^Lot 119 Franklin D. Roosevelt

ANS as president signed “FDR,” on a 4.25 x 2.75 White House card, no date. Roosevelt writes a brief note to Grace Tully. In full: “For Grace, with love & a Merry Christmas Love, ‘When this you see remember me.’” In fine condition, with scattered toning and soiling. Grace Tully began working for the Democratic Party in 1928 and was assigned to Eleanor Roosevelt’s secretarial staff. After Franklin Roosevelt’s election as New York’s governor, she moved to Albany and became assistant to FDR’s personal secretary—a role in which she continued after FDR’s move to the White House. When the president’s secretary fell ill in 1941, it was Tully who was tapped to become Roosevelt’s new personal secretary.