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ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. Typed Letter Signed, as Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, to autograph dealer Walter R. Benjamin, returning manuscripts [offered by him for
sale] and sending a check for those that were kept [not present]. 1 page, 4to, “Assistant
Secretary of the Navy” stationery, with integral blank; slight fading to signature, faint mar-
ginal discoloration from prior matting, folds. (TFC)
Washington, 28 January 1915
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“
I must apologize for not sending you the manuscripts before this. I will be frank in telling you that I
could not find them anywhere and supposed they had in some way got up to Hyde Park . . . .
“
As you will see, I have taken nearly half of them; also I want the letter of the Marine
Committee . . . and I enclose a check. . . .”