Papers, 1861-1863, 1935, 1938, 1943-1955, 1961 1935-1955.

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Papers, 1861-1863, 1935, 1938, 1943-1955, 1961 1935-1955.

Correspondence (professional and personal) including undated letters and manuscripts from Mears' time in Asia in the 1930s and 1940s; journals, manuscripts, reference files; minor references to publication of her books and articles, and to antinuclear activism in the 1950s. Collection also includes Civil War letters written by relatives: Lester E. Ward (5 letters, 1861-1862) and Erastus Ward (11 letters, 1862-1863 and undated). Correspondents of Helen Mears include: William Shawn, Katherine S. White.

7.5 linear in.

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Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913

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Sociologist. From the description of Lester Frank Ward papers, 1883-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980247 Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913) served as a geologist and paleontologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 1882 to 1905. In addition to his USGS career, Ward served as Honorary Curator of the Department of Fossil Plants in the United States National Museum (USNM) during the same span of years. In 1905, Ward accepted a faculty appointment at Brown...

Ward, Erastus.

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Mears, Helen.

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Helen Mears; author, journalist, antinuclear proponent; b. in Towanda, Pa., ca. 1900; lived in New York City; travelled to Japan and China in the 1930s and 1940s, experiences which formed the basis for her three books; critic of U.S. policy in post-World War II Japan; d. ca. 1989. From the description of Papers, 1861-1863, 1935, 1938, 1943-1955, 1961 1935-1955. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 49291115 ...

Shawn, William ca. 20. Jh.

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William Shawn (1907-1992), editor. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), literary critic and author. From the description of William Shawn letters relating to Edmund Wilson, 1960-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702193218 ...

Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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White, Katharine Sergeant Angell

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American editor of the New Yorker and wife of E. B. White. From the description of Notes on galleys : autograph notes related to The trumpet of the swan, undated [1970]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756222299 From the description of Time chart and style sheet : autograph notes related to The trumpet of the swan, undated [1968-1970]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756222271 ...