| Description | Letters to Dorothy Elmhirst from Ethel Roosevelt Derby, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, and sister of Quentin Roosevelt, (who was engaged to Flora Payne Whitney, Dorothy Elmhirst's cousin, at the time of his death in France in 1918). Subjects mentioned include their friendship, families, politics, travel, poetry and religion. Consists of about 80 letters from Ethel Derby to Dorothy, and, after her death, a further ten letters to and from Leonard Elmhirst. |