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FDR To Henry Toombs, June 9, 1938

Creator: Franklin D. Roosevelt (author)
Date: June 9, 1938
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library


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June 9, 1938. Dear Henry: --

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I am enclosing my check for $905.00 for the plans for the house, representing 3/5ths of 8% on an estimated cost of $18,000.

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Perhaps we may have to make some adjustments on this estimate, for I cannot possibly afford to build an $18,000 house -- and it is even possible that if the bids run anything like as high as that, I may decide to give up both the wings and build only the center at this time.

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Thank you for sending me Feller Brothers' proposal. I hope they are at work drilling the well.

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I expect to be home the twentieth and twenty-first. Let me know if you want your New York associate to talk with me at that time.

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When do you expect the bids to be in? Don't you think that when they are in on both houses, you should be at Hyde Park to make final arrangements both for the Backer contract and my contract?

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My present plans are to be at Hyde Park on June twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third, and again June twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth -- the latter is the deadline.

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As ever yours,

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