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24,000 Pages of Bess Truman's Family Papers Are Released

Family papers detailing the private life of the former first lady Bess Truman were released last week, with no apparent bombshells about her in the more than 24,000 pages.

The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum opened the family papers to mark the 124th anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Truman. The library obtained the papers after the death of the Trumans’ daughter, Margaret Truman Daniel, in January 2008.

About 1,600 of the papers once belonged to Mrs. Truman’s mother, Madge Gates Wallace. They apparently do not mention the 1903 suicide of Mrs. Truman’s father, David Wallace.

The papers include ledgers detailing Mr. Truman’s personal finances while he was president. The ledgers include notations involving occasional payments made by the president to his younger sister, Mary Jane Truman, which became a financial embarrassment.
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