Rosamond Gifford papers, 1930-1954.

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Rosamond Gifford papers, 1930-1954.

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A small collection of papers, primarily the incoming personal correspondence of philanthropist and French instructor Rosamond Gifford of Boston and Duxbury, Mass. Correspondents include her father Carleton Sprague Gifford, mother Raymah Dowse Gifford, aunt Mary N. Gifford, cousin Leonard H. Dowse, George L. Lincoln of Harvard, Walford Walden, Leslie Grinnell, Jim Risk, and friends from the Waltham School for Girls. Among the subjects are personal and family matters, visits, health, current events, and political figures. Included are letters written while Gifford was a student at the Sorbonne and Institut de Phone̹tique in Paris in the 1930s and during her travels in Europe. The bulk of the correspondence was written shortly before and during World War II and includes letters discussing Adolf Hitler, deployments, censorship, the Red Cross, women in the armed services, rationing, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Russian advance on Berlin, and prospects for peace. Included are a few printed items.

1 narrow box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Grinnell, Leslie.

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Gifford, Rosamond, 1910-1997.

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Gifford family.

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Walden, Walford.

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Gifford, Mary Nye, b.1866.

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Lincoln, George L., d. 1963.

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Dowse, Leonard H.

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Gifford, Carleton Sprague, 1876-1945.

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Gifford, Raymah Dowse, 1876-1971.

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Risk, James Charles, 1913-2005.

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