Title
Carbon Copy of Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to F. H. Osborn
Date
April 7, 1942.
Description
Some military officers did not approve of providing books and libraries to American troops. When Norman Cousins mentioned some of the hardships the Victory Book Campaign encountered with the Army, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to Brigadier General Frederick Osborn to arrange a meeting. Osborn, who headed the Army’s “Special Services Division,” supervised library service. Mrs. Roosevelt endorsed Cousins’ belief that the Army needed a branch “to be run intelligently to provide books.”
Source
From the Collection of Molly Guptill Manning