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13
. Eleanor Roosevelt, Diary; Eleanor Roosevelt, press-conference transcript, Nov. 19, 1942; E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
cited (Ch. 16), p. 264.

14
.
London Daily Mail,
Nov. 18, 1942.

15
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 25, 1942.

16
. Chalmers Roberts, “Mrs. Roosevelt's Visit to Britain,” confidential memorandum to Wallace Carroll written at the end of Mrs. Roosevelt's trip.

17
.
London Times,
Oct. 27, 1942.

18
. Handwritten note from Adm. Harold R. Stark to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 27, 1942.

19
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 4, 1942.

20
. E. Roosevelt, Diary; E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 275.

21
. Gallup poll, reported in the
New York Times,
Dec. 9, 1942.

22
. E. Roosevelt, Diary; E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 251; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Nov. 1, 1942.

23
. Stimson, Diary, Nov. 20, 1942.

24
. Letter from Sir Cecil Graves to Gilbert Winant, Dec. 2, 1942.

53. A CONSCIOUSNESS OF COLOR

1
. Letter from Pearl Buck to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 18, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to R. J. Divine, Jan. 29, 1942.

2
. Lash Diaries, Dec. 26, 1941.

3
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Alice Huntington, Jan. 3, 1942; letter from Joseph P. Lash to Trude Pratt, May 31, 1942.

4
. Telegram from Pearl Buck
et al
. to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jan. 16, 1942.

5
. Memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 11, 1942; Eleanor Roosevelt, review of Pearl Buck,
American Unity and Asia
(New York, 1942), in the
New Republic,
Aug. 3, 1942; letter from Pearl Buck to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 29, 1942.

6
. Jane Plimpton was the Vassar student leader; the dinner exchange was reported by the author to Trude Pratt, May 31, 1942.

7
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Gil Harrison, June 23, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. M. Clark, Sept. 18, 1942; Walter White, speech at Madison Square Garden, June 16, 1942.

8
. Robert Hopkins made a copy of his father's memorandum available to Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

9
. Eleanor Roosevelt's comment on the Odell Waller case is quoted here from her letter to A. M. Kroeger, Aug. 20, 1942; Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, with the OCD in New York, described the attitude of the Negro leaders in her letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 8, 1942.

10
. Letter from Pauli Murray to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 23, 1942, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Aug. 3, 1942.

11
. Letter from Malvina Thompson to Steve Early, July 30, 1943; Howard W. Odum, report, “On Trying to Analyze Southern Racial Tensions . . . ,” 1943.

12
. Odum,
op. cit.;
letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Dowling, Dec. 31, 1942; letter from Ruby Black to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 6, 1943; letter from Will Alexander to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 16, 1943.

13
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 1, 1943.

14
.
Louisville Courier-Journal,
July 2, 1943; letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, June 29, 1943.

15
. Warren Brown, “Negro Looks at Negro Press,”
Reader's Digest,
Jan., 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, Jan. 4, 1943, and White's reply, Jan. 11, 1943.

16
. Eleanor Roosevelt, “If I Were a Negro,”
Negro Digest,
Oct., 1943.

17
. Letter from the Rev. Nelson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 30, 1943, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Nov. 11, 1943.

18
.
Amsterdam News,
Nov. 6, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to George Hawkins, Oct. 23, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Pauli Murray, July 26, 1943.

19
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 11, 1943.

20
. Eleanor Roosevelt, unpublished article on Mme. Chiang Kai-shek.

21
. Letter from Trude Pratt, who accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt, to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 1, 1943.

22
. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 1 and 12, 1943.

23
.
Ibid.

24
. Letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, May 30, 1943.

25
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 17, 1943.

26
. Raymond Clapper, in the
New York World-Telegram,
Feb. 20, 1943; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Feb. 18, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 19, 1943.

27
. Letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, March 3, 1943.

28
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
cited (Ch. 16), p. 285.

29
. Harris,
Pearl S. Buck,
cited (Ch. 31), p. 292; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, Feb. 16, 1943.

30
. Harris, pp. 292–93.

31
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 284; interview with Maureen Corr.

32
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 28, 1943; letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash Feb. 24, 1943.

33
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, March 12, 1943; letter from Walter
Judd to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 22, 1943; Joseph Alsop, quoted in Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
cited (Ch. 43), p. 731.

34
. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, March 17, 1943, April 10, 1943, and May 22, 1943.

35
.
Ibid.,
May 21, 1943, and April 22, 1943.

36
. Sherwood, p. 716; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, May 18, 1943.

37
. Letter from Mme. Chiang Kai-shek to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 8, 1943, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, July 26, 1943.

54. GI'S FRIEND, II: THE FIRST LADY AND THE ADMIRAL

1
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Fife, Aug. 5, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 25, 1943.

2
. My account of Mrs. Roosevelt's trip to the South Pacific, unless otherwise noted, is drawn from her diary.

3
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aug. 20, 1943;
Pacific Times,
Aug. 29, 1943.

4
. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Malvina Thompson, Aug. 19, 22, 23, and 25, 1943.

