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TLS letter from Franklin Roosevelt from the White House to his personal friend Morgan H.Hoyt editor of The Beacon Light~ Beacon,New York. The letter dated April 28th 1936 thanks Mr. Hoyt for his thoughfulness in offering sympathy in regard to the death of Louis Howe who died on April 18th 1936.
Louis McHenry Howe made a career out of being "the man behind Roosevelt." His closeness to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt made him somewhat of a curiosity. Certainly, his appearance was not that of a statesman, the type of man expected to be the right hand of the president of the United States. Instead, he was fragile and small in stature, sickly and disheveled in appearance, described in the press as "ghoulish" and a "medieval gnome," Howe inspired legends concerning his power over the president. Making light of the name-calling, Howe responded by printing personal cards with the title, "Colonel Louis Rasputin Voltaire Talleyrand Simon Legree Howe"; playing on the many famous characters to whom he had been boldly likened. He favored The New York Times' description of him as "The President's Other I." The New York Herald Tribune stated of him, "His loyalty is not to himself, or to an abstract ideal of government, but solely to Franklin D. Roosevelt." " He was in truth one of the most influential characters in the making of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's political careers and perhaps most widely known under the title, "king-maker."
The letter is BOLDLY and eloquently signed FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
*Please take a moment to examine all my Franklin Roosevelt signed letters from the estate of Morgan H.Hoyt currently in my listings.
*NOTE: Newspaper clippings & photographs from Morgan Hoyt's personal scrapbook DOES NOT come with this lot. You are welcome to make a copy for your records; I have provided them for the sake of provenance.
Louis McHenry Howe made a career out of being "the man behind Roosevelt." His closeness to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt made him somewhat of a curiosity. Certainly, his appearance was not that of a statesman, the type of man expected to be the right hand of the president of the United States. Instead, he was fragile and small in stature, sickly and disheveled in appearance, described in the press as "ghoulish" and a "medieval gnome," Howe inspired legends concerning his power over the president. Making light of the name-calling, Howe responded by printing personal cards with the title, "Colonel Louis Rasputin Voltaire Talleyrand Simon Legree Howe"; playing on the many famous characters to whom he had been boldly likened. He favored The New York Times' description of him as "The President's Other I." The New York Herald Tribune stated of him, "His loyalty is not to himself, or to an abstract ideal of government, but solely to Franklin D. Roosevelt." " He was in truth one of the most influential characters in the making of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's political careers and perhaps most widely known under the title, "king-maker."
The letter is BOLDLY and eloquently signed FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
*Please take a moment to examine all my Franklin Roosevelt signed letters from the estate of Morgan H.Hoyt currently in my listings.
*NOTE: Newspaper clippings & photographs from Morgan Hoyt's personal scrapbook DOES NOT come with this lot. You are welcome to make a copy for your records; I have provided them for the sake of provenance.
