In that light, I'd like to point out that Mr. Roosevelt and the Delano and Roosevelt families and their relatives were a very close-knit family group and exchanged letters constantly and, when they weren't writing each other, they were visiting each other. The President's mother kept a diary. The President kept a diary at Harvard. The Delano family kept a household journal at Algonac. Because of these family papers, it has been possible for me to record the day by day early life of the President before he entered into public life. As I have stated before, these unpublished sources are listed in my appendix volume. I merely repeat this because the good people who brought out the Lincoln chronology had no such material with which to work. It is, however, an important precedent that a chronology was published by act of Congress some 12 years after I myself set to work on my chronicle. A few years ago I began to think of 1982 as the centennial year of Mr. Roosevelt's birthday and also the 50th year of his first election to the Presidency. I set about putting all my files in order and three years ago I asked the then Archivist of the United States, Dr. James B. Rhoads, if he would examine some of the work. He did so here in Washington and December 27, 1976, he wrote me a letter which contains some personal remarks. The first paragraph reads as follows: "I certainly enjoyed the opportunity to visit with you on your birthday and to review portions of "The Days of Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Chronicle.” It is a most impressive and valuable work, which, as I indicated to you, would prove to be an important addition to the holdings of the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park." I would like to put this letter, personal remarks and all, into the Record. (Parenthetically, I would like to note that the joint resolution before you calls for the work when finished to be deposited in the Library of Congress. I hope this can be amended so that it can go to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.) I did not ask Mrs. Roosevelt to give me testimonial letters for my records but I do recall the time when she reviewed my last revision; she said quietly: "This is the sort of memorial my husband would have liked." Obviously, I cannot say what President Roosevelt would have liked, but I do know he himself was something of a writer. We have a list of 41 articles and essays and historical brochures he wrote during the years before he became President. He wrote many prefaces to books whose subjects pleased him-Hudson River Valley histories, navy histories, whaling ship histories, and the like. He graduated from Harvard in 1903 but he was elected president of the Harvard Crimson so he stayed on in 1904 because he was excited by the job. I once remarked about this fact of Mr. Roosevelt to one of his former Cabinet officers and he h'rmphed and said, "That's nothing. So did I. Anybody can graduate from Harvard in 3 years." If you read his fireside chats, you will find the same comfortable meter and the same simple but informative choice of words in all of them. He had many men in Government sending him memos and drafts of his speeches but the fireside chats, the inaugurals, his public speeches carry the same style. They obviously came from the hand of one man. I feel my work reflects the man: It is outsize but it is easy and comfortable with no frills and flourishes as was the President's Hudson River home, his farm, the boats in which he sailed-and, above all, the manner in which he reported to his fellow Americans. I understand that the total U.S. Government printing obligations for the next year call for a sum of over $4 billion. I feel my life of President Roosevelt is worth being added to such a budget. Money will not get out a book but it certainly will help. Those of you, such as Senator Pell and Senator Hatfield, who have had books published know there are always the final things that are necessary such as proofreading and indexing and there's always the wait at the very end for the binder to finish his job. 1982 is very close at hand thinking in publishing terms. I know there are many grave and urgent affairs before this committee of great national importance but if as publishers you say, "Let's get the book out," then time is really as important as money. The joint resolution before you allows for help from people already employed in the various agencies of our government. This is a great aid to the production of this work as there are many good people in our agencies whom I know would be delighted to go to work collecting the material that should be added to the existing work. Such people are not easily available to private publishers. I now would like to introduce our guest and my witness-Dr. William Emerson. After Dr. Rhoads, the Archivist, wrote me in 1976, he also wrote Dr. Emerson, the director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Hyde Park Library of the National Archives and asked him to come to my home and review my Roosevelt work. Dr. Emerson did upon more than one occasion and besides admiring him as a scholar, I have enjoyed his erudition and his company as a friend. He served in the Army Air Force in the Mediterranean theater during the Second World War; after that he graduated from Yale University and after he completed his doctorate in history at Oxford University in 1952. After a distinguished career in teaching and academic administration, he went to the Roosevelt Library in 1974. An acknowledged Roosevelt scholar in his own right he is by virtue of his position at the center of Roosevelt studies. Mrs. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, New York, N.Y., November 14, 1952. DEAR MR. LORENTZ: I am very much impressed by the amount of work that has gone into the chronicle of my husband's life. It is fascinating to see it set against a background of events in the United States and in the world. I think historically it is going to be a very valuable document to all those who may, as historians, want to work on this period of history. With the pictures it will also be enormously interesting to the average reader. I hope the publishers whom you visit will feel as I do. (Signed) ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. JOHN F. FLEMING, INC.. New York, N.Y., November 13, 1979. Mr. PARE LORENTZ, 19-21 Whippoorwill Road, Armonk, N.Y. DEAR MR. LORENTZ. I am enclosing herewith a physical description of your work "The Days of Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Chronicle" and "The Life and Times of Franklin D. Roosevelt", which concerns world happenings during the lifetime of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The former is written on 936 large quarto pages and comprises 291,542 words. The latter is written on 2,782 large quarto pages. Added to this are 31 volumes of research manuals, which are listed on the enclosed pages. I have examined these works and believe them to be one of the most complete records ever written of anyone's life in history. If you would like a further analysis of the significance of this work I shall be glad to oblige you. Sincerely yours, A MANUSCRIPT INVENTORY JOHN F. FLEMING. "THE DAYS OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: A CHRONICLE" The day by day Chronical is in three typewritten volumes. Volume I: Beginning January 30, 1882, and going to January 1, 1910, there are 293 pages and approximately 88,486 words in this volume. Volume II: Beginning January 1, 1910, and going to January 1, 1933, there are 237 pages and approximately 73,470 words in this volume. Volume III: Beginning January 1, 1933, and going to April 12, 1945, there are 246 pages and approximately 81,426 words in this volume. Volume IV: The appendix. There is, of course, no index as yet. There are 160 pages and approximately 48,160 words in this volume. The contents are as follows: Franklin D. Roosevelt genealogy. Unpublished sources. Bibliography. Bibliography of articles. Bibliography of Franklin D. Roosevelt as an author. Letter from Pare Lorentz to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (11/14/52). Dramatis personae. Members of Democratic National Committee from Cleveland, Wilson and Cabinet and Assistant Cabinet officers in Woodrow Wilson's administration. Members of New York State Democratic Committee in F. D. R.'s time from New York State executive appointees 1948-32 when F. D. R. was Governor. "THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT" There are seven volumes of these counterpoint typewritten 13" x 81⁄2" pages. All the day by day records of President Roosevelt in the chronicle are repeated but alongside and on facing pages are three concomitant entries: "U.S.-General." "U.S.-Other Nations." "Foreign Events." Volume I: 1882-1910. There are 294 pages. These volumes are to be used as periodic summaries of national and international events that took place during the lifetime of President Roosevelt so as to provide important perorations in the text and to provide a sense of his time and place in the history not only of the Nation, but of the world. There is a duplicate set of the master three-volume copies of the chronicle and there is one complete set of the second revision of the seven counterpoint volumes as well as the master copies of the work described above. RESEARCH MANUALS These typewritten manuals provide the basis for most of the facts recorded in the counterpoint volumes. There are 31 volumes (including a few revised duplicates) most of which include facts or legislation or events during the years 1882-1945. They are as follows: Agriculture (2 volumes) 73 pages. Aviation (2 volumes) 117 pages. Culture 118 pages. Defense (2 volumes) 131 pages. Economics (3 volumes) 351 pages. Foreign affairs (2 volumes) 210 pages. Foreign events (2 volumes) 172 pages. Groups and associations (3 volumes) 98 pages. Labor (3 volumes) 302 pages. Legislation (3 volumes) 155 pages. Miscellaneous (3 volumes) 264 pages. Science and medicine (3 volumes) 110 pages. PARE LORENTZ. JOHN F. FLEMING, INC., Mr. PARE LORENTZ, 19-21 Whippoorwill Road, Armonk, N.Y. DEAR MR. LORENTZ: My qualifications as a rare book and manuscript expert began in 1925 at the Rosenbach Co., and I later became an assistant to Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach. In 1940 I became manager of their New York office, and in 1944 vice president of the Rosenbach Co. The Rosenbach Co. was the largest and most famous book dealer in the world all during that time. They dealt in material from the 10th century to the 20th century, and on the death of the Rosenbachs I succeeded the business and have continued along the same lines ever since. I have handled during my career many many millions of dollars worth of literary and historical books and manuscripts. If a more detailed analysis is needed I shall be glad to furnish it. Sincerely yours, JOHN F. FLEMING. JOHN F. FLEMING, INC., New York, N.Y., December 7, 1979. Mr. PARE LORENTZ, 19-21 Whippoorwill Road, Armonk, N.Y. DEAR MR. LORENTZ: To further elaborate upon my qualifications as an expert on the valuation of books and manuscripts: (1) I have in the past appraised the library of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., the first part of which was sold at Christie's in London, last June, for $3 million, $1 million of which was purchased by me. (2) The New York Journal American Archives, which contained material from 1900 to 1960. (3) The Rosenbach Foundation, the contents