CORRESPONDENCE,, 1920-1959

Summary: Incoming and outgoing correspondence. The bulk of the letters consists of congratulations on election, appointments, honors, and responses to these. Other correspondence relates to public projects Mary Norton was involved in, e.g. the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital extension, the Lanham Child Care bill, Federal Works projects as well as the publication of her memoirs. Included are telegrams, birthday cards, get well cards and invitations. Also included are typed letters signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1928-1945), Eleanor Roosevelt (1940-1959), and Harry Truman (1946-1952). The letters from the Roosevelts and Truman are brief, mainly acknowledgements of congratulations and messages of support.