- Collection:
- Juliette Gordon Low papers
- Title:
- Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scouts, Correspondence, 1918-1919
- Creator:
- Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927
- Publisher:
- Box 18, Folder 205, Gordon family papers, MS 318, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
- Date of Original:
- 1918/1919
- Subject:
- Girl Guides
Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Dropouts--Prevention
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Girl Guides
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Girl Scouts - People:
- Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927--Correspondence
Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron, 1857-1941--Correspondence
Vrooman, Carl Schurz, 1872-1966--Correspondence
Martin, O. B. (Oscar Baker), 1870-1935--Correspondence
Russell, James E. (James Earl), 1864-1945--Correspondence
Helm, Edith Benham, 1874-1962--Correspondence
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence--Correspondence
Sanger, W. Prentice--Correspondence
Lane, Franklin K.--Correspondence
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence
Claxton, P. P. (Philander Priestley), 1862-1957--Correspondence
Rippin, Jane Deeter--Correspondence
Storrow, Helen Osborne, 1864-1944--Correspondence
Choate, Anne Hyde--Correspondence
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972--Correspondence
Greville, Sidney Robert, Sir--Correspondence - 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; Robert Baden-Powell; Carl Vrooman, Assistant Secretary, Department of Agriculture; O.B. Martin, Assistant in charge of Demonstration Club Work, Office of Extension work in the South, Department of Agriculture; James E. Russell, Department of Educational Reconstruction, Office of the Surgeon General, and the Chairman of the Executive Board of Girl Scouts; Edith Benham, Secretary for Edith G. Wilson; Herbert Hoover, director of the U.S. Food Administration; W. Prentice Sanger, Executive Secretary, Commission on Training Camp Activities, War Department; Franklin Lane, Secretary of the Interior; Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States; P.P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education, Department of the Interior; Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin; Helen Storrow, Mrs. James J. Storrow; Mrs. ? Daniels; Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany; ? Brandy; ? Eddy; Llewellyn Parsons; Ann Choate; Miss ? MacDonald, Secretary of the Girl Guides in England; Edward, Prince of Wales; Sir Sidney Greveille; Mrs. Harold Pratt. Two letters of February 1918 from Robert Baden-Powell to Juliette Gordon Low discuss Girl Guide activities in England during the war. Some letters of June 1918 between Carl Vrooman, O.B. Martin, James E. Russell, and Juliette Gordon Low are about Girl Scout activities in areas of food production and conservation, such as planting war gardens, canning preserving, pickling. Letters of June and November 1918 from Edith Benham to Juliette Low tell about Mrs. Wilson's activities as Honorary President of the Girl Scouts. Letters of September and August 1918 between P.P. Claxton and Juliette Gordon Low tell about Girl Scout efforts to get pupils to remain in school. Accompanying one of these letters is a letter from President Woodrow Wilson to Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane on the subject of keeping boys and girls in school. A letter of August 12, 1918 from W. Prentice Sanger, to Juliette Gordon Low talks about Girl Scout work with War Camp Community Services. Other letters of 1918 also mention war time projects and activities of the Girl Scouts. Letters of February and April 1919 refer to the trip of the Baden-Powells to the United States and one of these letters mentions a Girl Scout film. In a letter of November 1919 to Miss ? MacDonald, Juliette Gordon Low, asks her to send Girl Guide literature to be placed in the Library of Congress. In a letter of December 1919 from Juliette Gordon Low to Sir Sidney Greveille, thanks are expressed for the message to Scouts from Edward, Prince of Wales; a copy of the message is attached. In an undated letter, but probably written in 1919 to Mrs. Harold Pratt, Juliette Gordon Low asks that her name be withdrawn from the list of candidates from President of the Girl Scouts. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:g-hi_318_318-18-205
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/juliettegordonlow/do:318-18-205
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [item identification], Gordon family papers, MS 318, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
- Extent:
- 22.0 items
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Historical Society
- Rights:
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