My Days.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. My Days. New York: Dodge Publishing Company, (1938).
8vo.; frontispiece of Eleanor Roosevelt; orange cloth stamped in blue; white, blue and red dust-jacket lightly worn at edges.
First edition of the first collection of the “My Day” newspaper columns Eleanor began writing in January 1936. A presentation copy, inscribed to Marguerite LeHand: Missy dear With love Eleanor Roosevelt. Nicknamed “Missy,” LeHand was President Roosevelt’s personal secretary and close companion from the early 1920s until her death in 1944. She served a sort of substitute-First-Lady role at the White House, acting as hostess at dinners or teas when the Eleanor was away. LeHand accompanied the Roosevelts to Hyde Park on more than one occasion, and was indispensable as a secretary and confidante. According to Cook, “Eleanor Roosevelt always treated Missy LeHand with warmth and protective affection, and seemed to favor her as an elder daughter or, in the manner of the Asian matriarchs, as a junior wife” (Cook, p. 285).
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Roosevelt, Eleanor. My Days. New York: Dodge Publishing Company, (1938).
8vo.; frontispiece of Eleanor Roosevelt; offsetting at preliminaries; orange cloth stamped in blue; white, blue, and red dust-jacket, quite worn.
First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed to her daughter and son-in-law Anna and John Boettiger: To dearest Anna & John who are always an inspiration to their Mother Eleanor Roosevelt. John Boettiger was Anna’s second husband. At the time of publication, Anna and John were both editors at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, owned by William Randolph Hearst; John was the publisher, and Anna (appropriately for this presentation) was the associate editor responsible for women’s issues.
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