Roosevelt Small Collections: Anna Eleanor and Franklin D. - Reminiscences by Contemporaries, 1920-1962 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

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Administrative Information

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Box 1

Anonymous - Letter Describes FDR's Funeral

Anonymous - Memoir of FDR's D-Day Press Conference

Aspey, Lawrence - Meetings with FDR, April 28, 1939

Bandel, Betty - Letter to Niece about White House Lunch hosted by ER for WAAC and WAVE, February 21, 1943

Baron de la Grance - Memorandum of a Conversation, January 16, 1938

Baron, Joseph F. Jr. - Letter to Family Recounting 1942 Christmas Party for Soldiers at Hyde Park, December 23, 1942

Biddle, George

Bishop, Jim - Transcript "Jack Paar Tonite" excerpt

Botts, G. Ford - "Where Infantile Paralysis Gets its 'Walking Papers,'" Warm Springs in Summer, 1925

Callahan, Frank - Recollection of seeing FDR in his braces at Worcester Mass, June 1, 1934

Calvo, Esther N. de

Chalfin, Justine W. - Letter to infant son Nick Chalfin about FDR's Death and National Day of Mourning, April 14, 1945

Chase, Sherret Spaulding - Meeting ER at lecture in Chicago area, 1959

Collier, Fred C. - "A Banquet at Tuskegee: ER's involvement in banquet at Tuskegee Institute, 1961

Cuddy, Helen

Davis, Abert - DLetter home re: Observance of Third Inaugural, January 20, 1941

Edwards, Lawrence, Lt., USNR - memoir "I saw Roosevelt on Adak", July-August, 1944

Estep Dick, Szrelea J. - Poem about FDR

Farley, Mayor Barney (Port of Arkansas, Texas) - memoir, "President Roosevelt as I knew Him, Barney Farley. His Fishing Guide", 1937

Gilbert to Cecil, November 18, 1933

Francis G. Goodale, August 17-18, 1936

Groton School - English teacher and Classmates

Hamlin, Huibertje Pruyn (Mrs. Charles S.)

Hamlin, Huibertje Pruyn (Mrs. Charles S.)- "Some Memories of FDR" (1), c. 1893-1945

Hamlin, Huibertje Pruyn (Mrs. Charles S.)- "Some Memories of FDR" (2), c. 1893-1945

Hamlin, Huibertje Pruyn (Mrs. Charles S.)- "Some Memories of FDR" (3), c. 1893-1945

Hays, Congressman Brooks (Ark) - Memoir of FDR's trip to Texas and Arkansas Centennial Celebration, in letter to FDR, Jr., 1936

Hunt, Virginia Livingston - Reminiscences of her contacts with FDR and ER in Washington and Hyde Park, 1934-1938

Jackson, Lt. Col. R.E. - Anecdote: "Good Luck, Mr. President", 1933

Keller, John W. - Letter to FDRL about overnight visit at Whte House, March 14, 1943

Lasher, Robert - memoir, "A Great Day in New Paltz" Visit of FDR and Crown Princess Martha of Norway, c. 1943

Lord, J.B. - President of Boston Varnish Company, Letter re: pro-Hoover view of the presidential election, 1932

MacDonald, Helen P.

McDuffie, Lizzie - Drafts of Book Chapters

Memoir: FDR's visit to Philadelphia Bookstore

Meigs, Mrs. Edward B. - Letter recounting her attendance at Thrift Shop White Elephant Tea, April 12, 1945

Moran, B. H.: Account of FDR's Alaska fishing exposition, August 1944

Norton, Lily - Letter to Helen Whidden re: FDR's polio Attack

Offit, Sidney - Letter from his mother on death of FDR, April 12, 1945

President, Consul Municipal de Paris - Letter to Jean Groff, April 1945

Rodney, Henry - Reminiscences of Mr. Rodney, a Secret Service man during FDR's Presidency

Scammell, John Chilton - Memoir. FDR's History class at Harvard, 1900

Sinclair, Winifred - "Tribute to Roosevelt" and Letter from FDR to Mrs. Sinclair

Squires, Cedric Pridgeon - Letters to Mother about his service in FDR's Honor Guard and Funeral Train, April 1945

Sweetzer, Arthur: "Interview with President Roosevelt re: Proposals to rescue Jewish refugees from Europe, April 1938

Todd, Ruby, 1938

Tschop, Lt. Robert Letter to Finance re: News of FDR's Death, April 1945

Uhl, Richard R. - Singing for Eleanor Roosevlet During World War II

Van Curan, Alma - Diary excerpts, December 1943