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Document 27643

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. TLS: "Eleanor Roosevelt" as First Lady, 1p, 6x9¼. The White House, Washington, 1942 May 28. To Mr. Castorino, in full: "Miss Ilma tells me that you like to be called Tom, but as this is my first letter I feel a little bit shy about doing so. Miss Ilma has asked the members of the board if they will write to a few of the boys in the Services, saying that you like to get letters and packages now and then. I am very glad to do so and I hope that I shall get to know you better and if you will write me of your interests and what you like to do and the kind of things you would like to have sent you, I can be more intelligent. I notice that you are working in a station hospital, and I wonder if that means that you are in the Medical Corps? Camp Eustis might mean that you would sometime get a chance to be in Washington, and if that happens, I hope you will let me know as I should like to have a chance to meet you as it is easier to write to people once you have met them. I hope you get on well in the army and that you will write me." During World War II, FBI Director dubbed First Lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT "Rover" because she traveled so much. She visited U.S. military bases to help raise the morale of the men. Mrs. Roosevelt visited the battlefront (in a Red Cross uniform), ate with the soldiers in their mess halls and spent countless hours in hospital wards. Upon her return back to the White House, she would call families of soldiers she had met or write to them. VIOLA ILMA was Executive Director of the Young Men's Vocational Foundation. Mrs. Roosevelt was a member of the board of the foundation. CAMP EUSTIS (now Fort Eustis) is about 15 miles south of Williamsburg, Virginia. It was established as a permanent military base in 1923. In 1931, the Army vacated Fort Eustis and the Department of Justice took over and established a prison camp for 200 short-term federal prisoners. In 1936, the Virginia Works Progress Administration and National Youth Administration took over the property. After World War II began in Europe, Fort Eustis was reactivated on January 24, 1941. Slightly soiled. Fine condition. Framed in Gallery of History style: 20¾x18¾.

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