FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT - Remarkable TLS to Frances Cleveland

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) 32nd President.7 ¼” x 10 ½” typed letter signed, personal stationery, Warm Springs, November 28, 1928, to former First Lady Frances Cleveland Preston. “…one of my most vivid early recollections is that of being taken to the White House by my father when I was a very small boy to be introduced to the President. Mr. Cleveland leaned over and took me by the hand and I remember well his saying to me ‘my boy, a great many people will probably tell you that they hope that someday you will be the President of the United States, and I want to tell you that for your own sake I hope you will never have to be President.’ I cannot help feeling what he said he spoke from his heart and I think he was absolutely right….” There is some staining, away from the text and signature and paper-loss in the left corner and lower margin. Three weeks earlier Roosevelt had won the New York gubernatorial campaign in what was generally viewed as his political comeback. Four years later he would be elected President.