Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Sept. 17, 1943

Thelma and Vangy embroider; Mrs. Roosevelt writes about animals

It was raining hard again today — a hurricane was threatening the Gulf Coast — so Thelma and Vangy stayed inside and talked while embroidering.

Writing her newspaper column from an airplane over Australia, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt mused on the animals being kept as pets at an army base and a children’s book by author Elisabeth Macintyre. The image of Macintyre’s book Ambrose Kangaroo is from the State Library of Victoria.

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