FIRST LADY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/26/1961 - HFSID 83854
Price: $300.00
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Eleanor Roosevelt sends a letter of thanks.
Typed Letter signed: "Eleanor Roosevelt", 1 p, 6x7. On
personal letterhead. New York, N.Y., 1961 December 26. To "Dear
Sheila". In full: "I have enjoyed hearing from you
and want to thank you most cordially for your card and very kind greetings. I
hope to see you in San Diego in the spring and would like to send my best wishes
to you all for a happy New Year. Affectionately," 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. Fold crease not near
signature. Fine condition.
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