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22. Interview with Howland Davis.
23. Rollins, p. 185.
24. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
25. Anna R. Halsted, “My Life with FDR,” the Woman, July, 1949.
26. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
27. Caroline Phillips, Journals, Jan. 13, 1936.
28. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
29. Halsted, op. cit.
30. Interview with Alice Carter.
31. Harrity and Martin, Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Life in Pictures, cited (Ch. 8), p. 89.
27. HER HUSBAND’S STAND-IN
1. “The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt,” cited (Ch. 23), p. 106.
2. Interview with Marion Dickerman.
3. New York Times, Aug. 6, 1922.
4. Interview with Mrs. Gerald (Mary Newbold) Morgan.
5. Letter from Sara D. Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aug. 27, 1922.
6. Letter from Sara D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 13, 1922.
7. Letter from Alfred Smith to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 9, 1922.
8. Letter from Margaret Norrie to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov., 1922.
9. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Abram I. Elkus, Aug. 20, 1923.
10. Letter from Hall Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 9, 1922.
11. Eleanor Roosevelt, “Why I Am a Democrat,” Junior League Bulletin, Nov., 1923.
12. Rose Schneiderman, All for One (New York, 1967), p. 50.
13. E. Roosevelt, “I Remember Hyde Park,” cited (Ch. 10).
14. Letter from Hall Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec., 1922.
15. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 25, 1925.
16. Interviews with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and John Roosevelt.
17. Schneiderman, p. 8.
18. Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew (New York, 1946), pp, 32, 33
19. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 3, 1924.
20. Ibid., Feb. 6 and 10, 1924.
21. Ibid., Feb. 6, 1924.
22. Letter from Edward M. Bok to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aug. 3, 1923.
23. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Hall Roosevelt, July 10, 1923, and Hall Roosevelt’s reply, July 17, 1923.
24. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Edward M. Bok, Aug. 14, 1923.
25. Interview with Esther Lape.
26. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 27, 1924.
27. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George Marvin, Jan. 29, 1924.
28. Eleanor Roosevelt, speeches and articles, 1925.
28. THE 1924 CAMPAIGN
1. Letter from Josephus Daniels to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 8, 1924, and Roosevelt’s reply, May 26, 1924.
2. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to James Roosevelt Roosevelt, Jan. 23, 1924.
3. New York Times, April 20, 1924.
4. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 9, 1924.
5. New York Times, April 14, 1924.
6. Ibid., May 2, 1924.
7. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 1, 1924.
8. Ibid.
9. E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 32.
10. Eleanor Roosevelt, article written in 1924 and submitted to Town Tidings in 1928.
11. Ibid.
29. LIFE WITHOUT FATHER
1. Eleanor Roosevelt, typed article, dated Dec. 23, 1930, submitted to Vogue but not accepted.
2. Interview with James Roosevelt.
3. Interview with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
4. Bruce and Beatrice Gould, An American Story: Memoirs and Reflections of Bruce and Beatrice Gould (New York, 1968), p. 283.
5. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Log of the Weona II, Feb. 25, 1923.
6. Julian Goldman, Log of the Larooco, March 8, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1925.
7. Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt from Eleanor Roosevelt, March 26, 1925.
8. Turnley Walker, Roosevelt and the Warm Springs Story (New York, 1953), p. 10.
9. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Abram I. Elkus, Oct. 24, 1924.
10. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 6, 1926.
11. Walker, p. 120.
12. Letter from Sara D. Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 1, 1927.
13. Interview with Marion Dickerman.
14. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to James Roosevelt Roosevelt, July 22, 1925.
15. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 1, 1925.
16. Ibid., March 14, 1928.
17. Ibid., March 21, 1927.
18. Ibid., Oct. 25, 1927.
19. Ibid., April 26, 1928.
20. Ibid., April 10, 1927.
21. Ibid., undated (1928).
22. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
23. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 22, 1925.
24. Ibid., July 13, 1925.
25. Ibid., July 25, 1925.
26. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
27. Ibid.
28. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 28, 1926.
29. Letter from Sara D. Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 31, 1926.
30. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 31, 1926.
31. Ibid., Oct. 27, 1926.
32. Colliers rejected it.
33. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 25, 1927.
34. Ibid., Aug. 4, 1925.
35. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
36. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 19, 1926.
37. Ibid., Nov. 7, 1927.
38. Ibid., Nov. 13, 1927.
39. Letter from Louis Howe to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 22, 1927.
30. A LIFE OF HER OWN
1. Letter from James Roosevelt Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 17, 1926.
2. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Elliot Brown, Aug. 5, 1924.
3. Interview with Marion Dickerman.
4. Letter from Sara D. Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 2, 1926.
5. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 12, 1926.
6. Ibid., Oct. 17, 1926.
7. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Sara D. Roosevelt, Oct. 11, 1926.
8. Letter from Malvina Thompson Scheider to F. E. Compton, Sept. 16, 1933; E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), pp. 32–34; Mrs. Daniel O’Day, “The Art of Creating Heirlooms,” Motordom, March, 1929.
9. New York Times, May 17, 1927.
10. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 22, 1928.
11. Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, Ladies of Courage (New York, 1954), p. 262.
12. Interview with Marion Dickerman.
13. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 2, 1928.
14. Interview with Esther Lape.
15. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jane Hoey, April 9, 1930.
16. Eunice Fuller Barnard, article, New York Times, Dec. 4, 1932.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Eleanor Roosevelt, “What Do We Want As an Education for Our Girls?,” Woman’s Journal, Oct., 1930.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
31. SMITH’S DEFEAT, ROOSEVELT’S VICTORY
1. New York Times, Jan. 25, 1927.
2. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 5, 1924.
3. Ibid., April 6, 1925.
4. Ibid., April 25, 1925.
5. Letter from Louis Howe to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 21, 1927.
6. New York Times, Feb. 25, 1925.
7. Ibid., March 22, 1926; the World, Jan. 23, 1927.
8. Dewson papers, especially unpublished memoir, An Aid to the End, in FDRL.
9. Ibid.
10. Letter from Carrie
Chapman Catt to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 7, 1926.
11. Theodore F. Harris, Pearl S. Buck (New York, 1969), pp. 298, 290.
12. S. J. Woolf, “Energy: Mrs. Roosevelt Tells How She Conserves It,” New York Times Magazine, May 28, 1939.
13. Eleanor Roosevelt, “Women Must Learn to Play the Game As Men Do,” Redbook, March, 1928.
14. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 14, 1928.
15. Woolf, “A Woman Speaks Her Political Mind,” cited (Ch. 16).
16. New York Times, Sept. 27, 1926.
17. Ibid., Jan. 25, 1927.
18. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov., 1927.
19. Eleanor Roosevelt, in conversation with author, Aug. 4, 1940, recorded in his diaries, hereafter referred to as Lash Diaries.
20. New York Times, Jan. 25, 1928.
21. Eleanor Roosevelt, “Why Democrats Favor Smith,” North American Review, Nov., 1927.
22. Eleanor Roosevelt, “Jeffersonian Principles the Issue in 1928,” Current History, June, 1928.
23. New York Times, May 31, 1928.
24. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, Jan. 28, 1928.
25. Letter from George Marvin to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 2, 1928.
26. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 1, 1928.
27. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Stanley W. Prenosil, Aug. 23, 1928.
28. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 26, 1928.
29. Ibid., April 27, 1928.
30. Ibid., April 18, 1928.
31. Ibid., June 22, 1928.
32. Ibid., July 4, 1928.
33. New York Evening Post, Oct. 2, 1928.
34. Written for the Bulletin of the Women’s National Democratic Club.
35. Dewson papers.
36. Letter from Sara D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 3, 1928.
37. Letters from Sara D. Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 26, 1928, and Aug. 4, 1928.
38. Interview with Agnes Leach.
39. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sept. 30, 1928.
40. New York Evening Post, Oct. 2, 1928.
41. World, Oct. 2, 1928.
42. New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 3, 1928.
43. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Feb. 3, 1958; Emma Bugbee, in the New York Herald Tribune, Jan. 31, 1958.
44. Interview with Esther Lape.
45. E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 46.
46. New York Times, Oct. 28, 1928.
47. New York Evening Post, Nov. 8, 1928.
48. Ibid., Nov. 7, 1928.
49. Ibid., Nov. 8, 1928.
50. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to William Bray, Oct. 30, 1928.
51. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 13, 1928.
32. RETURN TO ALBANY
1. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 1 and 2, 1928.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., Dec. 6, 1928.
4. New York Times, Nov. 11, 1928.
5. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 11 and 24, 1928, and Dec. 6, 1928.
6. Letter from Emily Newell Blair to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 19, 1928.
7. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 13, 1928.
8. Ibid., Nov. 19, 1928.
9. Ibid., Nov. 22, 1928.
10. Dewson, An Aid to the End, cited (Ch. 31).
11. Ibid.
12. Franklin D. Roosevelt, letter “Written for the Record,” April 6, 1938.
13. E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 42.
14. Letter from Frances Perkins to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 17, 1928.
15. Letter from Molly Dewson to Lorena Hickok, 1953 (in Dewson papers, cited, Ch. 31).
16. Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, cited (Ch. 27), pp. 52, 53.
17. Frank Freidel, The Triumph, vol. III of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 3 vols. (Boston, 1956), p. 17 (based on an interview with Miss Perkins).
18. Ernest K. Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt (New York, 1931), pp. 338–40.
19. Ida M. Tarbell, in the Delineator, Oct., 1931.
20. Dewson, An Aid to the End.
21. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted; Rollins, Roosevelt and Howe, cited (Ch. 26), p. 254; Rexford G. Tugwell, The Brains Trust (New York, 1969), p. 55; interview with Earl Miller.
22. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 19, 1928.
23. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech to the Women’s City Club, Jan. 9, 1929, reported in the Women’s City Club Quarterly, March, 1929.
24. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 1, 1929.
25. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Pfohl, June 17, 1929.
26. Dewson, An Aid to the End.
27. Interview with Agnes Leach.
28. Dewson, An Aid to the End.
29. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 15, 1929.
30. Letter from Rose Schneiderman to Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 12, 1929.
31. New York Times, Dec. 3, 1926.
32. Ibid., April 9, 1929.
33. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Sara D. Roosevelt, March 30, 1929.
34. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 19, 1929.
35. Ibid.
36. Interviews with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., John Roosevelt, and Marion Dickerman.
37. Interview with Marion Dickerman.
38. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Dr. Frank Graves, June 12, 1929.
39. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 24, 1929.
40. E. Roosevelt, TIR, pp. 55, 56.
41. Interview with Earl Miller.
42. Steinberg, Mrs. R.: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt, cited (Ch. 14), p. 162.
43. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 56.
44. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 27, 1929.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid., July 28, 1929.
47. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R., cited (Ch. 18), p. 211.
48. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aug. 1, 1929.
49. Ibid., Aug. 5, 7, 11, 14, 15, 19, 22, 25, 30, and 31, 1929, and Sept. 3, 1929.
50. Tarbell, in the Delineator.
51. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to the managing editor of Vogue, March 12, 1930.
52. Interview with Earl Miller.
53. Letter from Henry Neil to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 15, 1931, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Sept. 28, 1931.
54. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 2, 1929.
55. Evening World, Oct. 2, 1930.
56. Dewson, An Aid to the End.
33. ROOSEVELT BIDS FOR THE PRESIDENCY
1. E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 61.
2. Good Housekeeping, Aug., 1930.
3. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 65.
4. James A. Farley, Behind the Ballots (New York, 1938), p. 353.
5. Letter from Emma Guffey Miller to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 13, 1947.
6. Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (New York, 1952), pp. 42, 43.
7. Farley, p. 83.
8. Edward J. Flynn, You’re the Boss (New York, 1947), p. 83.
9. Letter from Molly Dewson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 9, 1931.
10. Looker, This Man Roosevelt, cited (Ch. 16), p. 140.
11. Letter from Ernest K. Lindley to Joseph P. Lash when the latter was assisting Elliott Roosevelt in editing vols. III and IV of his father’s letters.
12. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 22 and 24, 1931.
13. New York Times, Nov. 20, 1931.
14. Dewson papers, cited (Ch. 31).
15. Ida M. Tarbell, in the Delineator, cited (Ch. 32).
16. Helene Huntington Smith, “Profile,” New Yorker, April 5, 1930.
17.
Interview with Earl Miller.
18. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Louis Howe, May 17, 1932.
19. Interview with Earl Miller.
20. Ibid.; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, July 12, 1930.
21. Interview with Marion Dickerman.
22. Flynn, p. 216.
23. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 18, 1932.
24. Caroline Phillips, Journals, April 1, 1932.
25. Interview with Agnes Leach.
26. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to the Ladies’ Home Journal, Sept. 29, 1929.
27. S. J. Woolf, in the New York Times, Oct. 11, 1932.
28. Letter from David Gray to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 24, 1932.
29. Lorena Hickok, Associated Press dispatch in the Knickerbocker Press, Albany, Sept. 6, 1932.
30. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R., cited (Ch. 18), p. 236.
31. Eleanor Roosevelt, “Ten Rules for Success in Marriage,” Pictorial Review, Dec., 1931.
32. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 19, 1943.
33. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 64.
34. New York Times, March 4, 1930.
35. Ibid., Jan. 20, 1931.
36. Dewson papers.
37. Gertrude Macy, in conversation with the author.
38. Tugwell, The Brains Trust, cited (Ch. 32), p. 57.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Interview with Samuel I. Rosenman.
42. Interview with Hartley Howe.
43. Eleanor Roosevelt-Esther Lape correspondence, 1929–31.
44. Interview with Samuel I. Rosenman.
45. Interview with Agnes Leach.
46. Interview with Thomas L. Stix.
47. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Molly Dewson, March 11, 1932.
48. Eleanor Roosevelt, in conversation with the author.
49. Alice B. Jennings, in the Atlanta Journal, Dec., 1930.
50. Syracuse Herald, Oct. 1, 1932.
51. Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, cited (Ch. 23), pp. 32, 33.
52. Grace Tully, F.D.R. My Boss (New York, 1949), pp. 51, 53.
53. Hickok, p. 44.
34. “I NEVER WANTED TO BE A PRESIDENT’S WIFE”
1. Emma Bugbee, in the New York Herald Tribune, July 2, 1932.
2. Interview with Marion Dickerman.
3. E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 68.
4. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Molly Dewson, Aug. 4, 1932.
5. Molly Dewson, North American Newspaper Alliance, Jan. 2, 1933.
6. Louis Howe, in the Boston Globe, Dec. 25, 1932; Dewson papers, cited (Ch. 31).
7. Interview with James Roosevelt.
8. Tugwell, The Brains Trust, cited (Ch. 32), p. 86.