Myron Taylor                        
 
                        71 Broadway                         
 
                          New York                          
 
                      November 18 1941                      
 
                    Dear Mr. President,                     
 
                                                            
 
 
Harry Hooker indicates infinite pleasure in spending the Thanksgiving   
holiday with you and Mrs. Roosevelt. He will hand you this little note,   
in whcih may I express the hope that you will find on this day much to be   
thankful for in spite of the encircling difficulties which weigh upon all   
of us, but particularily on you who are guiding the ship of state in so   
                  extraordinary a manner.                   
 
                                                            
 
 
This is the third Thanksgiving day since was was declared by the British   
and the French. Somehow I have an abiding faith that this day will not   
   recure many times before the hostilities are finished.