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absolutely secret. I never murmured to anybody that I ever heard about her life with Mrs. Price Collier, or anything else. It never would have occurred to me. When Corinne Alsop used to say to me, “Poor little Eleanor. I remember her in the old days,” I never said anything. Corinne Alsop said it, I know, to put her in my eyes in the group of the less fortunate among us. It always made me angry, but I still never said, “What did her sisters, her cousins and her aunts do to her?” I was very careful.

As a child the Oyster Bay Roosevelts all referred to her as “Poor Eleanor,” quite consciously. I think that Theodore Roosevelt, who was a brother to her father; Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, who was a nice, kind woman; Corinne Alsop, who was another cousin, all referred to her that way. You can't put Alice Roosevelt in the same class with them. She's in a class by herself. She has a different motivation in life than the others. But even Mrs. Price Collier used to refer to her as “Poor Eleanor,” and she was her favorite aunt.

Here was this little girl left a half-orphan with a drunken father. Then her father died. So that she was an orphan when she was a little girl. Before that she had had the problem of her father who wasn't tolerable. She had prognathous teeth. She grew very rapidly and she was very