Roosevelt Collection Custodian Dies in Widener Library Alcove

Nora E. Cordingley, custodian of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, died instantly of a heart attack yesterday morning in the catalogue room of Widener Library.

She had ben working on the eight volume "Letters of Theodore Roosevelt," of which the first two books will be published April 18.

Miss Cordingley had devoted most of her career to this study. She worked for many years with the Theodore Roosevelt Association in New York before continuing her research at Harvard.