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ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to Reverend Howard S. Wilkinson, a lovely letter discussing the history and importance of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg and regretting that he cannot attend a service. 1 page, folded small 4to sheet with integral blank, White House stationery. Washington, 8 June 1937

ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to Reverend Howard S. Wilkinson, a lovely letter discussing the history and importance of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg and regretting that he cannot attend a service. 1 page, folded small 4to sheet with integral blank, White House stationery. Washington, 8 June 1937

  • Notes: "Bruton Parish Church at Williamsburg is one of those national shrines of which we have too few. Its venerable fabric, put up in Colonial days, has been a center of rich spiritual life through all the generations. Royal Governors under appointment from the King have worshipped within its walls; it saw the beginning of our life as a Nation and after this long history it stands today in undiminished glory no less as a triumph of the art of building than as a witness to the reliance of our people upon the eternal verities of religion..."

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