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Here is a letter sent to FDR by a wee 12 year old.

How cute is that?

Images below my transcript.

My good friend Roosevelt. I don’t know very English, but I know as much as write to you. I like to hear the radio, and I am very happy, because I heard in it, that you will be President for a new (periodo).

I am 12 years old. I am a boy, but I think very much, but I do not think that I am writing to the President of the United States.

If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green american, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green american and I would like to have one of them.

My address is: (address)

I don’t know very English but I know very much Spanish and I suppose you don’t know very Spanish but you know very English because you are American but I am not American.

Thank you very much. Good by, your friend,
(signature)
Fidel Castro

If you want iron to make your sheaps ships I will show to you the biggest (minas) of iron in the land. They are in Mayari, Oriente Cuba.

(From the US National Archives.)