Reminiscences of Marion Dickerman : oral history, 1971.

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Reminiscences of Marion Dickerman : oral history, 1971.

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World War I; friendship with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; Todhunter School; Valkill Industries; Alfred E. Smith; opposition to Tammany Hall; Democratic conventions, 1924-32; reminiscences of Hyde Park, Campobello, Warm Springs; Eleanor Roosevelt: childhood, interest in women's suffrage and West Virginia mine workers, travels in Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois; 74th Congress, 1935-36; visiting royalty; international conferences; death of President Roosevelt; of Mrs. Roosevelt; recollections of Roosevelt children, Louis Howe, Sumner Welles, Marguerite Le Hand, Harry Hopkins, and many others.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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