Books by Eleanor Roosevelt

You Learn  by Living   / The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt   / This I Remember   / On My Own

My Day the Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Column1936-1962  / This Is My Story 

http://www.amazon.com/Dear Mrs Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression

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Letter 14

THE WHITE HOUSE

Washington

April 2, 1937

My dear Mr. Christian: 

Mrs. Roosevelt has asked me to thank you for your letter of March 29th. She was interested to read the poems you attached, and appreciates your kind thought in sending her the samples of your handicraft. She will be very glad to accept the little articles which you mention your are making for her.

Mrs. Roosevelt was glad to hear of the work you are doing and hopes you will continue to be employed along such interesting lines. 

Very truly yours, 

Malvina T. Scheider, 

Secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt  

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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), one of America's great reforming leaders,  had a sustained impact on national policy toward youth, blacks, women, the poor, and the United States. As First Lady she broke many precedents. She initiated weekly press conferences with women reporters, lectured throughout the country, and had her own radio program. Her syndicated newspaper column, "My Day," was published daily for many years. Traveling widely, she served as her husband's eyes and ears and became a major voice in his administration for measures to aid underprivileged and racial minorities.

As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt was an energetic and outspoken representative of the needs of people suffering from the Great Depression. Many of her ideas were incorporated into the New Deal depression. many of her ideas were incorporated into the New Deal Social Welfare Program. During World War II, she expanded her activities to the world stage, working at the United Nations to help found UNICEF and establish the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Later, she was named chairman of the Human Rights Commission, at age 61, was asked to serve, as a delegate to the first meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Eleanor Roosevelt was quoted as saying, "You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give."

In her later years, Mrs. Roosevelt presided over her large family at Val-Kill, her home at Hyde Park. She kept up a voluminous correspondence and a busy social life. "I suppose I should slow down," she said on her 77th birthday. She died the next year, on Nov. 7, 1962, in New York City, and was buried in the rose garden at Hyde park next to her husband. her many books include This Is My Story (1937),  This I Remember  (1949), and On My Own  (1958).