of which extend from 1400 to 1930. (4) Contributions made over the last ten years to the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Ben Grauer Library. (5) Appraisals on various occasions for the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, the University of Illinois, Chicago, Texas at Austin, Wyoming, the Louis H. Silver Library, and countless other institutions, universities, private collections, and so forth. I have purchased at auction and sold over the past twenty years many manuscripts and books of the highest quality by authors of the 20th century. I am a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America; the American Bibliographical Society; the English Bibliographical Society; the International Bibliographical Society; Secretary and Treasurer of the Shakespeare Association of America 1949-1972; member of the Grolier Club of New York; Life Fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library and Life Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum; member of the Council of Friends of the Columbia University Library; Friends of the Library of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Indiana, San Francisco, Illinois; Pintard Fellow of the New York Historical Society, and so forth. In all my experience of appraising historical and literary material, I believe Mr. Lorentz's work on the day to day life of Franklin D. Roosevelt to be one of the most profound compilations ever made, certainly of any American. Sincerely yours, JOHN F. FLEMING. NEIKRUG PHOTOGRAPHICA, LTD., PARE LORENTZ, 19-21 Whippoorwill Road, Armonk, N.Y. DEAR MR. LORENTZ: Having been retained by you June 21, 1979, for the purpose of reviewing and appraising your work "The Days of Franklin D. Roosevelt," a chronicle which is copyrighted in your name. (Copy of inventory attached.) A. 5,627 photographs covering every year of Franklin D. Roosevelt's life and including several folders of pictorial material on F. D. R.'s ancestors in Europe and this country. B. There are substantiation folders with a description of where the prints were obtained. There are index files alphabetically from A to Z which describe the black-and-white photographs and indicate the folders in the files which identify the source of the photographs listed on the cards. C. There is one card file listing pertinent photographs taken by U.S. Government photographers mainly the Farm Security Administration group, numbered from 1 to 2,156. These cards list the subject matter, the photographer and the negative numbers. D. There is also a card index "F. D. R. Bibliography of Photographic Collections." This card file includes a list of city, state and regional sources of photo graphs, drawings and cartoons covering the years from 1882 to 1945 and lists also some private collectors of special items. At your request I am here with presenting credentials to support my position as an expert for the purpose of appraising the above described collection. American Society of Appraisers-senior member, presently, vice president, past. treasurer, 4 years. American Arbitration Association-panel of arbitrators. Society of Photographic Education-board member, treasurer. Photographic Administrators Inc.-board member, program chairman. New York Historical Society. New England Historical Society. Industrial Photographers Association of New York. For any further information please do not hesitate to call upon me. MARJORIE NEIKRUG, Mr. LORENTZ. I think that it is not only appropriate to have the data of the chronology of the Roosevelt life. I did not ask her to write this to me, but once Mrs. Roosevelt was reviewing my last copy, and she said "this is the sort of memorial my husband would have liked." Mr. Roosevelt himself was a writer. I know that when he graduated from Harvard in 1903, he was elected president of the Harvard Crimson. So he stayed over a year because he was enjoying being president of the Harvard Crimson. We have a list of the articles and brochures that he wrote, and if you read all his fireside chats, his speeches, his inaugurals, you will see the hand of one man. He had many people handing him memos and speeches, but you will find simple language, and the same good, sturdy meter in his writings, in all of the things that he said to the American public. I think my work reflects the man. It is outsize, easy, comfortable, there are no frills, no flourishes, as was the President's Hudson River home, his farm, the boats in which he sailed, and above all, the manner in which he reported to his fellow Americans. I understand that the total U.S. Government printing obligations for the next year call for a sum of over $4 billion. I feel my life of President Roosevelt is worth being added to such a budget. Money will not get out a book, but it certainly will help. But, those of you, such as Senator Pell and Senator Hatfield, who have had books published know there are always the final things that are necessary, such as proofreading, and indexing, and then there is always the wait for the binder to finish his job. 1982 is very close at hand. The work can be done with men of good will, and fortunately, Joint Resolution 116 calls for participation by personnel already in Government service, and there are many first class people I know of in various Government agencies, where things would be appropriate to be included, to be examined, and that is very useful, and something the ordinary commercial publisher would not be able to quickly find and afford. Could I engage in one maudlin personal ancedote? The CHAIRMAN. Please. Mr. LORENTZ. In 1939, I promised my boss, who was head of the National Security Council, that I would have my new movie ready to show the President on New Year's Eve. We arrived on New Year's |