India and the Awakening East.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. India and the Awakening East. New York: Harper and Brothers, (1953).
8vo.; endpapers foxed; brown cloth with black cloth spine; dust-jacket worn, stained.
First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed: To Johnny Boettiger with love from Grandmere who took the trip & is also the author Eleanor Roosevelt. John Roosevelt Boettiger Jr., one of Eleanor’s thirteen grandchildren, was the older of Anna’s two children from her second marriage. (She also had two children with her first husband, Curtis Dall.) According to This I Remember, “Johnny” figured prominently in the domestic drama surrounding the final weeks and death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Anna went with her father to Yalta, but upon her return found “her little boy seriously ill with a gland infection for which he had to have penicillin;” Eleanor writes in the book that the boy’s condition persisted, and Anna stayed with him at the Naval Hospital in Washington instead of accompanying FDR to Warm Springs, Georgia, where the former president died of a massive stroke on April 10, 1945.
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