33. Letter from Monte Bourjaily to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 16, 1936, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Jan. 17, 1936.
34. Damon Runyon, syndicated column, Nov. 1, 1937; letter from William Laas to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 23, 1940.
35. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Nan Wood Honeyman, Jan. 22, 1936.
36. Women’s National Press Club skit, in the New York Times, March 3, 1936.
37. Bruce Bliven, in the New Republic, Nov. 4, 1936; letter from United Features Syndicate to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 16, 1936; Marshall, op. cit.
38. Letter from George Carlin to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 2, 1938.
39. Pegler, syndicated column attacking Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 6, 1940; for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s comment, Lash Diaries, Aug. 5, 1940; Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply to Pegler in “My Day,” Aug. 9, 1940.
40. Letter from George Carlin to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 7, 1940.
41. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Dorothy Canfield Fisher, April 23, 1934.
42. Alma W. Johnson, “Farm Woman Battles the Depression,” Forum, July, 1936; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Alma W. Johnson, Sept. 28, 1936.
43. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Jan. 5, 1937; letter from Fannie Hurst to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 13, 1937.
44. The Goulds, An American Story, cited (Ch. 29), p. 188; New York Times, Feb. 25, 1937; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Feb. 26, 1937.
45. The Goulds, p. 272.
46. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Martha Gellhorn, Jan. 16, 1937.
47. E. Roosevelt, TIMS MS., in FDRL.
48. Letter from Anna and John Boettiger to Eleanor Roosevelt, undated.
49. Letter from Bruce Gould to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 7, 1937.
50. The Goulds, p. 198.
51. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Nov. 3, 1937.
52. Lady Florence Willert reported Alice Longworth’s reaction to Eleanor Roosevelt in a letter, March 30, 1937.
39. WITHOUT LOUIS HOWE—THE 1936 CAMPAIGN
1. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mary Howe Baker, March 11, 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Molly Dewson, March 22, 1935.
2. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Grace Howe, Aug. 23, 1935.
3. Lela Stiles, The Man behind Roosevelt (Cleveland, 1954), pp. 289–94.
4. John Keller and Joseph Bouldt, “Franklin’s on His Own Now,” Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 12, 1940.
5. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), April 20, 1936; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruch, quoted in Stiles, p. 294.
6. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Russell Carney, Nov. 1, 1935; letter from Molly Dewson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 5, 1935, and Dec. 19, 1935.
7. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Charles E. Kizer, May 20, 1935.
8. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 18, 1935.
9. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Molly Dewson, March 9, 1935.
10. Caroline Phillips, Diaries, Feb. 12, 1935.
11. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to R. Gifford, March 20, 1935.
12. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to June Rhodes, Nov. 22, 1935.
13. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, cited (Ch. 33), p. 54.
14. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. W. N. Prince, Feb. 13, 1935.
15. New York Times, Dec. 29 and 31, 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Alfred Smith, Dec. 18, 1935; letter from Alfred Smith to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 26, 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Alfred Smith, Dec. 31, 1935.
16. Letter from Helen Robinson to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 7, 1935, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, March 12, 1935.
17. Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast, March 17, 1935, and news conference, Feb. 17, 1935; letter from Molly Dewson to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 13, 1935.
18. Letter from Martha Strayer to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan., 1935.
19. Letter from Molly Dewson to Eleanor Roosevelt, mid–1935.
20. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Martha Gellhorn, June 26, 1936; Louis Howe, in an interview, in Furman, Washington By-Line, cited (Ch. 35), pp. 234–35.
21. Letter from Molly Dewson to Jim Farley, Dec. 21, 1935.
22. Letter from Molly Dewson to Charles Michelson, July 17, 1936.
23. Letter from Molly Dewson to Jim Farley, April, 1936; letter from Jim Farley to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 9, 1936.
24. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Edward L. Roddan, April 18, 1936.
25. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Days (New York, 1938), p. 44 (a selection of Mrs. Roosevelt’s columns).
26. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Molly Dewson, May 22, 1936.
27. New York Times, June 24 and 25, 1936; New York Herald Tribune, June 26, 1936.
28. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” June 28, 1936; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Philip Vaughn (“Bennett”), June 27, 1936.
29. Ickes, Secret Diary, cited (Ch. 24), I, p. 639; Franklin Roosevelt outlined his campaign in a letter to John Nance Garner, July 19, 1936.
30. Farley, Behind the Ballots, cited (Ch. 33), p. 354.
31. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 16, 1936; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jim Farley, July 16, 1936.
32. Ruth Finney, series of articles on Eleanor Roosevelt, in Scripps-Howard papers, May 26–31, 1937.
33. Alice Longworth, “The Ideal Qualifications of a President’s Wife,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Feb., 1936.
34. New York Times, Nov. 8, 1936.
35. Afro-American, May 23, 1936; the attitudes of Steve Early and Marvin McIntyre in E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 164.
36. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. C. Whitney, Oct. 25, 1935.
37. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Carrie Chapman Catt, April 18, 1936.
38. Emma Bugbee, in the New York Herald Tribune, March 3, 1936.
39. New York Times, July 12 and 22, 1936, and Aug. 21, 1936.
40. Finney, op. cit.
41. Thomas L. Stokes, Chip Off My Shoulder (Princeton, 1940), pp. 453 and 363 respectively.
42. New York Herald Tribune, June 24, 1936.
43. E. Roosevelt, My Days, pp. 79–80; interview with Alice Longworth
44. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Dorothy Kenyon, Nov. 9, 1936.
45. Rosenman, pp. 134–35; F. D. Roosevelt, Public Papers, cited (Ch. 13), 1936, pp. 566–73.
46. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Nov. 1, 1936; E. Roosevelt, My Days, pp. 82–84; “My Day,” Nov. 2, 1936.
47. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Nov. 4, 1936.
48. Ibid., Nov. 15, 1936, and E. Roosevelt, My Days, p. 90.
49. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, from Kansas City, Nov. 14, 1936.
40. WISE AS A SERPENT, GUILELESS AS A DOVE
1. Rexford G. Tugwell, The Democratic Roosevelt (New York, 1957), p. 332; E. Roosevelt, My Days, cited (Ch. 39), p. 129.
2. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Josephine Roche, March 6, 1939; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Sanford Bates, Feb. 17, 1939.
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 Awa
rd 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.
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