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Article about the dresses designed for Theodore Roosevelt Jr.’s fiancee, Eleanor Butler Alexander, by the fashion designer Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon. A typed note under the article in the scrapbook says the accounts of Eleanor’s trousseau in the papers annoyed her mother, Grace Green Alexander, who felt their privacy was being invaded.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-06-15
Anna Roosevelt Cowles encloses a letter from John Tilson, speaker of the Connecticut legislature, which outlines matters pertaining to the political situation in Connecticut, especially regarding Senator Frank S. Butterworth. Cowles believes President Roosevelt should ask another newspaper man if Tilson’s opinion is worth anything. She also informs Roosevelt that Viscountess Marion Bryce has given her letters from sisters Elinor Glyn and Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, who hope to be presented at an event. She asks how they can be presented with the least importance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-07