Angela Morgan Papers, 1861-1957

Summary

Creator:

Morgan, Angela, 1874-1957

Abstract:

American poet and novelist (some with anti-war themes), pacifist and women's rights advocate, participant in the International Congress of Women at The Hague in 1915 and subsequent activities of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The author of numerous poems and other literary works, she "projected a clear vision of a new social order". Throughout her work runs the prophecy of the triumph of new moral values and a strong identification with the "downtrodden masses". The papers of Angela Morgan document her long career as a twentieth century writer and social reformer. Papers include extensive correspondence with leading pacifists, literary figures and women's rights activists, manuscripts of Morgan's poetry, novels and other writings, clipping and subject files on pacifist activities and photographs.

Extent:

61 linear feet

Language:

English.

Call Number:

8629 Aa 2

Authors:

Finding aid prepared by: William McNitt, 1975 Christopher Leonard, 1985 Olga Virakhovskaya, 2014 (Boxes 50-61)

Background

Scope and Content:

The Angela Morgan papers document her long career as a twentieth century writer and social reformer. The collection includes extensive correspondence files, biographical and personal files, drafts of writings, pamphlets, newspaper clippings and other papers relating to her activities as a pacifist and her literary interests; also material on World War I peace movement concerning International Congress of Women, Ford Peace Ship, American Neutral Conference Committee, Emergency Peace Federation, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Bureau of Legal First Aid, People's Council of America and New York City branch of the Woman's Peace Party; also scattered papers, 1861-1922, of her father, Albert T. Morgan, who came to Mississippi after the Civil War; and photographs.

The collection contains much information on organizations such as the General Federation of Women's Clubs, (she served as poet laureate of this organization in the 1930's), the League of American Pen Women (she served as president of the Philadelphia branch from 1929 to 1931) and the Poetry Society of America.

Throughout her long career Angela Morgan kept up a correspondence with ministers (such as Fred Winslow Adams, Charles F. Aked, Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Haynes Holmes, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Frederick Lynch, John Herman Randall and Arthur Weatherly), journalists and magazine editors (such as Kendall Banning, William F. Bigelow, Sewell Haggard, and Franklin B. Wiley) and literary people (such as Anita Browne, Ralph Cheyney, Edwin Markham, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Lucia Trent and Ella Wheeler Wilcox).

Another valuable aspect of the paper is the material on Angela Morgan's involvement in the peace movement, especially during World War I. Her involvement was apparently due both to the fact that she agreed with many of the ideas of the pacifists and the fact that her office was in the same building (70 Fifth Avenue in New York) which housed the headquarters of almost every significant peace group in New York City. Included in her correspondence are letters from Crystal Eastman, Margaret Lane, Rebecca Shelley, Norman Thomas, the American Neutral Conference Committee, the Bureau of Legal First Aid, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the Woman's Peace Party. One folder from 1915 contains notes on interviews with German pacifists conducted by Angela Morgan and Rebecca Shelley. The collection also contains much information on the International Congress of Women in 1915 (a meeting of pacifists to which Angela was a delegate) and the Ford Peace Ship.

Biographical / Historical:

Very little is known about her early life. She was born Nina Lillian Morgan, but adopted the name Angela after she began writing. Her date and place of birth are not known, but her obituary in the New York Times seems to indicate that she was born around 1873 when her family was living in Yazoo County, Mississippi. In 1915, when she went abroad, she claimed to have been born in 1885, but that conflicts with her comments elsewhere about remembering Washington, D.C. as her childhood home. (The family left Washington around 1885.) On a later trip she gave her date of birth as 1889, but she published her first book in 1898 and was married in 1900, so the 1873 date may be correct.

Angela's father was Colonel Albert Talmon Morgan, a native of New York who was raised on a farm near Fox Lake, Wisconsin. His studies at Oberlin College and the Quaker ancestry of his mother apparently led him to strong anti-slavery views which caused him to drop out of college and enlist in the Union Army in 1861. He served throughout the Civil War, rose steadily through the ranks, and was finally mustered out as a Lieutenant Colonel on July 14, 1865.

Soon after the war, Albert and his brother Charles became "carpetbaggers" in Mississippi, taking over an old plantation. Albert later told the story of his adventures in Mississippi politics during Reconstruction in his book Yazoo, or On the Picket Line of Freedom in the South (New York: Russell and Russell, 1968) which was originally published in 1884. This book details his problems in the South, many of which resulted from his marriage to Carolyn Victoria Highgate, a teacher in a Freedman's Bureau school who was a daughter of a mulatto father and a white mother.

