Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Part 3, 1884-1964 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

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Collection Overview

Title: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Part 3, 1884-1964

Primary Creator: Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)

Extent: 889.62 Cubic Feet

Arrangement:

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is organized into three distinct parts - pre-White House material, White House material, and post-White House material. Within those parts, the collection is arranged into 63 series. The series are generally arranged chronologically and then aplhabetically thereunder.

Due to the large size of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, the online finding aid has been divided into three sections. Part 3 covers boxes 1506-2126.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection contains material accumulated by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt during her lifetime. The pre-White House material includes early family papers, school exercise books, and correspondence with family and friends up to her years as the wife of the governor of New York. The White House material contains correspondence with family, friends, the general public, and government officials. The general public wrote requesting material assistance; commenting on her activities as First Lady, including her trips, speeches and articles; seeking her patronage; requesting an autograph, photograph or invitation to the White House; invitations to events, and sending her gifts. The correspondence with government officials asks their help in finding work, saving homes and farms and other assistance requests. The post-White House material contains correspondence with family, friends, the general public and government officials. This material also includes her correspondence and other material pertaining to her term as a delegate to the United Nations and as Chairman of the Human Rights Committee. The collection also contains copies of a number of her speeches and articles including her "My Day" column.

Administrative Information

Repository: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Access Restrictions: The papers contain material restricted in accordance with Executive Order 12958, and material which might constitute the invasion of privacy of living persons has been closed.

Use Restrictions: The unpublished writings of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt are in the public domain. Mrs. Roosevelt's published writings are subject to her literary estate.

Acquisition Method: The papers of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt were donated by Mrs. Roosevelt and her children.

Related Materials: Numerous collections in the Library including: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Official, Personal and Secretary’s Files; Franklin D. Roosevelt: Papers pertaining to Family, Business and Personal Affairs; Franklin D. Roosevelt: Papers as Vice Presidential Candidate, 1920; Franklin D. Roosevelt: Papers as Governor of New York, 1929 -1932; Eleanor Roosevelt Oral History project; Papers of Anna Roosevelt Halsted; Papers of Lorena Hickok; and Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children of Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and John A. Roosevelt.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 52: Condolence Correspondence, 1945],
[Series 53: Correspondence, 1945-1952],
[Series 54: Correspondence, 1953-1956],
[Series 55: Correspondence, 1957-1962],
[Series 56: Correspondence - Harry, Bess & Margaret Truman],
[Series 57: United Nations Material],
[Series 58: Correspondence regarding Speaking and Other Engagements],
[Series 59: Topical Files],
[Series 60: Book and Manuscript File],
[Series 61: Oversized White House Correspondence, 1933-1945],
[Series 62: Oversized General Correspondence, 1945-1962],
[Series 63: Oversized Topical File Materials],
[All]

Series 60: Book and Manuscript File

Box 2111

Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - List of Titles and Authors
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Buck, Pearl, Command the Morning
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Cheney, Michael, Big Oil Man from Arabia
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Cousins, Norman, Lanbarene: Dr. Schweitzer and His People
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Craig, Hardin
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Cullman, Marguerite, Ninety Dozen Glasses
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Davidson, Irwin and Richard Gehman, The Jury is Still Out
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Davis, Jerome

Box 2112

Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Fair
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Faris, Donald, To Plow with Hope
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Fast, Howard, April Morning
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Fischer, Markooscha, Reunion in Moscow
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Gabrielson, Catherine
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Gallie, Menna, The Small Mine
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Ganguli, J.

Box 2113

Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Goodman, Paul, Growing Up Absurd
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Gould, Jean
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Greene, Eleanore
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Hartsell, Lawrence
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Jackson, Virgil, The Man of Three Centuries
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Karp, Rabbi Abraham, The Jewish Way of Life (3 parts)

Box 2114

Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Lapp, Ralph, The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Lederer, William
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Lloyd, David
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - McCrady, Marjorie
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - McGuire-Johnson
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Mason, Lucy

Box 2115

Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Meyer, Annie
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Barstow-Murphy, Grace, Your Deafness is not You
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Needham, Jane
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Oursler, Fulton and Will Oursler, Father Flanigan of Boys Town
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Pederson, Wesley
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Powell, Theodore, The School Bus Law
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Rockford, Elbrun

Box 2116

Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Rollins, Alfred, Roosevelt and Howe
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Saint John, Robert
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Sanders, Marion, The Lady and the Vote
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Sherwin, Mark and Charles Markmann, One Week in March
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Slade, Madeleine, The Spirit

Box 2117

Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Smith, Corinna
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Snyder, Louis, The War, A Concise History (2 vols.)
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Sterne, Emma
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Sulloway, Alvah, Birth Control and Catholic Doctrine
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Terasaki, Gwendolen, Bridge to the Sun

Box 2118

Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Tetens, T., The New Germany and the Old Nazis
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Vickery, William
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Voynich, Ethel, The Gadfly
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Wolff, Henry
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Yates, Elizabeth, Rainbow Round the World

Box 2119

Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - The Patriarchs (author unknown)
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Peck (author and title unknown)
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Ragnarok (author unknown)
Galley Proofs Sent to Eleanor Roosevelt - Social Security (author unknown)

Box 2120

Lubitsh, A. Cypen, Amidst Crowded Days, A Diary in Clippings of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1

Box 2121

Lubitsh, A. Cypen, Amidst Crowded Days, A Diary in Clippings of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2

Box 2122

United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, Report to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt