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

Text Authorship:

• by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), written 1944 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Stacy Garrop (b. 1969), "An Anonymous Letter" [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from In Eleanor’s Words, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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