In 1978, more than 3,500 Letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists.
Historian Rodger Streitmatter has transcribed and annotated more than 300 of those letters--pub.
Although the most explicit Letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor\'s daughter, "Your mother wasn\'t always so very discreet in her Letters to me"), the find was still electrifying enough to create controversy about the nature of the women\'s relationship.
In 1978, more than 3,500 Letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists