Eleanor Roosevelt writes about husband’s illness 90 years ago today


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(Sunday, August 14, 1921)— Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, writes about her husband’s illness in a letter. Franklin had developed acute symptoms of poliomyelitis four days before while visiting his summer home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada.