TLS as president, one page, 7 x 9, White House letterhead, November 24, 1941. FDR writes to Arthur Morris, president of the Fulton Trust Company. In full: “Thanks for the pass-book. I am returning the signature cards herewith. I think it enough for the Trust Company to send statements of my account once every three months. By the way, do you good people give interest on six month’s time deposits? If so, I am enough of a Dutchman to suggest that I leave this amount intact on that basis and get a few additional dollars. I imagine the estate taxes will not be paid for about that length of time.” In fine condition, with small in correction to text, and an office stamp to top right.
As the Japanese were making their final plans to bomb Pearl Harbor, an unsuspecting President Roosevelt was taking care of family business. He wrote this humorous note (“enough of a Dutchman” to seek interest on a time deposit) to a New York banker about the disposition of the trust left to him by his mother Sara, who had passed away two months earlier shortly before her 87th birthday. The Roosevelts, of course, were a prominent old New York family of Dutch descent and Sara was, by most accounts, a domineering and protective mother. She had frequent and famous clashes with another strong woman in FDR’s life: his wife Eleanor. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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