In Eleanor’s Words

Song Cycle by Stacy Garrop (b. 1969)

1. The Newspaper Column
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Language: English 
Washington, September 8, 1936
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excerpted from Eleanor Roosevelt’s My Day columns

3. An Anonymous Letter
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Language: English 
Westbrook, Connecticut, October 30, 1944. 
I can hardly believe it, but I have received an anonymous letter which says nothing 
but pleasant things. That has never happened to me before. 
Both the letter and the verse accompanying it are very kindly meant, 
and certainly helped to do the thing the writer wished to do.
She says: “Even Mrs. Roosevelt must need morale lifting too.”
Sometimes I do, so many thanks to an unknown friend

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excerpted from Eleanor Roosevelt’s My Day columns
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4. The Supreme Power
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Language: English 
Paris, December 10, 1948. 
I would have been delighted to see in the preamble a paragraph 
alluding to the Supreme Power. I knew very well, however, there were
many men around the table who would violently be opposed to naming God,
and I did not want it put to a [roll call] because I thought for those of us who are
Christians it would be rather difficult to have God defeated in a vote.

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Total word count: 451