5
. William F. Halsey and J. Bryan,
Admiral Halsey's Story
(New York, 1946), p. 166.

6
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aug. 26, 1943.

7
. Halsey, p. 167.

8
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Malvina Thompson, Sept. 3, 1943; letter from George Durno to Malvina Thompson, undated.

9
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sept. 5, 1943; letter from Nelson T. Johnson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 7, 1943.

10
.
New York Times,
Sept. 6, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Malvina Thompson, Sept. 7, 1943.

11
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Doris Fleeson, Oct. 4, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sept. 6, 1943.

12
. Robert M. White, “A Mother at the Front,” the
Christian Advocate,
Dec. 30, 1943.

13
.
New York Times,
Sept. 12, 1943; letter from Una Merkel to John Golden, April 17, 1944.

14
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Malvina Thompson, Sept. 13, 1943.

15
. Russell Smith in Martins Ferry,
Daily Times Leader,
Nov. 12, 1943.

16
. Letter from Joseph P. Lash to Trude Pratt, Sept. 19, 1943.

17
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Louis Weiss, Sept. 30, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Doris Fleeson, Oct. 4, 1943.

18
. Halsey, pp. 167–68.

19
. Eleanor Roosevelt, press conferences; in Honolulu, Sept. 21, 1943, in San Francisco, Sept. 23, 1943, and in Washington, D.C., Sept. 27, 1943; Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast for war bonds, Sept. 27, 1943.

55. THE 1944 CAMPAIGN

1
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Aug. 26, 1944.

2
.
Ibid.,
Oct. 15, 1943.

3
.
Ibid.,
Oct. 28, 1943.

4
. F. D. Roosevelt,
Public Papers,
cited (Ch. 13), 1943, pp. 466–97; letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, Nov. 2, 1943.

5
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, Jan. 3, 1944.

6
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Roosevelt, in J. Roosevelt and Shalett,
Affectionately, F.D.R.,
cited (Ch. 18), p. 345; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Dec. 5, 1943.

7
. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Dec. 2, 1943, and Jan. 2, 1944; letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, Dec. 19, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 3, 1944; F. D. Roosevelt,
Letters,
cited (Ch. 10), IV, p. 1488.

8
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Jan. 22, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 27, 1944; letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Winston Churchill, March 17, 1943; F. D. Roosevelt,
Letters,
IV, p. 1413; Margaret Fayerweather, “My Diary in the White House,” unpublished MS., in FDRL.

9
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Nov. 11, 1943.

10
.
Ibid
., Feb. 1, 1944.

11
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, press conference, Dec. 28, 1943, reprinted in F. D. Roosevelt,
Public Papers,
1943, pp. 569–75; Eleanor Roosevelt, press conference, reported in the
New York Times,
Jan. 3, 1944; F. D. Roosevelt,
Public Papers,
1944, pp. 80–82; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 24, 1944.

12
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Feb. 12, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, March 2, 1944.

13
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 13, 1944.

14
. Letter from C. L. Maduro to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 20, 1944; letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 5, 1944.

15
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mme. Vargas, March 15, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 17, 1944; “Analysis of Press Comment Prepared in the Office of Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs,” 1944; letter from Cordell Hull to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 3, 1944.

16
. Ross T. McIntire,
White House Physician
(New York, 1946), p. 143; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, March 30, 1944, and April 2, 1944.

17
. McIntire, p. 184; Howard G. Bruenn, “Clinical Nature of Illness and Death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt,”
Annals of Internal Medicine
, vol. 72, April, 1970.

18
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, May 1, 1944.

19
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, April 25, 1944; McIntire, p. 187; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, May 15, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Roosevelt, May 29, 1944.

20
. Letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, May 25, 1944.

21
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, May 19, 1944.

22
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 21, 1944.

23
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, June 16, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, July 4, 1944.

24
. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted; J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 317.

25
. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

26
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Missy LeHand, Feb. 18, 1944.

27
. Letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, July 3, 1944.

28
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Doris Fleeson, May 15, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, April 9, 1944, and May 15, 1944.

29
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, June 6 and 11, 1944, and July 18, 1944.

30
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jonathan Daniels, June 12, 1944.

31
. Memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 16, 1944; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruch, Feb. 22, 1944, and July 4 and 23, 1944; memorandum from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruch, undated; letters from Bernard Baruch to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 11 and 28, 1944; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter Reuther, July 13, 1944, and Aug. 7, 1944; letters from Walter Reuther to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 11, 1944, and Aug. 28, 1944; letter from Harry Hopkins to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 9, 1944, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Aug. 12, 1944.

32
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 27, 1943.

33
. Letter from Prof. Clyde Eagleton to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 20, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 27, 1943.

34
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 5, 1943; interview with Samuel I. Rosenman.

35
. Bernard M. Baruch,
The Public Years
(New York, 1960), p. 359; letter from James Conant to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 30, 1943.

36
. Letter from Irving S. Lowen to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 15, 1944.

37
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 25, 1944; letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Vannevar Bush, March 2, 1944; letter from Vannevar Bush to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 7, 1944.