these are letters that were written by eleanor roosevelt to eleanor morgenthau. arest darling eleanor i always felt you were hurt often by imaginary things and have wanted to protect you but if one is to have a healthy normal relationship, i realize it must be on something of equal basis. you said we cannot be so easily hurt. much love always, eleanor. i didn't say half of what i wanted to the other day when we were talking. i've grown to love you so much. though i can't take away the feeling you have, it makes me unhappy to feel it is burying you and i want to put my arms around you and keep away all the disagreeable things that have made this way. i wish i could give you some of my toughness. your children will all come out with many faces just as bob has done. they are grand people. but then you and henry have been wonderful parents. my love i must run to a project. i first read morgan thought on the day that day in 1972 with my hair in strings and my poncho dripping all over. i'd been assigned by the united states president international to interview the mafia

while i was reading stories about eleanor, robert m morgenthau was being read to buy eleanor roosevelterself. bob loved eleanor, or mrs. roosevelt as he still calls her today. he thought she was the most beautiful woman he had ever met and she was to be his surrogate mother for the rest of her life. i want to tell you a little bit about the premise of my book, timeless. it's a love story that explores how an unlikely relationship like ours has endured for more than three decades. when i met the new york district attorney, morgenthaler he was an icon of the establishment dedicated to upholding the law. i was a radical hippie determined to destroy it. moreover, he was almost 30 years older than me. we were totally different. that we should come together with almost an oxymoron. but the book is a story of how we realized that sometimes people behind their faÇades, are hauntingly alike. timeless is revealing our illusions and our highs in our lows, how we developed strategies for reinventing our marriage when it floundered, but one of my favorite parts of writing timeless was the revelatio