Typed letter, Signed Franklin D. Roosevelt , as president, on White House stationery, to C. Suydam Cutting

by Tibet, Franklin D. Roosevelt

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

4to. Framed and glazed. Item #317730 Like FDR, Suydam Cutting, who came from a prominent New Jersey family, was a graduate of both Groton and Harvard they graduated 5 years apart . Cutting went to Turkmenistan with TR, Jr., and Kermit in 1925 and travelled to Tibet on several occasions between 1928 and 1937. He visited Lhasa with permission of the Dalai Lama to whom he presented gifts. Cutting acted as de facto American representative there as

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