Call Number:

CDG-A.Kelsey, Mary

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

0.5 linear ft. (6 linear in.)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, CDG-A., Mary Kelsey..

Date:

1914-1919 (inclusive)

Creator:

Kelsey, Kate

Abstract:

Includes miscellaneous correspondence; two oversize scrapbooks (ca. 1914-1919) which contain correspondence (some with her relative, Kate Kelsey); articles and half-tone images from U.S. and foreign periodicals about World War I; small posters; sheet music; and material about Woodrow Wilson's 1916 presidential campaign and the Women's March for Woodrow Wilson in Washington D.C., ca. 1917; also small amounts of secondary material relating to the American Friends Service Committee, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Arbitration and Peace Society of Pennsylvania, the American Union Against Militarism, the U.S. Democratic Party and the American Friends Reconstruction Unit.

Pacifist, suffragist, member of the Society of Friends in New York, relief worker with the American Friends Reconstruction Unit, executive secretary (1923-1925) of the Honfleur conferences (held in France).