From: Lord Beaverbrook.                   
 
                         21st June, 1944.                   
 
                       Dear Mr. President,                  
 
                                                            
 
 
A few days ago I found a collection of Roosevelt papers suitable 
                  for the Hyde Park collection.             
 
      I am sending them with this letter in the hope that you will 
             accept them and give them a place there.       
 
      You will see that most of them relate to land titles. One Roosevelt, 
      however, bought a black woman named Judith, but he only made 
                      a payment on account.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
 We are all thrilled by the American advance on Cherbourg.  
 
                                                            
 
 
The Prime Minister spent most of last night in the map-room. 
      He gave us a fine picture of the hope in days to come.
 
                                                            
 
 
We are very much under the spell of the flying bomb at the 
              moment. We expect the rocket shortly.         
 
      The explosives silence the voices of criticism and complaint. 
       Political issues die down when the war comes London. 
 
                                                            
 
 
The House of Commons could be closed up for a month, for all 
      the impression on the nation that body will make in the immediate 
                             future.                        
 
                                                            
 
 
I hope you have good news of your boys. It must be a constant 
   preoccupation with you. And with my admiration and devoti
 
                                                            
 
 
                        Yours ever,                         
 
                               Max                          
 
                         The President,                     
 
      White House, Washington, D. C.