Letter from Harry S. Truman to Eleanor Roosevelt

HET-45 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON February 6, 1947 Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: This is to acknowledge your telegram of February fourth. Pardon me for not having made earlier acknowledg- ment of your second letter of resignation for membership on the President's Commission on Higher Education. I appreciate how full your schedule is and hesitate to add to your burden of work. I can readily understand how difficult it is for you to attend meetings of the Commission. May I ask you to continue your membership with a very distinct understanding that you will not be expected to attend meetings while your work on the Human Rights Commission continues, nor even later, except on such occasions as are entirely convenient to you. When the usual notifications of meetings of the Commission on Education reach you, Miss Thompson can receive them with this under- standing, and such notices will not even require an acknowledgment. Quite frankly, I would like to have the prestige which your name gives to the Education Commission and I know Dr. Steelman feels the same way about it. I hope you an.continue your membership under these condations. Very sincerely, yours, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Apartment 15-A, 29 Washington Square, liest, New York 11, New York. reate