- Collection:
- Juliette Gordon Low papers
- Title:
- Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scouts, Correspondence, 1923-1925
- Creator:
- Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927
- Publisher:
- Box 18, Folder 208, Gordon family papers, MS 318, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
- Date of Original:
- 1923/1925
- Subject:
- Girl Scouts
Scouts (Youth organization members)--Congresses
Scouts (Youth organization members)--China
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Scouts (Youth organization members)--Germany - People:
- Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927--Correspondence
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944--Correspondence
Benyon, John F.--Correspondence
Rippin, Jane Deeter--Correspondence
Gordon, G. Arthur (George Arthur), 1872-1941--Correspondence
Hough, Doris S.--Correspondence
Storrow, Helen Osborne, 1864-1944--Correspondence
Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron, 1857-1941--Correspondence
Choate, Anne Hyde--Correspondence
Baldwin, G. J. (George Johnson)--Correspondence
Baden-Powell, Olave, 1889-1977--Correspondence
Harding, Florence Kling, 1860-1924 - 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; Lou Henry Hoover; John F. Benyon; Jane Deeter Rippin; (George) Arthur Gordon; Doris Hough; Margaret Thomas; Helen Storrow; Robert Baden-Powell; Miss ? Ferris; Anne Choate; George J. Baldwin; John O'Neill; Olave Baden-Powell; and Florence Kling Hardin, Mrs. Warren Harding. Letter of March and April 1923 from Lou Henry Hoover to Juliette Gordon Low discuss administrative matters, the annual convention to be held in Washington D.C. in May, 1923, and the international convention to be held in 1924. A letter of May 15, 1923 from Florence Kling Harding to Juliette Gordon Low conveys best wishes to the Baden-Powells who are soon to be in New York. Letters of July 1923 and April 1924 from John F. Benyon to Juliette Gordon Low are about an article on the history of the Girl Scouts to be published in an illustrated history of the United States. Letters of 1924 from Robert Baden-Powell to Juliette Gordon Low and from Juliette Gordon Low to Miss ? Ferris are concerned with giving handicapped scouts separate tests for awards, and scouting in China. A letter of April 10, 1925 brings up the problems of the Germans participating in the Scouting movement. In a letter of June 16, 1925 to Juliette Gordon Low, Anne Choate discusses the international Badge. A letter of December 4, 1925 from Olave Baden-Powell to Juliette Gordon Low is about the International Conference to be held in the United States in May of 1926. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:g-hi_318_318-18-208
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/juliettegordonlow/do:318-18-208
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [item identification], Gordon family papers, MS 318, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
- Extent:
- 18.0 items
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Historical Society
- Rights:
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