Grant, Frances R. Frances Grant collection, 1897-1986 (bulk 1917-1986).
Title:
Frances Grant collection, 1897-1986 (bulk 1917-1986).
Collection consisting of Frances Grant's personal papers, 1897(1917)-1986, and records of organizations with which she was affiliated: the Roerich Museum (records and related papers, 1920-1985, but primarily 1921-1937), the Pan-American Women's Association (records, 1931-1985), the International League for Human Rights (copies of records, 1935-1985) and the Inter-American Association for Democracy and Freedom (records, 1929-1986, but primarily 1949-1986). Much of the collection concerns the political and cultural life of Latin America in the middle of the twentieth century, including files relating to Argentina, Boliva, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela, although other countries are also represented. Additionally, through correspondence and other papers, the collection documents Grant's travels to New Mexico and to many places outside the United States, including India, several countries in Europe and most of the countries in Latin America. Material related to her book Oriental Philosophy: The Story of the Teachers of the East (copyright 1936) is also included. Correspondents represented in the collection include many elected officials, cultural figures (especially artists) and other prominent individuals in the United States and Latin America. A variety of document types are present in the collection, among which are: address books, appointment books, a banner, broadsides, card indexes, certificates, correspondence, event programs, exhibition catalogs, identity cards, invitations, itineraries, manuscripts for publication, menus, notes, photographs, press clippings, scrapbooks and speeches, as well as articles of incorporation, agendas, minutes, press releases, reports, resolutions, mailing lists, financial documents, microfilm and sound recordings. Newspapers, newsletters and other periodicals are also present, together with a few paintings, several prints and a variety of artifacts. Included among the many correspondents represented are: Robert J. Alexander (letters from 1950-1981), Angelica Balabanoff, Roger Baldwin (letters from 1947-1978), Rómulo Betancourt, Albert P. Blaustein (letters from 1974, 1980 and 1984), Pearl S. Buck (1 letter: 1932), Violeta Chamorro, Julia Codesido, Aaron Copland (2 letters: 1945), John dos Passos (4 letters: 1945), José Figueres, Jesús de Galíndez, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Lillian Hellman (1 letter: 1945), Hubert H. Humphrey (5 letters and 1 photocopy: 1960-1961, 1963-1964 and 1977), Lyndon B. Johnson (1 letter and 1 printed card: 1963-1964), Harry Kantor (letters from 1961-1977), John F. Kennedy (1 letter: 1959), Archibald MacLeish (3 letters: 1945), H.L. Mencken (1 letter: 1945), Gabriela Mistral, Luis Muñoz Marín, Reinhold Niebuhr (1 letter: 1945), Georgia O'Keeffe (3 letters and 1 postcard: 1956, 1975 and undated), Serafino Romualdi, Eleanor Roosevelt (1 letter: 1960), Ernesto E. Sammartino, Aureliano Sánchez Arango, Arthur M. Schlesinger (letters from 1961-1970 and 1981-1982), Adlai E. Stevenson (3 letters: 1960-1962), Norman Thomas (letters from 1953-1967), Thornton Wilder (2 letters and 2 postcards: 1942, 1945 and 1975) and Frank Lloyd Wright (2 letters: 1945). Certain of these correspondents are also represented by additional letters written on their behalf (e.g., by a secretary), by materials in other formats (e.g., selected writings) or by materials written about them (e.g., biographical data). In addition to materials documenting the Roerich Museum, there are papers present which relate to Nicholas Roerich, the Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments (the "Roerich Pact"), Henry A. Wallace's interest in and falling out with Nicholas Roerich and a controversial 1934-1935 United States-funded botanical expedition to Northern China (Inner Mongolia and Manchuria) which Roerich led. The materials relating to Henry Wallace include original letters, 1927-1935, which he sent to Grant, among which are the enigmatic "Guru Letters" which were used by Wallace's detractors in the 1940s in an attempt to discredit him.
ArchivalResource:
78 cubic ft. (66 cartons, 20 boxes of assorted sizes, 1 oversize folder)
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