TLS, one page, 7 x 9.25, Assistant Secretary of the Navy letterhead, July 18, 1914. FDR writes to Moriss R. Brownell, Esq. In full: “I am going to represent the Navy at the opening of the Cape Cod Canal on Wednesday the 29th and am to be met by a destroyer that morning at Fairhaven. If you and Laura have made no other arrangements will you not come with me on the destroyer, going through the canal and returning about five in the afternoon?. In very good condition, with usual folds, light wrinkling, and scattered light spotting and soiling. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
