Show Presidents President's Mother Finds Diary to A Aid id in inI I W Writing ri ting Biography NEW EW YORK Aug 1 UP A A half forgotten diary has come to light to tom fill m a tap in Mrs Airs James Roosevelt's forthcoming biography Gracious Lady Rita Halle Kleeman who has written the book told today how the mother of Franklin D D. Roosevelt rc- rc her diary which bridged the theIn thein theIn thc the from In In between years years' years thc years her tier marriage to the day her son I became president dI know know know-I I believe bellevo I You OU kept a a. diary diary- J So we found her diary for 30 years said the biographer with all the notations of what she didI did didI didI I discovered the Delano family had kept diaries for a century continued Mrs Kleeman who sailed for Tor a R vacation in Europe after correcting correcting cor cor- rc the page proofs Most of them were were at Algonac the hc Delano estate near Newburg Newburgh N. N Y and I had access to them when I gathered material I T had been tr trying ing to get her biography for several years but she didn't want it written in her lifetime life lifetime life life- time Ume- she dislikes the tho lim limelight Finally she realized the tho material must be made available She began to help and grew interested as s' s the I book took shape Getting the material the biographer biographer ph pher r said was like reliving an era I You see she was a girl in the I a young lady in the and t Mrs Airs James Roosevelt She knows knows fascinating stories of old New York ork |