FIRST LADY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 09/02/1947 - HFSID 87254
Sale Price $245.00
Reg. $300.00
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Eleanor Roosevelt sends a typed letter of congratulations for the
upcoming marriage.
Typed Letter Signed: "Eleanor Roosevelt", 1p, 5½x8. Hyde
Park, N.Y., 1947 September 2. To Louise Hopkins, widow of FDR's aide,
Harry Hopkins. In full: "I am delighted with your news and so
happy for you, and glad that Diana is pleased over your coming marriage. My
congratulations to Mr. Gates and my very best wishes to you. I shall look
forward to seeing you in the fall." Diana was Harry and Louise's daughter.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) had married her distant cousin, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, in 1905 (her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, gave her away). She
would serve as First Lady for 12 years and 39 days (March 4, 1933 until
her husband's death of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945), longer than any
other woman.Eleanor, who had previously been First Lady of New
York when FDR was Governor of the state (1929-1933), later became known
as "First Lady of the World" for her humanitarian efforts, including getting
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations.
Appointed by President Truman, she had been a member of the
U.S. delegation to the United Nations from 1945-1952. On November 7, 1962,
78-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt died at her New York apartment. She was buried
next to her husband in Hyde Park four days later. Slightly creased, paper clip
impression at upper left blank edge, else fine condition.
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