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.
21. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Philip Vaughn (“Bennett”), Nov. 11, 1935.
22. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sept. 2, 1933.
23. Interview with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
24. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 10.
25. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Miss Toynton, Jan. 7, 1939.
26. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 8, 1937.
27. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 218.
28. Ibid., pp. 291, 269, 264.
29. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Josephus Daniels, Oct. 5, 1937.
30. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
31. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Sept. 6, 8, 11, and 12, 1938.
32. Washington Times, Dec. 19, 1938.
33. New York Times, Jan. 6, 1939.
34. Springfield News and Leader, Dec. 18, 1938.
35. New York Daily News, Dec. 21, 1938.
36. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Col. Patterson, Dec. 27, 1938.
37. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 37.
38. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” April 6, 1938.
39. Ibid., Nov. 8, 1938; E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 11.
43. THE DIVIDED WHITE HOUSE
1. Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast, July 6, 1937.
2. Emma Bugbee, in the New York Herald Tribune, March 2, 1937.
3. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Helen Weiss, Jan. 20, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Jane Barrett, Nov. 23, 1938.
4. Letter from William Laas to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 23, 1938; Eleanor Roosevelt, in the Democratic Digest, 1937.
5. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Marion Dickerman, Jan. 13, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, Jan. 10, 1939.
6. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Agnes Leach, Jan. 27, 1937; E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 155.
7. Helen Robinson, Diaries, cited (Ch. 16), Jan. 31, 1938.
8. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R., cited (Ch. 18), p. 237; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Roosevelt, July 30, 1959.
9. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Ralph and Anna (owners of a beauty parlor), Oct. 28, 1938.
10. Letter from Steve Early to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 25, 1937.
11. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mr. G——, May 7, 1936.
12. Ibid., May 16, 1936.
13. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Sept. 5, 1937.
14. Lash Diaries, Jan. 31, 1942.
15. Williams, A Southern Rebel, cited (Ch. 40) p. 94; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Aug. 22, 1938.
16. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, Dec. 9, 1937.
17. Harry Hopkins, memorandum, Jan. 19, 1945.
18. Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History New York, 1948), p. 171.
19. Lash Diaries, Feb. 5, 1940.
20. Sherwood, p. 173.
21. Talk with Malvina Thompson Scheider at Campobello, June 28, 1941.
22. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 168; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to May Craig, June 10, 1938; Ickes, Secret Diary, cited (Ch. 24), III, p. 371.
23. Interview with Samuel I. Rosenman; E. Roosevelt, TIR, pp. 4–8, 167–68.
24. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., in conversation with the author, May 30, 1963.
25. Information provided by Mrs. Winslow Carlton, who worked for Harry Hopkins; Blum, Years of Urgency, cited (Ch. 40), pp. 41–42; Sherwood, p. 285; interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
26. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 173.
27. Interviews with Esther Lape and Trude Lash.
28. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 277.
29. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
30. Lash Diaries, Aug. 5, 1940.
31. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
32. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, June 9, 1940.
33. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted; statement by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., as recorded in Lash Diaries, June 4, 1941.
34. Interview with Samuel I. Rosenman.
35. Fulton Oursler, Behold the Dreamer (New York, 1964), pp. 424–25.
36. Ibid., p. 435; Furman, Washington By-Line, cited (Ch. 35), pp. 271–72.
37. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Fulton Oursler, Jan. 14, 1938.
38. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to “Doc” Cropley, Oct. 14, 1937; interview with Alice Longworth; J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 294.
39. Associated Press, Nov. 14, 1938; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Nov. 14, 1938.
40. Lash Diaries, March 20, 1941, and Jan. 1, 1942; Oursler, pp. 424–25.
41. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, pp. 315, 319.
42. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Rita Halle Kleeman, May 29, 1935.
44. A GATHERING STORM
1. Letter from Guildford N. Crawford to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 9, 1933.
2. Letter from C. E. Smith to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 31, 1933; Clarence Pickett, quoted by Holly Cowan, “Arthurdale,” cited (Ch. 37); Pickett, For More than Bread, cited (Ch. 37), p. 49; Alexander, OHP.
3. Letter from C.F. Klinefelter (of FERA) to Malvina Thompson Scheider, Nov. 6, 1934; letter from Aubrey Williams to state relief administrators and chief state school officers, Nov. 2, 1934.
4. Williams, A Southern Rebel, cited (Ch. 40); letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, Nov. 2, 1934.
5. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, Oct. 10, 1934; Rackham Holt, Mary McLeod Bethune (New York, 1964), p. 35.
6. Letter from M.J. Chisum to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 29, 1934, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Feb. 24, 1934; Alexander, OHP.
7. Letter from Claude Swanson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 6, 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to C.A. Franklin, Dec. 10, 1935.
8. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jane Hoey, Jan. 17, 1934.
9. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, May 2, 1934.
10. Walter White, A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White (New York, 1948), pp. 179–80.
11. Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 7, 1934; ibid., May 29, 1934; letter from Walter White to Edward Costigan, June 8, 1934; letter from Edward Costigan to Sen. Robinson, June 11, 1934.
12. Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 8, 1934; ibid., Nov. 20, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, Nov. 23, 1934.
13. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, Jan. 23, 1935.
14. New York Times, Feb. 12, 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, Feb., 1935.
15. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, May 8, 1935.
16. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Steve Early, Aug. 8, 1935.
17. E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 164.
18. Letter from Steve Early to Malvina Thompson Scheider, Sept. 11, 1935.
19. Letter from Barry Bingham to Marvin McIntyre, Aug. 29, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barry Bingham, Sept. 4, 1934.
20. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Molly Dewson, Dec. 30, 1935; letter from Felix Frankfurter to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 30, 1936.
21. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Miss Conrad, S
ept. 7, 1938.
22. Alexander, OHP; Sidney Baldwin, Poverty and Politics: The Rise and Decline of the Farm Security Administration (North Carolina, 1968), p. 332.
23. Alexander, OHP.
24. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), May 13, 1936.
25. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Flyner, Dec. 17, 1935.
26. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lucy Stewart, Feb. 21, 1939; on Eleanor Roosevelt’s reaction to Gone with the Wind, see “My Day,” Aug. 20, 1936; Eleanor Roosevelt’s exchange with Esther Cary on the use of the word “darky,” April 13, 1937.
27. Poppy Cannon, A Gentle Knight (New York, 1956), p. 9.
28. Samuel S. Battle OHP; letter from Mary McLeod Bethune to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 16, 1940; interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
29. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Pauli Murray, Dec. 19, 1938.
30. Letter from Harper’s to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 10, 1938, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, March 4, 1938; letter from Richard Wright to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 22, 1938, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Aug. 29, 1938.
31. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Lydia Wischan, March 1, 1938.
32. New York Times, April 22, 1938.
33 Marian Anderson, speech at the Memorial Day exercises in the Hyde Park rose garden, May 30, 1939.
34. Clark Foreman, “A Decade Hope,” Phylon, Vol. XII, No. 2, 1951; Proceedings of the NYA National conference of Negro Youth, Jan. 12, 1939.
35. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Feb. 28, 1939.
36. White, p. 182; letter from Corinne Alsop to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 27, 1939.
37. Interview with Oscar Chapman; White, p. 182.
38. Ickes, Secret Diary, cited (Ch. 24), II, p. 615.
39. Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 12, 1939.
40. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, April 12, 1939; letters from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 14 and 17, 1939.
41. Ickes, II pp. 615–16.
42. Alexander, OHP, p. 332.
43. Memorandum, no date (probably 1942), President’s Personal File 2.
44. Mary McLeod Bethune’s memorandum, July 12, 1940; directive from the war Dept. to Gen. Watson, July 15, 1940.
45. Letter from Henry Stimson to Franklin. Roosevelt, Aug. 20, 1940.
46. Letter from James Nabrit, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 17, 1940.
47. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 24, 1940.
48. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, undated.
49. Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 3, 1940.
50. Henry Stimson, Diary, Sept 27, 1940, Yale University Library.
51. White, p. 187; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Viola Ilma, Oct. 26, 1940.
52. Letter from Crystal Bird Fauset to Elinor Morgenthau, Oct. 15, 1940; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Oscar Ewing, Oct. 25, 1940.
53. Alexander, OHP.
54. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Wender, Nov. 13, 1940.
55. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, cited (Ch. 35), p. 322; Crisis, XLVII, 1940.
56. Roy Wilkins, OHP.
57. Eleanor Roosevelt, unpublished foreword to Pearl S. Buck’s letter to the New York Times, Nov. 15, 1941, which was to be published as a pamphlet, a project that was dropped after Pearl Harbor.
58. Stimson, Diary, Jan. 24, 1941.
59. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt’s secretary to Sidney Hillman, May 5, 1941.
60. Letter from Aubrey Williams to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 29, 1941; letter from Sidney Hillman to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 23, 1941; White House luncheon on May 29, 1941.
61. The luncheon is described by Alexander, OHP.
62. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to A. Philip Randolph, June 10, 1941.
63. Letter from Wayne Coy to Steve Early, June 21, 1931; letter from Aubrey Williams to Joseph P. Lash, March 1, 1964.
64. White, p. 190.
65. Letter from Gen. Watson to Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 14, 1941.
66. Letter from A. Philip Randolph to Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 16, 1941.
67. Interview with Anna Rosenberg (Mrs. Paul Hoffman).
68. Telegrams from Aubrey Williams to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 20 and 24, 1941.
69. Letter from Aubrey Williams to Joseph P. Lash, March 1, 1964; telegram from Aubrey Williams to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 25, 1941; Lash Diaries, June 23 and 26, 1941; Franklin D. Roosevelt, memorandum to Rudolph Forster, in Official File; telegram from A. Philip Randolph to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 24, 1941, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, June 26, 1941.
70. Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 22, 1941.
71. Lash Diaries, Aug. 1, 1941.
45. THE YOUTH MOVEMENT
1. New York Times, May 7, 1934.
2. Ibid.
3. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, March 24, 1934, and Oct. 5, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Bostwick, Nov. 7, 1933.
