- Collection:
- Juliette Gordon Low papers
- Title:
- Juliette Gordon Low, Personal Correspondence, 1925-1926
- Creator:
- Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927
- Publisher:
- Box 15, Folder 166, Gordon family papers, MS 318, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
- Date of Original:
- 1925/1926
- Subject:
- Upper Brandon (Va.)
Breast--Cancer
Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927--Correspondence
Parker, Eleanor Gordon, 1858-1933--Correspondence
Gordon, W. W. (William Washington), 1866-1932--Correspondence
Leigh, Mabel Gordon--Correspondence
Harrison, William Gordon--Correspondence
Lawrence, Daisy Gordon--Correspondence
Lawrence, Samuel C.--Correspondence
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936--Correspondence
Choate, Anne Hyde--Correspondence
Clarke, Mary Gale, 1862-1929
Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927--Health - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- correspondence
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Juliette (Gordon) Low founded the Girl Scouts of the United States of America in 1912.
Correspondents include Juliette Gordon Low; Eleanor Gordon Parker; W.W. Gordon III; Mabel Gordon Leigh; William Gordon Harrison; Daisy (Doots) Gordon Lawrence; Sam Lawrence; Rudyard Kipling; and Anne Choate, Mrs. Arthur Osgood Choate. Many of the letters in this folder contain references to Juliette Gordon Low's declining health. There is a letter written in Marcy 1925 from Juliette Gordon Low at the Maguire Clinic in Richmond to (George) Arthur Gordon and a number of letters of 1926 which mention her illness. A letter of March 21, 1925 from Juliette Gordon Low to (George) Arthur Gordon mentions Girl Scout matters as well as giving news of family and friends. In several letters written from England written in September and October 1926 to Daisy (Doots) and Sam Lawrence, Juliette Gordon Low discusses her art work; in a letter of October 12, 1926 to Sam Lawrence, she mentions the bust of her grandfather that she is working on. A letter of December 1, 1925 to Juliette Gordon Low from William Gordon Harrison gives news of relatives and talks about the necessity of selling Brandon, the Harrison home in Virginia. There is also a letter of September 28, 1926 to Juliette Gordon Low from Rudyard Kipling in which he gives news of himself and his family. There are letters of 1925 and 1926 from Anne Choate with news of her mother, Mary Gale C. Clarke. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:g-hi_318_318-15-166
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/juliettegordonlow/do:318-15-166
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [item identification], Gordon family papers, MS 318, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
- Extent:
- 21.0 items
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Historical Society
- Rights:
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