Mary W. Dewson Papers, 1898-1961

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: General Correspondence Files, 1924-1961

test Incoming and outgoing personal, business, and political correspondence arranged alphabetically by subject or surname of correspondent. In many cases, the files have been annotated by Miss Dewson. The dates given in the shelf list are the inclusive dates for the materials in the file. Related material is found in the Subject Files (see below).

Box 1

A (General)

Abbott, Grace, 1937-1938

Aiken, Paul, 1937

Akin, Stella, 1936, 1949

Allen, Florence, 1932-1959

Altmeyer, Arthur J., 1937-1957

B (General)

Beyer, Clara, 1937-1958

C (General)

Carr, Charlotte, 1929

Coffin, Jo, 1936-1937

Cohen, Wilbur, 1958-1960

D (General)

Dewson, Mary W. - Personal and Biographical Material

Douglas, Paul H., 1954-1956

Dubord, F. Harold, 1937-1947

E (General)

Eben, Mary, 1945-1947 and undated

Edwards, India, 1937, 1946-1958

Elliot, Harriet, 1935-1945

Engle, Lavinia, 1935-1936

Ernst, Morris, 1956

Evans, May, 1936-1946

Box 2

F (General)

Farley, James A., 1934-1948

Frankfurter, Felix, 1921-1954

Furman, Bess, 1948-1952

G (General)

Grady, Henry F. and Lucretia, 1949-1960 and undated

H (General)

Hickok, Lorena, 1941-1954

Honeyman, Nan, 1937-1958

Hopkins, Harry, 1936

Howe, Louis M., 1932-1954

Hull, Cordell, 1936

Ickes, Harlod, 1937, 1948

J-K (General)

Kerr, Harriet Allen, 1933-1958

L (General)

Lehman, Herbert, 1934-1956

Loucheim, Katie, 1954-1958

Lubin, Isador, 1957-1958

Mc (General)

McAllister, Thomas and Dorothy, 1937-1960

Box 3

M (General)

Magee, Elizabeth, 1946-1954

Mason, Lucy Randolph, 1937-1951 and undated

Michelson, Charles, 1937

Mitchell, Stephen A., 1953

Murphy, Frank, 1937

N-O (General)

Norton, Mary T., 1946-1956

O'Mahoney, Joseph C., 1946-1956

Owen, Ruth Bryan, 1936

P-Q (General)

Perkins, Frances, 1924-1947

Picking, Elsie, 1935-1938

R (General)

Reed, Stanley and Win, 1928-1959

Roche, Josephine, 1937, 1957

Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor, 1925-1936

Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor, 1937-1958 and undated

Box 4

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1928-1944

Roosevelt, Elliott, Franklin Jr., James and John, 1937-1949

S (General)

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 1947-1959

Smith, Alfred E., Correspondence re 1928 campaign

T (General)

Tate, Richard and Liz, 1945-1957

Taylor, Paul, 1948, 1953

Tillett, Gladys, 1936-1961 and undated

Truman, Harry S., 1946-1953

Tully, Grace, 1949-1951

U-Z (General)

Wallace, Henry A., 1947-1948

Welles, Sumner, 1937, 1954

White, Sue S., 1931, 1936

Whitney, Florence, 1935-1936

Wolfe, Carolyn, 1933-1958

Woodward, Ellen, 1936-1960

Series 2: Subject Files

test Contains files on topics of particular interest to Miss Dewson. There is a large amount of material on political campaigns, particularly the 1936 Campaign. Material relating to some of the subjects is also found in the General Correspondence Files (see above).

Box 5

Buenos Aires Conference, 1936

Campaign of 1936: Articles, Drafts and Correspondence

Campaign of 1936: Correspondence with State Leaders: Arkansas-Kansas

Campaign of 1936: Correspondence with State Leaders: Maine-Missouri

Campaign of 1936: Correspondence with State Leaders: Nebraska-Oregon

Campaign of 1936: Correspondence with State Leaders: Pennsylvania-Washington

Campaign of 1936: Form Letters

Campaign of 1936: Meetings with State Leaders

Box 6

Campaign of 1936: News Digest

Campaign of 1936: Peace Plank

Campaign of 1936: Program Materials

Campaign of 1936: Publicity, General

Campaign of 1936: Radio Publicity

Child Labor Amendment, 1937

Civil Service Matters

Committee on Civil Service Restrictions in Employment of Older Workers, 1937-1938

Committee on Economic Security, 1934

Constitutional Amendments, 1936-1937

Correspondence with State Leaders, Alabama-Illinois, 1937

Box 7

Correspondence with State Leaders, Indiana-Massachusetts, 1937

Correspondence with State Leaders, Michigan-New Jersey, 1937

Correspondence with State Leaders: Tennessee-Wyoming, 1937

Democratic Digest

Democratic National Committee, Lists, 1934-1937

Democratic National Committee, Women's Division, 1928-1941

Democratic National Convention, 1936

Dewson, Mary-Western Trips, 1931-1936

Box 8

Equal Rights Amendment, 1937-1946

Home Defense Administration, 1940

National Consumers League, 1933-1959

National Consumers League, Correspondence on Labor, 1934, 1937

Reporter Plan, 1934-1937, 1942

Social Security Board, 1937-1938

Supreme Court Bill, 1937

Women in New Deal Positions

Women Speakers

Series 3: Speech, Article and Miscellaneous Files, 1912-1956

test Contains speeches, articles and reports by Miss Dewson and her colleagues. When the person involved was someone other than Miss Dewson, this fact is indicated in the shelf list. This series also contains newspaper clippings roughly arranged by year . The bulk of the clippings are from 1936. In addition, there are campaign materials from 1932 and 1936; a chart on Social Security, apparently used for publicity; and a copy of Jim Farley's Story.

Box 9

"Pay Rolls and Profits" The Survey, November 9, 1912

"What Campaign Issues Mean to Women", 1928

"Working for Labor Standards", 1933

Speech to the Cuyahoga Women's Democratic Club, May 25, 1933

Speech to the Young Democrats in Convention at Kansas City, August 17, 1933

"Women Voters of Pennsylvania it's Up to You" Pennsylvania Survey, November 1933

Untitled Talk on the Election, 1934

"The Human Aspects of the New Deal" The Christian Register, March 1, 1934

Untitled Speech on Democratic Women, 1935?

Speech at First Regional Conference at Richmond, Virginia, January 28, 1935

Introduction to series of Broadcasts sponsored by Women's Division-Mrs. James F. Wolfe, September 10, 1935

Radio Address-Mrs. Ellen Woodward, September 10, 1935

Introduction to Radio Broadcast-Mrs. James F. Wolfe, September 17, 1935

Radio Address-MRs. Emily Blair, September 17, 1935

Discussion on AAA-Mrs. C. Nelson Beck and Mrs. James F. Wolfe, September 24, 1935

Discussion on Credit Agenices-Mrs. Basil Manly and Mrs. J. F. Wolfe, Ocotber 3, 1935

Radio Address on Taxation-Mrs. Blair Banister, October 10, 1935

Radio Address on the U.S. Employment Service-Miss Mary LaDame, October 17, 1935

Address on Crime Prevention-Miss Stella Akin, October 31, 1935

Speech to Beekman Neighbors on the New Deal, November 5, 1935

Radio Speech on the Social Security Act, November 7, 1935

"The Reporter Plan" - Station WMAQ, Chicago, Illinois and at Newton, New Jersey, November 16, 1935

"Campaign of 1936 - Work of the Women's Division", 1936

Notes for Informal Speech, 1936

Statement regarding Taxes, 1936?

Notes on Work of the Woman Campaign Director, 1936

Article "Democratic Women in Politics" Democratic Campaign Book, 1936

Article on Director of Publicity, 1936

"Duties of State Vice Chairman", 1936

Talk on the New Deal, 1936?

