe Casey up in Massachusetts [Joseph E. Casey]. I must admit that New York certainly didn't do very well. All seems to be going pretty well in North Africa. If you have been following the news, I cannot add anything to what I have already told the Press in regard to operations there. Mrs. Roosevelt has had a busy and exciting trip to England and I expect her home very soon. As you know, I have been making a speech every other day for the last week or so and am making one tomorrow for the Herald Tribune Forum. I am glad that all goes well with

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you. Keep up the good work and I hope to see you one of these days soon. Much love.

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Affectionately, FDR.” Autograph letter signed (“FDR”), to MAL, Hyde Park, December 22, 1942. 2 pages, 4to, White House stationery.

“Missy dear, I so wish you could be with me this Christmas, but I will be thinking of you — and drinking your health at the family dinner in the evening. Actually the only family will be Ethel [du Pont Roosevelt] & the two babies — Jo and Christopher. Didn’t you like the latter name? I found it in the family records, a Christopher R who was great great great uncle in about 1760!

My love to you all and especially a Happy Christmas to you. Lots of love. Affectionately FDR.” Autograph letter signed (“F.”) to MAL, Hyde Park, March 8, 1941 [likely an error for 1943].

2pp., 4to, White House stationery.

“Missy dear—I had a bit of a kick-up. Nothing serious—so I have been here at H. P. for 4 days—real rest & grand weather, but very cold—Hacky [Louise Hackmeister] will give you this.

All goes well—& I do want to tell you all about Africa. It was very successful—but I don't like flying! Bored to death & don't feel right—but I saw a lot and it was well worth while. We hear you are really better each month. Keep it up! Lots of love. I am surely coming to see you this spring. Affectionately, F.” Typed letter signed (“FDR”), to MAL, Washington, D.C., April 8, 1943. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery.

“Dearest Missy: I just got back from a few days rest at Hyde Park. I really expected to have some Spring weather but instead it was twenty above one day. However, I did get a little rest and I am feeling fine. I am so sorry you had that little spell and I hope by now that you are completely over it. A bird told Fala, who told me, that you are not eating very well these days. Do please take all the nourishment you can and hold that weight. As I told [Missy’s niece] Babe on the telephone, I hope to get up to see you late Spring or early Summer. I want to tell you about my North Africa trip. As you may have read, John Boettiger has just gone into the Army and he and Anna are coming East to stay at Charlottesville while he takes his course. Mrs. Roosevelt has just been out there to visit them and will be returning to Washington in a few days. I really hope Spring is here and that you are having some nice weather in Boston. Do try to get out and take a little ride and get a change of scene. My best to all the family and much love to you.

Affectionately, FDR.” Autograph note signed (“F.D.R.”) to MAL, n.d. [postmarked: May 18, 1943]. 1p., White House note card. “Missy Dear: A Happy Easter – I am miles & miles away but will be thinking of you.”

Typed letter signed (“FDR”), to MAL, Washington, D.C., June 3, 1943. 2 pages, 4to, White House stationery.

“Dearest Missy: News of you is better and better every day and I am delighted to hear that you are taking special treatments which are proving so beneficial. Do keep it up, as it sounds wonderful and seems to be doing the trick. I had a very interesting trip to the South and Southwest and into Mexico a few weeks ago. I know you have read all about it in the papers by now, but I shall fill you in on a lot of the details when I see you. I have just come back from Hyde Park where I had a few days of beautiful weather and plenty of sleep—which I needed after Mr. Churchill's two week visit. The country looked grand and I was able to get out and

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drive every day. I returned to Washington yesterday morning and I am hard at work seeing the hordes of people who have been waiting my return. As you probably know, John Boettiger has gone into the Army and is now in North Africa attached to General Eisenhower’s staff. He took the course at Charlottesville and he, Anna and little Johnny spent a little time with us after he finished his course. Anna is now taking John’s place on the [Seattle] Post-Intelligencer which is quite a job. Jimmy got Malaria and had to return home from New Caledonia. He lost quite a lot of weight, but I think he will be all right in a few weeks. Johnny expects to go to sea duty sometime this summer and Franklin has, of course, been on sea duty the entire period that he has been on the active list. Do let me hear news of you very soon and I am still planning to come up and see you as soon as the many distinguished visitors have been here and gone. With much love to you, and my best to all the family, Affectionately FDR.” Autograph letter signed (“FDR”) to MAL, Washington, D.C., June 17, n.y. [ca. 1943]. 2pp., 4to.

White House stationery.

“Dear Missy, I haven’t heard a word from or about you for weeks—& I do hope all is going well. I wish much I could have come up with Grace, but I hope to pick a date soon for an inspection trip to New England, and to drive out to see you without fail. Perhaps by that time you will be in a cottage at Revere Beach. I envy you that! No holiday for me except an occasional weekend at Hyde Park. This weekend I have a heavy date there with Queen Wilhelmina. I hear the right arm is gaining a lot of strength—keep it up! Lots of love. Devotedly FDR.” Typed letter signed (“FDR”) to MAL, Washington, D.C., August 12, 1943. 1p., 4to, White House stationery.

“Dearest Missy: As you know, I am just back from a six day fishing trip in Canada. We really had very good fishing and I spent a great deal of time on the water, and really caught some black bass and pickerel. We had an ideal lay-out. We lived on the train which they pulled up alongside some cottages which some of the party used but it was really in the wilds. Nobody bothered me so I really had a good rest. I am off again for a few days at home. I was thrilled with Grace [Tully]’s report when she got back from her visit with you. I hear your house at Yarmouth is grand and that you are enjoying the beach. I do hope you will stay up the until the warm weather is over. As you may have read, we have had very hot weather here for the last week—in fact it reached the season’s high. The next two weeks will be very busy ones for me, as you have gathered from the newspaper and radio reports. With so much happening this summer, I have not been able to get up your way as I had planned. However I am still hopeful that it will work out. Much love, Affectionately, FDR.” Typed letter signed (“FDR”), to MAL, Washington, D.C., September 9, 1943. 2 pages, 4to, White House stationery.

“Dearest Missy: Many happy returns of the thirteenth! under separate cover, I am sending you a few books, as I understand you have run out of reading material. They are mostly amusing books —with a mystery thrown in—as I know you always went in for thrillers. As I remember it, you were very good at solving them, too. I am off for Hyde Park today to try to get a few days rest.

However, I am not too hopeful as the Prime Minister [Winston Churchill] and his party plan to come up on Saturday. This always means more conferences and late hours. Unfortunately, I shall have to be back here, at the latest, on Tuesday, because ‘our old friend, the Congress’ will

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convene on that day. It was such a relief to have them leave Washington for at least a few weeks.

Next weekend, Johnny and Anne and the children are coming on for a visit and perhaps Johnny will then be going on sea duty. Elliott and Ruth were here for a few weeks—and Ruth is still here, although Elliott has gone off but may return soon. Jimmy was in Kiska for the ‘take’ but, as you know, there were no Japs to take! [Operation Cottage: the invasion of the Aleutian Island of Kiska, in August 1943.] Franklin, Jr. is still somewhere in port waiting until his ship is repaired.

We have not seen him for a very long time. Grace had a letter from Anna [Rochon] telling us that you were back home after your sojourn at the beach. I take it you will resume your treatments at the hospital, as from all accounts they have been very beneficial. Wasn’t that grand news about Italy? I hope all goes well with you and I am still hopeful of getting up to Boston to see you, but I fear I shall have to wait until things quiet down for a little bit! [in holograph] Very hectic!

Much love. Affectionately, FDR.” Autograph letter signed (“FDR”) to MAL, Washington, D.C., n.d. [ca. Nov. 1943]. 2pp., 4to, White House stationery.

“Missy dear, I'm off on a little trip & want to send you my love. I did so enjoy your letter—grand work—keep it up. Your writing is very good & I am proud of you. There is an awful lot to do but my work is almost caught up. Wasn’t the Moscow Conference a great success? I am writing this on my knee. I’m not proud of my writing but I’m delighted with yours. Much love. Affec always. FDR.” Typed letter signed (“FDR”) to MAL, Washington, D.C., May 10, 1944. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery.

“Dearest Missy: As you probably know by now, I am back in Washington after a very quiet, restful time at Hobcaw. I worked a little each day, fished, drove around the countryside, and slept the rest of the time. Harry [Hopkins] is coming along very well and will probably be leaving Mayo’s in a few weeks. The plan is for him to rest somewhere before returning to Washington, but everybody tells me he sounds strong and cheerful. Franklin, Jr. has finished his course in Miami and will be given a Destroyer Escort very soon. Anna and John and little Johnny are here with us and soon Sistie and Buzz [FDR’s grandchildren Anna Eleanor and Curtis Dall] will be coming back to Washington. I am feeling much better than when I went away but still must go a little easy for a while. It was grand to hear from Sam [Rosenman] that you are feeling well and I do hope you will come down and see us soon. Much love. Affectionately, FDR.”

Typed letter signed (“FDR”) to MAL, Washington, D.C., June 14, 1944. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery.

“Dearest Missy: It was wonderful to have your note so soon after D-Day. I think, on the whole, things are going pretty well but the battle is not over by any means. I was delighted to hear, through Hacky [Louise Hackmeister], that you were looking and feeling well. Also, she tells us that you have moved upstairs and that your new quarters are very nice. Harry is coming along very well and will probably be back in Washington in a few weeks. I expect to be off for Hyde Park in a few days for a little quiet—in, fact, I plan to get out of Washington whenever I can on the weekends. It helps a lot, as you know. I hope you liked my speech on the fall of Rome and also the prayer. With much love, and I do hope I shall see you soon, Affectionately, FDR.”

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Autograph note signed (“FDR”), to MLH, n.d. 1 page, 16mo. White House note card. “Here is another new party gown. Don’t add too much rouge! F.D.R.”

II. FDR LETTERS TO LEHAND FAMILY MEMBERS A group of 11 letters, spanning FDR’s governorship and presidency. They show how deeply he had become connected to Missy’s family, especially so after her illness. The letter FDR sent her brother Daniel LeHand on August 7, 1942, pledging to pay Missy’s medical bills, is one of the most poignant documents in the archive.

Typed letter signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”) to Dan and Georgiana (“George”) [LeHand], November 19, 1928. 1p., 4to, on Franklin D. Roosevelt letterhead. Hopes that the “noble experiment” will be “duly successful;” also reports that Missy is “behaving fairly well” but “as you know, has to be disciplined from time to time.” Autograph postscript reads, “Best regards to you both.”

Typed letter signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt,”) to Daniel LeHand, June 27, 1931. 1p., 8vo., on State of New York Executive Chamber stationery. FDR advises Dan LeHand on how to obtain an appointment to the Naval Academy (through one’s Congressman), stating also that the President may nominate “very few,” though these are normally reserved for sons of naval officers.

Printed check signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt,”) to Marguerite Collins, December 21, 1935. 1 page, oblong. A gift for $10.

Typed letter signed (“F.D.R.”) to “George” [Georgiana LeHand], August 10, 1936. 1 page, 8vo.

FDR asks, “Do you know what this is all about? It means nothing to me. Much love, FDR.” MAL holograph note below reads: “P.S. The boss signed this by mistake, but said let it go. It was of course for my signature.”

Typed note signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”) to “Babe and Tom” Collins, February 8, 1937. 1 page, 8vo., White House stationery. Thanks for a new desk trinket: “Missy has just brought in to me that perfectly grand pig.”

Typed letter signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt,” to Daniel LeHand, February 6, 1941. 1p., 8vo., White House stationery. Thanks for birthday wishes.

Typed letter signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt,”) to Daniel J. LeHand, January 5, 1942. 1p., 8vo., on White House stationery. Thanking Dan and the family for their New Year’s greeting.

Typed letter signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt,”) to Anna Rochon, February 5, 1942. 1p., 8vo., on White House stationery. Thanks for a birthday message.

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Typed letter signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), to Daniel J. LeHand, Washington, D.C., August 7, 1942. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery. In full: “Dear Dan: I forgot to mention it when you were in Washington that much to my regret I have had to take Missy off the Government payroll.

I would not do this, of course, if Dr. McIntire could assure me that she would be able to take over her work at some definite time. However, he does not feel that this is possible and I am, therefore, compelled to take this action. I wish much that I could have continued her on the payroll, but I am sure that you can count on us for anything that Missy may need, as we want her to be as comfortable and happy as possible. I hope you will agree with my thought that it is not necessary to mention this to Missy, as it may upset her. Do let us hear from you about Missy from time to time and we all hope the good reports will continue. Please give her my love. My best to you. As ever, Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Typed letter, signed by “F.D.R.,” to “Dan and George” [Daniel and Georgina LeHand], November 21, 1944. 1p., 8vo., White House stationery. Thanks for congratulations on fourth term re-election win.

Autograph letter signed (“F.D.R.,”) to Daniel LeHand, n.d. 1p., 8vo., Warm Springs letterhead.

Enclosing a letter (not present) from John Lawrence, advising him to telephone for an appointment to discuss a potential job.

III. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT SIGNED DOCUMENTS Printed press release, n.d., inscribed and signed, (“M.A.L. from FDR June 1928”), 7pp., folio.

Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt nominating Governor Smith at the Democratic National Convention in Houston. The “Happy Warrior” speech.

Partly printed document inscribed and signed (“To Marguerite with love from FDR – Thursday & all night on Friday – June 30-July 1, 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt.”). A tally sheet used by FDR to record delegate votes at 1932 Democratic National convention that nominated FDR. 1 page, folio.

A remarkable artifact from FDR’s dogged but successful fight to win the Democratic nomination for President in Chicago in 1932, as the candidate nervously tracked the delegate votes during this dramatic, contested convention. Roosevelt vied for the nomination with his former mentor, ex-New York Governor Al Smith. John Nance Garner of Texas controlled an important bloc of swing votes. Roosevelt had a sizable lead over Smith in each of the three ballots that played out Thursday and Friday. But each time he fell short of the necessary 770 votes needed to win nomination. Handicapped by having the delegates of his own state go for Smith, FDR had to build a coalition elsewhere. He did so by winning Garner’s supporters (and making Garner his vice-president), and convincing Senator William Gibbs McAdoo to swing California’s votes to his side. An exceptionally rare and dramtic piece. The only other one we have seen was inscribed to Grace Tully (currently in the Tully Collection at the FDR Library).

Document signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), September 1934, comprising a collection of seven U.S. postmarks from “President [PA] Franklin [MA] Delano [PA] Roosevelt [NY]” and

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“Secretary [MD] Marguerite [AL] LeHand [IL]. Framed together with poem and image celebrating FDR’s “Million Dollar Smile.”

Typed memorandum (carbon) signed and inscribed (“Read with sympathy & appreciation, Franklin D. Roosevelt”) and also signed and inscribed by Joseph P. Kennedy (“To Missy’s Grandchildren what a great gal your grandmother was!!!! Joe Kennedy”). 3 pages, 4to.

Memorandum of Kennedy to FDR, February 18, 1935. Describing his plans to close the stock exchanges if necessary following the Supreme Court’s gold case rulings. With typed memorandum (carbon) from Kennedy to FDR, February 19, 1935. Signed by FDR (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). 2 pages, 4to. Kennedy’s light-hearted reflections on the speech FDR would have given had the Gold Case decision gone against the government. The Court sided with the Roosevelt administration, and Kennedy’s plans to close the markets were not implemented.

Printed calendar for year 1935. 1p., 4to. Inscribed and signed (“For M. Alice LeHand from F. Delano Roosevelt.”)

Autograph manuscript, signed in text twice (“F.D.R.”). Roosevelt’s running projections of his Electoral College margin of victory over his Republican opponent in the 1936 presidential election. 1 page, 8vo, White House stationery.

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After four years of his bold, New Deal experiments, FDR felt confident of re-election in 1936.

Just how confident is set forth in this remarkable set of four predictions, beginning on his birthday, January 30, 1936. He sees any Democratic candidate beating any Republican by a total of 325 votes to 206. Six months later, when the convention season began, he trims his expectations just slightly, but still has the Dems topping the GOP 315 to 216. By August 2, 1936, he has named opponents, himself versus Alf Landon: “FDR 340 AML 191.” Two days before election day he’s more confident: “FDR 360” to Landon’s “171.” He could not have been more wrong. Roosevelt took an astonishing 523 Electoral votes to Landon’s paltry 8 (Maine and Vermont)!

Printed lecture program, endorsed and signed by FDR (“NAY 3 times Franklin D. Roosevelt”), with pencil annotation by LeHand, on program announcing an address by Howard S. Clurman at New York University on January 7, 1937, titled, “Propaganda or Profits, An Analysis of Some 22

Social Issues in the Motion Picture Industry.” 1p., 4to. LeHand has asked, “Are you interested?”

FDR answers in pencils “NAY 3 Times,” then signs in ink.

Printed press release signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”) and inscribed on first page (“MAL from FDR”), January 20 1937. 4pp., folio. His Second Inaugural Address.

FDR’s Second Inaugural was the first to be delivered on the 20th of January, after the twentieth amendment to the Constitution finally curtailed the five-month interregnum originally called for by the Framers. That delay had nearly ruined the country in 1861 and again in 1933. Here, Roosevelt declares his intention to carry on his New Deal reforms, not just to stabilize a foundering economy as in 1933, but to achieve geater economic and social justice. It contains his memorable line: “I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished…We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern…The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

Printed program signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt,” “James Roosevelt,” and “James A. Farley”).

Testimonial Dinner to James A. Farley, February 15, 1937. 16pp., folio, illustrated, selfwrappers. With press release of text of FDR’s address at the dinner loosely inserted.

Printed Inaugural dinner program signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), March 4, 1937. 16pp., folio.

Illustrated. Blue and white ribbon at side.

Typescript (carbon) inscribed and signed (“For M.A.L. from Franklin D. Roosevelt”), n.d.

[March 1937]. 26pp., folio. With pencil note by LeHand atop first page: “M.A.LeH Sign to me,” and signed by FDR at end. Draft number 6 of FDR’s Fireside Chat defending his explosive Court-packing scheme. “In the last four years all pretense of giving the legislature the benefit of all reasonable doubt has been cast aside. The Court has been acting not as a judicial body, but as a policy-making body. The present conflict between the Congress and the Court has nothing to do with civil and religious liberties. It has been a conflict solely over economic policies—over the question as to how much the Congress has the power to do under the clause dealing with the general welfare and with commerce between the States…We have, therefore, reached the point as a Nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”

This speech represented an important change of strategy in FDR’s Court-packing plan. His initial announcement in February presented the bill as intended merely to relieve congestion in the Federal judicial dockets. Attacked for being too clever by half and obscuring his real purpose, FDR here admits explicitly his interest in appointing “younger men who have had personal experience and contact with modern facts and circumstances…” This draft is notably harsher—and more “age-ist”—than the delivered text, stressing the age and presumed infirmity of the Justices. FDR points out that five are already over 75, a sixth over 70, and that he fears a “hardening of the judicial arteries” by judges “rigidly set in the thought moulds of a by-gone generation.”

Printed (mimeographed) speech text inscribed and signed (“For M.A.LeH. Franklin D. Roosevelt”). 4 pages, folio. The President’s Address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Apex

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Building, Washington, D.C., July 12, 1937. The construction of the new home of the Federal Trade Commission.

Printed press release signed and inscribed (“For MA LeH Franklin D. Roosevelt”), July 14 1937.

1 page, folio. Statement on the death of Senate Majority Leader, Joseph Robinson. “A pillar of strength is gone. A soldier has fallen with face to the battle…” Robinson was found dead in his Washington apartment from a massive coronary. An open copy of the Congressional Record was found by his side. His death extinguished what little enthusiasm remained among Congressional Democrats for FDR’s Court-packing plan. Robinson had championed the bill so aggressively on the strength of a promise from FDR that the Majority Leader would assume one of the new vacancies created by the bill.

Carbon typescript copy signed and inscribed, “For M.A.LeH. Franklin D. Roosevelt,” of FDR’s letter to Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, July 15, 1937. 4 pages, folio. Urging Barkley, as new Majority Leader following the death of Robinson, to carry on with the passage of FDR’s proposed Court-packing bill. “Since the untimely death of our splendid Majority leader, I had hoped that at least until his funeral services had been held a decent respect for his memory would have deferred discussion or continuation of legislative matters in which…he was an active participant.” FDR was stubbornly determined to push his plan through in the face of growing resistance within his own party and the nation. He further alienated his majority colleagues by declining to attend Robinson’s funeral. A drastically watered down judicial bill was passed in August, but the size of the Court remained at nine.

Printed press release signed and inscribed (“For MAL Franklin D. Roosevelt”), September 17 1937. 6pp, folio. Address delivered on the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.

Printed press release signed and inscribed, (“For M.A.L., Franklin D. Roosevelt”), September 17, 1937. 6pp., folio. A second copy of this address of the President marking the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Also signed and inscribed in the same manner as the previous document.

Speech typescript signed and inscribed (“For MAL Franklin D. Roosevelt”), October 11, 1937.

4pp., quarto (carbon). Address of the President in connection with the re-burial in Arlington of Brigadier General Wladimer B. Krzyzanowski, a Polish patriot who joined the Union Army in 1861 out of his sympathy for the anti-slavery cause and who fought at Gettysburg.

Printed press release signed and inscribed (“For MAL Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 12, 1937”). 7 pages, folio. Radio address to the nation on calling a special session of Congress to pass legislation dealing with the ongoing Depression.

Printed press release signed and inscribed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt for MAL”), January 3 1938.

9pp., folio. The 1938 State of the Union address. “…At home, conditions call for my equal candor. Events of recent months are new proof that we cannot conduct a National Government after the practice of 1787, or 1837, or 1887, for the obvious reason that human needs and human desires are infinitely greater, infinitely more difficult to meet, than in any previous period in the life of our Republic…”

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Printed press release signed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), January 8, 1938. 5pp., folio. Pencil notations in FDR’s hand and by another hand on first page. Text of Jackson Day Dinner speech.

Printed press release signed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), January 29, 1938. 2 pages, folio.

Address supporting research against infantile paralysis.

Printed press release signed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), April 14, 1938. 9 pages, folio. FDR’s Fireside Chat radio address to the nation concerning the administration’s plans to combat the 1938 recession with a renewed burst of pump-priming government spending and jobs programs.

“Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations—disappeared not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion, government weakness, — weakness through lack of leadership in government.

Finally, in desperation, they chose to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something to eat. We in America know that our own democratic institutions can be preserved and made to work. But in order to preserve them we need to act together, to meet the problems of the Nation boldly, and to prove that the practical operation of democratic government is equal to the task of protecting the security of the people. Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our Government to give employment to idle men. The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security. Your Government, seeking to protect democracy, must prove that Government is stronger than the forces of business depression.”

Printed press release signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), December 10 1938. 2pp., folio. On the creation of the FDR Library—the first presidential library in the Unted States. “I realize that the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the New York State Library, Harvard University and the New York State Historical Society would probably be glad to have the whole collection intact. It is my thought, however, that an opportunity exists to set up for the first time in this country what might be called a source material collection relating to a specific period in our history…I have carefully considered the choice of locality and for many reasons have decided that it would be best that they remain permanently on the grounds of my family home at Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York.”

Printed press release signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). Radio Address of the President from Hyde Park, NY, in connection with the dedication exercises of the Will Rogers Memorial, Claremore, Oklahoma, November 4, 1938. 1p., 4to.

Printed press release signed and inscribed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt for M.A.L.”), January 30, 1939. 2pp., folio. Birthday celebration speech, lauding the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

Envelope signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), June 24, 1939. Also signed by Stephen T. Early, Jim Rowe and 17 others. A first day cover, addressed to Missy care of “Pan American Airways, New York, NY, U.S.A.” Pan Am inaugurates its Northern Trans-Atlantic air mail route.

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Printed statement by the President signed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), July 13, 1939. 1 page, folio. A forceful refutation of a United Press story that the President and the Secretary of State were “split” on the issue of U.S. neutrality.

Printed press release signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), August 24, 1939. 2 pages, 4to. Text of a communication from FDR to King of Italy, urging him to help maintain the peace. 2pp., 4to.

Printed press release signed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), August 24, 1939. 2 pages, folio. Text of FDR’s letter to Adolf Hitler urging a peaceful resolution of German-Polish tensions, either through direct negotiations or international arbitration.

“The people of the United States are as one in their opposition to policies of military conquest and domination. They are as one in rejecting the thesis that any ruler, or any people, possess the right to achieve their ends or objectives through the taking of action which will plunge countless millions of people into war and which will bring distress and suffering to every nation of the world, belligerent and neutral, when such ends and objectives, so far as they are just and reasonable, can be satisfied through processes of peaceful negotiation or by resort to judicial arbitration. I appeal to you in the name of the people of the United States, and I believe in the name of peace-loving men and women everywhere, to agree to the solution of the controversies existing between your Government and that of Poland through the adoption of one of the alternative methods I have proposed.”

Printed press release signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), September 3, 1939. Address of the President to the American people on the outbreak of war in Europe. 3 pages, folio.

FDR announces American neutrality in the conflict, but adds his famous statement: “This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral has a right to take account of facts. Even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience.”

Printed press release signed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), September 13, 1939. 1 page, folio.

Presidential Proclamation calling the Congress into Special Session to revise Neutrality legislation in response to the outbreak of World War II. Printed press release signed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), October 31, 1939. A Thanksgiving Proclamation. 1p., folio. With 2pp. Thanksgiving Song Sheet.

Printed press release signed and inscribed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt for M.A.L.”), December 23, 1939. 7pp., folio. Text of FDR’s Christmas letter to Pope Pius XII, Dr. George A. Buttrick and Rabbi Cyrus Adler. Buttrick was president of the Federal Council of the Churches of the Churches of Christ in America. Adler was president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Roosevelt likens the new world war to the “Dark Ages,” when “the flame and sword of barbarians swept over Western civilization,” but “through a re-kindling of the inherent spiritual spark in mankind, another rebirth brought back order and culture and religion. I believe that the travail of today is a new form of these old conflicts…”

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Printed press release signed and inscribed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt for M.AL.”), January 3, 1940.

7pp., folio. Text of the 1940 State of the Union Address. “We do not have to go to war with other nations, but at least we can strive with other nations to encourage the kind of peace that will lighten the troubles of the world, and by so doing help our own nation as well…But there is a vast difference between keeping out of war and pretending that this war is none of our business.”

Printed theater program signed, (“FDR 1940”). National Theater program for President Roosevelt's Birthday Celebration, staging a command performance of “Life With Father,” January 28, 1940. 1p., 4to.

Printed press release signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), May 10, 1940. 3 pages, 4to. Address of the President from Constitution Hall to Eighth Pan American Scientific Congress.

Printed press release signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), May 16, 1940. 5 pages, folio. Message to Congress on the war situation and the need for greater defense spending, given against the backdrop of Germany’s breakthrough on the Belgian-Maginot front on May 10, putting France in mortal peril and sending the British Expeditionary Force scrambling to Dunkirk.

Printed press release signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), May 26 1940. 7 pages, folio. Address by the president on national defense, attacking “the Trojan horse. The Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery.”

Printed press release signed and inscribed (“MAL from FDR, Spades is Spades”). Address at University of Virginia, June 10, 1940. 4 pages, folio, small paper loss. The “stab in the back” speech, denouncing Italy’s attack earlier that day on France. This action came after months of diplomacy by the British and U.S. to try and keep Italy out of the fighting.

Printed press release signed and inscribed (“For MAL Franklin D. Roosevelt”), September 3 1940. 5pp., folio. The President’s message about the U.S. defense of Greenland. An important step in FDR’s incremental strategy to extend American aid to Britain and allow the U.S. a greater role in checking Hitler’s forces.

Printed proclamation signed and inscribed, (“For M.A.L. Franklin D. Roosevelt”), September 16, 1940. 6 pages, folio. “Registration Day. By the President of the United States. A Proclamation.”

This proclamation marked the beginning of Selective Service Registration. With a pencil note affixed from M.A.L. To FDR: “Will you sign for me?”

Printed press release inscribed and signed (“For MAL from Franklin D. Roosevelt, another”), September 16 1940. 2 pp., folio. The President’s statement on selective service. “In the military service, Americans from all walks of life, rich and poor, country-bred and city raised, farmer, student, manual laborer and white collar worker, will learn to live side by side, to depend upon each other in military drills and maneuvers, and to appreciate each other’s dignity as American citizens. Universal service will bring not only greater preparedness to meet the threat of war, but a wider distribution of tolerance and understanding to enjoy the blessings of peace.”

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Printed press release signed and inscribed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt for MAL. A successful speech tho’ not a gem!”), October 23 1940. 7pp, folio. A campaign speech delivered in Philadelphia.

Printed press release signed and inscribed (“MAL from who do you think?”), October 23 1940.

2pp, folio. A campaign speech delivered from the train during a whistle-stop at Wilmington Delaware.

Printed press release inscribed and signed (“For the ‘Invalid Upstairs’ — M.A.L. Franklin D. Roosevelt”), December 29, 1940. 7 pages, folio. The Arsenal of Democracy speech. FDR’s Fireside Chat appealing for Americans to support greater aid to the British war effort, delivered on the night of one of the most destructive air raids launched against London during the Blitz.

“If Great Britain goes down, the Axis powers will control the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the high seas — and they will be in a position to bring enormous military and naval resources against this hemisphere. It is no exaggeration to say that all of us, in all the Americas, would be living at the point of a gun — a gun loaded with explosive bullets, economic as well as military…We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.”

This speech kicked off FDR’s successful campaign to get Lend-Lease legislation through the Congress, which he signed into law three months later. Churchill would famously call it, “The most unsordid act of in the history of any nation.”

Printed press release inscribed and signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt, ‘Another’ for M.A.L.”), January 6, 1941. 7 pages, folio. The 1941 State of the Union address, containing FDR’s proclamation of the Four Freedoms: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Want and Freedom from Fear. The President pledged to pursue the realization of these goals, “everywhere in the world.” A stirring statement of America’s war aims.

Printed press release signed and. Inscribed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt, M.A.L. — Love from FDR”), January 20, 1941. 4 pages, folio. The Third Inaugural Address. The first ever Inaugural Address for a third presidential term. FDR spoke philosophically about the American spirit: “…The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land. But it is not enough to achieve these purposes alone. It is not enough to clothe and feed the body of this Nation, to instruct, and inform its mind. For there is also the spirit. And of the three, the greatest is the spirit. Without the body and the mind, as all men know, the Nation could not live. But if the spirit of America were killed, even though the Nation's body and mind, constricted in an alien world, lived on, the America we know would have perished…”

Printed press release signed and inscribed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt, For M.A.L.”), May 27, 1941. 9 pages, folio. FDR’s Fireside Chat explaining his proclamation issued the same day (see below) declaring an unlimited state of national emergency. It also contains his most passionate denunciation of Hitler. “Adolf Hitler never considered the domination of Europe as an end in itself. European conquest was but a step toward ultimate goals in all the other continents. It is

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unmistakably apparent to all of us that, unless the advance of Hitlerism is forcibly checked now, the Western Hemisphere will be within range of the Nazi weapons of destruction…The Nazi world does not recognize any God except Hitler; for the Nazis are as ruthless as the Communists in the denial of God. What place has religion which preaches the dignity of the human being, the majesty of the human soul, in a world where moral standards are measured by treachery and bribery and fifth columnists? Will our children, too, wander off, goose-stepping in search of new gods?”

Printed press release signed and inscribed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt, For M.A.L.”), May 27, 1941. 2 pages, folio. Presidential Proclamation declaring “that an unlimited national emergency confronts this country, which requires that its military, naval, air and civilian defenses be put on the basis of readiness to repel any and all acts or threats of aggression directed towards any part of the Western Hemisphere.”

With 19 unsigned press releases of presidential statements, travel itineraries, etc. Also with 9 additional press releases, unsigned, of speeches by James Roosevelt and John J. Hagerty, 19341938. Together 64pp., folio.

IV. SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN MENUS A colorful collection of beautifully printed train menus, most of them signed by FDR, marking President Roosevelt’s and Missy LeHand’s extensive travels across the country.

Printed menu inscribed and signed, “For Little Marguerite, Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Atlantic Coast Line Railroad menu for President’s trip from Washington, D.C. to Savannah and Warm Springs, GA, November 1933. 4pp., 4to. (With: Mimeographed typescript, unsigned, undated, “Traveling with a President.” 16pp., folio. Account by unknown author of FDR train journey as Governor, presumably during 1932 campaign.)

Printed train menu signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). Also signed by Senator Carter Glass.

Norfolk and Western Railway. Trip of the President from Roanoke, Virginia to Williamsburg, Virginia, October 19-20, 1934. 8pp., 4to, self-wrappers.

Printed train menu signed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). En route via the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, September 23, 1937. 4pp., 8vo., wrappers.

Printed train menu. Chicago & Northwestern Railway, September 23, 1937. Signed on upper wrapper (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). 8pp., 4to, self-wrappers.

Printed train menu, signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). Great Northern Railway. Trip of the President from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington—Tacoma to St. Paul, Minn., September 28 to October 4, 1937. 4pp., 4to. Illustrated self-wrappers depicting two Blackfeet Indians (Many White Horses and Eagle Calf).

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Printed train menu signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), July 9, 1938. Rock Island Line. 4pp., 4to, self-wrappers, red, white and blue ribbon.

Printed train menu signed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). Burlington Lines, July 11, 1938. 8pp., illustrated wrappers, showing FDR on train car platform.

Printed menu signed, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

Menu of the President’s Luncheon on Treasure Island, July 14, 1938, honoring Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States. 4pp., 4to., self wrappers.

Printed train menu signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). Pennsylvania Railroad. Trip of the President of the United States to Kingston, Ontario and Return, August 17-19, 1938. 4pp., 8vo.

Printed train menu signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), Southern Pacific Lines, n.d. The President’s Special, Ogden to Los Angeles. 4pp., self-wrappers, red, white and blue ribbon.

(With 10 additional unsigned train menus, ca. 1936.)

V. CORRESPONDENCE FROM MEMBERS OF FDR’S CABINET, ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND OTHER PROMINENT FIGURES Many of these letters from high administration officials testify to Missy’s crucial role as a problem solver, if not a de facto chief of staff for FDR. Bullitt, William C. A group of five typed letters signed and one autograph letter signed (“William C. Bullitt” or “Bill”), to MAL, 1933-1944. Together 11 pages, 4to and 8vo. One letter (1933) shows Bullitt trying to get appointed Ambassador to Paris. The remainder are letters of encouragement to Missy after her stroke, urging her to come to Bullitt’s house. Several mention his unsuccessful mayoral bid in Philadelphia. Bullitt and LeHand were romantically involved between 1933 and 1940, with Missy making several visits to him overseas. Bullitt’s motives may have been a mixture of opportunism and love, and Missy cooled on him around 1940, as did FDR, especially after Bullitt tried to gain high rank in the State Department by threatening to expose the homosexuality of Under Secretary of State, and FDR’s old friend, Sumner Welles.

However, these letters also show—to Bullitt’s credit—that his solicitude for Missy after her stroke was genuine and untainted with the alloy of ambition. 15 October 1942: “I wish you would move down here so that I could see you. None of the things I want to say to you will go on paper. And none of the questions I want to ask will either…”

Farley, James. Facsimile of autograph note signed twice, (“James A. Farley” and “J.A. Farley”), November 1, 1936. 1 page, 8vo., framed. Farley’s famous call of the 1936 landslide: the text reads in full: “11/1/36 James A. Farley. Landon will only carry Maine & Vermont. 7 [circled] electoral votes JA Farley.” Two days before the election, FDR’s Postmaster General and campaign manager correctly predicts the lopsided Electoral College results that would appear on November 3.

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Henderson, Leon. Autograph letter signed, to MAL, January 29, 1943. 1 page, 8vo. A short letter from the head of the Office of Price Administration describing his visit to Cuba.

Hull, Cordell. Typed letter signed to Daniel J. LeHand, August 1, 1944. 1p., 4to, Secretary of State stationery.

“I am so distressed to receive the sad news of the passing of your sister, for whom I had the greatest respect and esteem. She was a woman of the finest character and rendered for many years outstanding service to the Government and to the people. I shall always remain grateful for the splendid cooperation which she gave my associates and me in the State Department. Mrs. Hull joins me in expressing our deepest sympathy to you and to the family in your irreparable loss.”

Ickes, Harold L. Group of four typed letters signed (“Harold L. Ickes”), to MAL, December 24, 1942, August 11, 1943, December 27, 1943, and May 23, 1944. Together 6pp., 8vo. and 4to.

Secretary of the Interior stationery. With copy of Ickes’s July 20, 1943 speech to Sales Executive Club of New York (16pp., 4to, browned).

Dec. 24: “You are greatly missed here by your friends. You always were needed here because you filled a niche that no one else could possibly fill, but just now there is an especial need for you. I remember how I used to slip into your office when I was really in trouble or saw what I thought to be trouble ahead for the President. You were always quick and understanding and you knew how to do certain things better than anyone else…Often we speak of you, hoping that you will be back before too long to take up the load at the point where a too devoted spirit allowed itself to be worn out.”

August 11: “Those of us who knew you here and had an opportunity to appreciate your qualities and abilities often speak with regret of the fact that you had to give up your work when you did. I think that some things would have gone differently if you had been here—some things that it were better that they had gone differently…You remember those interesting trips that we sometimes had on the President’s train when he was campaigning or looking over PWA projects? Weren’t they fun!”

December 27: “After seeing you in Boston I got back to Washington just in time the next morning to go over to the White House…and as I shook [FDR’s] hand …I told him that I had seen you the afternoon before, that you were looking well and that you had sent him your love.

He liked it…It was fun to see you after so long a lapse. I haven’t talked so much for a long time but I thought that you would like to hear what I might be able to tell you about Washington, where you achieved so much during your years here. When you come back, I am going to be one of the members of the reception committee to meet you at the station…”

May 23: “I suppose that you have been kept in touch with the health of the President…I am satisfied that he is all right. There can be no doubt that he had had a long pull which, while not critical at any time, was serious and not to be neglected.” He speculates that FDR will run for and win a fourth term, but that Wallace will be replaced as Vice-president. Returning to FDR’s weakened health, he says: “The President is taking it easy these days. You would find many changes here, both in personnel and in procedure. He doesn’t have lunch at his desk any

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more…he gets to his office late. On Tuesday I had the first appointment with him which was set at 11:30. I got in 20 minutes later. He makes only a few appointments a day—not enough for us to transact important business—and then he goes back to the house where he usually lunches alone with Anna.” He usually left Thursdays for weekends at “Shangri La” [Camp David] or Hyde Park. “Of course he is preoccupied with the approaching assault upon Europe but I regret to say that many domestic matters of great moment are left more or less to chance. The trouble still is that there is too much division of authority which means too much overlapping, etc.

Sometimes it becomes rather discouraging when one is trying to do a job.”

Typescript signed (“Harold L. Ickes”). Address of the Honorable Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior at the Dedication of the Boulder Dam, Nevada, September 30, 1935. 7pp., 4to, with October 16, 1935 cover note from Ickes’s private secretary, Leon Cubberley, to M.A.L.

Perkins, Frances. Typed letter signed (“Frances Perkins”), to Anna Rochon, Washington, August 1, 1944. 1p., 8vo. Secretary of Labor stationery. A letter of condolence to Missy’s sister.

“I can’t tell you how distressed I am about your sister’s death. She has not only been a friend and associate for so many years, but more than that she has been of the greatest assistance to me in innumerable ways, so that I have been missing her all the time. There was always the hope, however, that she might be returning and now that she has died I feel the loss even more. Please be assured of my deep and very real sympathy for you and the other members of your family.”

(In Box 4, folder with Ickes letters.)

Roosevelt, Eleanor. Group of 10 autograph and typed letters signed (“E.R.” and “Eleanor Roosevelt”), with 1 typed telegram, 1935-1944. Together 12 pp., 8vo. Several on White House stationery. Mostly routine content, sending gifts, organizing FDR’s birthday celebration, etc. But a 1943 letter alludes to Churchill’s visit. The final letter contains ER’s strong words of encouragement for her recovery, and invites her to the White House if she is feeling well enough.

With four additional ER letters to Missy’s nieces.

Rosenman, Samuel I. Typed letter signed to “Missy [MAL],” April 29, 1944. 1 page, 8vo., on White House stationery. His travel plans to come visit Missy, his good wishes for her health.

Spellman, Francis (Cardinal). Typed letter, from Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Spellman, to Marguerite LeHand, September 18, 1943. 1 page, 4to. Sending birthday wishes.

Tully, Grace G. Typed letter signed (“Grace”), to Barbara Farwell (“Sister”), Washington, September 7, 1944. 1p., 8vo., White House stationery.

“Dear Missy’s death was indeed a great shock to me, as of course it was certainly to all of you. I was terribly sorry to be so far away that I could not get back in time for the funeral, but I know you all understood. I am so glad that if Missy had to go she went quickly, as I understand she had been to the movies the evening before and I take it from that she was feeling in pretty good form.

God love her and may she rest in peace now. I am enclosing herewith a little collection of clippings which I thought you might like to keep, together with copies of letter which came to me at the time of Missy’s death. I know they will be of comfort to all of you, as they were to me.”

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Among the transcriptions she includes are moving tributes from Aaron Rabinowitz—a veteran of fights to improve public housing during FDR’s governorship—who said “Missy often reminded me of Miss Wald,” the great social worker and advocate for the poor, “and I couldn’t pay her a higher compliment.” Rabinowitz remembered “the night we were invited to the White House for dinner. She was scheduled to sit next to a Naval Lieutenant and when I told her how sorry I was that she was not to sit next to me, she went into the dining room, moved the place cards and when we walked in, after the President had greeted us, there she was next to me. I never shall forget what a delightful time we had.”

FDR’s law partner, Basil O’Connor wrote an especially emotional letter to the President on August 1, 1944: “What in the devil can a fellow say who was so close to Missy as I was in the days, when Missy, Louis Howe and I put up the fight to instill in that head of yours, the desire to live? Outside of Eleanor, no one knows more than I, what sacrifices Missy made for you over the years. She was one of the grandest persons who ever lived! I know how her illness, at these trying times, ate into her soul even though she knew, as she said many times, that Grace Tully could do the job equally as well and as loyally. Missy, Louis Howe and myself loved you with the devotion of a relative who loves their kin and wants nothing but the chance to serve. I’m the only one left of the trio. And I want you to know dear boy, that I’m just as fond of you personally as in the days when you used to put your arms around my neck and let me lift you. I speak of this now, because old man, right now, with Missy’s passing and all the trouble you have ahead, a human being needs to be told that somebody really cares for them…”

White House Staff. Typed letter signed by eleven White House assistants and secretaries (Stepehen Early, Rudolph Forster, Bill hassett, Roberta Barrows, Mary Eben, Lila Stiles, Dorothy Brady, Louise Hackmeister, Mable Bachelder, Gladys Catalano, Toi Bachelder), n.d. 1 page, 4to., White House stationery. A playful and mildly vulgar 11-line Christmas poem to Missy (after she left the White House): “T’was the Night Before Christmas, (Though you’ve heard this before), But now there is coming a knock at your door…But with each little thing goes oceans of love, From the gang in the office that you are part of! Please think of us all as you unwind and unwrap, And forgive this fool verse, for we’re all full of crap.”

VI. MISSY LEHAND CORRESPONDENCE WITH HER FAMILY and other LEHAND PAPERS Missy’s letters to her family—for whom she remained “Maggie” or “Marguerite”—show her trying to scratch out a few moments of personal time amid the White House whirlwind. Her frantic orders to the family to get Christmas shopping lists to her, or plans for a turkey dinner two months after Christmas show how stressful and difficult it was for her to maintain her family bonds. Her March 1941 letter to a niece planning a trip to Atlantic City shows her longing for a quiet week in the Traymore Hotel doing nothing much besides reading and sleeping! Letters from the early years of the Great Depression have her gently and diplomatically explaining that there really is little she can do, in spite of her own prominent post, to find employment for others.

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the White House after the end of the second term. Clearly the third-term run had not yet been decided on by FDR. Autograph letter signed (“M.”), to Franklin D. Roosevelt (“Dear Mr. P.”), n.d. 2 pages, 12mo., on personal stationery. Missy tries to get FDR to free up some shelf-space. “These ‘rare’ volumes take up a lot of book-room. You have signed all the other sets of this type, so perhaps to send them as they are will make them more ‘rare’!”

Typed letter signed (“Marguerite”) to Maydelle Ramsey, Albany, August 25, 1931. 1p., 4to.

Executive Mansion stationery. Writing about dim prospects for a patronage job during the Depression: “I talked with the Governor about Mr. Ramsey, and he has wracked his brain to think of something, but nothing has happened...You know he has been trying to get something for Dan to do for about two years, and no success. He says he would be perfectly willing to write to Russell or Curley, but he knows it would be useless...Of course in New York State everything that isn’t under civil service is political, and is filled in that way, also since this depression no one who is not a resident is employed by the state…”

White House pass, signed (“Marguerite A. LeHand”) and also signed by Secret Service supervisor., n.d. 2.5 x 4.25in., with LeHand’s photo top right and Great Seal of the U.S. at top left.

Typed letter signed (“Marguerite”) to Maydelle Ramsey, Washington, D.C., December 19, 1933.

1p., 8vo. White House stationery. Thanks for a “picture of the house. It is the only one I have and I think it is excellent.”

Typed letter signed (“Marguerite”) to Maydelle Ramsey, December 20, 1934. 1p., 8vo. White House stationery. Thanks for a news-filled note and enclosing a photo signed by FDR. Typed letter signed (“Marguerite”) to Maydelle Ramsey, Washington, D.C., January 25, 1935.

1p., 8vo. White House stationery. “I have your letter of the fourteenth and, of course, I shall be glad to do what I can but I am not at all sure of the results. As you know, it is very difficult for me to do anything…”

Typed letter signed (“Marguerite”), to Babe and Tom Collins, Washington, February 15, 1937.

1p., 4to, White House stationery.

“I have been meaning to write (as usual) but times are busy in this place, and anyway, you know how I put off writing letters! I was terribly sorry to hear that you were sick, Babe, and I do hope you are entirely well again. With the weather we had I don’t wonder you caught cold. It was swell having you all here, and I just am sorry you could not have had a quiet dinner at the W. H. However, we will do that some other time. As you know, there was nothing quiet about inauguration time. You were sweet to send me that powder puff. Thank you ever so much.

However, I suffered with the other one for days, and every time I rubbed the rough little pill on my face I thought horrid things about you for making me throw away the dirty one. Everything is lovely now though and by the time you come again I suppose this one will be dirty. If you get your discount on toilet goods, will you send me two from Filenes? I enclose $2. I don’t know what they cost, but I think they are about $1 apiece retail. The President loved the pig—it sits on

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his desk. I am sorry to hear about the Kendalls—that is tough. However, don’t you get the bug!!

Ever so much love to you both, and write when you can. P.S. Will you give the enclosed [not included] to Henry?”

Typed letter signed (“Maggie”), in pencil, to Anna Rochon, Thursday [August 12, 1937], 1p., 8vo. White House stationery.

“I have had all your letters, and you are getting to be a real typist—keep it up! This is the new noiseless typewriter that I am using, and it is grand! My other one was lousy. I will do what I can about the civil service thing, but I do not know how effective I will be. I certainly hope you will be frozen into it. That would be grand. I am so pleased that Bernard is coming along so well, and that Dan is back on his feet again. Bernard said he was fine over the week-end—right back to himself again. I had a couple evenings in New York and enjoyed it, then went up to Hyde Park for the weekend. Congress is trying to get away by the 21st or 25th, then up we go to H.P. again for two or three weeks—for my sins I do that. I am glad Sister had such a good vacation. She sounded full of pep. You might remind her that she owes me a letter. Much love—and good luck!”

Autograph letter signed (“Marguerite”) to Maydelle Ramsey, August 16 [1939]. 1p., 12mo.

Cunard White Star stationery. “Sister and I are trying to get full of health in these few days at sea—it is a great relaxation for me…”

Typed letter signed (“M”), to Babe and Tom Collins, n.d. [ca. Jan. 24, 1940]. 1p., 4to., White House stationery.

“Just a little line to say I am still alive and remember you all, even though it is a long time since I have seen you. I expect to be in Boston sometime after the middle of February, and it will be swell to see you all. I missed all of you and the turkey at Christmas time, so we will have to have one in February. We will find something to celebrate! I loved my cheese plate and knife, and also the powder puffs. Thank you both for them. I hope before we leave Washington you and Tom can come down again—I’ve had some things done to my room, and I’d like you to see it before I have to tear it up. That will break my heart. Lots of love to you—I wish you would write more often even if I don’t. Tell Anna I will write to her tomorrow—I got her letter, and know how pleased she is now that the case is settled. I hope Maydell’s family is speaking to her again.”

Typed poem (signed in type at bottom “M.A. LeH.”) to FDR, January 30, 1940, “Do You Choose to Run, Mr. R?” 1p., 8vo. White House stationery. A 16-line satire on Roosevelt’s thirdterm plans, presented on the President’s 58th birthday. “Have we got to start packing? / This thing is awfully hard on me. / Relieve my doubts and fears, / And tell me, please, who I must see / To renew my lease for four more years!”

Typed letter signed (“Marguerite”), to Anna L. Rochon, Washington, February 1, 1940. 1p., 8vo., White House stationery.

“Just a line to say ‘hello’ and ‘how are you.’ As you probably know, I shall be home about the middle of the month and look forward to seeing you all. I am enclosing a little check to buy cigarettes. We are leaving tonight for Hyde Park and will not get back until Tuesday morning, so this note is brief. Love to you all…”

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Typed letter signed (“M.”), to Mrs. Thomas E. (“Babe”) Collins, Washington, July 26, 1940. 1p., 8vo, White House stationery.

“I really am sorry for not having written you before. Each night I mean to telephone and each night it is so late when I get to bed that I would not think of calling you. In regard to your motor trip to Washington, much as I would like to see you, I do not think you should come during these summer months. The heat here now is incredible and I promise you it would not be fun. Also, I am never in Washington week ends in the summer and this summer the plans are more vague than usual. I think you had best save the time and come down in the Fall or whenever things quiet down—after all, you have seen Washington and the White House and even your Aunt!

Personally, I hope you will decide to wait until after election—barring sudden death we will be at the White House until January 20, 1941 so you will have another chance at it. If, by some happy chance, I find I can get to New York for a few days, perhaps you will drive over there. We could do the Fair and be about ten degrees cooler. I hope you are enjoying the car and having some fun at the beach. I think of all of you a lot even though I never write. My love to everyone.

Tell Sister I want her to insure a watch for me and I will send her the appraisal in a few days….P.S. In any event, as far as the fifth of August is concerned, I will be away from the second to the twelfth—Hyde Park. M.” Autograph letter signed (“M”) to Mrs. Thomas E. Collins (“Babe”), dated Monday [September 23, 1940]. 1p., 8vo. White House stationery.

“Babe dear. I am sorry you were disappointed about the house but Anna seemed to think you had found another. I hope so. Do let me know about it. Good luck to Tom. I hope he gets the job. I don't know anyone in that firm & cannot find anyone who does. I am having a devilish time trying to finish this—the telephone, callers & that man, the P!! Mrs. Tully broke her leg, badly, in the hospital, 3 nurses, etc. It is too bad. We all leave here Wednesday morning for the wedding & then on to H. P. until next Monday night. A house full of Roosevelts is something! I had hoped to go to Boston this last week-end but the doctor wouldn’t let me. My leg is fine. I sent a box with some things on to you. There is a sweet pair of panties that you or Sister gave me but they are too tight, so one of you will have to wear them. Much love to the family.”

Typed letter signed (“M”), to Babe and Tom Collins, Tuesday, n.d. [ca. November 1940]. 1p., 8vo, White House stationery.

“Just a quick line — I want you both to know that I think of you often even though I don’t write!

Wasn’t the election swell? I did wish you could all have been with me that night although I was not conscious. I have two burns on my chin, and the only way I could have got them was to have rested the lighted end of my cigarette there—apparently I felt something first, and just moved it over and gave the second spot a good one—it got infected and gooey and everything, but it is getting better now. I am taking Sister to Florida with me to see if a good rest with [sic] help to straighten her out. This is her Christmas present, and whatever it costs will be the amount of your check too. I don’t like taking one and not the other, but I am sure you understand the reason.

There will be nothing to do there but sleep and read and swim—only Betsy and I are going. You and I will do something together soon. Lots of love to you—write me when you can. As ever, M.”

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Typed letter signed (“M.”), to Babe Collins, Washington, March 14, 1941. 1p., 8vo, White House stationery.

“I am looking forward with real excitement to our week at Atlantic City. I shall leave here Saturday morning the twenty-second and I hope you can get there Saturday morning. I have made a reservation at the Traymore Hotel and I am enclosing a check to get you there. If you have any other suggestions, let me know. I do hope you really want to rest because I shall stay in bed late and go to bed early although I am not promising to go on the wagon or do violent exercises. If you know of some books that you would like to read and will let me know soon, I will take them with me from the Library here. If it sounds dull to you, do feel free to say so. I think we will probably manage to have a pretty good time and a lot of conversation. Everybody here has been in bed with the grippe this winter as far as I can discover and I hope I can get rid of mine up there. I do hope that Tom gets good news from his examination. I will tell you everything else I know when I see you. Lots of love to the whole family and yourself.” In an autograph postscript she writes, “A round trip ticket may be cheaper.”

Typed letter signed (“M.”), to Babe Collins, Washington, n.d. 1p., 8vo, White House stationery.

“Under separate cover I am sending you a box of little things—will you and Sis divide them up.

The shoes need to have the strap repaired. Thank you for telling me about the bath things. I am writing Mr. Callaway today. Will both you and Sister send me immediately a list of things you want for Christmas. My shopping must be all finished by next Tuesday—the day before I go to Warm Springs, so don’t put it off. Also, ask Anna and George and Dan and Bernard to do the same thing. I haven’t got their presents yet, so they might as well pipe up and tell me—it will save us both—I mean all! I am just beginning to feel the effects of that mad California trip—I slept 12 hours last night, but that is the first time I have slept 8 hours since before we went on the trip. I came back feeling like a million dollars and wondering why, but it is just beginning to hit me now. However, I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. I never had such a good time. Lots of love to everyone. Please write me right off! I am glad you are in the toy department.” In a postscript she asks, “What kind of winter coat have you? M.L.” Autograph letter signed (“Me”), to Babe and Tom Collins, Washington, n.d. 1p., 8vo, White House stationery (with White House envelope postmarked June 28, 1937).

“I am sorry I didn’t get a present to you for your anniversary, but you know me. I hope you had a swell time in New York. It is a long time since I have seen you, but I am still hopeful! As you have probably read we are doing one-night stands until I am almost crazy! I can imagine how much you felt like working the day you got back from N.Y. but it was probably worth it. The inclosed is for an anniversary present from, lots of love, Me.” Autograph letter signed (“Marguerite”) to Maydelle Ramsey, n.d. 2pp., 12mo. Executive Mansion stationery. Thank you note for “all that you did when my mother died.”

Morgenthau, Henry L., Jr. Sheet of two one-dollar bills, inscribed and signed “For Marguerite LeHand from H. Morgenthau, Jr.” Framed.

Royal Visit of June 1939. Small archive of five documents and two signed photographs relating to the visit of the King and Queen of Britain to the White House and Hyde Park, 1939, comprising: Printed program, The White House, Washington. June 8, 9, 1939. Visit of Their

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Britannic Majesties to the White House. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939. 4to., cream colored self-wrappers, bound at side with red, white and blue ribbon. Great Seal of the United States stamped in gilt and engraving of the north portico of the White House on front cover. Printed press release, May 18, 1939. Complete itinerary for State Visit of their Britannic Majesties June 1939, 9pp., 4to., with May 19, 1939 cover note from E.M.W. to M.A.L.; typed note from Edith Helm to M.A.L., May 22, 1939. 1p., 12mo. A list of eight persons requested to be in Diplomatic Room when King and Queen arrive; typed document, n.d., 1p., 4to. Members of Royal Suite to Stay at Hyde Park (MAL included); seating chart for dinner at the White House, June 8, 1939. With a signed photograph by both the King and Queen (“George R.I.”, and Elizabeth R.”) housed in special leather, monogrammed frames.

Missy’s name is at the head of the list of White House staff “requested to be in the Diplomatic reception room downstairs on the arrival of the King and Queen from the station on June 8th, to be presented to their Britannic Majesties.” In the seating chart for the State Dinner that night, June 8, Missy is seated between Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb and Maj. Gen. Hugh A. Drum.

When the visitors moved to Hyde Park, Missy also maintains a privileged position. In the undated memo listing who will bed down at Hyde Park and where, the King and Queen are given the Chintz Room and the Pink Room, respectively. Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King and a small retinue of Royal staff merit room assignments; and Missy is given the “little room at the top of the stairs. All other servants and rest of party are to stay on the train.”

[White House Staff]. Typed letter, signed by 11 White House staffers, to Marguerite LeHand, n.d. [ca. Christmas 1942]. 1 page, 8vo., White House stationery. A comic Christmas verse for Missy, signed by former colleagues including, Steve Early, Rudolph Forster, Bill Hassett, Mary Eben, Toi Bachelder, Dorothy Brady, and others.

Miscellaneous papers, including: White House Christmas cards and invitations to other LeHand family members. Roosevelt, James. Autograph partial draft manuscript, unsigned, n.d. 4pp.

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(numbered pp.2-5), 4to, in pencil, lacking first page. Essay on the importance of Louis Howe to

FDR’s early political career.

VII. PHOTOGRAPHS

Black and white photographic portrait by Harris & Ewing, n.d. 12 x8in., matted and framed (matt burn along lover edge). Inscribed and signed “To Miss Marguerite A. LeHand With much appreciation of her work in the Presidential campaign of 1920. Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white photograph of FDR, seated with pen in hand, by Blank and Stoller., n.d. 9 x 7in.

Matted and framed. Inscribed “M.A.L. from F.D.R. 1927.”

Black and white photo portrait of FDR, n.d. 13.1/2 x 10.3/4in. Matted and framed. Inscribed, “M.A.L. from F.D.R. Jan 30 ’30.”

Black and white photographic portrait of FDR, ca. 1930, by Harris & Ewing. Inscribed, “For Daniel J. LeHand from his old friend Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white photograph of dinner party featuring FDR, Eleanor and assorted White House staffers, including Louis Howe. 8 x 10in. In silver frame with engraved lettering: “M.A.L. From F.D. Roosevelt. Feb. 13th 1932.”

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Black and white photograph of James Roosevelt. 11 x 8in. Framed (glass cracked). Inscribed, “To ‘Jimmie’ Roosevelt. Taken Mar. 23 1933. Occasion of first of series of broadcasts over Yankee network—Jimmie” Winston.”

Black and white photograph of FDR speaking with Eleanor Roosevelt and his son James, along with two other women. No date. 10 x 13.1/2in. Framed. Inscribed, “In the chart room of the U.S.S. Frontier on the farm and land cruise of 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white photograph of The White House. Manufactured at Val-Kill Industries and inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt, “To Missy with a merry xmas 1933.” 5 x 3in., matted and framed. Frame has metal plaque claiming wood was part of White House roof erected “about 1817 and removed in 1927.”

Black and white photographic portrait of Marguerite LeHand by Harris and Ewing, n.d. 10.1/2 x 6.1/2in. Matted and framed. Inscribed, “much love to ‘you all’ at 101 Marguerite June – 1935.”

Black and white photographic portrait of Sara Delano Roosevelt, by Pach Brothers, n.d. 9.1/4 x 7in. Matted and frame. Inscribed, “For Missy dear—from SDR Jan. 30th 1936.”

Black and white photograph, 14 x 11in., stained. Showing FDR with his granddaughter, inscribed and signed at lower right edge: “Kate Roosevelt, FDR on her Christening Day, Nov. 4, 1936.”

Flagg, James Montgomery. Pencil sketch of FDR [dated June 10, 1937]. 12 x 9in. Inscribed, “For M.A.L. Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white portrait photo by Harris & Ewing, showing FDR (seated) with Eleanor standing beside him. 13 x 9.1/2in. Inscribed and signed in pen at lower left, “For MAL with love from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jan. 30, 1939.”

Black and white photograph of James Roosevelt, Stephen Early, and Marvin McIntyre, signed by each. n.d. (1941 Inauguration Day). 8 x 10in.

Black and white photograph of FDR at his Oval Study desk, surrounded by Stephen Early, Marguerite LeHand, and Grace Tully. Photo by Jackie Martin, n.d. 10.1/2 x 13.1/4in. Matted and framed. Signed, “Stephen Early,” “Grace Tully,” and “Franklin D. Roosevelt March 4 1941.”

Also signed by Martin.

Black and white photograph of FDR and Winston S. Churchill at Casablanca, ca. 1943 7.1/2 x 9.1/2in. Matted and framed. Inscribed, “For M.A.L. with love from FDR.” [Bourke-White, Margaret.] Black and white photographic portrait of Missy LeHand, n.d.. 7 x5in.

Matted and framed. Signed “Bourke White.”

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Black and white photographic portrait of FDR by Harris & Ewing, n.d. 9x11in. Matted and framed. Photograph of seated FDR. Inscribed, “For Babe with the affectionate regards of Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Signed also “Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white photograph (4.1/2 x 3in.) showing a smiling FDR in the back of a car on the campaign trail, n.d. Signed, “Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white photographic print of FDR with “Rain or Shine” caption printed on top. 11 x 8.1/4in. Inscribed, “For M.A.L. yours wet or dry F.D.R.” Black and white photograph of FDR examining stamps, n.d. 8 x 10in. Inscribed, “For my associate collector M.A.L. from F.D.R.” Print of FDR by Sudduth. 12 x 9in. Signed, “Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white photograph of FDR and Stephen Early, n.d. 8 x 10in. Signed, “Stephen Early.”

Inscribed, “Lookin’ at yez, Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white photograph of FDR and John Nance Garner. Signed in ink, “Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Written at top in pencil, “Missy.”

Black and white photographic portrait of Marguerite LeHand, by Bacharach, n.d. 11 x 8in.

Framed.

Black and white photographic portrait of FDR, by Bachrach, n.d. 9 x 6.1/4in. Matted and framed.

Inscribed, “For George & Dan with my best regards Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Collins, Richard. Charcoal sketch of FDR, n.d. 12 x 10in. Inscribed in pencil, “For Marguerite Collins from Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white photograph by Pach Brothers, n.d. 14 x 10.1/2in. Matted and framed. Inscribed, “For M.A.L. with love from F.D.R.” Black and white photographic print, showing two images of FDR signing a Congressional bill, n.d. 6.1/2 x 8.1/4in., matted and framed. The first image is inscribed “Painfully yours, Franklin D. Roosevelt” and the second “Penfully yours, Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white photograph, unsigned, of FDR in Warm Springs, seated in an automobile and receiving instructions on its operation. MAL and ER also in the car. No date. 7 x 9in. Matted and framed.

Black and white photograph, unsigned, of FDR in his Oval Study office, with Marguerite LeHand and Grace Tully. No date. 7 x 11in. Matted and framed.

Black and white photograph of Harry Hopkins, n.d. 12 x 10in. Matted and framed (spotting).

Inscribed, “Dear Missy, Do you remember Tahiti? Harry Hopkins.”

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Black and white photograph of FDR and Samuel I. Rosenman, n.d. 8 x 10in., framed. Inscribed “For Missy—How I wish you were down here to help! You certainly are needed. Affectionately, Sam.” Black and white photograph of Henry Morgenthau Jr. and FDR in car. 11 x 7.1/2in. Framed.

Inscribed, “To Missy from Harry” and “Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Back of photograph, in pen: “Hardy’s Gas Station at Gate to GA Warm Springs Fdtn July 6/15.”

Black and white photograph of Stephen T. Early, by Harris & Ewing, n.d. 11 x 7.1/2in. (stained).

Inscribed at bottom edge, “To ‘Missy,’ It’s a ‘token’ payment on a debt of gratitude owed by Stephen T. Early.”

Black and white photograph of Stephen T. Early, Louis Howe and Edwin G. Watson, 8 x 10in.

Inscribed by Early (shown seated between Howe and Watson): “To ‘Missy’ from the rose between 2 thorns.”

Black and white photograph of FDR and Marguerite LeHand, n.d. 8 x 10in. Framed. Inscribed, “To Marguerite for her good behavior Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Black and white photo, n.d. 5 x 4in. Signed and inscribed “Merry Xmas FDR.” In black leather case (badly chipped and worn).

Black and white photograph, 8 x 10in., Acme News Picture stamp on verso, showing FDR aboard a naval ship, clutching a pole for support, with his son, FDR, Jr., beside him, along with three naval officers. Signed on image (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”).

Also with approximately 300 black and white photos, various sizes, ca. 1917-1939. Many photos showing FDR and Missy on Roosevelt’s yacht and dozens of photos taken at Warm Springs, Campobello and other locations. Many informal and unknown images, showing Roosevelt swimming, relaxing, or camping. Also including a sepia-toned print of Louis Howe (12x9”), posing with a lit cigarette, inscribed and signed “For ‘Missy’ who has fought so many battles — For me — with me— and against me — for Lo! these many years (let’s not tell how many) from Louis McHenry Howe.” Other images include FDR and LeHand posing in the Oval study, in connection with the Look magazine profile on Missy. Several small, black-and-white photos of Missy in a wheelchair, convalescing at Warm Springs. Early photos of FDR from the 1920s, including one with Oswald Moseley and his wife. There are eight photographs bearing the stamp (on verso) of famous Life photographer, Thomas McAvoy, and several shots that he took of FDR at a public banquet. LeHand’s 1937 trip to Hollywood is amply documented in the photos, showing Missy, as well as Grace Tully and Marvin McIntyre with movie celebrities such as Shirley Temple, Spencer Tracy, Louis B. Mayer and Joe E. Brown, among others.

VIII. PRINTED BOOKS

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A fascinating library of 112 books, 67 of which are signed or inscribed by FDR, including rare first editions such as four of the White House Christmas Books, and dust-jacketed copies of Looking Forward and On Our Way. The earliest presentation dates from 1924 (FDR’s gift to LeHand of Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam), but most are from FDR’s years in power.

Six date from LeHand’s convalescence after her stroke. Many are presentation copies from prominent authors who passed through the White House, including Noel Coward, Sinclair Lewis, Dale Carnegie and Emil Ludwig.

Alsop, Joseph and Robert Kintner. American White Paper: The Story of American Diplomacy and the Second World War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. 4to., wrappers. In a red cloth slipcase. First edition. Inscribed in black ink, “For Missy LeHand, as nice a person as there is in this book. Joseph Alsop / Robert Kintner.”

Bangs, John Kendrick. The Pursuit of the House Boat. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. 8vo. Tan boards, spine gilt, illustrated woodcut on cover. First edition. Inscribed and signed on flyleaf to, “M.A.L. FDR 1930.”

Barnard, Harry. Eagle Forgotten: The Life of John Peter Altgeld. New York: Bobs-Merrill Company, 1938. 4to. Illustrated. Red cloth, cover and spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket (chipped). First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed on flyleaf, “For Franklin Delano Roosevelt – who, if the truth were known, in large part, was the inspiration for this work, and who has the deepest gratitude of the author for what he has done and is doing to make Democracy a reality in America—with the utmost respect and loyalty—Harry Barnard.

December 16, 1938. Through the courtesy of Barnet Hades, Chicago.” Also signed by FDR below the presentation inscription: “Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

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Beeding, Francis. The Twelve Disguises. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. 8vo. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. First edition. Inscribed and signed on flyleaf, “M.A.L., Love from F.D.R., 1943.�

A thriller set in wartime Britain which Roosevelt sent to a convalescing Missy.

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Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. London: Crown Buildings, 1883. 4to.

Illustrated. Half-title, frontispiece, marbled endpapers, doublures. Full calf, covers tooled in gilt, spine gilt in six compartments. A later edition. Inscribed, “For M.A.L.’s Library, from FDR, 1926.”

Brown, Henry Collins. In the Golden Nineties. New York: Valentine’s Manual, Inc., 1928. 8vo.

Illustrated. Frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. Blue cloth, cover and spine stamped in gilt.

Inscribed in pencil on title page, “To my friend Miss Marguerite LeHand with the very kind regards of the author Henry Collins Brown.”

Bullitt, William C. It’s Not Done. London: Brentano’s Ltd., 1929. 8vo. Maroon cloth, black lettering on spine and upper cover (light sun damage to spine). A later edition of Bullitt’s satire of the Main Line aristocracy from whence he came. Inscribed on flyleaf, “To Colinette with love from Bill.”

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Bullitt, William C. Report to the American People. Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1940. 8vo.

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Blue cloth, upper cover stamped in red. Cream and red dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed and signed on half-title, “To Marguerite LeHand with love from Bill. 18 September 1940.” Bullitt’s brief (29pp.) eyewitness account of the death of the Third Republic from his perspective as U.S. ambassador to France.

Carnegie, Dale. How to Win Friends and Influence People. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. 8vo. Orange cloth, stamped in gilt, dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed, “My dear Marguerite LeHand you certainly know how to win friends. At least you won me. Dale Carnegie May 16, 1940.” The dust jacket bears the curious information: “This is copy no.

1150798 of the only non-fiction book in all history that ever sold a million copies during its first three years.” And it’s still in print 80 years later.

Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark: Being a Poem in Eight Fits. New York: Peter Paper Press, n.d. 8vo. Illustrated tan boards. Red cloth slipcase. Inscribed on flyleaf, “To Missy, a merry Christmas from Paula.” Likely from Paula Tully, Grace’s younger sister and another member of the White House secretarial staff.

[Carter, John F.] “Unofficial Observer.” The New Dealers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. 8vo. Illustrated endpapers. Blue cloth, with red and white paper label on spine. Fragment of dust jacket remaining. First edition. Inscribed on half-title, “For M.A.L., from Franklin D. Roosevelt.” An astute, if cheeky, interpretation of the New Deal, as the culmination of a long, slow transformation of the political landscape, akin to the shifting of tectonic plates. Carter grants FDR no originality, calls him the “chief croupier” of the new order. But he likes what he sees. The New Deal, he writes, “is led by a group of men who possess two supreme qualifications for the task: common sense and a sense of humor.”

Cather, Willa. The Professor’s House. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. 8vo. Quarter cloth, orange boards. Spine stamped in blind. Signed in pencil on front flyleaf, “Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1926.” Cather’s seventh novel, about the spiritual/midlife crisis of an intellectual in Jazz Age America.

[Congress]. The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Congress of the United States Under the Constitution. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1939.

Inscribed and signed (“For M.A.L. from FDR”). 8vo. Illustrated. 16pp., wrappers. Program for the ceremony held in the House chamber on March 4, 1939.

[Connor. R.D.W.] First Annual Report of the President of the United States as to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1939-1940. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941. 8vo, 7pp., gray wrappers. Inscribed by FDR to MAL, “For Maggie from Popper.”

Cooper, Courtney Ryley. Ten Thousand Public Enemies. Boston: Little Brown, 1938. 8vo. Black cloth with red lettering, dust jacket (torn). Inscribed on front flyleaf “To Marguerite A. LeHand with most cordial regards. J. Edgar Hoover, Feb. 1936.” A thick tome from Hoover’s propaganda machine, telling us how the G-Men always get their man (or, in some notable instances, woman).

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Coward, Noel. Present Indicative. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1937. 8vo.

Red cloth, black leather label on spine, stamped in gilt. Coward’s initials stamped in blind on cover. Slight sun fading to spine. Inscribed on half-title, “For ‘Missy’ In memory of much attention. Noel Coward. June 1940.” Coward gave this to Missy as thanks for his June 4, 1940 dinner at the White House. It was not just another social-celebrity call upon the President.

Coward was in the employ of British intelligence, with the job of using his fame in the United States to help turn public opinion in support for greater aid to Britain. His visit came just days after the great Dunkirk rescue.

Coyle, David Cushman. Why Pay Taxes. Washington, D.C. National Home Library Foundation, 1937. 12mo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. Signed by FDR on front flyleaf (“FDR!”). Also inscribed by Sherman Mittell. A defense of the taxing power as “an instrument of public policy.”

Cummings, Homer. The Tired Sea. Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1939. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Limited edition, 300 copies (this copy no. 48). Inscribed and signed on colophon to “Missy,” from “Homer Cummings.”

Curie, Eve. Madame Curie. New York: Doubleday, 1938. 8vo. Orange cloth covered boards.

Black leather label on spine, stamped in gilt. Inscribed on flyleaf, “For Marguerite Alice LeHand LLD from,” and below, in different, lighter ink, “Franklin D. Roosevelt, The White House, 1938.”

Currier & Ives. Best Fifty Lithographs. New York: National Process Company, n.d. 4to.

Illustrated cream boards, brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt (hinge cracked). Inscribed on flyleaf, “M.A.L. from Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Dangerfield, George. Victoria’s Heir. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1941. 8vo. red cloth, spine stamped in gilt (light discoloration along top edge of cover). First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed and signed on flyleaf, “To Marguerite LeHand, Sincerely George Dangerfield.” A study of the early life of Edward VII, by the author of the famous The Strange Death of Liberal England.

Daspet, Roger. Nous Pouvons Sauver La France! (We Can Save France) Paris: Les Presses Modernes, 1939. 8vo wrappers. Unopened. Signed and inscribed on upper wrapper, “M.A.L. FDR 1939.” With two copies of a pamphlet by Daspet, “Association Francaise Pour la Liberte du Commerce International,” loosely inserted.

Farley, James. Behind the Ballots. The Personal History of a Politician. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1938. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in green, dust jacket. First edition, presentation copy. Signed on front flyleaf, “Franklin D. Roosevelt,” also signed and inscribed, “To ‘Missy’ one of the most devoted and loyal persons I have ever known, and who is familiar with many of the tales in this book. I am happy to be able to call her my friend. James A. Farley, Dec. 19. 1938.”

Farson, Negley. Behind God's Back. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940. 8vo. Blue cloth, blue lettering, dust jacket (torn). Inscribed on front flyleaf “To Harry Hopkins: with deep admiration

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for your work in the United States. Negley Farson: London 1941.” With January 24, 1941 typed letter signed from Farson to Hopkins enclosing the book.

Fitzgerald, Edward. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, n.y. 12mo. Red morocco, gilt spine, spine in six compartments, top edge gilt. In red cloth slipcase. Inscribed and signed “M.A.L. from FDR 12/11 1924.”

Fleeson, Doris. Missy to Do This. Bound reprint of Fleeson’s Saturday Evening Post article. 8vo.

Blue cloth covered boards, stamped in gilt. Inscribed “February 28, 1938. For Dan & George -with my love, Marguerite.” With a second, unsigned copy.

Frankfurter, Felix. Law & Politics. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1939. 8vo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, dust jacket (chipped). First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed on flyleaf, with refreshing self-deprecation: “Dear Missy, This will find its appropriate place on your shelves of unread books, but I send it as a token of my esteem for you as a distinguished public servant. Affectionately, Felix Frankfurter.” This book appeared the same year that FDR appointed Frankfurter to the Supreme Court. Prior to that, the Harvard Law professor had long been an advisor to FDR on judicial matters, and he helped stock the New Deal administration with many of his proteges, such as Tommy Corcoran, Ben Cohen, Philip Graham, among others.

Gay, Walter. Paintings of French Interiors. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1920. Folio.

Red morocco. Spine and covers elaborately tooled in gilt. Spine in five compartments. All edges gilt. In publisher’s cardboard box. First edition. Inscribed, “For M.A.L. from F.D.R. New Year’s Day 1938.”

Gras, Felix. The Reds of the Midi. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896. 12mo. Red cloth, stamped in gilt. Signed on front flyleaf, “M.A.L. from Franklin D. Roosevelt 1930.”

[Harper's Weekly] Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. 12mo. Illustrated. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt, worn, hinges cracked. Inscribed on front flyleaf “Franklin D. Roosevelt Hyde Park, for M.A.L. 1938.”

Hopkins, Harry L. Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce 1939.

Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1939. 8vo. Blue cloth, cover and spine stamped in gilt. Marguerite A. Le Hand’s name stamped in gilt on lower right of front cover. First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed on flyleaf: “Jan 15-1940 Dear Missy: I also like bridge, string cheese, New York and you. Harry.”

[House of Representatives.] One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Commencement of the First Congress of the United States under the Constitution. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939. 8vo. Blue boards, lightly torn spine; inscribed in ink, “M.A.L. From F.D.R. 1939.”

Ickes, Harold L. The New Democracy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1934. 8vo.

Blue cloth covered boards, white lettering on cover and spine. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed and signed on flyleaf, “To Miss Marguerite LeHand with sincere regards, Harold L. Ickes.”

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Ickes, Harold L. Back to Work. The Story of PWA. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1935. 8vo.

Crimson cloth, stamped in gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed, “To Marguerite A. LeHand. She is a daisy. Harold L. Ickes.”

Ickes, Harold L. America’s House of Lords: An Inquiry Into the Freedom of the Press. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. 8vo. Black cloth, spine gilt. First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed and signed on flyleaf, “To Marguerite LeHand, with affectionate regards. Harold L. Ickes Nov. 14, 1939.” Ickes’s attack on the conservative press barons.

Johnson, Alvin Page. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Colonial Ancestors. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1933. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt, dust jacket. In a red cloth slipcase. Signed and inscribed on half-title, “For M.A.L. From Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Kleeman, Rita Halle. Gracious Lady. The Life of Sara Delano Roosevelt. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1935. 8vo. Illustrated. Blue cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, dust jacket. Blue cloth slipcase. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf, “For Dear ‘Missy’ with love from S.D. Roosevelt. October 1935.” A biography of FDR’s mother—the imperious, dominant figure in the Roosevelt family household until her death in September 1941. Missy wisely cultivated her and remained in her good graces.

Kull, A.E. One Cockeyed World. Oklahoma City: National Press, 1943. 8vo. Brown cloth covered boards, illustrated cover in red and black. Inscribed and signed on flyleaf, “For Missy with love, from FDR.” Another light-hearted book that FDR sent to cheer up Missy in Massachusetts after she left the White House Landis, James M. The Administrative Process. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1938. 8vo.

Blue cloth, stamped in gilt, dust jacket (chipped). First edition. Signed on front flyleaf, “Franklin D. Roosevelt,” and also signed and inscribed, “To Missy LeHand, with much admiration, James M. Landis.” The seminal text by a founding father of the regulatory state.

Larrimer, Mary. The Life of Paul of Tarsus. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1929. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Presentation copy “To President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt with sincere good wishes of the author Mary Larrimore (White). Boston, Mass., May 22, 1933.”

Lewis, Sinclair. Ann Vickers. New York: Doubleday, 1933. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards, stamped in blind and gilt (sun fading to spine, rubbed, hinges weak). First edition. Inscribed on flyleaf, “To Margaret LeHand with my best greetings Sinclair Lewis New York Jan. 23, 1937.”

Lindley, Ernest K. Franklin D. Roosevelt. A Career in Progressive Democracy. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1931. 8vo. Blue cloth (spotting) stamped in gilt. First edition. Signed and inscribed on front flyleaf “For Dan & George from Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Lindley’s campaign biography of FDR.

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Lindley, Ernest K. The Roosevelt Revolution. The First Phase. New York: The Viking Press, 1933. 8vo. Gray cloth, red lettering, dust jacket, publisher’s blue cloth slipcase. Presentation copy inscribed “Nov. 10, 1933. To ‘Missy’ with affectionate greetings. Ernest K. Lindley.” Also signed by FDR: “From the ‘Revolutionist’ Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Lindley, Ernest K. Half Way with Roosevelt. New York City: The Viking Press, 1937. 8vo. Blue, cloth covered boards, silver lettering on cover and spine, dust jacket (chipped and torn). Revised edition. Doubly inscribed and signed: “To Missy, with the hope that she likes this edition better than the first one, Ernest.” And: “Not half-way—this solution is 52% Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Looker, Earle. This Man Roosevelt. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. 8vo. Red cloth covered boards, dust jacket. In slipcase. Inscribed, “To Missy, Who made me take her out of this story, but who cannot take herself out of its sequel, with the love of the author E.L. August 8, 1932.” Also signed beneath the inscription, by Roosevelt: “and Franklin D.” Lorentz, Pare. The Roosevelt Year: A Photographic Record. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1934. 4to. Blue cloth, white lettering on cover and spine, dust jacket (slightly worn).

Inscribed on flyleaf, “M.A.L. Many happy returns of the day – Home on the Range & Listen to the Mocking Bird when How Sweet is the Air, FDR.” Ludwig, Emil. The Nile: The Story of a River. New York: The Viking Press, 1937. 8vo. Tan cloth, cover stamped in blind, blue lettering on spine. First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed on flyleaf (in pencil), “To Miss M. LeHand, the longest day, 37, Ludwig.” Ludwig paid an hourlong visit to FDR on the summer solstice, June 21, 1937.

Ludwig, Emil. Roosevelt. A Study in Fortune and Power. New York: The Viking Press, 1938.

8vo. Blue and gray cloth, stamped in gilt, dust jacket (chipped). First edition. Signed and inscribed on front flyleaf, “M.A.L. from F.D.R.” Roosevelt loved this life portrait penned by the famed biographer of Napoleon, Lincoln and Bismarck. “For in [FDR],” Ludwig writes, “there emerges before us, amid the lightning and stage thunder of the dictators, a man who, occupying the seat of government, enjoys power without abusing it, who is conducting a silent revolution through persuasion and humor, and who demonstrates to our age that the power of action which issues from a heart informed by justice works with deeper and more enduring effect than all the devices of the gloomy demagogues.” Halter T293.

Mack, John E. Nominating Address for President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Chicago: National Democratic Party, 1932. 8vo., 16pp. Gray wrappers, with paper label, stitched at side. Inscribed on flyleaf, “Franklin D. Roosevelt.” With carbon copy of one-page memo transcribing FDR’s conversation with Mack immediately after his speech, “John, you were grand…”

Macy, Dora. Public Sweetheart No. 1. New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1935. 8vo.

