Murray's correspondence in this period was dominated by friends and memories from the Roosevelt era. In June 1949 he sent Mackenzie King a congratulatory telegram following the recent Liberal victory in the Canadian general election under Mackenzie King's hand-picked successor, Louis St Laurent: "Result of election is a great personal triumph for you as well as for your eminent successor" (Murray to Mackenzie King, 27 June 1949). Murray wrote again in February 1950, reminiscing about his stay at the Roosevelt's Hyde Park home in October 1938 and adding: "Franklin always used to talk to me about you in terms of admiration and affection" (Murray to Mackenzie King, 17 Feb 1950). Canada's longest-serving Prime Minister did not enjoy a long retirement but died in July 1950. "He and FDR were not only friends but their outlooks on life and its problems were practically in every sense similar, Murray wrote to another friend (Murray to Osler, 24 July 1950).The correspondence with Eleanor Roosevelt is perhaps the most interesting at this time. Murray had written to her only rarely while she lived in the White House but after the President's death their letters and meetings exceeded in number those between Murray and Franklin Roosevelt. A constant theme of Murray's letters was FDR's achievement as President. After the conclusion of the NATO alliance in April 1949, he described the treaty as "a wonderful thing indeed; a momentous step in the direction, as we hope, of an abiding world peace; a glorious monument, above all, to Franklin. I rejoice with you at this fulfilment of so much that was so very dear to his heart" (Murray to Eleanor Roosevelt, 16 Apr 1949). The former First Lady was now a US Ambassador to the United Nations, living in New York City during the week but returning to Hyde Park at the weekend. "I seem to thrive on hard work", she wrote (Eleanor Roosevelt to Murray, 24 Apr 1949), and, "I feel very well and enjoy being busy" (Eleanor Roosevelt to Murray, 7 Nov 1949).In December 1949 Murray wrote to her about her second memoir. "For present generations and for posterity you have, in your sympathetic and revealing story, performed a service of outstanding historical importance, and one of which - if you will allow me as an old friend of you both to say - Franklin, I feel, would be infinitely proud" (Murray to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1 Dec 1949). Later he wrote: "THIS I REMEMBER will now take a privileged place in my bookshelves alongside your earlier very interesting volume, THIS IS MY STORY, given to Faith and myself when we were at Hyde Park in October 1938 and in which Franklin wrote his name. What an absorbing and important contribution to the history of our times are those two books from your pen" (Murray to Eleanor Roosevelt, 25 Jan 1950).Mrs Roosevelt met up with Murray in London in June 1950 on her way to Norway to unveil a statue to the late President (Eleanor Roosevelt to Murray 10 May 1950). She had various engagements while in London but found time to meet for tea at Murray's home (Eleanor Roosevelt to Murray, 28 May 1950). No doubt they reminisced about Murray's visits to Washington in the 1930s, but both were deeply concerned about contemporary issues also, not least the onset of the Cold War and relations with China. In September 1950, while the Korean War raged, he wrote her a long letter criticising US policy for driving China into the arms of Stalin (Murray to Eleanor Roosevelt, 15 Sep 1950). He returned to this theme when he dined with her at his London home in April 1951. She passed Murray's views on to President Truman and to the State Department - which, needless to say, completely disagreed. Interestingly, the State Department took the time to produce a point-by-point rebuttal, testimony as much to Eleanor Roosevelt's abiding influence as to the force of Murray's arguments (Hickerson to Eleanor Roosevelt, 13 June 1951). Mrs Roosevelt was much more sympathetic to his view (Eleanor Roosevelt to Murray, 18 June 1951). They continued to correspond about the Korean War until its conclusion in 1953.