Dorothy Hamilton Brush Papers, 1840-1968 (bulk 1936-68).

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Dorothy Hamilton Brush Papers, 1840-1968 (bulk 1936-68).

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Correspondence; manuscripts, speeches, photographs, reports, journal and newspaper articles, pamphlets, and newsletters. Closely related to the Margaret Sanger Papers. The bulk of the papers date from 1936 to 1968 and focus on her work with Margaret Sanger and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Contains only a small amount of biographical information on Brush, but it does include her first-hand accounts of Margaret Sanger's work; an unpublished play about Margaret Sanger; research material and writings for a manuscript on Japanese women, which provided a basis for Mary Ritter Beard's later book, The Force of Japanese Women in History (1953); questionnaires, research, and manuscript for her book on menopause; a full run of International Planned Parenthood News, which she edited; reports, correspondence and photographs on the birth control missionary work of Sanger and Brush in Japan, China, Indonesia, Sweden, Haiti, and various other countries. There are also subject files on birth control, women'shealth, marriage, family, the Catholic Church and population issues in China and Japan, among other topics. Correspondents include C.P. Blacker, Barbara and George Cadbury, Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, Margaret Grierson, Vera Houghton, Shidzue Ishimoto Kato, Edris Rice-Wray, Margaret Sanger, and Ellen Watamull.

5 linear ft. (12 boxes)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7569051

Smith College, Neilson Library

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