Red cloth (spotting and discoloration). First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed and signed on flyleaf, “March 1936, For Marguerite a very private sweetheart of ours, from two of her favorite writers Grace & Dora.” Another mystery novel from the pen of Grace Perkins, this one published under her pseudonym, Dora Macy.

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Morley, Christopher. Thunder on the Left. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. 8vo. Black cloth, paper labels on upper cover and spine (some spotting and staining on covers). Signed in pencil on front flyleaf, “Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1926.”

Owen, Ruth Bryan. Leaves from a Greenland Diary. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935.

8vo. Green cloth. Inscribed on flyleaf, “To Marguerite LeHand with warm regards, Ruth Bryan Owen. Washington D.C. 1935.” Mrs. Owen was the daughter of William Jennings Bryan, and the first woman ever to represent a Florida district on the House of Representatives.

Partridge, Bellamy. Imperial Saga, The Roosevelt Family in America. New York: Hillman-Curl Inc., 1936. 4to. Purple cloth, spine stamped in gilt, dust jacket (torn). First edition. Inscribed and signed on half-title, “Franklin D. Roosevelt, The White House, 1939. For M.A.L.” An admiring look at Roosevelt genealogy from Isaac to Franklin. Halter T376.

Pattou, E. E. French a la Mode. The Right Things to Say and Do in France. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. 12mo. Blue cloth, red lettering on upper cover and spine, dust jacket (chipped). Signed and inscribed, “Bon Voyage: June 1934. That these fifty playlets may open doors to happy memories for Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States, is the sincere wish of the author, a sincere admirer and well wisher for the fullest success of the present administration. E. E. Pattou.”

Perkins, Grace. Modern Lady. New York: Farrar & Rhinehart, 1935. 8vo. Brown cloth stamped in gilt (light sun damage on spine). Inscribed in green ink on flyleaf, “March 30 1936 For Marguerite with all my [heart image] – Grace.”

Perkins, Grace. The Unbreakable Mrs. Doll. New York: Farrar & Rhinehart, 1938. 8vo. Green cloth, black lettering on cover and spine, with illustrated dust jacket (chipped). First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed and signed in green ink on flyleaf, “April 1938 For Marguerite LeHand with unbreakable love, Grace.”

Roosevelt Dall, Anna. Scamper. The Bunny Who Went to the White House. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1934. 4to. Green cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy inscribed and signed on front flyleaf, “To Missy— my partner in crime and fun with much love from Anna.”

Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D [Eleanor Roosevelt]. It’s Up to Women. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1933. 8vo.; slight tearing of dust jacket at spine, original plastic covering intact but slightly ripped, with original blue slipcase; inscribed in black ink, “Missy dear, much love and I hope you won’t be bored. Eleanor Roosevelt.”

Roosevelt, Eleanor. This is My Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. 8vo. Illustrated. Blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, dust jacket and red cloth slipcase. Inscribed and signed on half-title, “To dear Missy, with my love, Eleanor Roosevelt.”

[Roosevelt, Franklin D.] Holy Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1917. 8vo. Black soft leather covers, lightly worn at corners. Inscribed, “From one who is praying for you — these

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strenuous hard days & months that are before you. P.M.B. Withrow, Supt., Union mission Charleston W.VA., Romans 1-9. March 1933.” With inlaid telegraph that reads, “The President.

Please permit me to suggest you quote in Saturday night’s speech verses eighteen and nineteen and twenty seven chapter twenty Book of Job. Am no churchman just newspaper man who broke into business with George Creel. Say hello to him for me. Digest Poll plain hooey here. Gene Bowles.”

Roosevelt, Franklin D. “Our Foreign Policy. A Democratic View,” offprint of Foreign Affairs article, July 1928. 16pp., 4to, self-wrappers. Inscribed and signed on upper cover (“M.A.L. from F.D.R. June 1928”). FDR takes exception to the notion that the U.S. is “isolationist.” He defends the U.S. intervention in Haiti for restoring order, “…the world ought to thank us.” An important early expression of his foreign policy views. Halter T456.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. The Happy Warrior: Alfred E. Smith. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. Small 8vo. Green cloth with orange paper label. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed, “For Dan LeHand from his friend Franklin D. Roosevelt.” A fine copy of FDR’s second book, in praise of his political mentor, whom FDR first met in 1911 while serving as a young legislator in Albany. FDR twice put Smith’s name into nomination for the presidency, first when he made his brave return to the public stage at the epic 1924 convention in Madison Square Garden and again at Houston in 1928. But the two men became rivals for the 1932 nomination, and once Roosevelt launched the New Deal, Smith became an embittered foe, joining with Herbert Hoover and others in the Liberty League. Halter T457.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Addresses of Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Campaign for Governorship New York: October – November 1928. N.p., n.d. 4to.; marbled endpapers, blue cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gilt. “Marguerite A. LeHand” stamped in gilt on upper cover. In red cloth slipcase. Inscribed, “For M.A.L. from Franklin D. Roosevelt.” A set of speech typescripts from the gubernatorial campaign (417pp., with index), bound specially for Missy. A remarkable compilation as well as association.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Public Papers of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1929. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1930. 8vo. Red pebbled cloth, marbled endpapers, stamped in gilt; “Marguerite A. LeHand” stamped in gilt at lower right of cover. First edition, presentation copy inscribed on front flyleaf, “for M.A.L. who helped me to prepare so many of these ‘documents’ from Franklin D Roosevelt.” Halter T482.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Public Papers of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1930. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1931. 8vo. Red pebbled cloth stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers. “Marguerite A. LeHand” stamped in gilt on front. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on front flyleaf, “For M.A.L. who contributed much to these papers Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Halter T502.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Public Papers of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1931. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1937. 8vo. Red pebbled cloth stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers. “Marguerite A. LeHand” stamped in gilt at lower right on cover. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on front flyleaf, “for authoress LeHand (M.A.) from Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Halter T637.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. Public Papers of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1932. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1939. 8vo. Red cloth covered boards, marbled endpapers. Inscribed on flyleaf, “For Marguerite A. LeHand with love from Father. Franklin D. Roosevelt The White House 1940.” Halter T675.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Printed document inscribed by FDR “With Father's love” to M.A.L. Program for FDR’s Fiftieth Birthday Luncheon, January 30, 1932, Hyde Park, New York. 1p., 8vo, framed. Also signed by James Farley, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Samuel Rosenman, and five others.

[Roosevelt, Franklin D.]. Official Inaugural Program. Washington D.C.: Ransdell Incorporated, 1933. 4to. Blue boards, stamped in gilt. “Marguerite LeHand” embossed in gilt on upper board.

Limited Deluxe Edition, copy no. 1680. Signed “Cary T. Grayson” and “Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

[Roosevelt, Franklin D.] Inauguration Ceremonies Program. March Fourth Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Three. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933. 4to. Cream self-wrappers, stitched at side with red, white and blue ribbon. Embossed Great Seal on upper cover; engraving of Capitol Building on lower cover. (Two copies.)

[Roosevelt, Franklin D.] Blue Book of the Roosevelt-Garner Inauguration March 4, 1933.

Washington D.C.: Ransdell Incorporated, 1933. 4to. Blue pebbled cloth stamped in blind and gilt; Great Seal of United States embossed in gilt on upper cover. In a red cloth slipcase.

Inscribed on flyleaf, “To Marguerite LeHand with the compliments of Admiral Grayson and J. Fred Essary, Washington 1935.” Also inscribed, “M.A.L. Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Card inlaid with message in type, “slip case and label the same as the back of the book.”

Roosevelt, Franklin D. The Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Thirty-Second President of the United States. The Harbor Press, 1933. 8vo. Light-blue paper covered boards (lacking paper label on front cover, slight staining), dark blue spine. First edition, second state (30 unnumbered copies). Inscribed on front flyleaf, “For M.A.L. from F.D.R. This is not strictly the 1st edition as the Gov. Printing office copies ante-date it, but it is at least a delightful piece of printing.” The precise date of publication of this edition is unknown, but on April 12, 1933, FDR wrote the Harbor Press thanking them: “This volume…reflects high credit upon the producers.

The quality of this production, both from the standpoint of binding and topography, is outstanding. I shall treasure it.” The text for this edition was taken from a stenographic transcript that reflected FDR’s last minute emendations to his speech. It is “therefore the first appearance in book form of the First Inaugural as listeners actually heard it delivered” (Halter T547).

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Looking Forward. New York: The John Day Co., 1933. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gilt, red-white-and-blue dust jacket. New leaf tipped to stub at pp.141-142. In red cloth slipcase. First trade edition. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf “To M.A.L. with love from F.D.R.” FDR’s first book as President, comprising (as he notes in his Introduction) a compilation of “articles written and speeches made prior to March 1, 1933.”

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Looking Forward. New York: The John Day Company, 1933. 8vo. Blue cloth, top edge gilt (slight discoloration at top and bottom of spine). In a specially made cloth

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slipcase (spine of slipcase numbered “2” in FDR’s hand). Inscribed on colophon, “For Marguerite from Franklin D. Roosevelt.” First limited edition of 100 copies (this copy no. 2).

First ten copies hors de commerce.

[Roosevelt, Franklin D.] Columbia Masterworks. Oath of Office and Inaugural Address. March 4, 1933. Three long playing discs, housed in 4to., blue boards (scuffed at edges). Inscribed, “For Marguerite who helped to prepare the inaugural address Franklin D. Roosevelt.” A vinyl record of FDR’s First Inaugural, with a wonderful, bold inscription.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. On Our Way. New York: The John Day Co., 1934. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt, top edge stained red, dust jacket (small tears along top edge). In red cloth slipcase. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf, “For M.A.L. with love from Franklin D. Roosevelt.” FDR's holograph corrections appear on p.X, changing “party” to “property,” but with an additional marginal comment for LeHand’s benefit: “A silly misprint F.D.R.” Likewise the correction on p.162, in which FDR supplies the missing, sense-changing “not” to “I am not willing to live myself…” also with a marginal note: “A ‘terrible’ omission, FDR.” The first trade edition. FDR’s account of his first year in office, which includes his vision of governance: “a quality of mind which is never satisfied with things as they are…that achieves an immediate object and and proceeds forthwith to gain the next.” Halter T585.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. On Our Way. New York: John Day Co., 1934. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt, top edge stained red, torn dust jacket. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: “For Sister [Barbara Farwell] with love from Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Errata slip at p.X. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Address of the President of the United States in the House of Representatives [Veto Message on the Adjusted Compensation Act]. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1935. 4to. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. In a red cloth slipcase.

Inscribed, “For M.A.L. with love from FDR.” Also signed at end (p.11) (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). First edition, 50 copies. The 1935 Christmas Book, reproducing FDR’s veto of the “Bonus Bill.” This copy not numbered. Loosely inserted are typed instructions to the binder about lettering: “slipcase lengthwise Veto Message by FDR — 1935,” and the pencilled notation “3” in M.A.L.’s hand.

[Roosevelt, Franklin D.] The Democratic Book 1936. N.p., n.d. 4to. Illustrated. Brown leather covered boards, with “Marguerite A. LeHand” printed in gilt on front, light wear at spine.

Inscribed, “for Marguerite A. Le Hand Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Also signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt” on title page. This deluxe production—and fund-raising device—was sold to Democratic Party members for $250. This copy was specially printed for LeHand.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. The National Democratic Convention 1936: Entertainment Program. 4to.

Blue illustrated boards, cloth spine. Inscribed on colophon, “Miss Marguerite A. LeHand” from “Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Roosevelt, Franklin D. The President’s Birthday Magazine. Jan. 30, 1937. 4to.; illustrated wrappers. Signed on cover: (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”).

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[Roosevelt, Franklin D.] Inauguration Ceremonies Program. January Twentieth Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937. 4to. Cream selfwrappers, stitched at side with red, white and blue ribbon. Embossed Great Seal on upper cover; engraving of Capitol Building on lower cover. (Two copies.)

Roosevelt, Franklin D. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York: Random House, and Macmillan, 1938-1941. 9 volumes, 8vo. The first five volumes, from Random House, in publisher’s wrappers. The final four volumes from Macmillan bound in blue cloth, stamped in gilt, with dust jacket. All nine volumes housed in blue morocco, gilt slipcases.

FDR’s “Special Introduction and Explanatory Notes,” explain “in many instances the purpose behind his words and the eventual objectives to be attained, followed by a very human analysis of what actually happened. These illuminating comments bind the material into an integrated whole that becomes, in effect, a running history of the Roosevelt administration by FDR himself” (Halter 656).

Roosevelt, Franklin D. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York: Random House and Macmillan, 1938-1941. 9 volumes, thick 8vo. Full gray morocco stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. Inscribed, “For Marguerite A. LeHand with love from Franklin D. Roosevelt April 1938. You and I are most responsible for the great majority of the ‘first editions’ in memoranda, scraps, note-books and mere words which constituted the originals of this mass of print. F.D.R.” With loosely inserted note in holograph, “Franklin D. Roosevelt. Orig. reading copy.” T656 and T730.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Printed program for Jackson Day Dinner 1939. 4to. Illustrated wrappers.

Inscribed on cover, “For M.A.L. from F.D.R.” A blistering attack on the GOP, and an attempt to boost the morale of the Democrats which had seemed to flag recently. FDR uses the device of a “radio call” with Andrew Jackson, who reminds Roosevelt that his party still controls both houses of Congress and offers some advice for the President to give to his troops. “Tell ‘em to learn how to count! Get to shootin’ at the enemy again and they’ll be all right.”

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Printed Dedication of the new Post Office, Rhinebeck, New York, Monday, May 1, 1939, by the President of the United States. 4pp., 8vo. Blue self-wrappers.

Signed on upper wrapper (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”).

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Printed program of opening ceremonies of 1939 World’s Fair. 4to.

