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Debts
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                                                   $19,221.40
 
Charitable and Public Gifts and Bequests 
  including the residence at Hyde Park 
  conveyed to the United States Government 
  and the contents thereof and certain 
  personal effects at the Franklin D. 
  Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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                                             59,804.60
 
    Total Deductions
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                                             736,400.90
 
           In addition to the real estate situated in New York,
 Mr.Roosevelt at the time of his death owned two Summer cottages 
and one small unimproved parcel of land at Campobello Island, New 
Brunswick, acquired from his mother under her Will and which had 
served as a family Summer home for many years. It was here that
 Mr. Roosevelt was stricken with infantile paralysis in 
August, 1921. This property,appraised at $11,900.00, comprises 
part of the residuary estate which will eventually be sold by 
the Trustees of the Estate. Mr. Roosevelt also owned the 
cottage at Warm Springs,Georgia, commonly knows as the 
"Little White House", where he died on April 12, 1945. 
This cottage and its contents, appraised at $7,826.00, 
have, under the provisions of Mr. Roosevelt's Will, gone 
to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation which he founded in 
connection with his crusade against infantile paralysis.
 
           The insurance of $29,726.05 represents the proceeds 
of insurance carried by the late President on his life and 
payable to his wife and daughter as beneficiaries. In addition 
to this insurance, the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation received 
$562,142.01, representing the proceeds of thirteen policies of 
insurance which that organisation carried on the life of the 
late President.
 
           The household and personal effects at Hyde Park, 
New York were appraised by P. J. Curry Company at $32,630.00. 
Although under
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