Estate documents: correspondence, wills, family material.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Estate Files
with correspondence and contracts
Nine accordion folders and two nine- by twelve-inch envelopes; 1945-1970s (bulk 1960s-70s).
Correspondence and signed and/or annotated documents:
Approximately sixteen typed letters and notes signed by AER to her family, attorney, and a handful of others; ca. 1947-62; content includes detailed burial instructions as well as other arrangements involving estate appraisals and her will.
Approximately a dozen typed documents signed by AER; includes legal memoranda, transfers of title, literary contracts, and her signed Social Security card; most ca.1955-57.
Several typed letter carbons from AER and a handful of documents annotated by her.
Provenance: By descent to Irene Aitken.
Contents
1. ER Correspondence 2
ER to Elliott Roosevelt 2
ER to Harry Hooker 2
ER to Others 3
2. Family correspondence 3
3. Literary and recording contracts 4
4. Legal Documents and correspondence 5
5. Financial records 6
(6. John A. Roosevelt) 7
ER Correspondence
Estate of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt [accordion folder]
ER correspondence: Over a dozen TLS, TNS, and TDs, “Eleanor Roosevelt,” “Anna Eleanor Roosevelt,” and “ER,” 1947-62. With photocopies of her will and of FDR’s will as printed in the New York Times; as follows:
ER to Elliott Roosevelt
Three TLS, 1947-51:
Typed letter signed, “Anna Eleanor Roosevelt,” to Elliott, August 18, 1947; 8vo.; one leaf of personal stationery bearing the address of the Park Sheraton Hotel, recto only; two holes punched to top margin for filing; creased where folded for mailing; gifting him all “files, documents, papers and memoranda of every kind” but for This Is My Story, which she has gifted her daughter; and detailing his management of the rights.
Typed letter signed, “Anna Eleanor Roosevelt,” to Elliott, August 18, 1947; 4to.; one leaf of plain paper, recto only; two holes punched to top margin for filing; creased where folded for mailing; text identical to the letter above.
Typed letter signed, “Anna Eleanor Roosevelt,” to Elliott, March 2, 1951; 4to.; one leaf of plain paper, recto only; two holes punched to top margin for filing; creased where folded for mailing; signed again as “approved” by Anna Roosevelt; clarifying “the nature of my gift to my daughter Anna of the original manuscript of This is My Story which I referred to in my letter to you of August 18, 1947…”
One typed document signed, 1957:
Typed document signed, “Elliott Roosevelt,” and signed again as “approved” by Eleanor Roosevelt, April 15, 1957; 4to.; one leaf of plain paper, recto only; reverting all title to her correspondence, files, documents, papers and memoranda of every kind back to her (i.e. reversing her 1947 letter to Elliott). With carbon document, also signed by both. Note: see also accordion folder marked Estate of AER / Literary and Recording Contracts for a signed carbon of this document.
ER to Harry Hooker
Seven TLS and TNS, 1955-62:
Typed letter signed, “E.R.,” to Harry [Hooker], June 6, 1955; small 8vo.; one leaf of Eleanor Roosevelt’s personal stationery bearing 211 East 62nd Street address, recto only; two holes punched to top margin for filing; autograph postscript; thanking him for his letter of the third. She writes, “All the arrangements you are making are fine and I am deeply appreciative of the care you are taking in working them out.”
Typed note signed, “Eleanor Roosevelt,” to Harry; [n.d.; 1955?]; 4to.; one leaf of plain paper, recto only; two holes punched to top margin for filing. In full: “Memo to Harry Hooker: A small sum of money to be put into the will for Lorena Hickok if she survives me, and also for Ellie Elliot. $1,000 to each.”
Typed letter signed, “Eleanor R.,” to Harry, April 28, 1957; small 8vo.; one leaf of personal stationery bearing East 62nd Street address, recto only; two holes punched to top margin for filing; regard
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