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Henry Toombs Suggests That FDR Thank The Builders Of Top Cottage, With Reply

Creator: Henry J. Toombs (author)
Date: January 23, 1939
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library


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January 23, 1939

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Miss Marguerite LeHand
The White House
WASHINGTON

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My dear Missy: --

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I would like to make this suggestion. I am sure Mr. Adams, of the Adams-Faber Company, would appreciate tremendously a word from the President that he was satisfied with their work on his house. They have not requested this and inasmuch as they have been extremely nice in the matter, and I think have done everything in their power to make it a good job, that the President might like to send such a note.

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I have been much amused to learn from some mutual friends of the Adams, that in spite of being a stalwart Republican, since doing the President's house, he has become a great admirer.

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Please thank the President for the check which I have received and express my hopes that his associate didn't come too high!

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Sincerely yours,
Henry

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January 31, 1939.

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Dear Henry: --

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I have shown your letter of January twenty-third to the President and he asks me to tell you that he plans to have Mr. Adams, Mr. Faber and the Foreman up to Hyde Park this Spring, and he has already written to them telling them how delighted he is with the house.

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With kindest regards,
Always sincerely,
M. A. Le Hand
PRIVATE SECRETARY

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Henry J. Toombs, Esq.,
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation,
Warm Springs, Georgia.

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