Eleanor and Franklin (161 page)

7
. Letter from Dorothy Strachey-Bussy to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 26, 1942.

8
. Draft of an article written by Eleanor Roosevelt in the late forties.

9
Beatrice Webb's appraisal of Marie Souvestre, in
My Apprenticeship
(London, 1926) and
Our Partnership
(London, 1948).

10
. Eleanor Roosevelt, “My Day,” syndicated column, Feb. 21, 1946.

11
.
Ibid.

12
. Michael Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey: The Unknown Years
(New York, 1967).

13
. Richard Harrity and Ralph G. Martin,
Eleanor Roosevelt
: Her Life in Pictures
(New York, 1958), p. 18.

14
. Eleanor Roosevelt, “What Religion Means to Me,”
Forum,
Dec., 1932.

15
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
cited (Ch. 2), p. 8.

16
. Letter from Marie Souvestre to Mrs. Hall, Jan. 24, 1902.

17
. Interview with Helen Gifford,
London Daily Mail,
Oct. 21, 1942.

9. YOUNG IN A YOUNG COUNTRY IN A YOUNG TIME

1
. Harold U. Faulkner,
The Quest for Social Justice, 1898–1914
(New York, 1931), p. 105.

2
. Margaret Dix, “Rosemary for Remembrance,” privately printed.

3
. Ralph Barton Perry,
The Thought and Character of William James
(Boston, 1935), II, pp. 312–14.

4
. Quoted in Charles and Mary Beard,
The Rise of American Civilization
(New York, 1942), II, p. 405.

5
. Junior League
Handbook,
published by the Association of Junior Leagues of America.

6
. Chanler,
Roman Spring,
cited (Ch. 3), p. 117;
New York Herald
, Jan. 12, 1903.

7
. Letter from Marie Souvestre to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 7, 1902.

8
. Interview with Duncan Harris.

9
. Interview with Helen Wilmerding.

10
.
Town Topics,
Dec. 18, 1902.

11
. Interview with Laura Delano.

12
. Interview with Corinne Cole.

13
. Rixey,
Bamie: Theodore Roosevelt
's Remarkable Sister
, cited (Ch. 7), p. 35.

14
. Chanler, p. 228.

15
. Rixey, p. 230.

16
. Mark Sullivan,
Our Times: The United States 1900–1925,
6 vols. (New York, 1926), II, p. 28.

17
. Eleanor Roosevelt, “Lady Bountiful Rolls Up Her Sleeves,”
Reader's Digest,
March, 1938.

18
. M. and C. Beard, II, pp. 421–22.

19
. Annual reports of the College Settlement, later known as the Rivington Street Settlement, 1903–5.

20
. Interview with Margaret Cutter.

21
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jan. 20, 1904.

22
.
Ibid.,
Jan. 26, 1904.

23
.
Ibid.,
Feb. 9, 1904.

24
. E. Roosevelt,
You Learn by Living,
cited (Ch. 7), pp. 103–4.

10. “FOR LIFE, FOR DEATH”

Franklin D. Roosevelt's letters, unless otherwise noted, will be found in Franklin D. Roosevelt,
F.D.R.: His Personal Letters,
ed. Elliott Roosevelt, 4 vols. (New York, 1947, 1948, 1950), hereafter referred to as
L
etters
.

1
. Harrity and Martin,
Eleanor Roosevelt
: Her Life in Pictures,
cited (Ch. 8), p. 17.

2
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Diaries, in FDRL.

3
. Sara D. Roosevelt, Journals, in Halsted Collection, FDRL.

4
. Interview with Corinne Cole.

5
. Interview with Alice Longworth.

6
. Interview with Laura Delano.

7
. Maxine Cheshire, column,
Washington Post,
Feb. 19, 1967.

8
. Interview with Mrs. Paul Hammond.

9
. Associated Press, Oct. 11, 1934.

10
. Thomas Lask, of the
New York Times Book Review,
tracked down this line to its source.

11
. Harrity and Martin, p. 19; A. Churchill,
The Roosevelt
s: American Aristocrats
, cited (Ch. 1), p. 226.

12
. Interview with David Gurewitsch.

13
. The poem is Elizabeth Barrett Browning's “A Woman's Shortcomings.”

14
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
cited (Ch. 2), p. 111.

15
. S. D. Roosevelt, Journals, Dec. 1, 1903.

16
. Eleanor Roosevelt, “I Remember Hyde Park: A Final Reminiscence,” published posthumously,
McCall's,
Feb., 1963.

17
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 6, 1903.

18
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
p. 111.

11. MOTHER AND SON

1
. Interview with Corinne Cole.

2
. Interview with Helen Wilmerding.

3
. Frank Freidel,
The Apprenticeship,
vol. I of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
,
3 vols. (Boston, 1952), p. 13.

4
. Rita Halle Kleeman,
Gracious Lady
(New York, 1935), pp. 82–83.

5
. Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner, “Roosevelt Family Album,”
Life,
Sept. 9, 1940.

6
. Eleanor Roosevelt, in conversation with Arnold Michaelis, on the recording “A Recorded Portrait” (1958).

7
. Kleeman, p. 177; E. Roosevelt, “I Remember Hyde Park,” cited (Ch. 10).

8
. Kleeman, p. 170.

9
. Sara D. Roosevelt,
My Boy Franklin
(New York, 1933), p. 13.

10
. H. N. MacCracken,
Blithe Dutchess
(New York, 1958), p. 90.

11
. S. D. Roosevelt,
My Boy Franklin
,
p. 4.

12
. Frank D. Ashburn,
Peabody of Groton
(New York, 1944), p. 43.

13
. For this description of Peabody and Groton I have leaned heavily on Ashburn and on George Biddle,
An American Artist's Story
(New York, 1939).

14
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, “The Roosevelt Family before the Revolution,” in FDRL.

15
. Interview with Sheffield Cowles, Jr.; also Cowles, Oral History Project, Columbia University, hereafter referred to as OHP.

12. JOURNEY'S END

1
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
cited (Ch. 2), p. 110.

2
. Interview with Alice Longworth.

3
. See Freidel,
The Apprenticeship,
cited (Ch. 11), p. 27, on Roosevelt's desire to go to Annapolis; see
Ibid.,
p. 48, on Roosevelt's desire to enlist during the Spanish-American War.

4
. Clara and Hardy Steeholm,
The House at Hyde Park
(New York, 1950), p. 113.

5
. Kleeman,
Gracious Lady,
cited (Ch. 11), p. 240.

13. EPITHALAMION

1
. Interview with Corinne Cole.

2
.
Ibid.

3
. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt
,
ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, 13 vols. (New York, 1938–50), 1938, p. 38, hereafter referred to as
Public Papers
.

4
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
cited (Ch. 2), p. 123.

5
. Halsted Group, “Engagement Presents and Wedding Presents,” listed in Eleanor Roosevelt's own hand.

6
. Interview with Margaret Lawrance.

7
.
New York Times
and the
New York Herald,
March 17 and 18, 1905.

14. HONEYMOON

1
. A. Steinberg,
Mrs. R.: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt
(New York, 1958), p. 54; C. and H. Steeholm,
The House at Hyde Park
, cited (Ch. 12), pp. 114–15.

2
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Nov. 13, 1939.

3
. Interview with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.

4
. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

5
. The honeymoon letters of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt to Sara D. Roosevelt, in F. D. Roosevelt,
Letters,
cited (Ch. 10), II, pp. 2–85.

6
. Interviews with Maureen Corr and David Gurewitsch.

7
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech, in FDRL.

15. SETTLING DOWN

1
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
cited (Ch. 2), p. 138.

2
.
Ibid.,
p. 139.

3
.
Ibid.,
pp. 142–46.

4
.
Ibid.,
p. 162.

5
. Interview with Corinne Cole.

6
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
p. 162.

7
. Kleeman,
Gracious Lady,
cited (Ch. 11), p. 246.

8
. E. Roosevelt, “I Remember Hyde Park,” cited (Ch. 10).

9
. Interview with Laura Delano.

10
. Interview with David Gray.

11
. Stefan Lorant,
F.D.R.: A Pictorial Biography
(New York, 1950), p. 43.

12
.
Boston Globe,
July 26, 1942.

16. THE WIFE OF A PUBLIC OFFICIAL

1
. Helen Robinson, Diaries, in the possession of her daughters.

2
. Grenville Clark, in the
Harvard Alumni Bulletin,
April 28, 1945.

3
. Kleeman,
Gracious Lady,
cited (Ch. 11), p. 252.

4
. Earle Looker,
This Man Roosevelt
(New York, 1932), p. 48.

5
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, General Correspondence, in FDRL.

6
. S. J. Woolf, “A Woman Speaks Her Political Mind,”
New York Times Magazine,
April 8, 1928.

7
. For Beatrice Webb's attitude toward suffrage, see her
My Apprenticeship,
cited (Ch. 8), p. 354; for her rejection of Joseph Chamberlain, see Kitty Muggeridge and Ruth Adam,
Beatrice Webb: A Life, 1858–1943
(New York, 1968), pp. 92–93.

8
. Kleeman, p. 253.

9
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
cited (Ch. 2), p. 167.

10
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Diaries, in FDRL.

11
. Langdon P. Marvin, OHP.

12
.
Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle,
May 30, 1911.

13
.
Knickerbocker News,
July 7, 1920.

14
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Waterbury, July 5, 1912.

15
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
pp. 192, 193, and Eleanor Roosevelt,
This I Remember
(New York, 1949), pp. 65, 66, hereafter referred to as
TIR
.

16
. Interview with Margaret Cutter.

17. THE ROOSEVELTS GO TO WASHINGTON

1
. Josephus Daniels,
The Wilson Era
(North Carolina, 1944), pp. 124–27.

2
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
cited (Ch. 2), p. 195.

3
.
Raleigh
(North Carolina)
News and Observer,
May 27, 1913.

4
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Waterbury, May 27, 1913.

5
. Edith B. Helm,
Captains and Kings
(New York, 1954), p. 37.

6
. For Eleanor Roosevelt's account of climbing up the mast, see her
TIMS,
p. 207; for an officer's account of the same incident, see Yates Stirling,
Sea Duty
(New York, 1939), pp. 142, 143.

7
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
p. 205.

8
. Daniels, p. 55.

9
.
New York Evening Post,
March 19, 1913.

10
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Waterbury, May 13, 1913.

11
. Interview with Aileen Tone.

12
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
p. 237.

13
. Cecil Spring-Rice,
The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice,
2 vols. (Boston, 1929), I, p. 53, hereafter referred to as
L
etters
.

14
. Helm, p. 47.

15
. Eleanor Roosevelt, in conversation with Trude Lash, March 28, 1944.

16
. William Phillips,
Ventures in Diplomacy
(privately printed, 1952), pp. 68, 69.

17
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 10, 1913.

18
. Letter from Isabella Ferguson to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1914.

19
. E. Roosevelt,
TIMS,
p. 206.

18. BRINGING UP HER CHILDREN

1
. E. Roosevelt, “Ethics of Parents,” cited (Ch. 6).

2
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
cited (Ch. 16), Ch. II.

3
. Parsons,
Perchance Some Day,
cited (Ch. 1), p. 249.

4
. Eleanor Roosevelt, “My Children,” draft of an article written in 1934 or 1935.

5
. James Roosevelt and Sidney Shalett,
Affectionately, F.D.R.
(New York, 1959), p. 38.

6
. E. Roosevelt, “My children,”
o
p. cit.

7
. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 83.

8
.
Ibid.,
p. 48.

9
. E. Roosevelt, “I Remember Hyde Park,” cited (Ch. 10).

10
. E. Roosevelt, “My Children,”
o
p. cit.

11
. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, pp. 39–42.

12
. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

13
. Phillips,
Ventures in Diplomacy,
cited (Ch. 17), p. 69.

19. THE APPROACH OF WAR

1
. Phillips,
Ventures in Diplomacy,
cited (Ch. 17), pp. 68–69.

2
.
Ibid.,
p. 70.