Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph Lash, June 6, 1944. Page 2.

On the evening of June 6, 1944, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to her friend Joe Lash who was serving in the Pacific: "Well, Joe dear, the first day of invasion is over, the last dispatch F.[FDR] read us says that over a 60 mile front in Normandy we have advanced 10 miles. All has gone according to schedule tho' it was rough at the start and we have lost 1 destroyer, 1 mine sweeper, and 1 LST with how much loss of life we don't know. There is less tension but F. keeps us all a bit undecided by saying he doesn't know what he will do and that when he hears Hitler is ready to surrender he will go to England at once and then in the next breath that he may go to Honolulu and the Aleutians. He feels very well again and looks well. I wonder if you heard his speech on the fall of Rome in New Zealand or his prayer tonight? I'm enclosing a signed copy of that as I thought you might like to have it with you." Joesph Lash Papers, FDR Library.