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Limited edition of 1,000 copies.
From the library of Basil O'Connor with his bookplate on the front pastedown and with the library stamp of his second wife, Hazel Royall, on the verso of the front endpaper.
Basil O'Connor [1892-1972] was an American lawyer. In 1919, he founded his own law firm in New York City, where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early 1920s and became his legal advisor. Roosevelt, who contracted polio in 1921, partnered with O'Connor to found the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. O'Connor succeeded Roosevelt as President of the Foundation in 1928. Ten years later the two men cofounded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which notably initiated an entirely new way of raising money with its radio campaign called "The March of Dimes". O'Connor's second wife, Hazel Royall, was a therapist at Warm Springs. Fine .
A letter to Saltford Flower Shop in Poughkeepsie, NY asking the store to send him a packet of seeds for the Dutchmans' pipe.
Herbert Claiborne Pell joined the Democratic Party in 1914. He was elected to the 66th Congress in 1919 and served as chairman of the New York Democratic Committee from 1921-1926. President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Portugal in 1937 and he was reassigned as Minister to Hungary in 1941. He represented the U.S. on the United Nations War Crimes Commission where he played an important role in persuading the State Department and his fellow commission members to prosecute crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis, thereby achieving an important advancement of international law and justice through the Nuremberg War Crimes trials. After the war Pell retired to Pellbridge, his home in Hopewell Junction. Very good .
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