1930/10/24

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Typed letter signed

Title: to Fred L. Seely re: thanks for helping his sick son Herbert

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.079

1935/07/29

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Frederic Kernochan re: polio epidemic and boy scout jamboree

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.080

1936/03/20

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anna Roosevelt Boettiger (daughter) re: his hopes to see her

Written as President on White House stationery and signed "Pa."

GLC02793.081

1937/02/19

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to James A. Farley re: paying off his election bet concerning Senator Borah

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.082

1939/01/27

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to William E. Shepherd re: declining membership in the Beaux-Arts Institute

Signed as President on White House stationery. He notes he is a rank amateur

GLC02793.083

1939/12/25

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Harry A. Woodring re: Christmas greetings, with envelope

Signed as President to his Secretary of War. The envelope has a silver foil seal reading "Please DO NOT OPEN until CHRISTMAS." Typed on White House stationery. Alluding to wartime rationing, FDR jokes "This metal [on the envelope seal] can be stamped out into a hand grenade if you need it!"

GLC02793.084

1943/03/09

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam re: opposition to prohibition

Signed as President on White House stationery. Written as a follow-up to meeting with Methodist bishops.

GLC02793.085

1943/06/17

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Arthur J. Morris re: estates of his mother and father, income taxes

Signed as President on White House stationery. Morris was President of the Fulton Trust Co.

GLC02793.086

1944/11/21

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Arthur J. Morris re: thanks for congratulations, questions about legacy

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.087

1945/01/11

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Arthur J. Morris re: distribution of his mother's estate to his children

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.088

1945/03/28

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Arthur J. Morris re: income tax deductions

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.089

1951/01/27

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed letter signed

Title: to Dean Acheson re: Madame Tussaud's Waxworks likeness of him

Signed as President on White House stationery. (Accompanied by a typed copy of Acheson's reply with the Feb. 2 Truman memo reponding to his memo as .121). Quite humorous.

GLC02793.091

1951/02/24

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed letter signed

Title: to J. Howard McGrath re: attacks on Truman by the Chicago Tribune

Signed as President on White House stationery to his Attorney General. Truman feels the attacks are libelous and may be criminal.

GLC02793.092

1952/04/01

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed letter signed

Title: to Harry I. Schwimmer re: his intention not to seek re-election

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.093

1952/06/13

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward H. Pruden re: a prayer he said since his youth, with prayer

Written as President on White House stationery, accompanied by the prayer on White House stationery. Pruden was minister at the First Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.

GLC02793.094

1955/05/06

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Typed letter signed

Title: to Brig. Gen. Arthur S. Nevins re: rearing quail, garden plots on his farm

Signed "DE" as President on White House stationery. Eisenhower kept a farm at Gettysburg, Pa.

GLC02793.095

1957/11/08

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Typed letter signed

Title: to Evan Aurand re: "tempest in a teapot" created by his riding in helicopter

Memorandum for Captain Aurand

GLC02793.096

1958/10/06

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Typed letter signed

Title: to Irving Geist re: his golf game

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.097

1961/02/07

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Typed letter signed

Title: to David Mynders Smythe re: thanking Smythe for his support

Signed as President on White House stationery. JFK has struck the official typed salutation for "Dave." Accompanied by TLS (carbon) of David M. Smythe to Kennedy 1/25/1961 to which JFK was responding.

GLC02793.099

1961/03/11

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Typed letter signed

Title: to Rev. E. C. Leadley re: Solomon Island native who helped rescue the PT-109

Signed as President. Accompanied by a certified copy of letter from N. Biuku Gasa (certified and signed by E. C. Leadley) for the man who carried hidden messages for the crew of JFK's PT-109, with envelope.

GLC02793.100

1961 ca?

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dean Acheson re: thanking him for his recent letter

Written as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.101

1962/04/20

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Typed letter signed

Title: to Emily Davis Chamberlain re: thanks for her letter of support, happy birthday

Signed as President on White House stationery, with a handwritten postscript "yours was almost the nicest letter we have received since being in the W.H."

GLC02793.102

1963/08/15

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Typed letter signed

Title: to Seymour Halpern re: Halpern's remembrance for the loss of their son

Signed as President on White House stationery. JFK has struck the formal salutation "Congressman Halpern" and inserted "Seymour."

GLC02793.103

1968/04/03

Johnson, Lyndon B., 1908-1973

Typed letter signed

Title: to Orville Poland re: placing peace & freedom above personal concerns

GLC02793.105

1969/01/16

Johnson, Lyndon B., 1908-1973

Typed letter signed

Title: to Dorothy Nichols re: thanks for her support and looking forward to retirement

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.106