FDR & ER Signed Handprints + Palmistry Readings

Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt, First Family and Other Notables: Signed Handprints and Palmistry Readings.
-1937.
-Minor wear, age toning, and paper-clip marks, else near fine to fine.

This extraordinary, intimate lot includes the original signed handprints of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, other members of the First Family, Vice President John Nance Garner, and other members of the Roosevelt Administration (Alben Barkley, who later became Harry Truman's Vice President, and Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes). Accompanying the handprints are full character sketches developed from the autographed impressions of the hands by palmist Nellie Simmons Meier. This peculiar collection also includes four original typed letters signed by Eleanor Roosevelt, one original 1937 letter to Meier signed by Secretary to the President Stephen T. Early, mentioning her visit to the White House, and copies of Meier's replies. In her October 7, 1937, letter to Meier sent from Hyde Park, ER writes (in part): "The President's secretaries are very much disturbed because they do not think it would be advisable while the President is still in the White House, for your material to appear either in your book or in the file of the Library of Congress. / I have told them that the President's understanding with you was, as I remember it, that nothing would appear until after he had left the White House and not until after he had edited and approved what you were writing." Early's letter to Meier also refers to this requirement insisted upon by FDR.

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