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.