Franklin D. Roosevelt: Typed Invoice Signed....

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A very rare financial document on The Meriwether Reserve, Inc. Warm Springs, Georgia, Egbert T. Curtis, Manager stationery, initialed and dated by FDR, being the expense report from May 3 through July 7, unknown year. Although in 1927 FDR incorporated the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in 1927, and this rare letterhead is on the preceding letterhead, the Meriwether Reserve, Inc. Therefore, this expense report on very rare letterhead pre-dated 1927. On the verso of the expense report, FDR writes in his own hand: "FDR/ To Sept. 20th/ Paid." A wonderful and historic financial document pertaining to FDR's philanthropic activities in Warm Springs, Georgia, on original letterhead, relating to a centerpiece of his life at the time, both personally and financially, Warm Springs, Georgia.