Roosevelt, Franklin D.:

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[AUTOGRAPH AND TYPED LETTERS FROM FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT CONCERNING THE FOUNDING AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF WARM SPRINGS, GEORGIA]. A small but exceptional collection of memos and drafts, providing rare insight into how FDR ran the Georgia Warm Springs, a Georgia resort that he took over and developed into a retreat for polio sufferers after founding the Warm Springs Foundation in 1927. The collection comprises five parts:1) Autograph manuscript (not signed) in FDR's hand, on Warm Springs letterhead. [5]pp. "To all patients....The Foundation is conducting the treatment, and the patients come here for a definite purpose. The greater part of each day is taken up with the treatment, and while there is no wish to curtail personal liberty or recreation, it is essential to prevent fatigue and to work for the highest degree of health for all concerned. That is why simple rules are necessary. Many patients or their families will perhaps consider that circumstances warrant special exceptions to the rules - but this would soon lead to confusion and discrimination. That is why all patients whether of full age or minors, whether living in the colony, hotel or in private cottages are asked to live up not only to the letter, but to the spirit of the rules. We are concerned with the greatest good to the greatest number."2) Autograph manuscript (not signed) in FDR's hand. [3]pp. "Memo."3) Typed manuscript, dated January 1, 1928. [8]pp. (four drafts). "Rules for Guests Living in the Colony."4) T

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