![ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Document signed ("Franklin D. Roosevelt") as President, Washington, D. C. 28 August 1935. The Preliminary Will of Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, signed by LeHand and witnessed by FDR and White House secretary Rudolph Forster. Three pages, 8vo, White House stationery, with punch holes along left margin. [With:] Certified copy of Last Will and Testament of Marguerite A. LeHand and a City of Chelsea Abstract of Record, dated 24 October 1944, taking official notice of LeHand's death.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01685_0198_000(110645).jpg?w=1)
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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Document signed ("Franklin D. Roosevelt") as President, Washington, D. C. 28 August 1935. The Preliminary Will of Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, signed by LeHand and witnessed by FDR and White House secretary Rudolph Forster. Three pages, 8vo, White House stationery, with punch holes along left margin. [With:] Certified copy of Last Will and Testament of Marguerite A. LeHand and a City of Chelsea Abstract of Record, dated 24 October 1944, taking official notice of LeHand's death.
FDR'S WITNESSES MISSY LEHAND'S DRAFT 1935 LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. Nine years before she died at the age of 46, Missy LeHand drafted her own will, writing: "This is written by me personally, and in the event of my death before a formal will is drawn this is to be considered as such." Her assets were not extensive--a house in Cambridge, some stocks, a mink coat, a diamond bracelet, and the effects in her White House apartment. The story of LeHand's life with Roosevelt is both touching and deeply tragic. She first worked for him in the 1920 presidential campaign, and followed him into private life after the polio attack, to FDR's job at the Fidelity & Deposit Trust Co. in New York. She naturally joined him in Albany during the gubernatorial years and she was a lynchpin of the Oval Office staff after 1933. She served as unofficial hostess in Eleanor Roosevelt's absence until a series of strokes forced her to retire to Massachusetts. FDR saw her and spoke to her on only one or two occasions after she became ill. She died on 31 July 1944, the cause of death listed on the City of Chelsea certificate is "cerebral embolus, auricular fibrillation, rheumatic heart disease." Together 3 items.
FDR'S WITNESSES MISSY LEHAND'S DRAFT 1935 LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. Nine years before she died at the age of 46, Missy LeHand drafted her own will, writing: "This is written by me personally, and in the event of my death before a formal will is drawn this is to be considered as such." Her assets were not extensive--a house in Cambridge, some stocks, a mink coat, a diamond bracelet, and the effects in her White House apartment. The story of LeHand's life with Roosevelt is both touching and deeply tragic. She first worked for him in the 1920 presidential campaign, and followed him into private life after the polio attack, to FDR's job at the Fidelity & Deposit Trust Co. in New York. She naturally joined him in Albany during the gubernatorial years and she was a lynchpin of the Oval Office staff after 1933. She served as unofficial hostess in Eleanor Roosevelt's absence until a series of strokes forced her to retire to Massachusetts. FDR saw her and spoke to her on only one or two occasions after she became ill. She died on 31 July 1944, the cause of death listed on the City of Chelsea certificate is "cerebral embolus, auricular fibrillation, rheumatic heart disease." Together 3 items.