With the end of Reconstruction in 1876, the family was forced to leave the South. Albert received a minor patronage position in the federal pension service at Washington, D.C., as a result of his loyalty to the Republican Party. This job lasted until 1885, when the Democrats regained power and Albert was replaced. The family then moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where Albert was unsuccessful in a number of business ventures. Around 1890, he left his family in Topeka, Kansas and went to Colorado to prospect for gold and silver. Except for occasional visits with his family, he remained in Colorado until his death in 1922.

After Albert left his family, his children began earning their livelihood by performing on stage. The four daughters performed as a quartet and the son, Bert, as baritone and manager for the group. At one time, they appeared as "The Morgans" and later the four girls performed as the "Angela Sisters". (Perhaps it was from here that Nina got the name Angela.) The performing career of the Morgans apparently came to an end with the death of Helen in 1898. Soon thereafter the other three daughters married and retired from the stage.

In the late 1890's Angela succeeded in getting a number of poems and two children's books published and turned her energies toward a writing career. Convinced that it would take some time before she could earn a living as a poet, she worked for a number of years as a journalist in Chicago, Boston, and New York. As part of her work she visited police courts and jails and the slums of the larger cities and came into contact with "the so-called lower strata of society". During this time she was also successful in getting a large number of poems and short stories published in the popular magazines of the time.

Although the Morgans had been Congregationalists before the turn of the century, Angela's mother (who lived with her) became interested in some of the new religious currents and became a Christian Science lecturer. Angela seems to have explored Swedenborgianism, the Bahai faith, and other religions at this time and throughout her career took a strong interest in metaphysics

Angela Morgan was married in 1900 to Peter Sweningson, but she apparently did not find that marriage suited her. The marriage ended fairly quickly, although they were not divorced until 1906. After leaving her husband, she lived with her mother in Chicago, Boston and New York until 1923, when they moved to London. After her mother's death in London in 1926, Angela returned to the United States and settled in Philadelphia.

Around 1914 Angela's literary work came to the attention of three wealthy women--Mrs. Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond, Mrs. Kate M. Ladd, and Mrs. Louise W. Carnegie (the wife of Andrew Carnegie). They provided her with the support she needed in order to give up her newspaper work and devote all of her energies to the writing of poetry. Her first book of poetry was published in 1914 and other volumes followed in quick succession. Many of the poems in these books were published first in such popular magazines as The Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan Magazine and Hearst's Magazine. Among her best known poems were "Hail Man," "Work, a Song of Triumph," "The Battle Cry of the Mothers," and "God Prays."

The outside financial support she received was never enough to make life easy for her, however. Besides supporting her mother and sending occasional sums of money to her father, she had to provide much of the support for her two sisters who were in a sanatorium. The Depression finally made her financial situation so bad that she was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1933. Although things improved somewhat after that time, her financial situation was never too strong. Although her career probably peaked in the era from 1914 to 1930, she continued to write and publish poetry right down to her death in 1957.

Acquisition Information:

The Angela Morgan papers were received with the papers of Rebecca Shelley (Donor No. 4218 .)

Custodial History:

The Morgan papers were located in warehouses in Philadelphia and elsewhere at the time of her death. (Her letters of August 9, 1939 and October 22, 1943 describe the locations of her papers.) These papers were rescued from the auction block (where they had gone due to the non-payment of storage charges) by Angela's friend Rebecca Shelley in 1958 and removed to the Shelley farm in Battle Creek, Michigan. In 1963, Miss Shelley offered the papers to the University of Michigan, and the bulk of the papers were transferred to the Michigan Historical Collections in 1965 and 1966. Miss Shelley has made several small additions to the collection since that time.

Another group of Angela Morgan papers is housed in the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library. It consists of about 25 feet of manuscripts and correspondence from the 1940's and 1950's.

Arrangement:

The Angela Morgan papers are organized in sixteen principal series:

1. Correspondence, undated and 1861-1957 (boxes 1-17, 59)
2. Biographical/Personal Files (box 17)
3. Pacifistic Activities, 1915-1919 (boxes 17-18, 59)
4. Newspaper Clippings (boxes 18-19)
5. Book Reviews (boxes 19)
6. Printed Material (boxes 19-24)
7. Notebooks, Diaries, etc. (boxes 24-28)
8. Poems (boxes 29-37)
9. Short Stories, Articles and Essays (boxes 37-38)
10. Manuscripts of Books (boxes 39-44)
11. Topical Files (box 45)
12. Miscellaneous Papers (boxes 45-49, 60-61)
13. Manuscripts and Drafst (boxes 50-58)
14. Photographs (box 58)
15. Books by Angela Morgan (box 61)
16. Artifacts (box 61)

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Additional Descriptive Data:

Partial Index to Correspondents

Adams, Fred Winslow, 1866-1945.	Undated, March 9, 1915, July 8, 1916, September 21, 1921, November 11, 1921, November 14, 1923, March 24, 1924, December 6, 1926 December 11, 1926, September 9, 1927, December 5, 1927, December 12, 1927, 1928 undated, January 26, 1928, January 22, 1929, December 12, 1929, 1930's undated, 1930, December 5, 1931, January ?, 1932, February 10, 1932, March 9, 1933, March 23, 1937, 1938 1939 undated.
Adams, Jane, 1860-1935	August 6, 1918 (sec.), December 26, 1918
Aked, Charles Frederic, 1864-1941.	January 22, 1908, December 13, 1909, March 15, 1910
American Neutral Conference Committee 1916	February 8, 1917
American Peace Society	December 4, 1915
Authors, League of America	1917 undated, May 25, 1917
Balch, Madly Greene, 1867 1961	December 21, 1916, April 29, 1918, April 10, 1957
Baldwin, Ruth Standish	January 16, 1920
Banning, Kendall	1879-1944 1919, 1920, 1921, 1928.
Barton, Bruce, 1886 1967	April 26, 1912
Beckley, Zoe -1961	1915, January 23, 1919
Bestor, Arthur Eugene, 1879-1944	June 14, 1916, June 21, 1916
Bigelow, William Frederick, 1879-1966	September 25, 1914, September 28, 1914, November 7, 1914, September 16, 1929, September 14, 1934, February 7, 1935, March 19, 1935
Booth, Evangeline Cory	1865-1950 October 27, 1926
Bragdon, Claude, 1866-1946	August 22, 1930, January 4, 1933, January 10, 1933, June 1, 1936
Branch, Anna Hempstead, -1937	1920, 1921, January 22, 1922, November 22, 1922, 1923 Undated, January 28, 1923, April 15, 1923, January 15, 1928, June 13, 1938 July 27, 1928, January 27, 1929, April 3-1, 1933, May 15, 1935, August 24, 1935
Bridgman, Hovard Allen, 1860-1929	August 5, 1913
Brovne, Anita	Extensive correspondence throughout
Bryce, James, Viscount, 1838-1922	April 4, 1908
Bureau of Legal First Aid	May 31, 1917, November 7, 1917
Burton, Ernest, 1856-1925	August 2, 1922
Cadman, Samuel Parkes, 1864-1936.	April 16, 1908, April 21, 1908
Carnegie, Dale, 1888-1955.	May 12, 1930, November 18, 1937
Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946.	1914-1918 Undated, December 2, 1915, November 19, 1915, 1916 undated, January 13, 1916, April 9, 1916, May 5, 1916, May 10,1916 (sec.), November 25, 1916, January 14, 1917, April 7, 1917, December 20, 1917, March 29, 1918, December 4, 1918, December 17, 1918, December 31, 1918, May 8, 1919, May 14, 1919, May 16, 1919, June 27, 1919, November 26, 1919, December 19, 1919, January 20, 1920, March 27, 1920, April 3, 1920, April 8, 1920, July 27, 1921, November 20, 1922, April 23, 1924, February I7, 1927
Carruth, Hayden, 1862-1932	May 8, 1908, December 17, 1909, March 14, 1910, July 16, 1913
Chamberlain, Samuel Selwyn, 1851-1916	September 1, 1907
Chautauquas [subject]	Information 1916, on the Chatauqua Institution
Cheyney, Ralph	March 18, 1931, January 28, 1933, August 11, 1933, March 20, 1937, August 10, 1937
Church Peace Union	1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, September 19, 1919
Civil War	Letter from A.T. Morgan to his mother October 20, 1861
Clark, Thomas Curtis, 1877 1954	1934, 1935
Coleman, George William, 1867-1950	February 5, 1915, September 25, 1914, October 13, 1914, October 23, 1914, March 1, 1915, December 17, 1915, December 27, 1916, 1917, undated, December 26, 1917, December 24, 1918, 1920's undated.
Conant, Isabel Fiske	January 16, 1937
Condon, Randall Judson, 1862-1931.	1925
Cooke, Edmund Vance, 1866-1932	September 29, 1917, October 7, 1919, December 11, 1929
Costain Thomas Bertram, 1885-1965.	February 12, 1929
Crow, Martha Foote,-1924)	Undated, undated 1914-1918, June 1916, December 7, 1916, December 31, 1918, 1919 undated, April 16, 1923, July 5, 1923
Debs, Theodore	September 20, 1921
Debs Memorial Radio Fund	February 10, 1928
Del Mar, Eugene, 1864-1941	January 17, 1921, November 22, 1921, March 11, 1922
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945	September 12, 1910
Dutton, Samuel Train, 1849-1919	April 11, 1916, April 22, 1916, December 27, 1917, May 7, 1918
Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928	March 3, 1917, September 28, 1917, November 28, 1917, August 15, 1918
Eastman, John Coates, 1862-1925	December 29, 1909, January 18, 1910, February 18, 1910, December 6, 1916, January 30, 1918
Eaton, Lily W.	October 31, 1915, [November 1915?], November 15, 1915, November I7, 1915, November 27, 1915, December 8, 1915, December 14, 1915, January 10, 1916, October 21, 1920, November 7, 1920, April 17, 1922, April 25, 1922, December 16, 1929
Elson, William Harris, 1856-1935	1920, August 15, 1928, October 10, 1928
Emergency Peace Campaign	December 21, 1936, January ?, 1939
Emergency Peace Federation	March 14, 1917
Erskine, John, 1879-1951	January 2, 1916, 1920 undated
Fagnani, Charles Prosperso 1854-1940	December 23, 1916, November 5, 1917, March 4, 1920
Fellowship of Reconciliation	November 6, 1915, November 8, 1915, December 27, 1915, November 2, 1916, March 24, 1917, May 22, 1917, May 29, 1917, September 11, 1917
First Church for Animal Rights	December 12, 1921
Fleischer, Charles, 1871-1942	April 3, 1916, September 7, 1916, January 16, 1923
Ford Peace Ship [subject]	1915, 1916
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878-	November 28, 1934, March 24, 1937, May 20, 1938, May 24, 1938, May 28, 1938
Frank, Henry, 1854-1933.	January 3, 1910
Friends of Freedom for India	November 16, 1921
General Federation of Women's Clubs	December 8, 1921, February 8, 1922, February 27, 1922, April 8, 1922, May 10, 1930, January 27, 1931, 1932 undated, 1936, 1937 1938, 1939
Griggs, Edward Howard, -1951)	February 23, 1917
Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan, 1871-1940	May 20, 1920, April 7, 1923, November 24, 1923, August 22, 1926
Haggard, Sewell, 1879-1928.	1915, 1916, 1917, 1918
Hammond, Emily Vanderbilt Sloane	Undated, 1914-1918 undated, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920's undated, 1920, October 24, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930's undated, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, February 16, 1940, 1952, January 27, 1953, July 10, 1953
Hammond, John Henry, 1871-1949.	December 19, 1915, April 27, 1931
Harriman, Karl Edwin, 1875-1935.	1923, 1924, July 11, 1925, March 31, 1926
Harrison, Henry	September 20, 1930, January 8, 1931, September 17, 1934, September 27, 1934, October 8. 1934, January 9. 1936, April 26, 1937
Hays, Will Harrison, 1879-1954.	April 27, 1923, June 5, 1923, June 30, 1923, March 30, 1925
Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951.	December 15, 1914
Hodgkin, Henry Theodore, 1877-1933	November 6. 1915, November 8, 1915
Holmes, Burton, 1870-1958.	March 5, 1937
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964.	April 11, 1914, September 23, 1914, December 7. 1915, December 19, 1917, March 29, 1918, November 12, 1918, December 24, 1918, January 13, 1919, July 28, 1919, January 12, 1920, February 3, 1920, March 17, 1920, June 28, 1920, October 20, 1920, October 25, 1920, October 27, 1920, December 2, 1920, July 19, 1921, August 15, 1921 September 27, 1921, November 10, 1921, December 27, 1921, December 29, 1921, April 21, 1922, May 2, 1922, December 7, 1922, January 5, 1923, March 8, 1923, April 18, 1923, April 27, 1923, June 19, 1923 December 12, 1923, May 21, 1924, September 30, 1924, March 27, 1925, 1926 undated, March 9, 1926, March 31, 1926, April 22, 1926, April 26, 1926, May 10, 1926, May 17, 1926, May 20, 1926, May 26, 1926, June 7, 1926, June 25, 1926, October 7, 1926, October 11, 1926, November 1, 1926, November 3, 1926, December 10, 1926, February 10, 1927, April 7, 1927, November 14, 1927, November 18, 1927, January 5, 1928, February 9, 1928, February 24, 1928, May 5, 1928, June 19, 1928, October 23, 1928, October 31, 1928, November 19, 1928, January 9, 1929, January 14, 1929, March 26, 1929, August 28, 1929, September 6, 1929, October 3, 1929, December 11, 1929, April 28, 1930, May 1, 1930, May 20, 1930, June 18, 1930, July 23, 1930, December 10, 1930, December 4, 1931, January 18, 1932, January 26, 1932, June 8, 1932, December 14, 1932, November 12, 1934, March 5, 1935, March 7, 1935, September 18, 1935, September 19, 1935, April 17, 1936, December 29, 1936, March 1, 1937, January 3, 1938, May 15, 1939, January 22, 1940, January 25, 1940, September 29, 1953, October 23, 1953, February 17, 1954
Holt, Hamilton, 1872-1951	January 9, 1917
Hoover, Herbert Clark, 1874-1964	October 7, 1952
Huebsch, B.W. 1876-1954	December 4, 1916, December 21, 1917
Industrial Workers of the World	May 11, 1926
James, William, 1842-1910	February 21, 1909 Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937 1918, 1919
Jones, Edith Lloyd	Undated, January 4, 1920, March 22, 1922, July 11, 1922, May 15, 1923
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, 1843-1918	December 19, 1917, February 5, 1918
Keyes, Frances Parkinson	1920's undated, December 5, 1921, December 21, 1921, 1922 undated January 29, 1922, April 14, 1922, May 2, 1922, October 14, 1927
Ladd, Kate Macy, 1863 1945	Undated, 1914 19181, undated, 1915, December 16, 1916, January 8, 1917, March 7, 1917, December 17, 1918, September 26, 1919, December 31, 1919, 1920's undated, 1920, 1921, 1922, August 27, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, November 27, 1929, 1930, January 5, 1931, 1932, March 28, 1933, April 26, 1933, January 10, 1934, May 20, 1935
Ladd, Walter Graeme	January 7, 1916, June 24, 1916, June 30, 1916, January 5, 1917, January 11, 1918, July 1, 1918, June 2, 1919, June 11, 1919, March 12, 1920, April 10, 1920, June 10, 1920, October 14, 1920, October 21, 1920, June 15, 1921, June 28, 1921, June 16, 1922, August 2, 1922, November 14, 1922, January 5, 1923, May 21, 1923, December 12, 1923, May 12, 1924, June 11, 1924, June 30, 1924, January 25, 1926, February 19, 1926, March 27, 1926, September 10, 1928, August 9, 1930, October 15, 1930, May 18, 1931, December 16, 1932
Laidler, Harry W.	April 15, 1953
Lane, Margaret	December 21, 1916, January 8, 1917, February 9, 1917, April 10, 1917, December 14, 1917, June 8, 1918
League for the Larger Life	January 17, 1921, November 22, 1921
League of American Pen Women	March 29, 1915, April 6, 1920, April 30, 1920, November 19, 1921, January 20, 1922, March 18, 1922, March 27, 1922, April 3, 1922, December 6, 1922, March 24, 1923, April 3, 1923, May 7, 1926, December 15, 1926, October 17, 1927, January 22, 1928, January 26, 1928, February 4, 1928, 1929, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, November 12, 1939
League of Small and Subject Nationalities	December 14, 1918
Lengel, William Charles, -1965	1921, 1922
Libby, Frederick Joseph, 1874	1936 undated, 1937 undated
Lynch, Frederick Henry, 1867 1934.	1915, December 16, 1916, August 8, 1920, January 15, 1923
McAdoo, Eleanor W.	August 20, 1918, September 9, 1918, September 20, 1918
MacManus, Seumas, 1869-1960	October 30, 1920
Markham, Anna Catherine	Undated, May 1, 1920
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940	February 1916, December 1916, November 1926
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929	November 2, 1922
Mooney, Tom	1931 Undated, August 5, 1931, April 23, 1935, February 3, 1936, November 9, 1937
Morgan, Albert Talmon, 1841-1922	Throughout
Morgan, G. Campbell, (1863- )	September 24, 1907, December 12, 1907, December 28, 1909, undated 1910, April 1, 1915, January 20, 1917, January 26, 1918, July 28, 1926, August 7, 1926, June 3, 1931, December 9, 1932
Musser, Benjamin Francis	January 18, 1928, January 26, 1928, February 5, 1928, May 11, 1928, April 8, 1929
National Cathedral Association	1924, 1925, December 29, 1926
National Kindergarten Association	July 15, 1915, December 14, 1916, February 26, 1917, April 4, 1917, May 10, 1917, June 14, 1917, August 16, 1917, September 13, 1917, November 12, 1917, November 26, 1917, 1918 undated, January 30, 1918, March 5, 1918, March 22, 1918
National Music League	May 18, 1927, May 25, 1927
National Unemployment League	April 16, 1930, June 13, 1930, June 27, 1930
National Woman's Party	October 17, 1928
Nearing, Scott, 1883-	December 7, 1916, July 30, 1923
O'Hara, Geoffrey, 1882-1967.	August 2, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938
Olmsted, Mildred Scott	June 3, 1930, November 10, 1930
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937	March 27, 1915, January 19, 1916, December 3, 1916
Paquin, Samuel Savil, 1868-1943	Correspondence throughout
Parkhurst, Charles Henry, 1842-1933.	December 24, 1909, March 11, 1910
Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-	October 20, 1952
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament	January 28, 1932, February 23, 1932, April 6, 1932
The People's Chorus of New York	January 22, 1927, October 3, 1927, October 31, 1927, March 4, 1936
People's Council of America	June 27, 1917, August 10, 1917
People's Mandate to Governments to End War	August 14, 1939
Phelps, William Lyan, 1865-1943.	January 13, 1919, November 22, 1927, November 30, 1927, September 18, 1929
Pierpont, John [subject], 1785-1866.	September 30, 1907
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898.	August 4, 1884
Poetry Society of America	Undated, February 16, 1915, April 10, 1915, January 9, 1917, December 6, 1917, December 4, 1918, December 31, 1918, 1919 undated, November 14, 1919, March 2, 1920, May 1, 1920, October 18, 1920, January 25, 1928, June 11, 1935, January 19, 1937, March 19, 1937
Randall, John Herman, 1871 1946	December 4, 1916, December 7, 1916, December 18, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, November 30, 1925, March 9, 1926, April 19, 1926, May 17, 1926, December 21, 1926, February 5, 1927, February 17, 1927, April 5, 1927, October 15, 1927, October 27, 1927, December 1, 1927, 1929 undated, September 3, 1929, October 8, 1929, May 2, 1930, December 11, 1930, March 20, 1931, December 30, 1931, December 20, 1932, June 3, 1938
The Rebel Poets	January 18, 1928, May 18, 1928, December 15, 1928, December 5, 1929, 1930 undated
Reynolds, Paul Revere, 1864 1944.	April 24, 1912, May 2, 1912, May 4, 1912, May 21, 1912, May 25, 1912, November 8, 1912, December 11, 1912, December 13, 1912
Rider, Fremont, 1885 1962	March 9, 1909
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861 1933	October 31, 1915, December 21, 1915, December 11, 1916, April 4, 1918, December 29, 1919, May 13, 1920, November 26, 1921, December 13, 1929, January 31, 1932
Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941	July 1, 1909, April 2, 1912, November 12, 1914
Sarett, Lew, 1888-1954	April 19, 1923
Shaw, Mark Revell, 1889-	December 20, 1937
Shelley, Rebecca, 1887	September 25, 1915, September 26, 1915, October 1, 1915, October 2, 1915, October 20, 1915, October 22, 1915, October 26, 1915, October 28, 1915, November 3, 1915, November 14, 1915, November 20, 1915, November 26, 1915, November 30, 1915, December 18, 1915, July 15, 1916, August 27, 1916, September 10, 1916, September 12, 1916, December 2, 1916, December 13, 1916, December 23, 1916, December 28, 1916, December 30, 1916, December 17, 1927, March 29, 1937 November 18, 1939
Shelly, William Alfred, 1854-1930	January 1, 1916, January 27, 1916
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968	October 23, 1914
Smith, George Jay, 1866-	March 20, 1922, April 5, 1922, April 8, 1922, March 13, 1923, October 2, 1923
Socialist Party [subject]	November 1918
Stevenson, Burton Egbert, 1872-1962.	January 13, 1924
Stidger, William Leroy, 1885-1949.	1938
Stoner, Winifred Sackville, -1931	March 24, 1923, August 1, 1927, August 14, 1927
Tarbell, Ida Minerva, 1857-1944.	April 25, 1912
Thomas, Lowell, 1892-	November 12, 1934
Thomas, Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968.	May 29, 1917, September 11, 1917
Towne, Charles Hanson, 1877-1949.	Correspondence throughout
Trent, Lucia	Undated, January 4, 1923, February 17, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930's undated, 1930, 1931, September 7, 1932, December 18, 1932, 1933, 1934, December 30, 1935, April 4, 1936, October 16, 1936, December 4, 1936, 1937, 1938, September 22, 1939, January 22, 1940, March 23, 1941
United Peace Chest	April 6, 1937, October 6, 1938, February 6, 1939
Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933.	1915 undated, June 19, 1915
The Vigilantes	April 11, 1917, 1918 undated, January 17, 1918, January 22, 1918
Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1884-1928.	March 1, 1915, April 29, 1918
Vivisection Investigation League, Inc.	September 20, 1923, June 9, 1924
Wald, Lillian D., 1867 1940.	February 1, 1923
Weatherly, Arthur	February 11, 1913, January 16, 1913, September 17, 1913, April 20, 1913, April 20, 1915, April 25, 1916, July 29, 1917, January 19, 1918, April 29, 1919, November 19, 1921, December 13, 1922, January 20, 1923, March 24, 1924, February 16, 1925, December 8, 1926, May 26, 1929, 1937, August 9, 1938
Weller, Charles Frederick, 1870-1957.	November 19, 1934, July 24, 1935
Weatherill, Samuel Price	1928, 1929, 1930, March 15, 1935, June 19, 1939, October 3, 1939
Wheeler, Edward Jewitt, 1859-1922.	March 31, 1910, June 8, 1910, July 8, 1910, February 1, 1911, April 21, 1911, November 14, 1911, November 22, 1911, March 6, 1912, December 18, 1913, October 29, 1914
White, Trumbull, 1868 1941.	May 28, 1908, December 10, 1914
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1855 1919	1915 undated, April 1, 1915, October 27, 1915, October 29, 1915, December 24, 1915, January 4, 1917, June 8, 1917, October 30, 1917
Wiley, Franklin Baldwin, 1861 1930	December 5, 1910, January 3, 1911, January 18, 1911, January 31, 1911, February 3, 1911, February 18, 1911, March 23, 1911, March 26, 1911, March 29, 1911, April 5, 1911, April 18, 1911, April 19, 1911, April 28, 1911, May 6, 1911, June 19, 1911, June 20, 1911, September 5, 1911, November 18, 1911, January 18, 1912, January 26, 1912, February 2, 1912, August 9, 1912, September 3, 1912, November 2, 1912, April 1, 1913, April 4, 1913, April 16, 1913, May 15, 1913, June 11, 1913, June 14, 1913, June 17, 1913, June 18, 1913, June 19, 1913, June 24, 1913, June 30, 1913, June 23, 1913, July 1, 1913, July 8, 1913, July 26, 1913, April 22, 1913, August 7, 1913, September 3, 1913, September 12, 1913, October 3, 1913, November 12, 1913, December 31, 1913, December 13, 1913, 1914 1918, undated, January 12, 1914, January 16, 1914, January 19, 1914, January 23, 1914, February 9, 1914, February 24, 1914, March 12, 1914, April 6, 1914, August 25, 1914, September 13, 1914, July 26, 1915, November 16, 1915, February 29, 1916, October 7, 1916, October 18, 1916, December 22, 1916, June 7, 1917, June 14, 1917, January 22, 1918, December 31, 1918, October 1, 1919, October 6, 1919, October 15, 1919, October 29, 1919, November 25, 1919, March 19, 1920, April 12, 1920, January 3, 1921, January 10, 1921, January 12, 1921, January 20, 1921, April 26, 1921, May 1, 1921, February 5, 1924, March 22, 1924, May 3, 1924, May 27, 1924, September 24, 1924, October 30, 1924, December 5, 1924, December 8, 1924, October 3, 1925, February 11, 1926, February 23, 1926, April 2, 1926, April 7, 1926, May 3, 1926, May 7, 1926, October 26, 1926, February 20, 1929, December 18, 1929
Wilson, Woodrow, [subject] 1856-1924	September 10, 1916 from Rebecca Shelly
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom	March 14, 1923, January 20, 1930, June 3, 1930, November 10, 1930, March 29, 1935, April 8, 1935, April 22, 1935, December 7, 1938, August 29, 1939
Woman's Peace Party	April 8, 1915, December 21, 1916, January 8, 1917, February 9, 1917, March 3, 1917, April 10, 1917, September 24, 1917, September 28, 1917, October 22, 1917, November 28, 1917, December 14, 1917, January 23, 1918, April 29, 1918, June 8, 1918, June 12, 1918, August 15, 1918, September 25, 1918, September 28, 1918, October 17, 1918
The Woman's Pro-League Council	December 18, 1921
Women's National Committee for Hands off the Supreme Court	November 18, 1937, November 30, 1937, December 10, 1937
Women's Peace Society	July 11, 1922
Wood, L Hollingsworth	December 16, 1931
The World's Court League, Inc.	May 7, 1918
Young, William Wesley, 1868-	November 27, 1911, December 29, 1911, September 16, 1913, December 22, 1917, January 17, 1918, February 24, 1918, April 13, 1918

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Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916)
International Congress of Women (1915 : Hague, Netherlands)
Socialist Party (U.S.)
Vigilantes (Organization)
American Neutral Conference Committee.
American Peace Society.
Authors' League of America.
Bureau of Legal First Aid.
Church Peace Union.
Debs Memorial Radio Fund.
Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.)
Emergency Peace Federation (U.S.)
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)
First Church for Animal Rights.
Friends of Freedom for India.
General Federation of Women's Clubs.
Industrial Workers of the World.
International Council for Patriotic Service.
League for the Larger Life.
League of Small and Subject Nationalities.
National Cathedral Association.
National Kindergarten Association.
National League of American Pen Women.
National Music League.
National Unemployment League (U.S.)
National Woman's Party.
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament.
People's Chorus of New York.
People's Council of America.
People's Mandate to Governments to End War.
Poetry Society of America.
Rebel Poets.
United Peace Chest.
Vivisection Investigation League.
Woman's Peace Party.
Woman's Pro-League Council.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Women's National Committee for Hands Off the Supreme Court.
Women's Peace Society.
World Court League.
Morgan, Angela, 1874-1957.
Pierpont, John, 1785-1866.
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Adams, Fred Winslow, 1866-1945.
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Aked, Charles Frederic, 1864-1941.
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961.
Baldwin, Ruth Standish.
Banning, Kendall, 1879-1944.
Barton, Bruce, 1886-1967.
Beckley, Zoe, -1961.
Bestor, Arthur Eugene, 1879-1944.
Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick), 1879-1966.
Booth, Evangeline, 1865-1950.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946.
Branch, Anna Hempstead, 1875-1937.
Bridgman, Howard Allen, 1860-1929.
Browne, Anita.
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922.
Burton, Ernest De Witt, 1856-1925.
Cadman, S. Parkes (Samuel Parkes), 1864-1936.
Carnegie, Dale, 1888-1955.
Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946.
Carruth, Hayden, 1862-1932.
Chamberlain, Samuel Selwyn, 1851-1916.
Cheyney, Ralph.
Clark, Thomas Curtis, 1877-1953.
Coleman, George William, 1867-1950.
Conant, Isabel Fiske.
Condon, Randall J. (Randall Judson), 1862-1931.
Cooke, Edmund Vance, 1866-1932.
Costain, Thomas B. (Thomas Bertram), 1885-1965.
Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924.
Debs, Theodore, 1864-1945.
Del Mar, Eugene, 1864-1941.
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.
Dutton, Samuel Train, 1849-1919.
Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928.
Eastman, John Coates, 1862-1925.
Eaton, Lily W.
Elson, William Harris, 1856-1935.
Erskine, John, 1879-1951.
Fagnani, Charles Prospero, 1854-1940.
Fleischer, Charles, 1871-1942.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878-1969.
Frank, Henry, 1854-1933.
Griggs, Edward Howard, 1868-1951.
Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan, 1871-1940.
Haggard, Sewell, 1879-1928.
Hammond, Emily V. (Emily Vanderbilt Sloane), 1874-1970.
Hammond, John Henry, 1871-1949.
Harriman, Karl Edwin, 1875-1935.
Harrison, Henry.
Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1879-1954.
Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951.
Hodgkin, Henry Theodore, 1877-1933.
Holmes, Burton, 1870-
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964.
Holt, Hamilton, 1872-1951.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Huebsch, B. W. (Benjamin W.), 1876-1964.
James, William, 1842-1910.
Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937.
Jones, Edith Lloyd.
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, 1843-1918.
Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 1885-1970.
Ladd, Kate Macy, 1863-1945.
Ladd, Walter Graeme.
Laidler, Harry Wellington, 1884-1970.
Lane, Margaret.
Lengel, William C. (William Charles), 1888-1965.
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970.
Lynch, Frederick Henry, 1867-1934.
McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1889-1967.
MacManus, Seumas, 1869-1960.
Markham, Anna Catherine, 1859-1938.
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940.
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929.
Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942.
Morgan, Albert Talmon, 1841-1922.
Morgan, G. Campbell (George Campbell), 1863-1945.
Musser, Benjamin Francis.
Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983.
O'Hara, Geoffrey, 1882-1967.
Olmsted, Mildred Scott, 1890-1990.
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937.
Paquin, Samuel Savil, 1868-1943.
Parkhurst, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1842-1933.
Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-1993.
Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943.
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898.
Randall, John Herman, 1871-1946.
Reynolds, Paul Revere, 1864-1944.
Rider, Fremont, 1885-1962.
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933.
Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941.
Sarett, Lew, 1888-1954.
Shaw, Mark Revell, 1889-
Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984.
Shelly, William Alfred, 1854-1930.
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
Smith, George Jay, 1866-1938.
Stevenson, Burton Egbert, 1872-1962.
Stidger, William L. (William LeRoy), 1886-
Stoner, Winifred Sackville, -1931.
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944.
Thomas, Lowell, 1892-1981.
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968.
Towne, Charles Hanson, 1877-1949.
Trent, Lucia.
Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933.
Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928.
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940.
Weatherly, Arthur.
Weller, Charles Frederick, 1870-1957.
Wetherill, Samuel Price.
Wheeler, Edward J. (Edward Jewitt), 1859-1922.
White, Trumbull, 1868-
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919.
Wiley, Franklin Baldwin, 1861-1930.
Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956.
Young, William Wesley, 1868-

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