Letter from Fidel Castro to President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Santiago de Cuba
Nov 6 1940
Mr. Franklin Roosvelt (sic),
President of the United States

My good friend Roosvelt (sic): 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 twelve 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 dollar 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:

Sr. Fidel Castro
Colegio de Dolores
Santiago de Cuba
Oriente Cuba

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 (sic) Your friend,
Fidel Castro

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