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- GLC#
- GLC02793.084-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1939/12/25
- Author/Creator
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Title
- to Harry A. Woodring re: Christmas greetings, with envelope
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : envelope Height: 18 cm, Width: 12 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- The Great Depression
Signed as President to his Secretary of War. The envelope has a silver foil seal reading "Please DO NOT OPEN until CHRISTMAS." Typed on White House stationery. Alluding to wartime rationing, FDR jokes "This metal [on the envelope seal] can be stamped out into a hand grenade if you need it!"
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