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Letter from Elizabeth Webb to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Elizabeth Webb asks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for financial help. She is a widow with a “delicate” daughter who was unable to secure service work in London. Webb has let out her house and now would like to live in it again. She is trying to keep up appearances for the sake of her daughter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-06-07

Creator(s)

Webb, Elizabeth

Rescued? Nothing doing in the mercy line from the Bluebeard of bankruptcy

Bluebeard, wearing a hat labeled “Bankruptcy” and holding in his raised left hand a clock labeled “Obligations,” holds a sword in his right hand and confronts a woman labeled “Railroads” who begs for mercy, just as a knight labeled “Increased Freight Rates” enters from the left.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-12-17

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956