ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed (“F.D.R.”), as President, to Harry L. Hopkins (1890-1946), Washington, 15 March 1944. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed (“F.D.R.”), as President, to Harry L. Hopkins (1890-1946), Washington, 15 March 1944. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery. FDR PASSES ALONG CHURCHILL’S GIFT AFTER THE DEATH OF HOPKINS’S SON IN COMBAT “The Prime Minister,” Roosevelt writes, “has just had the enclosed [not included] delivered to us for forwarding to you.” Churchill, upon hearing the tragic news of the death of 18-year old Stephen Hopkins, sent to the White House a scroll printing a passage from the final scene of Macbeth : “Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier’s debt: / He only liv’d but till he was a man; / The which no sooner had his prowess confirm’d / In the unshrinking station where he fought, / But like a man he died.” (An image of the scroll is reprinted in Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins , 806.) Roosevelt asks Hopkins to allow copies to be made for “Stephen’s Mother, his brothers, Diana and perhaps you would like an extra one. I also would like to have a copy.” Marine Private Stephen Peter Hopkins just 18 years old, and in his first day of combat, was killed on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, on 2 February. Hopkins was hospitalized in Rochester, Minnesota due to the recurring complications of his stomach cancer. “Continue to take it easy,” FDR advises him, “and do let me hear from you when you have a chance.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed (“F.D.R.”), as President, to Harry L. Hopkins (1890-1946), Washington, 15 March 1944. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed (“F.D.R.”), as President, to Harry L. Hopkins (1890-1946), Washington, 15 March 1944. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery. FDR PASSES ALONG CHURCHILL’S GIFT AFTER THE DEATH OF HOPKINS’S SON IN COMBAT “The Prime Minister,” Roosevelt writes, “has just had the enclosed [not included] delivered to us for forwarding to you.” Churchill, upon hearing the tragic news of the death of 18-year old Stephen Hopkins, sent to the White House a scroll printing a passage from the final scene of Macbeth : “Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier’s debt: / He only liv’d but till he was a man; / The which no sooner had his prowess confirm’d / In the unshrinking station where he fought, / But like a man he died.” (An image of the scroll is reprinted in Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins , 806.) Roosevelt asks Hopkins to allow copies to be made for “Stephen’s Mother, his brothers, Diana and perhaps you would like an extra one. I also would like to have a copy.” Marine Private Stephen Peter Hopkins just 18 years old, and in his first day of combat, was killed on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, on 2 February. Hopkins was hospitalized in Rochester, Minnesota due to the recurring complications of his stomach cancer. “Continue to take it easy,” FDR advises him, “and do let me hear from you when you have a chance.
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