Illustrated wrapper. Signed on cover, “Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Roosevelt, Franklin D. American Peace, Neutrality, and Security. Message from President Roosevelt with a statement by Hon. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, to Congress on July 14, 1939. [Washington, D.C.:] U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939. 8vo., 8pp. Self-wrappers.

Inscribed and signed on title page: “For M.A.L. from F.D.R.” Roosevelt, Franklin D. Neutrality. Address of the President of the United States delivered before a Joint Session of the two Houses of Congress at the Opening of the Second Session of the Seventy-Sixth Congress. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939. 8vo, 8pp. Selfwrappers. Signed at end, (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”).

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[Roosevelt, Franklin D.] Naval Sketches of the War in California. New York: Random House, 1939. Introduction by FDR. Folio. Marbled, paper covered boards, white morocco spine (losses to spine). Inscribed on flyleaf, “For M.A.L. from FDR Christmas 1939.” Also signed on title page, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” The Donald Carmichael Collection included a copy of this work also inscribed to Missy in November 1939, where FDR credited her with taking “part with me in finding the original sketch-book.” Halter T253.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Message Transmitting the Budget for 1941. N.p., n.d. 4to., 16pp. Selfwrappers (smudge on title page). Signed at end (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”).

[Roosevelt, Franklin D.] Inauguration Ceremonies Program. January Twentieth Nineteen Hundred Forty-One. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941. 4to. Cream self-wrappers, stitched at side with red, white and blue ribbon. Embossed Great Seal on upper cover; engraving of Capitol Building on lower cover.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1941. 4to. Blue morocco covered boards stamped in gilt. Inscribed, “For Missy with lots of love from FDR (also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt).” The Third Inaugural. This bound edition of the Third Inaugural—the first and only time an American President has given a third Inaugural Address—is preceded by the G.P.O. printing. Roosevelt had this deluxe edition created the following year (see Halter 704).

[Roosevelt, Franklin D.]. Log of the President's Inspection Trip and Cruise on board U.S.S. Potomac, 19 March - 1 April 1941. [Washington: The White House, 1941.] 4to. Frontispiece photo of FDR and aides in Port Everglades, Florida. Blue wrappers (chips and staining to upper wrapper). Inscribed and signed on title page, (“M.A.L. with love from Franklin D. Roosevelt”).

First edition of the ninth and final pre-war presidential vacation cruise. Just before setting out on this trip, Roosevelt, on March 17, signed the Lend-Lease bill into law. The shadow of the war loomed over this trip, but even so FDR saw fit to increase his security contingent from just three Secret Service men to six. His shipmates were Harold Ickes, Harry Hopkins, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and FDR’s physician Ross McIntire. On the 29th the President delivered a Jackson Day speech via radio, and spoke about the advantages of getting away and “thinking things through — for differentiating between principles and methods, between the really big things of life and those of the moment…”

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt July 1940 to Jan. 1941. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. 4to. Marbled paper-covered boards with parchment spine, blue label on spine; top edge gilt; publishers original cardboard slipcase. An exceptionally fresh and fine copy. First edition, 75 copies numbered and initialed by FDR, the entire edition. This copy no. 49. A presentation copy inscribed, “For Marguerite with ever so much love from Franklin D. Roosevelt (Mr. P.)” and initialed at the colophon, “F.D.R.” The fifth White House Christmas Book, compiling 10 of Roosevelt’s speeches from the bitter 1940 campaign. The first President to break the traditional two-term limit, FDR ran on a program of aiding the Allies but keeping the U.S. out of the fighting. GOP standard-bearer Wendell Willkie

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agreed with Roosevelt’s war position, but that didn’t stop the contest from getting personal and nasty before it was over.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The White House: Washington, Christmastide 1942. 8vo. Cockerell paper covered boards, white parchment spine, black leather spine label (label chipped), publisher’s blue cardboard slipcase. First edition, 100 copies (this copy no. 50). The 1942 Christmas Book signed and inscribed “For Missy — with a great deal of love from Franklin D. Roosevelt Christmas 1942.” This powerful collection reprints FDR’s “Day of Infamy” speech seeking a declaration of war against Japan, and his declaration of war against Germany and Italy three days later. Present also is Churchill’s unforgettable address to the Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941 where he reflected upon his American mother — “I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have got here on my own” — to his confidence of victory: “What kind of a people do they think we are? Is it possible that they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?”

Roosevelt, Franklin D. Inaugural Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States. Washington: The White House, Christmas 1943. 8vo. Marbled paper-covered boards, parchment spine, black leather spine label, top edge gilt; publisher’s blue cloth slipcase. First edition, 100 copies numbered by FDR. This copy no. 47. Presentation copy inscribed and signed on front flyleaf, “For Missy with a Happy Christmas from FDR & lots of love. 1943.” The next to last White House Christmas book, but the last one Missy LeHand would receive (she had just over seven months to live). Fittingly, it reprints the three Inaugural Addresses which Missy helped prepare.

Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (Vols. one and two). New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. 8vo. Blue boards, light nicks on rear covers of Vol. 2. Inscribed on half-title to, “Margaret LeHand with salutations and good wishes Carl Sandburg 1940.”

Scully, Frank. Fun in Bed. New York; Simon and Schuster, 1933. 4to. Yellow cloth covered boards, red lettering on cover and spine. Inscribed, one “Frank” to another: “To Frank Roosevelt, The inspiration of a sick world, from just another one of its invalids, Frank Scully August 5 1933, Nice, France.”

Shakespeare, William. Venus and Adonis. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Rochester: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1931. 4to. Red morocco, stamped in gilt. In a cloth slipcase. Presentation copy inscribed, “To Franklin D. Roosevelt with best wishes from Leo Hart. January 26, 1932.”

At some point Missy came into possession of this and presented it as a birthday gift to FDR. Inscribed, in pencil, “To FDR, Many happy returns of January 30th 1933 — from Missy.”

Sheean, Vincent. Personal History. New York: Doubleday, 1935. 8vo. Red cloth, cover stamped in blind, spine gilt (sun faded). Fragment of dust jacket and FDR’s final, 1944 Christmas card, loosely inserted. First edition. Inscribed on flyleaf, “For M.A.L. from Franklin D. Roosevelt, The White House 1935.” The well-travelled war correspondent’s colorful memoir. It was the basis of

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Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent (1940), which Bosley Crowther in the Times called “2 parts Sheean and eight parts director Alfred Hitchcock.”

Sherwood, Robert. Abe Lincoln in Illinois. A Play in Twelve Scenes. 8vo. Crimson cloth stamped in gilt, dust jacket illustrated by Norman Rockwell. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf, “For Missy LeHand, who will someday be a vitally important character in a play about the greatest President of the United States since the subject of this play—with affectionate regards, Bob Sherwood January 1941.” One-half of FDR’s best speechwriting team (with Samuel Rosenman), he joined the Roosevelt White House after a political and artistic odyssey that started in the trenches of World War I, and led to him writing one of the more powerful antiwar plays to ever appear on Broadway, Idiot’s Delight (1936). With the rise of Hitler he, like many liberals, switched from antiwar to fervent interventionist. He won three Pulitzers for drama (Idiot’s Delight, Abe Lincoln, and the Finnish-German War drama, There Shall Be No Night). He’d win a fourth, for biography, Roosevelt and Hopkins, and an Oscar for his screenplay of The Best Years of Our Lives.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. St. Ives. Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England.

London: William Heinemann, 1898. 8vo. Black cloth (rubbed), stamped in gilt and blind. First edition. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf, “For M.A.L. from Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Stidger, Dr. William L. These Amazing Roosevelts. New York: Macfadden Book Company, 1938. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards, stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Inscribed on title page, “for M.A.L. ‘signed by’ Franklin D. Roosevelt,” and also inscribed by the author: “For ‘Missy’ LeHand – who has long had the admiration of the author of this little booklet and who has had the same loyalty to the President! Wm L. Stidger.” Halter T870.

Stone, Irving. Lust for Life. The Novel of Vincent Van Gogh. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1936. 8vo. Brown cloth, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Inscribed (but not signed) on flyleaf, in unknown hand: “Here’s the book I promised, though I much dislike to say I sent it – still, I think that it’s worth reading – any way, —And when – or if – you see this page please feel that you are free to tear it out completely, like… Well, shall we say, like me?”

Suckley Margaret L, and Alice Dagliesh. The True Story of Fala. Illustrated with sketches by E. N. Fairchild and Photographs. New York: Scribner’s, 1942. 4to. Glazed paper covered boards with Fala’s photograph on front. Illustrated dust jacket. Presentation copy, signed on flyleaf, “Margaret L. Suckley” and “Alice Dalgliesh.” A fine copy of the charming children’s book by FDR’s cousin, Margaret Suckley, celebrating the life of FDR’s famous Scots Terrier. It was actually his second of that breed, Fala being named after the deceased Murray, the Outlaw of Falahill. FDR’s famous comments about his Scotch dog’s “outrage” over the costs incurred when a destroyer allegedly returned to the Aleutian Islands to retrieve Fala—a story spread by the “Republican fiction writers”— probably helped win the 1944 election for FDR. The episode reassured voters that Roosevelt was still mentally alert and fit to be president, in spite of his often haggard and tired appearance on the campaign trail that year. Halter T871.

[Supreme Court]. Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Supreme Court of the United States, City of Washington, February first, Nineteen Hundred Forty. [Washington: Government Printing

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Office, 1940.] 8vo. Self-wrappers. Commemorative program signed by each of the nine sitting Justices: Charles Evans Hughes, J. C. McReynolds, Harlan F. Stone, Owen J. Roberts, Hugo Black, Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, and Frank Murphy. The final five of those names were all FDR appointees, giving him a majority on the Court the “old-fashioned” way, after his misguided attempt to pack the Court just three years earlier in 1937.

Tugwell, Rexford Guy. The Battle for Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1935.

8vo. Green cloth, spine stamped in gilt, dust jacket (chipped). First edition, presentation copy.

Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf, “For Marguerite LeHand — with the author’s thanks for many kindnesses. R. G. Tugwell.” One of the original three Brain Trusters (along with Moley and Berle), and his defense of the early New Deal.

Vail, Ruth. River Acres. Dallas: The Kaleidoscope Press, 1936. 8vo. Crimson cloth, cover and spine stamped in gilt, dust jacket (chipped). First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed on flyleaf, “Signed for Margaret LeHand Private Sec. to President Roosevelt. Ruth Vail 1937.”

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. The Arts: Written and Illustrated. Simon and Schuster: New York, 1937. 8vo. Illustrated. Red cloth, stamped in gilt on cover and spine. Illustrated paper label on spine. First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed on flyleaf, “Dear Margaret LeHand, here it is.

Henrik Willem Van Loon…2 September 1937.”

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. Good Tidings. New York: American Artists Group, Inc., 1941. 8vo.

Illustrated, cream colored boards. Illustrated dust jacket. First edition, presentation copy.

Inscribed and signed on flyleaf, “To Margeret LeHand from Hendrik Willem Van Loon 16 ix 1941.”

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr. Farewell to Fifth Avenue. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. 8vo.

Red cloth, paper label on spine, boards stained, spine faded. First edition, presentation copy.

Inscribed and signed, “To ‘Missy’ one in a million—whom it has been a genuine pleasure to know and to see ‘in action’ during some of the most trying times in American Democracy. Neil Vanderbilt Feb 1937.” Vanderbilt’s memoir of his own “treason” to his class.

Waller, John Francis LL.D. (Ed.). The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, n.d. 4to. Purple cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt (spine worn).

Inscribed on flyleaf, “For M.A.L. from F.D.R. Georgia Warm Springs - April - 1926.”

Wise, James Waterman and Lee J. Levinger. Mr. Smith meet Mr. Cohen. Introducing your Jewish Neighbor. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in silver, dust jacket (chipped). First edition. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf, “M.A.L. From FDR Sept 13, 1943.” A present from FDR on Missy’s 47th and final birthday. In this study of “the deepening integration of Jews with American life,” the authors tell “Mr. Smith” that “the Jew cannot cease being a Jew, even if he wishes to. The only alternatives are: intelligent relationship to his great historic past and the moral ideals it fosters; or a feeling of inferiority and fear which will rob him not only of Judaism but also of human dignity.”

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IX. INVITATIONS A collection of approximately 768 printed invitations, 1933-1941, including Inaugural invitations. Various dimensions, mostly 4to., 12mo. and 16mo. A large portion on White House stationery. Some autograph notes from private individuals seeking Missy’s attendance at dinner parties, cocktail receptions, etc. A vast testament to Missy’s desirability on the Washington social scene. In addition to invitations to diplomatic receptions and State dinners (including that for the King and Queen of Great Britain in 1939), Missy received invitations from anyone and everyone, ranging from Archibald MacLeish to the Soviet Ambassador. Housed in four brown cloth boxes.

X. A SHIP MODEL MADE BY FDR AND GIVEN TO MISSY LEHAND Roosevelt, Franklin D. Ship model, made by FDR, no date. A wood and canvas model of a double-masted 19th-century schooner, with 17 sails rigged with string to the masts, 9.1/2 inches stem to stern. The masts 8 inches tall (the aft mast slightly higher). A U.S. flag flying from the stern. Housed in a wood and glass box (13.3/4 x 9.1/2in.), with internal background and sides painted ocean blue. Accompanying the model is a note card from Eleanor Roosevelt, reading: “My love & many happy returns of the day, dear Missy, from E. R.”; and a May 14, 1957 typed letter signed by Mrs. Roosevelt to Missy’s niece, Mrs. Thomas E. Collins: “…It was very nice to hear from you and of course I will write a note to William telling him that the ship was made by my husband…”

A meticulously crafted model, expressing FDR’s life-long love of the sea. Chief among young Franklin’s collecting passions—in addition to stamps—were ship’s models and naval prints.

These enthusiasms never left him. He lined the walls and shelves of his Presidential office and study with maritime paintings and ship models. This model is the only one by FDR we know to exist in private hands.

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