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Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu

Creator
Mitchell, Ruth Crawford, 1890-

Title
Mitchell mss., 1917-1966

Collection No.
LMC 1875

Extent
1983 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
Consists of the papers of Ruth (Crawford) Mitchell.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Career: born June 2, 1890, Atlantic Heights, New Jersey; daughter of Stanford and Gertrude (Smith) Crawford; B.A. Vassar, 1912; M.A. Washington University, 1915; married LeRoy Bradley Mitchell, November 27, 1923. Activities and honors include Social Survey of Prague sponsored by War Council of the Y.W.C.A., U.S.A.; Czech-American Summer Training School for Social Workers; return trips in 1925, 1936, 1946, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1969; Treasurer, Masaryk Publications Trust, 1959- ; The Cross of Knight of the Order of White Lion, presented by President Liberator Tom? G. Masaryk; decorated by the Yugoslav, French, Polish, and Italian governments; David Glick Award for distinguished service in the field of International Affairs from World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, 1966; Women's Press Club of Pittsburgh Award for distinguished service in field of International Affairs, 1966; Honorary degree of doctor of humanities, University of Pittsburgh, 1966; Honorary Benedictine Oblate, Basilica of St. Justina, Padua, Italy, 1969.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Notes; III. Photographs; IV. Printed; V. Writings; and, VI. Miscellaneous.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of the papers of Ruth (Crawford) Mitchell. Contains letters between Mitchell and her family, correspondence with Alice Garrigue Masaryk and Mrs. Olga (Masaryk) Revilliod; notebooks; photographs; and information about Czechoslovakia.

The correspondence consists chiefly of letters to her family, 1919; correspondence with Alice Garrigue Masaryk, 1879-1966, sociologist; and Olga (Masaryk) Revilliod, 1891-1978, between 1920 and 1966. Other correspondents include Hana (Vlcková) Benešová, Karel Cervenka, Marcia (Gluck) Davenport, John Huntley Dupre, Zdenek Fierlinger, Ludmila (Kucharová) Foxlee, J. Gardavský, John Palmer Gavit, Gustav Haberman, Vladimir Haering, Fjeril Hess, Edward Bering Hitchcock, Vladimir Hurban, Mary Emerson Hurlbutt, Paul Underwood Kellogg, Kyra Klinderová, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Mary Eliza McDowell, Marie Markov?, Alice Garrigue Masaryk, Jan Garrigue Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Herberta Poche Masaryková, Kenneth Dexter Miller, Pavla Molnárová, Elinor (Fatman) Morgenthau, Vladimir Palic, Ján Papánek, Betka Papánková, Františka Plaminková, Philip Skinner Platt, Albin Polasek, Olga (Masaryk) Revilliod, Charles Wood Riley, Karel Šimek, Iva (Neubauerová) Šmakalová, Esther Allison Tiffany, Ralph G. Wright. Consult the Manuscripts Index in the Library for dates of letters of individual correspondents.

The collection also contains reports to the overseas committee in the United States from the Y.W.C.A. Unit in Prague, 1919; diaries, April 19 to October 28, 1919, describing the journey from the United States to Prague with visits in London and Paris and the stay in Czechoslovakia during her service as director of the American Y.W.C.A. unit in charge of the survey in Prague; notebooks on Czechoslovakia, 1919-1920, 1946; notebook on London, February 1946; and a notebook on a conference in 1955 relating to the death of Jan Garrigue Masaryk; reports of Elinor (Prudden) Burns on the Y.W.C.A. in Prague, 1920-1922; carbon copy of the constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1920; minutes of the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh chapters of the American Relief for Czechoslovakia, 1944-1949; carbon copy of the recreation survey of Prague by Anne Rylance Smith; social aspects of the schools in Prague by Fjeril Hess; and the occupations of women in greater Prague, by Alpha Beatrice Buse, all in 1920; letters on the death of Jan Garrigue Masaryk, March, 1948; letters in behalf of Alice Garrigue Masaryk who sought asylum in the United States from communist rule in Czechoslovakia, 1954; letters and reports on the Communist Party, 1946-1948; letters and articles on the Czechoslovak Republic, 1919-1949; report on emigration in Czechoslovakia, 1919; international student situation in Prague, 1927; Polish refugees, 1948; and Czechoslovakian Red Cross, 1938.

Note on Indexing Term - "Labor unions and socialism": Includes reports from when she served as the director of the unit in charge of the Social Survey of Prague sponsored by the War Council of the Y.W.C.A. in 1919. Also included are letters and reports on the communist party dated 1946-1948 and various material pertaining to Czechoslovakian affairs.

• Indexing Terms

• • Names
  • Mitchell, Ruth Crawford, 1890- --Correspondence.
  • Masaryk, Alice Garrigue, 1879-1966--Correspondence.
  • Masaryk, Jan, 1886-1948.
  • Masaryk, Alice Garrigue, 1879-1966.
  • Revilliod, Olga Masaryk.
  • Hess, Fjeril, 1893-
  • *Ceskoslovenský *cervený k*rí*z.
  • Komunistická strana *Ceskoslovenska.
  • League of Nations.
• • Topics
  • Young Women's Christian associations--Czech Republic--Prague.
  • Economic assistance, American--Czech Republic.
  • Recreation--Czech Republic--Prague.
  • Schools--Czech Republic--Prague.
  • Women--Employment--Czech Republic--Prague.
  • Labor unions and socialism
  • Slavs
  • České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
• • Places
  • Czechoslovakia--History.
  • Czechoslovakia--Politics and government--20th century.
  • Prague (Czech Republic)--Description and travel.

Related Material

Mitchell mss. II; also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

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