"Democratic Women of Pennsylvania - The Campaign is On", 1936

"To the Women Democratic Leaders", 1936

Radio Talk on Social Security, 1936

Radio Talk - "Recovery - Its Price and Premium", 1936

Radio Talk - "A Home With Hope", 1936

Radio Talk - "A Future For the Farm Family", 1936

Radio Talk - "Belief in Relief", 1936

Speech Before the Institute of Government, Charleston, West Virginia - Mrs. James F. Wolfe, January 14, 1936

Radio Speech - "Women and Government", February-March 1936

Speech Used on Western Trip, February-March 1936

"What Has Relief, Recovery and Setting Our House in Order Cost Us?" Democratic Women's Regional Conference, Onandaga Hotel, Syracuse, New York, Portions also used for radio talk, April 30, 1936

"Our Government and Insurance" - Radio Address, May 15, 1936

Speech to Young Democrats, Phila. Pa., May 15, 1936

Article for N.E.A., May 20, 1936

Message to Young Voters in New York City, 1937

Article on Michigan, February 10, 1937

"Little Grains of Sand", February 24, 1937

"What Next for Democratic Women?" Regional Conference, New London, Conn., June 15, 1937

"New Frontiers for Old" Address at Wellesley College Commencement - Josephine Roche, June 21, 1937

Speech at Lewiston, Maine, August 1937

"Politics As A Career" - Wellesley Club News, October 1937

"What Social Security Act Means to Women" Speech before the National Radio Forum, October 11, 1937

"Mrs. Glendower Evans" Memorial Speech at Ford Hall, Boston, January 28, 1938

"This Social Security - What is it?" Women's City Club, Boston, Mass., February 17, 1937

"An Amateur's Views on Education" Wellesley Club of New York, NY, February 26, 1938

"Next Steps in Social Security Legislation", March 1938

"Social Security - What and Why" The Federated Woman, April 1938

Article for The Church Woman, April 1938

"Social Security - What Is It?" Radio Address, April 5, 1938

"Fifty Years of Progress Toward Social Security" State Convention of Affiliated Young Democrats, New York City, May 21, 1938

"Public Assistance . . . A New Way of Meeting Old Responsibility" Radio Interview, June 2, 1938

"The Crisis in Democracy" - Radio Address by Mrs. Emily Blair, October 21, 1938

Press Release regarding women as Candidates for Office, October 25, 1938

"Working Women and Old-Age Insurance" Labor Information Bulletin, October 1938

Untitled Speech on the Women's Division, 1940

Radio Speech - Mrs. Anthony Biddle, 1940

"Industry and Agriculture at the Gates of a New Decade" - Address by James A. Farley, January 1940

Speech at Dinner Honoring Women who Hold High Office in the New Deal, May 5, 1940

"Women in Politics and Government" - WJZ Radio Program, May 20, 1940

"Do Political Parties Educate?" - William Hard at "America's Town Meeting of the Air", May 23, 1940

"Advance of Democratic Women" Democratic Digest, June 1940

Speeches by and about James A. Farley - Printed in the Congressional Record, July 22, 1940

Speech to Convention of Young Democrats of Maine - F. Harold Dubord, October 27, 1940

"The Roosevelt Road to Peace" - Radio Broadcast, November 3, 1940

Radio Speech - F. Harold Dubord, November 4, 1940

"Shall We Sell Our Birthright for A Mess of Potage?" The Democratic Digest, January 1942

Letter to the New York Times, April 9, 1942

Handwritten Speech Draft on the New Deal, Undated

"What is this Social Security?", Undated

Radio Speech on the Social Security Act, Undated

"The Weaker Vessels and Politics" Democratic Digest, Undated

"The Sanity of the General Federation" Lola Gingrick Article, Undated

"The Fruits of Experience", Undated

"Should Women of the Leisure Class Follow Gainful Occupations?", Undated

Regional Conferences Report, Undated

"Mary Chamberlain", Undated

"Elections are Won Between Campaigns", Undated

Box 10

"The Hours of Labor in Domestic Service" Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, October 1898

Twentieth Century Expense Book, 1900

Labor Bulletin of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts No. 13, February 1900

The Woman Republican Vol. 2, No. 17, December 1924

Bulletin of Women's City Club of New York, June 1926

Acceptance Speech before the Democratic National Convention - Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 2, 1932

Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

"Report to the Industrial Commissioner on the Effect of Directory Order No. 1 on the Wages of Women and Minors in Laundries in New York State and the Need for Mandatory Wage Order Governing Laundry Occupations", July 2, 1934

"Reportof the Advisory Council to Committee on Economic Security", December 18, 1934