4. New York Times, Nov. 25, 1933.
5. Letter from Henry Goddard Leach to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 10, 1934, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Jan. 22, 1934.
6. Woman’s Home Companion, May, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Newton D. Baker, Oct. 4, 1934, and Baker’s reply, Oct. 8, 1934.
7. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 3, 1934.
8. Eleanor Roosevelt described this experience in a speech to the Altrusa Club, El Paso, Texas, March 11, 1938.
9. Interview with Rabbi Arnold Lasker, one of the participants; Minutes of the Youth Today Meeting, Nov. 22, 1934; E. Roosevelt, speech, Altrusa Club.
10. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lady Florence Willert, Jan. 16, 1935.
11. In questions and answers submitted by Harper’s when she was writing TIR.
12. Oursler, Behold the Dreamer, cited (Ch. 43), pp. 393–400; Smith, “The First Lady,” cited (Ch. 40).
13. Frances Perkins, report to the Senate, April 5, 1935.
14. E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), pp. 162–63.
15. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Cornelia S. Adair, Oct. 23, 1935; Eleanor Roosevelt’s “too late” comments on the Williams letter, Aug. 20, 1935; letters from Aubrey Williams to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 22 and 23, 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Aubrey Williams, Nov. 30, 1935.
16. Letter from Aubrey Williams to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 20, 1935; Aubrey Williams, “Youth and the Government,” Progressive Education, Dec., 1935; Ruby Black, Eleanor Roosevelt (New York, 1940); letter from Ruby Black to Malvina Thompson Scheider, July 5, 1940.
17. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Homer Rainey, March 24, 1936; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Lang, March 21, 1936; Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast, March 18, 1936; Republican criticism of the NYA made by Mrs. Eugene Meyer in radio debate, Feb. 27, 1936.
18. Letter from Camp Jane Addams’ girls to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 25, 1936.
19. Letter from Aubrey Williams to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 14, 1936; letter from Charles Taussig to Eleanor Roosevelt, June, 1940; letter from Mrs. Carroll to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 13, 1936.
20. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech at the University of North Carolina, June 1, 1935.
21. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Dec. 6, 1936.
22. Letter from Viola Ilma to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 15, 1934, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Aug. 15, 1934.
23. Letter from Viola Ilma to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 7, 1934.
24. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Waldo McNutt, April 23, 1935.
25. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to William Hinckley, Jan. 16 and 21, 1936; Associated Press, Feb. 9, 1936.
26. Summary of the Proceedings of the National Council of the American Youth Congress, Jan., 1936; William Hinckley, in Progressive Education, Dec., 1935.
27. Summary of the Proceedings of the National Council of the American Youth Congress, op. cit.; for the NYA’s analysis of the American Youth Act, see the memorandum from Dorot
hy I. Cline, undated.
28. Letter from Mark McCloskey to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 4, 1936, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Feb. 11, 1936.
29. Letter from Joseph P. Lash to a friend, Jan. 29, 1936.
30. Letter from John Little, New York chairman of the Young Communist League, to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 4, 1936, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, May 9, 1936.
31. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to William Hinckley, Nov. 30, 1936.
32. Letter from Abbott Simon to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 7, 1937; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Abbott Simon, Jan. 14, 1937.
33. See letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Robert Fechner, director of the CCC, Dec. 11, 1935; from Robert Fechner to the War Dept., Dec. 12, 1935; from Robert Fechner to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 12, 1935.
34. Letters from Abbott Simon to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 11 and 12, 1937; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Abbott Simon, Feb. 13, 1937; Minutes of the National Executive Committee, American Student Union, March 20 and 21, 1937.
35. Letter from the American Youth Congress to affiliates, March 8, 1937; letter from Aubrey Williams to William Hinckley, Feb. 22, 1937.
36. Letter from Mark McCloskey to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 11, 1938, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Feb. 15, 1938.
37. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mark McCloskey, Feb. 15, 1938.
38. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jan. 7, 1938.
39. America, Aug. 6, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Father Murphy, Aug. 16, 1938.
40. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James West, Aug. 13, 1938.
41. E. Roosevelt, speech, Altrusa Club.
42. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Aug. 16, 17, and 21, 1938.
43. Letter from Aubrey Williams to William Hinckley, Feb. 22, 1937.
44. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech to the New York Herald Tribune Forum, New York Times, Oct. 25, 1938; Abbott Simon, report to the American Youth Congress, Feb. 17, 1938; Minutes of the American Youth Congress Resident Board, May 2, 1938.
45. May Craig, syndicated columns, Oct., 1938.
46. Joseph P. Lash, speech “Students in the Service of Democracy,” Dec. 27, 1938; memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jan. 17, 1939; letter from James Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 2, 1939, and Franklin Roosevelt’s telegram in reply, undated.
47. Associated Press, Jan. 31, 1939.
48. Letter from Aubrey Williams to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 21, 1939; Minutes of the American Youth Congress Resident Board, May 18, 1939; F. D. Roosevelt, Public Papers, cited (Ch. 13), 1939, p. 332.
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