Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Part 1, 1884-1964 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

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Collection Overview

Title: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Part 1, 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 1 covers boxes 1-1395.

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Use Restrictions: The unpublished writings of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt are in the public domain.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

Series 18: Business and Commercial Matters (60), 1934-1945

Correspondence, memoranda, invoices, telegrams, statements and other business papers. Arranged chronologically and thereunder in rough alphabetical order by name of correspondent or organization. These papers relate to the management of the Roosevelt residences in New York City, Hyde Park, and Campobello, New Brunswick. Also, correspondence with business firms regarding the purchase of food, gifts, reading matter, clothing and household items. Includes letters soliciting Mrs. Roosevelt's name to promote the sale of various commercial products. Other material concerns purchases made from the Val-Kill Furniture Shop, Hyde Park, the woodcraft shop at the Arthurdale, West Virginia resettlement project and various WPA handcraft projects.

The series is divided into four parts: 60.1: Purchases made by Eleanor Roosevelt; 60.2: Use of Eleanor Roosevelts Name in Advertising; 60.3: Eleanor Roosevelt's Personal Preferences; 60.9: Miscellaneous Business Matters.

Sub-Series 1: Purchases made by Eleanor Roosevelt

Box 249

A-K, 1934
L-Z, 1934
A-L, 1935
M-Z, 1935
A-O, 1936
P-Z, 1936
A-K, 1937

Box 250

L-Z, 1937
A-D, 1938
E-L, 1938
M-Z, 1938
A-B, 1939
C-G, 1939

Box 251

H-L, 1939
M-P, 1939
R-S, 1939
T-Z, 1939
A-C, 1940
D-H, 1940
I-R, 1940

Box 252

S-V, 1940
W-Z, 1940
A-E, 1941
F-N, 1941
O-Z, 1941
A-E, 1942
F-K, 1942

Box 253

L-R, 1942
S-Z, 1942
A-E, 1943
F-N, 1943
O-Z, 1943
A-I, 1944
J-Q, 1944

Box 254

R-Z, 1944
A-Z, 1945

Sub-Series 2: Use of Eleanor Roosevelt's Name in Advertising (60.2)

Box 254

A-Z, 1934
A-Z, 1935
A-Z, 1936
A-Z, 1937
A-Z, 1938
A-Z, 1939
A-Z, 1940

Box 255

A-Z, 1941
A, 1942
A-Z, 1943-1945

Sub-Series 3: Eleanor Roosevelt's Personal Preferences (60.3)

Box 255

A-Z, 1934-1936
A-Z, 1937-1938
A-Z, 1939-1940
A-Z, 1941-1943

Sub-Series 4: Miscellaneous Business Matters (60.9)

Box 255

A-Z, January-April 1934
A-Z, May-December 1934

Box 256

A-Z, January-May 1935
A-Z, June-October 1935
A-Z, November-December 1935
A-Z, January-September 1936
A-Z, October-December 1936
A-F, 1937
G-N, 1937
O-Z, 1937

Box 257

A-E, 1938
F-L, 1938
M-S, 1938
T-Z, 1938
A-C, 1939
D-I, 1939
J-M, 1939

Box 258

N-Z, 1939
A-C, 1940
D-H, 1940
J-M, 1940
N-R, 1940
S-Z, 1940
A-D, 1941

Box 259

E-K, 1941
L-M, 1941
N-S, 1941
T-Y, 1941
A-E, 1942
F-L, 1942
M-R, 1942
S, 1942

Box 260

T-Z, 1942
A-N, 1943
O-Z, 1943
A-Z, 1944-1945