I was astonished to read in Noemie Emery’s article on Eleanor Roosevelt that Mrs. Roosevelt disliked “lower class, fat, ostentatiously Catholic [Whittaker] Chambers” (“Mrs. Roosevelt, Liberal Icon,” May 13)l. As an ostentatious Catholic myself, I don’t doubt Mrs. Roosevelt’s distaste, but Chamber’s offenses against her did not include religion. His parents were nonpracticing Episcopalians, and after his Communist years, Chambers gravitated towards the Quakers.
Ellen Fielding, Davidsonville, MD
