Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
55 East 74th Street
New York City 21, N. Y.
August 16, 1960
Dear Senator:
I want to thank you for coming to see me at Hyde Park last Sunday. It certainly was a
busy day for you, but I am very grateful for the chance you gave me for this talk.
I had been asked to report to several people on our talk and I thought you would like to
know what I said to Mary Lasker. I enclose a copy of my letter to her. A similar letter has gone
to Ruth Field, and I have reported verbally to Agnes Meyer, Anna Rosenberg and Mr. Bob
Benjamin who came in to see me after spending the evening with you and some of the business
men, and who is planning to raise some money for your cause here in New York. He counts on
the above mentioned ladies to help in his smallish money raising dinner which he hopes to have
in September.
Franklin will tell me how you felt about our time together and what you would
really like me to do. In the meantime, I will be at a press conference tomorrow
for the NY Citizens Committee, and I will speak to a group of workers in the
Citizens Committee in the Bronx at the invitation of Robert Morgenthau, who
is in charge of the Committee in the Bronx, before the 22nd when I go abroad.
I will be home the evening of September 14th, and I would be grateful if before I leave
you could ask Franklin, Jr. to tell me if there is anything outside of this state that you really need
me to do.
If you possibly can, I think it would be wise to call Anna Rosenberg before she leaves for
Europe on August 22nd and ask for her help. She will be twice as anxious to work for you if she
feels that you personally have contacted her and consider her help important.
With my good wishes,
Very sincerely yours,
Eleanor Roosevelt
Southport, Conn.
Clearwater 9-1668
