852. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Early A.L.S. as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 2pp. 4to., Washington, [n.d., 1913] to Mrs. Hamlin of Boston, thanking her for her invitation to stay with her family during a planned visit there. He politely declines noting that "I find I can only be in Boston a few hours, arriving at eight & leaving again at five on Monday... I shall be at the navy yard all the time except for a [Harvard] Class luncheon at one o'clock somewhere down Town - so I fear we cannot connect this time..." Two losses at top affecting few words of text, some of the text blurry, light soiling, otherwise good condition. $500-700