Typed Letter Signed

by Franklin D. Roosevelt to Colonel E. Lester Jones Regarding the U. S. Marine Band, 1919 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

$750 · Offered by Back Creek Books

Washington: Navy Department, 1919. Navy Department Letterhead plus a single blank sheet. 8 x 10 1/2 A fine 2 paragraph letter in which future President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his role as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, gently denies a request from a founder of the American Legion for a part of the U. S. Marine Band to perform for the benefit of veterans at the New Willard Hotel in Washington just after World War

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