Dinner Seating Chart.
Dinner Seating Chart
Roosevelt, Eleanor. Dinner Seating Chart. Late November / early December 1913.
3 ¼ x 5 ¼”. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
Roosevelt’s pencil seating chart dating to FDR’s early career, composed by her on the verso of an autograph reply to the dinner party invitation by the Assistant Secretary of War, Breckinridge; on a card printed with their 2139 Wyoming Avenue address is reads, “The Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs. Breckinridge accept with pleasure the kind invitation of The Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Roosevelt to dinner on Saturday, December the sixth at eight o’clock. / November the twenty-seventh.”
Roosevelt’s seating chart places the guests as follows:
Eleanor
Mr. Harriman Mr. Walsh
Mrs. Welsh Langdon
Mr. Winter Lonkie
Helen Mr. Pass[ ]
Harry Liddy
Mrs. Winter Mrs. Harriman
FDR
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