Letter, His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, Supreme Pontiff of the Lama Church, Lhasa, Tibet to Franklin Roosevelt

Original Exhibition Caption: In 1942, FDR sent Lieutenant Colonel Ilia Tolstoy (a grandson of the famous Russian novelist) of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) on a goodwill mission to Tibet as his personal envoy to the Dalai Lama. Tolstoy brought along gifts from the Uni...