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Dear First Lady : letters to the White House : from the collections of the Library of Congress & National Archives / [compiled and edited] by Dwight Young and Margaret Johnson.

Title
Dear First Lady : letters to the White House : from the collections of the Library of Congress & National Archives / [compiled and edited] by Dwight Young and Margaret Johnson.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Johnson, Margaret, 1949 March 15-
  • Young, Dwight.
Description
207 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.
Summary
Collects letters, some of which appear as full-size facsimiles, written over the centuries to America's first ladies by ordinary citizens and famous figures, and includes historical information to illuminate the writer's concerns and ideas.
Subject
  • American letters
  • Presidents' spouses > United States > Correspondence
Genre/Form
Records and correspondence.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Martha Washington -- Abigail Adams -- Dolley Madison -- Jane Pierce -- Harriet Lane -- Mary Todd Lincoln -- Eliza Johnson -- Julia Grant -- Lucretia Garfield -- Caroline Harrison -- Frances Cleveland -- Ida McKinley -- Edith Roosevelt -- Helen Taft -- Ellen Wilson -- Edith Wilson -- Florence Harding -- Grace Coolidge -- Lou Hoover -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Bess Truman -- Mamie Eisenhower -- Jacqueline Kennedy -- Lady Bird Johnson -- Pat Nixon -- Betty Ford -- Rosalynn Carter -- Nancy Reagan -- Barbara Bush -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Laura Bush.
ISBN
  • 9781426200878 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1426200870 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007045186
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library