Mrs. Culp Revisited: Oct. 8, 1937

The White House mourns Mrs. Harry Hopkins

It was another quiet day at home for Mrs. Culp, who wrote in her diary only that Walter had done the marketing again and that she had gotten a note from her older sister Else saying she liked her new apartment in St. Petersburg.

So let’s look at a somber story from that day’s New York Times.

At the White House, the close circle of aides surrounding Presid…