Women’s Political History Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1952 Letter During Her United Nations Service

Eleanor Roosevelt

Manuscript & Autographs

Roosevelt, Eleanor typed letter signed, dated May 22, 1952, records Eleanor Roosevelt’s continuing public correspondence during her final year as a United States delegate to the United Nations, supporting research into women’s diplomatic leadership, postwar human rights work, and the public responsibilities she carried after the White House. Roosevelt had been appointed to the United States delegation to the United Nations in 1945 and served on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, whose work placed her at the center of postwar international human-rights policy.

Roosevelt, Eleanor. Typed Letter Signed to Mr. Leiser. New York: Eleanor Roosevelt, 1952. May 22, 1952. 1 page. Written on Roosevelt’s personal letterhead listing the Park Sheraton Hotel as her address, the letter responds to a missed deadline for requested material: “Your letter did not reach me in time to send you the material you asked for by the 22nd.” Roosevelt adds, “I have asked the Labor Department to send you the information,” before closing, “I appreciate your kind words” and signing boldly in deep blue fountain pen ink, “Very sincerely yours, Eleanor Roosevelt.”

The letter belongs to Roosevelt’s post-First Lady career, when her public authority extended across labor, social welfare, internationalism, and human rights. Its brief contents do not identify the requested material, but the reference to the Labor Department places the exchange within the administrative and reform networks that shaped her public work in the early Cold War period. Dark brown dot in upper right corner; near fine. Concise signed correspondence from Roosevelt’s 1952 public life, linking her personal office to federal information channels during the last year of her U.N. appointment.

Item #16291

Price: $480.00