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October 22, 2009 by Kristie Miller Leave a Comment

Between 1904 and 1953, Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway wrote enough letters to create “a volume of friendship,” as Isabella called their correspondence – approximately three hundred letters over fifty years.

Putting these letters between the covers of an actual book was an absorbing project for me and co-editor Robert H. McGinnis.

We transcribed the letters, put them in order, looked up names and places and phrases that were unfamiliar to us, and finally wrote a narrative to connect them all.

The work was not inconsiderable, but nothing about it was especially hard.

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Filed Under: women's history Tagged With: eleanor roosevelt, isabella greenway, kristie miller, robert h. mcginnis, volume of friendship

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University Press of Kansas
(October 15, 2010)
360 pages
$34.95
ISBN: 978-0700617371

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