Eleanor and Franklin (167 page)

3
. Tully,
F.D.R. My Boss,
cited (Ch. 33), p. 110; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Esther Lape, Sept. 21, 1936; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Oct. 6, 1937.

4
. Geoffrey Hellman, “Mrs. Roosevelt,”
Life,
Feb. 5, 1940; Tully, p. 110;
New York Times,
Nov. 17, 1936.

5
. Letter from Ira Chandler to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 16, 1936; letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 24, 1936.

6
. Letter from Ana Maria O'Neil to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 13, 1938, enclosing unpublished book,
The Intangible Frontier,
which had just won a $1,000 prize offered by Northwestern University.

7
. Helene Huntington Smith, in
McCall's,
July, 1935.

8
. Max Weber,
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology,
eds. H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (New York, 1946), p. 295; Vera Brittain,
Thrice a Stranger
(New York, 1938), pp. 386–87.

9
. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech on receiving the
Churchman
Award, Nov. 29, 1939.

10
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Walker, May 17, 1939; Lash Diaries, May 10, 1940; Eleanor Roosevelt,
Churchman
Award speech.

11
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Frances Perkins, Sept. 14, 1939; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, May 3, 1937; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Steve Early, Sept. 23, 1936, and Aug. 27, 1937.

12
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt, May 4, 1935.

13
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Helen Hanson, May 19, 1939; letter from Malvina Thompson Scheider to Helen Hanson, Aug. 13, 1939.

14
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
cited (Ch. 16), p. 6; E. Roosevelt,
My Days,
p. 13.

15
. Alexander, OHP.

16
.
Ibid.

17
.
Ibid.

18
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Chester Davis, Aug. 31, 1936.

19
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jane Ickes, Oct. 10, 1938.

20
. Snowdrift episode, Associated Press, Feb. 16, 1937; Eleanor Roosevelt, in conversation with author.

21
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 164.

22
. Arthur Krock,
Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line
(New York, 1968), p. 149; Michaelis, “A Recorded Portrait,” cited (Ch. 11); Tugwell, in
Roosevelt Day Dinner Journal
of Americans for Democratic Action, Jan. 31, 1963.

23
. John Morton Blum,
Years of Urgency
(New York, 1964), pp. 27–28, 436.

24
. Letter from Harold Ickes to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 19, 1937.

25
. Letter from Jo Coffin to Eleanor Roosevelt, May, 1936; letter from Katherine Lenroot to Malvina Thompson Scheider, April 7, 1938.

26
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, April 9, 1936; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Clarence Pickett, April 21, 1936.

27
. Letter from Joseph Robinson to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 20, 1936; and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, April 21, 1936; Emergency Committee telegram to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 21, 1936; letter from Harry Hopkins to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 4, 1936.

28
. Letter from Sen. Capper to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 12, 1937.

29
. Letter from Mrs. Ottenburg to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 1, 1939, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Feb. 2, 1939; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Rep. Ross Collins and Sen. James O'Mahoney, May 19, 1938.

30
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to the Citizens Committee on Old Age Security, Jan. 2, 1934; she appeared before the Tolan Committee Dec. 11, 1940.

31
. Kathleen McLaughlin, in the
New York Times,
Jan. 21, 1940; Finney, series of articles, cited (Ch. 39).

32
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harold Ickes, April 18, 1937; letter from Harold Ickes to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 23, 1937.

33
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Col. Harrington, April 15, 1939; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Aubrey Williams, March 7, 1936, Oct. 13, 1938, Dec. 12, 1938, and Oct. 21, 1938.

34
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aug. 27, 1937; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Emma Guffey Miller, July 15, 1937.

35
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 18, 1935, and Franklin Roosevelt's reply, Nov. 22, 1935.

36
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Ann Choate, Feb. 2, 1939.

37
. H. H. Smith, “The First Lady,”
McCall's,
Sept. 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Molly Dewson, April 30, 1938.

38
. Letter from Malvina Thompson Scheider to Frank Murphy, Jan. 13, 1940; letter from Lucy Mason to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 23, 1940.

39
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mary Simkhovitch, Jan. 26, 1937, letter from Helen Alfred to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 27, 1937.

40
. Letters from Nathan Straus to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 23, 1937, April 26, 1938, and May 23, 1938.

41
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Esther Lape, Feb. 11, 1937, and Esther Lape's reply, March 10, 1937.

42
. Letter from Esther Lape to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 8, 1937.

43
. Telegram from Eleanor Roosevelt to Esther Lape, June 10, 1937, letter from Esther Lape to Joseph P. Lash, March 26, 1964.

44
. Letter from Esther Lape to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 10, 1939; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Esther Lape, Dec. 6, 1939.

45
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, press conference, Dec. 22, 1939; F. D. Roosevelt,
Public Papers,
cited (Ch. 13), 1939, p. 598.

46
. Ickes,
Secret Diary,
cited (Ch. 24), III, p. 396; Tully, p. 78.

47
. Aubrey Williams,
A Southern Rebel,
unfinished autobiography, in Williams papers, in FDRL.

48
. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech to the Washington Conference of WPA Directors of Women's and Professional Projects.

49
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, Jan. 29, 1937, and Hopkins' reply, Feb. 15, 1937; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Roosevelt, June 16, 1937.

50
. Letter from Robert Cohn to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 10, 1939; letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Henry Wallace, Aug. 24, 1939; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 19, 1939; letter from Alexander Sachs to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan., 1936.

51
. Letter from Leonard Elmhirst to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 11, 1937.

52
. Bernard Baruch, statement to the Special Senate Committee on Unemployment, Feb. 28, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruch, March 15, 1939.

53
. Letter from Harry Hooker to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 14, 1939.

54
.
New York Herald Tribune
and the
New York Times,
Feb. 22, 1939. Heywood Broun, “It Seems to Me,”
New York World-Telegram,
Feb. 24, 1939.

55
.
New York Times,
March 13, 1939.

56
. Tully, p. 105.

57
. Eleanor Roosevelt, “Men Have to Be Humored,”
Woman's Day,
Aug., 1940.

58
. Lash Diaries, June 28, 1941.

59
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Dr. D. E. Buckingham, Nov. 22, 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Melvin Hazen, Nov. 29, 1935.

60
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harold Ickes, April 4, 1939.

61
.
New York Times,
Aug. 9, 1939.

62
. Letter from John C. O'Laughlin to Herbert Hoover, Aug. 10, 1939, O'Laughlin MS., Library of Congress.

63
. Kathleen McLaughlin, article in the
New York Times,
Jan. 20, 1940.

64
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Louis Fischer, Dec. 6, 1939.

65
. Raymond Clapper, “The Ten Most Powerful People in Washington,”
Look,
Jan. 28, 1941; Tully, p. 107; Jesse Jones,
Fifty Billion Dollars
(New York, 1951), p. 264; Gallup Poll files in Princeton, N.J.

66
. Letter from Alfred North Whitehead to Eleanor Roosevelt, April, 1942; S. J. Woolf, in the
New York Times,
May 24, 1939.

41. CHANGES AT HYDE PARK

1
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), April 22, 1937.

2
.
Ibid.,
June 19, 1939.

3
. Letter from Malvina Thompson Scheider to Lorena Hickok, May 20, 1938.

4
. Letter from Corinne Alsop to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 10, 1936, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Jan. 15, 1936.

5
. Marquis W. Childs,
I Write from Washington
(New York, 1942), p. 117.

6
. Letter from Sara D. Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 29, 1932.

7
. Letter from Malvina Thompson Scheider to Georgiana Turner, May 20, 1939.

8
. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech to the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, Jan. 21, 1936.

9
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” April 7, 1937;
New York Times,
June 4, 1938.

10
. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 17, 1937; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Caleb Coffin, March 3, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hooker, April 28, 1938.

11
. Interview with Marion Dickerman.

12
. Malvina Thompson Scheider to author, Lash Diaries, Aug. 9, 1940.

13
. Interview with Agnes Leach.

14
. Interview with Marion Dickerman.

15
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Marion Dickerman, Nov. 9, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hooker, Feb. 4, 1939.

16
. Interview with Esther Lape.

17
. Letter from Malvina Thompson Scheider to Max Abelman, June 16, 1939.

18
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Nancy Cook, May 26, 1937.

19
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Matthew Hasbrouck, May 18, 1937; Eleanor Roosevelt, speeches and articles, in FDRL.

20
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Jan. 15, 1939.

21
. May Craig, in the
Portland Press Herald,
Nov. 3, 1937.

22
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Frank Harting, July 16, 1937.

23
. Edwin A. Robinson, “Aunt Imogen.”

24
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” July 4, 1938; interview with Helen Wilmerding.

25
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Sept. 6, 1935.

26
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Sept. 12, 1937.

27
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Aileen Webb, Sept. 1, 1938; letter from Sara D. Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 17, 1936; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” July 31, 1938.

28
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Leo Casey, July 3, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 30, 1938.

29
. See Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech, “Informal, Extemporaneous Remarks before the Roosevelt Home Club,” Aug. 27, 1938, in F. D Roosevelt,
Public Papers,
cited (Ch. 13), 1938, pp. 502–5.

30
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Esther Lape, Aug. 28, 1938; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” July 20, 1939.

42. LIFE WITH MOTHER AND FATHER

1
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Oct. 12, 1937; for her remark about when parties should end, see the
New York Herald Tribune,
May 27, 1938.

2
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR
, cited (Ch. 16), p. 11.

3
. Hoover,
Forty-two Years in the White House,
cited in (Ch. 34), pp. 28–29; interview with Christopher Phillips; Caroline Phillips, Diaries, Jan. 1, 1935.

4
. Ickes,
Secret Diary,
cited (Ch. 24), I, p. 184.

5
.
New York Times,
Feb. 20, 1934.

6
. Clippings of Elliott's activities in Texas, dated May 28, 1940, and Sept. 11, 1940.

7
. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelet to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 22 and 30, 1936.

8
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to an insurance man in Seattle, March 30, 1938.

9
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 2, 1937.

10
. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 5, 1934;
New York Herald Tribune,
March 1, 1936; Sara D. Roosevelt's reaction quoted in J. Roosevelt and Shalett,
Affectionately, F.D.R.,
cited (Ch. 18), p. 273; letter from Sara D. Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 15, 1940.

11
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Lewis Thompson, April 25, 1939; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” April 19, 1939; letter from Margaret Cutter to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 21, 1939.

12
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 176.

13
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” June 29, 1937; Eleanor Roosevelt to newspaperman, July 7, 1937;
New York Times,
June 30, 1937; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Caroline Phillips, May 21, 1938;
New York Times,
June 18, 1938.

14
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Douglas, Jan. 26, 1940; E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 18; interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

15
. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July, 1933; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Douglas, Jan. 26, 1940.

16
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 165.

17
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Douglas, Jan. 26, 1940.

18
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Beatrice Gould, Jan. 7, 1938.

19
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Douglas, Jan. 26, 1940.

20
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 22, 1938.