Victoria Henrietta Kugler Nesbitt papers,

Nesbitt, Victoria Henrietta Kugler, 1874-1963.

Victoria Henrietta Kugler Nesbitt papers, 1933-1949. - 4,500 items. 12 containers. 4.8 linear feet.

Open to research.

Correspondence, diaries, writings, subject file, accounts, recipes, and other papers concerning Nesbitt's service as White House housekeeper during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Includes drafts and galley proofs of her books, White House Diary (1948) and The Presidential Cookbook: Feeding the Roosevelts and Their Guests (1951); a file of White House menus; incomplete set of Franklin D. Roosevelt's daily appointment calendar (1934-1945); and memoranda of White House entertainments and other household matters. Includes correspondence with Eleanor Roosevelt and others relating to White House domestic affairs.


White House housekeeper during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013053

mm 78034462


Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 --Correspondence.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945.
Roosevelt family.


White House (Washington, D.C.)


Cooking.


Housekeepers, White House.

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