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1. James’s handwritten diary entry is displayed in the museum at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.
2. The conflict between Sara and James is described in James Roosevelt and Sidney Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R. 34 (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1959).
3. Warren Delano’s comments are from letters to his son Warren III, in the Delano Family Papers, FDRL.
4. Sara Roosevelt diary, March 19, 1882, FDRL. A facsimile of Sara’s entry is reproduced in Rita Halle Kleeman, Gracious Lady 129 (New York: D. Appleton– Century, 1935).
5. Warren Delano to Warren Delano III, FDRL.
6. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, The Statistical History of the United States from Colonial Times to the Present 7, 23, 57 (Stamford, Conn.: Fairfield Publishers, 1965); B. R. Mitchell, European Historical Statistics, 1750–1970 85, 89 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975).
7. GDP (in millions of 1990 Geary-Khamis dollars):
1870 1882
France 71,419 89,167
Germany 44,101 55,126
United Kingdom 95,651 122,459
United States 98,418 177,153
Source: Angus Maddison, Monitoring the World Economy, 1820– 1992 180, 182 (Paris: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1995).
8. Statistical History of the United States 207, 212, 369, 416–417.
9. Franklin D. Roosevelt, untitled, undated reminiscences dictated at the White House, FDRL.
10. SDR, My Boy Franklin 44–46.
11. Mittie Roosevelt to Elliott Roosevelt, June 7, 1882, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, FDRL. Mittie’s emphasis.
12. Rita Halle Kleeman, untitled notes, FDRL.
13. Sara was an indefatigable journal keeper and recorded daily events at Algonac and Springwood with clipped precision. This was a trait bred into the Delanos, who seemed to believe everything that happened to them was noteworthy. Yet for some reason Sara destroyed her journals for the years 1884 to 1887. No one knows why. Various authors suggest that evidence of marital stress might have found its way into the diaries and Sara chose to obliterate it. See Geoffrey C. Ward, Before the Trumpet 124–125 (New York: Harper & Row, 1985); also see Nona Ferdon, “Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Psychological Interpretation of His Childhood and Youth” (Ph.D. thesis, University of Hawaii, 1971).
14. SDR, My Boy Franklin 6.
15. FDR to Jeanne Rosat-Sandoz, March 31, 1933, FDRL.
16. FDR to SDR, 1888. 1 The Roosevelt Letters: Being the Personal Correspondence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 30, Elliott Roosevelt, ed. (London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1949). A facsimile copy of FDR’s letter is reproduced between pages 128 and 129.
17. SDR, My Boy Franklin 33.
18. Ibid. 20–21. The president’s son Elliott wrote, “In some sense of the word, [FDR] had no father, only a man old enough to be his grandfather, who, no matter how hard he tried, could not keep up with his growing son.” Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park 35 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973).
19. FDR to JR, June 7, 1890. 1 Roosevelt Letters 32.
20. Ward, Before the Trumpet 140.
21. Kleeman, Gracious Lady 151–152. Germanic was not only the newest but the fastest ship on the North Atlantic run and won the Blue Riband for record transatlantic crossings three times. In February 1899 the vessel sank in New York harbor, covered with 1,800 tons of ice accumulated during a severe North Atlantic storm. She was raised and refitted, sailed under a number of flags, and after seventy-five years of service was scrapped at Messina, Sicily, in October 1950.
22. Kleeman, Gracious Lady 144.
23. Ibid. 146.
24. SDR, My Boy Franklin 4.
25. Kleeman, Gracious Lady 138.
26. The Philadelphia Record, April 6, 1913.
27. SDR, My Boy Franklin 7. “His father felt that an only son should not choose a profession which would take him so much away from home,” said Eleanor. Autobiography 47 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961).
28. Ernest K. Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Career in Progressive Democracy 47 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931).
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