FDR Started Stamps at 9
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Documentary
evidence was recently published
in Life magazine that Franklin D. Roosevelt started
his stamp collecting
when he was 9 years of age. Writing to his aunt, Deborah
Delano Forbes,
in a letter dated, April 10, 1891, he pleads, "Please tell Uncle Will
that
if he has any foreign stamps I should like to have them as I have begun
to make a collection." the letter, reproduced in his boyish
hand,
is one among many treasured by his mother and which Sloan, Duell
&Pearce
will publish this Winter as "F. D. R., His Personal Letters."
The
boy Franklin was then living at the family home at Hyde Park.
The
following month he was in Germany, at school, and he must then have had
the opportunity of adding many new stamps to his rapidly growing
collection.
As we all know he was never to tire of this collection which
subsequently
expanded to dzens and dozens of volumes, to become one of the best
known
collections ever assembled.
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George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column Stamps October 18, 1947 Posted August 10, 1999 Index of 508 Notes from the Past Note: If the link isn't returned the first try, try again. Comments? Send me an e-mail |