"Federal Departments and Agencies Supervising Projects or Collaborating in Carrying on the Program Under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935", May 10, 1935

"Forward With the Constitution" Address by Daniel C. Roper, September 17, 1935

Address before the American Bankers' Association Convention in New Orleans - Marriner Eccles, November 14, 1935

"The American Constitutional Method" Address by Homer Cummings, December 18, 1935

"Elections of 1936" - A Study by Alice Cameron, 1936

Message to Congress - F. D. Roosevelt, January 3, 1936

Address of James A. Farley at the Roosevelt Dinner, Miami, Florida, February 5, 1936

Unemployment Compensationfor Transportation Employees, March 1936

"What Did the New Deal Mean to the Farmer?" Address by Mrs. J. J. Donahue, March 11, 1936

"A Brief History of the New York Minimum Wage Case", June 1936

"Gainful Employment of Married Women", August 1936

"The Constitution and the Problems of Today" Address by Stanley Reed, August 7, 1936

"What the States are Doing: New Labor Standards", October 1936

"A New Chapter in the History of the New York Minimum Wage Case", October 1936

"Provisions of Wage Orders of States Operating Under the Standard Minimum Wage Act", October 1936

Address of James A. Farley at the Dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, March 17, 1937

Address of James A. Farley at Dedication of Post Office and Federal Bldg., Waco, Texas, March 23, 1937

Address of James A. Farley before Texas Legislature, March 24, 1937

Address of James A. Farley at Dedication of Post Office and Federal Bldg., San Antonio, Texas, March 24, 1937

Address of James A. Farley at Dedication of Post Office Bldg., Arabi, Louisianna, March 25, 1937

Address of James A. Farley at Post Office Site, Gretna, Louisianna, March 25, 1937

Address of James A. Farley at Dedication of Post Office and Federal Bldg., Wilmington, Delaware, March 27, 1937

"The Favored State Party Set-up for Democratic Women", c. 1938

Report of the Hotel Minimum Wage Board to the Industrial Commissioner, New York State, July 12, 1940

Speech of Sen. J. H. Ball on Behalf of President Roosevelt, October 26, 1944

Radio Address of Dorothy Thompson, November 1, 1944

"Bill Relating to the Employment Security Program Introduced or Enacted During the 1947 Legislative Sessions" Legislative Report No. 1, February 14, 1947

Legislative Report, Supplement No. 3, March 15, 1947

Legislative Report No. 4, March 15, 1947

"Women in Politics" - Helen B. Shaffer, February 20, 1956

Box 11

Newspaper Clippings, 1932-1952

Box 12

Chart - "This Social Security -- What Is It?"

Work Books - Four volumes of clippings and data on the Democratic Party by States, 1936

Jim Farley's Story

Printed Material from 1932 Campaign

Series 4: Letter Books, Scrapbooks, Mauscript Materials

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Contains ten bound volumes of letters dated 1929 to 1951, mostly incoming correspondence from prominent political leaders, friends and associates, and twelve scrapbooks, 1932 to 1950, containing clippings and mementoes of Miss Dewson' s political career.

Also includes An Aid to the End - a two-volume, unpublished manuscript written by Mary W. Dewson.

Box 13

Letters, 1929-1940

Box 14

Letters from 1932 Campaign, 1932-1934

Box 15

Miscellaneous Letters, 1932-1935, 1943-1944

Box 16

Patronage Letters - Women, 1933

Box 17

Letters of Congratulation on Appointment to the Social Security Board, 1937

Box 18

Letters - Social Security, 1937-1939

Box 19

Letters, 1940-1942

Box 20

Letters, 1942-1946

Box 21

Letters, 1946-1951

Box 22

Politics, 1933-1935

Politics, 1935

Box 23

Politics, Campaign, 1936

Politics, Western Trip, 1936

Box 24

Politics, 1937-1939

Politics - Social Security Board, 1937-1938

Politics, Campaign, 1940

Box 25

Politics, 1941-1950

Politics - Invitations and Christmas Cards

Campaign Literature from the Women's Division of the Democratic Campaign Committee

Box 26

Campaign Materials

And Aid to the End: Volume I

Box 27

And Aid to the End: Vol. II