Thank You Note From F.D.R.'S Secretary To Gertrude Amelia Tuttle's On White House Stationery Regarding His Radio Address Of March 5, 1934. F.D.R. (Secretary) ; Gertrude Amelia Tuttle (1878-1949), Recipient Politics

Tls dated March 8, 1934. The White House, 20 February 1929; typed letter from Lewis McHenry Howe, Secretary to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thanking Miss Tuttle for her support, The White House, 8 March 1934;.Gertrude Amelia Tuttle was born in Chatham, Morris County, New Jersey on 16 Aug 1878 to William Parkhurst Tuttle and Joanna Butler Thompson. She passed away on 18 Mar 1949 in NY, New York. Her father was William Parkhurst Tuttle , 1842-1916.She is best known for her publication about her home town:? Bottle Hill and Madison? by William Parkhurst Tuttle and Gertrude Amelia Tuttle"For about a year past the attention of gentlemen from New York City has been turned to this village as a place of residence and already quite a number of such persons have located themselves here. But a few years will pass before the village will become one of the largest and most attractive villages in North America. These beautiful slopes all around us will at no distant day be occupied by the most elegant residents , and large numbers, doing business in the city , will have their habitations here. The author is perfectly sure that there is no place within40 miles of New York where the scenery, the roads, the climate, etc, are better than they are here.This must become very thickly populated by the best citizens from New York and elsewhere".from: Tuttle, William Parkhurst. Bottle Hill and Madison. Madison: Eagle Press, 1917.During the Revolutionary War era, while the Continental Army was encamped [following battles fought in Trenton and Princeton] in Loantaka Valley [one and a half mile southeast of Morristown, bordering on the western side of the Borough of Madison], and Jockey Hollow, [Morristown] the home was the site of much hospitality to war-weary officers. General George Washington is reported to have been a frequent guest at the home? (from the books Bottle Hill and Madison, by William Parkhurst Tuttle and The Madison Heritage Trail, by Frank J. Esposito, (1985).