1930's Medicine and Health | "Dear Mr. Hopkins"

Reports

By: Henry W. Francis and Martha Gellhorn

Date: November 19, 1934, and December 7, 1934

Source: Francis, Henry W., and Martha Gellhorn. "Dear Mr. Hopkins." November, December 1934. Hopkins Papers, National Archives/New Deal Network. Available at New Deal Network online at http://newdeal.feri.org/hopkins/hop04.htm; website homepage http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed March 17, 2003).

About the Authors: Henry W. Francis and Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) were among the writer/reporters sent by Federal Emergency Relief administrator Harry Hopkins to travel around the United States and report on conditions that did not make the headlines of the national newspapers. On this project, he sent his observers out with instructions to describe conditions vividly and honestly.

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