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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Autograph letter signed to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), “Friday – p.m.,” [12 November 1943]. 1 page, 4to, ruled paper (age-toned).
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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Autograph letter signed to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), “Friday – p.m.,” [12 November 1943]. 1 page, 4to, ruled paper (age-toned).
“I WILL DISGUISE MYSELF AS MOSES IN THE BULLRUSHES AND DRAW INSPIRATION FROM THE SPHINX”
A great rarity: an FDR autograph letter to his wife, written as he sets sail for the Tehran Conference (“code named “Eureaka”), and the first meeting of the Big Three—Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin. “Early tomorrow morning we will be off,” he tells Eleanor, whom he always addressed in correspondence as “Dearest Babs.” “Everything is very comfortable & I have with me lots of work & detective stories & we bought a dozen good movies. I hope we will be secret a good long time…I expect to gets lots of sleep till we get to the Nile! At that point I will disguise myself as Moses in the Bullrushes and draw inspiration from the Sphinx...Ever so much love. I wish you could be here on the trip with me.” He landed at Oran on the 20th. The four-day conference lasted from 28 November to 1 December, with several historic decisions emerging, chiefly the commitment to open the second front in Western Europe—which Stalin had been demanding for two and a half years. The Soviet leader was not convinced of his Allies’s seriousness until FDR named Dwight Eisenhower the Overlord commander. Roosevelt also met privately with Stalin and confidentially discussed the Soviet’s likely sphere of influence in Central and Eastern Europe.
Autograph letters from FDR to his wife Eleanor are RARE. No other example has appeared at auction in the last 40 years.
“I WILL DISGUISE MYSELF AS MOSES IN THE BULLRUSHES AND DRAW INSPIRATION FROM THE SPHINX”
A great rarity: an FDR autograph letter to his wife, written as he sets sail for the Tehran Conference (“code named “Eureaka”), and the first meeting of the Big Three—Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin. “Early tomorrow morning we will be off,” he tells Eleanor, whom he always addressed in correspondence as “Dearest Babs.” “Everything is very comfortable & I have with me lots of work & detective stories & we bought a dozen good movies. I hope we will be secret a good long time…I expect to gets lots of sleep till we get to the Nile! At that point I will disguise myself as Moses in the Bullrushes and draw inspiration from the Sphinx...Ever so much love. I wish you could be here on the trip with me.” He landed at Oran on the 20th. The four-day conference lasted from 28 November to 1 December, with several historic decisions emerging, chiefly the commitment to open the second front in Western Europe—which Stalin had been demanding for two and a half years. The Soviet leader was not convinced of his Allies’s seriousness until FDR named Dwight Eisenhower the Overlord commander. Roosevelt also met privately with Stalin and confidentially discussed the Soviet’s likely sphere of influence in Central and Eastern Europe.
Autograph letters from FDR to his wife Eleanor are RARE. No other example has appeared at auction in the last 40 years.