CORNELIUS VANDERBILT IV 4-Page Handwritten, Signed Letter, 640 Fifth Ave., 1932

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CORNELIUS VANDERBILT IV
Handwritten and Signed Letter
(November 23, 1932)
handwritten on 1 sheet of 7.75" x 10.5" stationery folded to make 4 numbered pages, 640 Fifth Avenue letterhead
This
signed
, 6-page handwritten letter dated "Nov 23" (1932) was written to Democratic Party Secretary Robert Jackson by Cornelius Vanderbilt IV shortly after the election on November 8th of Franklin D. Roosevelt to be President of the United States.
It is signed "Neil Vanderbilt" on the last page
.
Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, of the famous and wealthy Vanderbilt family, took up journalism as a career and founded several newspapers. Mr. Jackson was an important official in the Democratic Party that had elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to President of the United States on November 8, 1932. Cornelius' parents Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Nelly) and Grace (Wilson) lived in the stately mansion located at 640 Fifth Avenue in New York City. He was raised there, and this letter was written on printed "640 Fifth Avenue" stationery. The residence was a hub of upper-class society in the early 20th century after it was thoroughly renovated by Nelly and Grace.
This letter is of good content. At the start Vanderbilt wrote: "I have just written Jim Farley and asked him to remove my name from any of the jobs we more or less tentatively discussed in the past. After some weeks of thinking the matter over I came to the conclusion that I'd rather remain a free citizen — able to carry on my life as such, than to hold a diplomatic post." Farley had managed Roosevelt's successful campaigns for governor of New York and was chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee. Nonetheless, Vanderbilt expressed his devotion to FDR: "I am going down to Warm Springs to rejoin the Governor Sunday and to tell him these things too. If I can ever be of service to him in ferreting out anything I shall always consider it an honor."
This is a very interesting
letter written at an important time in American history.
There is pencil annotation at top on the first page: VERY FINE condition.
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