Item 96a: Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Julian P. Boyd, 1938 December 1
Item — Box: 9, Folder: 96a
Dates
- Created: 1938 December 1
Creator
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Letter.
Condition Note:
Good. Vinegar smell. Minor stains present.
Measurements:
8 ¾ in. x 7 in.
Description:
The following letter dated December 1, 1938, is written by Franklin Dwight Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, to Julian Parks Boyd, a prominent professor of history at Princeton. In the letter, Roosevelt is writing in regards to an invitation to a luncheon so they may discuss plans for a library that would become the Roosevelt library at Hyde Park.
This item is connected to Item 96, as this is the letter with Roosevelt’s signature that Boyd is giving to McClintock’s collection, as well as holds historical significance in regards to the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, as referenced in Item 96: “This is the letter that initiated the FDR library at Hyde Park. He already had his ‘general plan’-in detail-but he wanted it to look as if the group he assembled had advised & promoted it.”
Location:
Warm Springs, Georgia.
Transcription:
Typed Text in Bold
The White House Washington Warm Springs, Georgia December 1 1938 My dear Mr. Boyd: It would give me great pleasure if you could come to luncheon with me at the White House on Saturday, December tenth. I am asking a small group of people from different parts of the country to come together to discuss with me a matter which lies very close to my heart and on which I would like to take some definite action in the very near future. Because I could greatly value your advice on the right way to work out the plan I have in mind and because I know of your deep interes, not only in the preservation of historical source material but also in your current interest in current affairs of government, I hope very much that you will be able to lunch with me that day at one o’clock at the White House. I am enclosing a short and very sketchy memorandum which I hope you will be thinking over. This necessarily must remain a matter to be kept in the strictest confidence, because I think it would be a pity if there were any intimations relating to the general plan before I have something definite to go on. My sincere regards, Faithfully yours, {Signature} Franklin D Roosevelt Julian P. Boyd, Esq. Director, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The White House Washington Warm Springs, Georgia December 1 1938 My dear Mr. Boyd: It would give me great pleasure if you could come to luncheon with me at the White House on Saturday, December tenth. I am asking a small group of people from different parts of the country to come together to discuss with me a matter which lies very close to my heart and on which I would like to take some definite action in the very near future. Because I could greatly value your advice on the right way to work out the plan I have in mind and because I know of your deep interes, not only in the preservation of historical source material but also in your current interest in current affairs of government, I hope very much that you will be able to lunch with me that day at one o’clock at the White House. I am enclosing a short and very sketchy memorandum which I hope you will be thinking over. This necessarily must remain a matter to be kept in the strictest confidence, because I think it would be a pity if there were any intimations relating to the general plan before I have something definite to go on. My sincere regards, Faithfully yours, {Signature} Franklin D Roosevelt Julian P. Boyd, Esq. Director, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Repository Details
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu