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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06002 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1930s |
| Title | Eleanor Roosevelt to Anne Hinkley with her views on prohibition and the 18th amendment |
| Date | 17 July 1932 |
| Author | Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962) |
| Recipient | Hinkley, Anne |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Typed on stationery of the Executive Mansion, Albany, to Hinkley, the leader of a "wet" organization. "I have never joined the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, because as you know I am a dry." Roosevelt notes that the organization's leadership is "more interested in seeing it made easy for all of us to have anything we might want." She notes "I do not object to the limited sale of light wines and beer" and concludes "prohibition has done more harm in encouraging a group of people who are law breakers and in creating a new and illegal way to make fortunes." She would favor state-level prohibition laws. Noted at top as personal and confidential. Roosevelt has made a correction on p.2. |
| Subjects | Temperance and Prohibition Woman Author Women's History First Lady Alcohol Prohibition Law US Constitutional Amendment |
| People | Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962) Hinkley, Anne (fl. 1932) |
| Place written | Albany, New York |
| Theme | Government & Politics; The Presidency |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |