Papers of Anna Melissa Graves, DG 015, Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Anna Melissa Graves (b. 1875, d.1964) was a writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist. From the 1920s to the 1940s Graves traveled through Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East. She taught school in many of these places and maintained a voluminous correspondence with the teachers, acquaintances, and former students she met on her travels.

Graves was an active member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. While living in Geneva she acted as a consultative member for the WILPF on the League of Nations Liberia Commission. This Commissio attempted to settle the dispute between the Liberian government and the Firestone Rubber Company.

Interested in promoting understanding between peoples of different countries, Graves published four collections of the correspondence she received from all over the world. The issue of racial and ethnic prejudice was an important one for Graves and her books reflect this concern.

The papers of Graves consist mostly of correspondence from friends around the world. The letters, approximately half of which are from women, touch on family life in Syria, work and family conditions in China from the 1920s through the 1950s, and educational life in South America. Many of the letters describe war time and post war conditions in France and Germany. The issues of race and educational aspirations also are topics of many letters. Some of the better known correspondents include Henri Barbusse, Camille Drevet, Barthelemy de Ligt, Carlo Sforza, Gertrude Baer, Angelica Balabanoff, Victor Gollancz, B. W. Huebsch, Hans Kohn, Rosika Schwimmer, Henrietta Szold, Frank Tannenbaum, Bertram Wolfe, and Gabriela Mistral, Marie Rolland, Bertrand Russell. Part of this correspondence has been published in four volumes: “Benvenuto Cellini had no Prejudice Against Bronze”; “Both Deeper than and Above the Melee”; “But the Twain Do Meet”; and “The Far East is not very Far”.

The bulk of the material was received from Anna Graves, arranged by her in notebooks, between 1942 and 1945. An additional accession was received from her in 1953.

Box 1., reel 74.1

Correspondence, A - B

The Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair

Jane Addams

Norman Angell

Emily Greene Balch, 1920-1942

Emily Greene Balch, 1943-1949

Emily Greene Balch, 1950-1959

Roger Baldwin

Grace Beaton

Cedric Belfrage

John Bigelow

Alice Stone Blackwell

Katherine D. Blake

H. Noel Brailsford

Bishop Benjamin Brewster

A. Fenner Brockway

A. Barrett Brown

H. Runham Brown

Pearl S. Buck

Raymond Leslie Buell

Box 2.

Correspondence, B - R

James Branch Cabell

William Canton

Carrie Chapman Catt

Roderic Clark

Sarah Cleghorn

Travers Clement

McAlister Coleman

Nancy Cunard

Rena Datta

Min Denton

John Dewey

W.E.B. DuBois

E.H. Duckworth

Hamilton Fyfe

George W. Hartmann

W.B. Hesseltine

Lewis Hill

Herbert Hinkel

John Haynes Holmes

Winifred and Frank Horrabin

Lotte F. Jahrreiss

Lucy Randolph Mason

H.L. Mencken

Elizabeth Mendelssohn

E.D. Morel

Angela Morgan

Felix Morley

A.J. Muste

Scott Nearing

Blair Niles

W.E. Orchard

Mary White Ovington

George L. Paine

E. Sylvia Pankhurst

Reel 74.2

Katherine S. Phelps

Walter Rae

Betsy Reyneau

Reginald Reynolds

Grace Rhoads

Edward C.M. Richards

A. Maude Royden

Constance H. Rumbough

Bertrand Russell

Box 3.

Correspondence, S - W

Vida Scudder

Laurence Seige

Ethel Sidwick

Emily Parker Simon

Sir Ransford Slater

Anna Louise Strong

R.H. Tawney

Evan W. Thomas

Norman Thomas

Carl Van Vechten

Fannie Garrison Villard

Oswald Garrison Villard

Theodore D. Walser

Sydney Webb

Joseph L. Wheeler

Jean Wiley

Alex Wood

Alice Miles Woodruff

Amy Woods

Box 4.

Correspondence

Letters from Belgians; Marie Louise Berg

Letters from Chinese; Lan-ching Chou

Letters from Chinese; Grace Chao

Letters from Chinese; Sophia Chao

Letters from Chinese; Mildred Djao

Letters from Chinese; T.Y. Feng

Letters from Chinese; Mabel Fu

Letters from Chinese; Sylvia Fu

Letters from Chinese; Sylvia Fu (cont.)

Letters from Chinese; Mary Giang

Letters from Chinese; Tsi-Dji Ho

Letters from Chinese; C.K. Ke

Letters from Chinese; Luther Kiang

Letters from Chinese; Anna Kwei

Letters from Chinese; Chao-Hsu Kwei

Letters from Chinese; Chao-Hsu Kwei (cont.)

Letters from Chinese; Uda Kwei

Box 5., reel 74.3

Letters from Chinese; Elizabeth Lauh

Letters from Chinese; Hung-Ying Liao

Letters from Chinese; Lan-Fang Liu

Letters from Chinese; Marjorie Liu

Letters from Chinese; Shun-Yuan Liu

Letters from Chinese; Yuan-Lung Liu

Letters from Chinese; Yuan-Lung Liu (cont.)

Letters from Chinese; C.T. Teng

Letters from Chinese; Yi-Zia Tsoo

Letters from Chinese; Gladys Wang

Letters from Chinese; Grace Wang

Letters from Chinese; Lois Wang

Letters from Chinese; Caroline Wu

Box 6.

Letters from Danes; Ellen Horop

Letters from French; Jeanne Armand

Letters from French; Jeanny Artus

Letters from French; A. Aulard

Letters from French; Octavie B.

Letters from French; Denise and Jean Beaumer

Letters from French; Henri Barbusse

Letters from French; Victor Basch

Letters from French; Juliette Bertin

Letters from French; Madeleine Boutaud-Lacombe

Letters from French; Madeleine Boutaud-Ladombe (cont.)

Letters from French; N. Brunet

Letters from French; Eugenie Cailleux

Letters from French; Germaine Carmantrand

Letters from French; S. Carmantrand and niece

Letters from French; Felicien Challaye

Letters from French; Camille Drevet

Reel 74.4

Letters from French; Gabrielle Duchene

Letters from French; Georges Duhamel

Letters from French; Luc Durtain

Box 7.

Letters from French; Andrée Etienne

Letters from French; Andrée Etienne (cont.)

Letters from French; Claudia Fontaine

Letters from French; Yvette Fontaine

Letters from French; Violette Fontaine

Letters from French; Jeanne Fortin

Letters from French; family Geral-Raymond

Letters from French; Charles Gobinot

Letters from French; Gonzalex-Prada

Letters from French; F. Perrault Harry and Myrianne Harry

Letters from French; Henri Huchet or H. Dumesnil-Huchet

Letters from French; Pierre Jamet

Letters from French; Andrée Jouve

Letters from French; Renaud de Jouvenel

Letters from French; Geneviève and Renée Kammerlocher

Box 8.

Letters from French; J. Marescq

Letters from French; E.A. Margard

Letters from French; Jacques Martin

Letters from French; Pierre Martrou

Letters from French; M.A. Michalot

Letters from French; Yvonne Quatreboeufs

Letters from French; M. Rolland, 1925-1931

Letters from French; M. Rolland, 1932-1938

Letters from French; M. Rolland, 1939-1958

Reel 74.5

Letters from French; Marcelle Soulier

Letters from French; Noémi Stricker

Letters from French; Jules Supervielle

Letters from French; Henriette Viauvy

Letters from French; Andrée Viollis

Letters from French; Auguste P. Vistel

Letters from French; Pierre Vorms

Letters from French; miscellaneous

Box 9.

Letters from Germans; Lini Diebold Allen

Letters from Germans; M. Boeck

Letters from Germans; Emma Bolda

Letters from Germans; Warner Diebold

Letters from Germans; Drewing

Letters from Germans; Drewing (cont.)

Letters from Germans; Ella Gerlach

Letters from Germans; Almut Glöckner

Letters from Germans; Käthie Graf

Letters from Germans; W.L. Alexander Grey

Letters from Germans; Kathe Griese

Box 10., reel 74.6

Letters from Germans; Luis Hilgart

Letters from Germans; Gertrud Christiane Jacobi

Letters from Germans; Erich Jaeckel

Letters from Germans; Hugo Kaiser

Letters from Germans; Koch

Letters from Germans; Krausse

Letters from Germans; Helene Meier-Graefe

Letters from Germans; Muller-Loheyde

Letters from Germans; Neumeister

Letters from Germans; Hildegarde Nonne

Letters from Germans; Hertha Redlich

Letters from Germans; Emile Ritter

Box 11.

Letters from Germans; Schlenther

Letters from Germans; Karl-Heinz Scholz

Letters from Germans; Eleanore Siebert

Letters from Germans; Helen Stolte

Letters from Germans; Dieter Strecker

Letters from Germans; Walburga Sia Strecker

Letters from Germans; Isabelle Wartenberg

Letters from Germans; Waldaestel

Letters from Germans; Weihnachten

Letters from Germans; Else von Zawackly

Letters from Germans; Miscellaneous

Box 12.

Letters from Holland; Bartholomew De Ligt

Letters from Holland; Ina De Ligt

Letters from Holland; Baron R.A. De Lyndon

Letters from Holland; Henriette Kuipers

Letters from Holland; Madeleime Kuipers

Letters from Holland; Nicolaas Storm

Letters from India; Lady Ahala Bose

Letters from India; A.C. Chakravarty

Letters from India; Har Dayal

Letters from India; Gangulee

Letters from India; Sudhin N. Ghose

Letters from India; Haridas T. Muzumdar

Letters from Italians; Guglielmo Ferrero

Letters from Italians; D.A. Lorenzelli

Letters from Italians; Edvige Maioli

Letters from Italians; Charles Oliva

Letters from Italians; A. Ratti

Letters from Italians; Count Carlo Sforza

Letters from Japanese; Haru Matsui

Box 13.

Letters from Jews; Eugenia Victorovna Alexandrova

Letters from Jews; Rachel Athie

Letters from Jews; Gertrude Baer

Letters from Jews; Angelica Balabanoff

Letters from Jews; G. Bermann

Letters from Jews; Martin Boskin

Letters from Jews; Anna Braginskaia

Letters from Jews; K. Bron

Letters from Jews; Rose Cox

Letters from Jews; Rose Fischer

Letters from Jews; Ladislas Franck

Letters from Jews; Samuel H. Friedman

Letters from Jews; Anneliese Friedsam

Reel 74.7

Letters from Jews; Hinde Goitein

Letters from Jews; Paul Glucksman

Letters from Jews; Harry Goldberg

Letters from Jews; Alfons and Lina Goldschmidt

Letters from Jews; Victor Gollancz

Letters from Jews; L. Gourfein-Welt

Letters from Jews; Eleanor Guttman

Letters from Jews; Lida Gustava Heymann

Letters from Jews; B.W. Huebsch

Letters from Jews; George B. Hurzar

Letters from Jews; Sara Jack

Box 14.

Letters from Jews; E. Jacobson

Letters from Jews; Abraham Kaufman

Letters from Jews; Hans Kohn

Letters from Jews; Ija Korner

Letters from Jews; E. M. Krymholtz

Letters from Jews; Blanche Lévy

Letters from Jews; Litvinov

Letters from Jews; J. Magnus

Letters from Jews; Emile Megevaud

Letters from Jews; R. Pallay Panken

Letters from Jews; Rosika Schwimmer

Letters from Jews; E. Shaub

Letters from Jews; B. Shenderova

Letters from Jews; Bessie Simon

Letters from Jews; Arthur B. Spingarn

Letters from Jews; Josephine and Maria Steinhaus

Letters from Jews; Sheba Strunsky

Letters from Jews; Henrietta Szold

Letters from Jews; Frank Tannenbaum

Letters from Jews; Bess Tapper

Letters from Jews; T. Tschlenoff

Letters from Jews; Jerry Tucker

Letters from Jews; Rachel Wassermann

Letters from Jews; Siegfried Weisberger

Box 14.

Letters from Jews; Gretl Wertheimer

Letters from Jews; Lloyd Wisoff

Letters from Jews; Bertram Wolfe

Letters from Jews; Ella Wolfe

Letters from Jews; Abraham Zurckel

Box 15.

Letters from Latin America (Argentina); Gabriel del Maso

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Ignace Barreto Carrera d'Araujo

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Zilda Assumpcao

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Maria Rita Burnier

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Julio Xavier Marques do Couto

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Irinéa Chaves

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); José Geraldo de Faria

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Frota-Pessoa

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Olympio Guilherme

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Fernando Jungueiro

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Gustavo Lerma

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Berta Lutz

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Anna Amelia Carnero de Mendonca

Letters from Latin America (Brazil); Rabello

Letters from Latin America (Chile); Grado

Letters from Latin America (Chile); Consuelo Lemétaver

Letters from Latin America (Chile); Gabriela Mistral

Letters from Latin America (Chile); Teresa Nunez

Letters from Latin America (Chile); M. Poblete-Froncoso

Letters from Latin America (Chile); Laura Rodig

Letters from Latin America (Chile); Marta Vergara

Box 16.

Letters from Latin America (Colombia); Maria Brégard de Trujillo

Letters from Latin America (Costa Rico); J. Garcia-Monje

Letters from Latin America (Cuba); America Gonzalez

Letters from Latin America (Mexico); José Miguel Bejarano

Letters from Latin America (Mexico); Elisa Cortes

Letters from Latin America (Mexico); Hermelinda Reyes

Letters from Latin America (Mexico); Antonieta Rivas de Blair Rivas

Letters from Latin America (Mexico); Concha Romero James

Letters from Latin America (Mexico); Jose Vasconcelos

Letters from Latin America (Mexico); Carmen Villegas

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Laura Meneses de Albizu-Campos

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Maria Jésus Alvaeadro-Rivera

Box 16.

Letters from Latin America (Peru); G. Arbaiza

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Belaunde

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Maria Billinghurst

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Julia Codesido

Reel 74.8

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Felipe Cossio del Pomar

Letters from Latin America (Peru); C.M. Cox

Letters from Latin America (Peru); U. Delande

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Anita Denegri

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Luis Dórich T

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Edwin Elmore

Letters from Latin America (Peru); J.A. Enoinas

Letters from Latin America (Peru); E. Enriquez

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Evans

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Falcon

Box 17.

Letters from Latin America (Peru); E.J. Goicochea

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Angélica Gutiérrez González

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Luis E. Heysen

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Alberto Hidalgo

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Carmen de Pinillo

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Raúl Porras

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Magda Portal

Letters from Latin America (Peru); F. Posada

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Alfredo González Prada

Letters from Latin America (Peru); María Rosa [UNK]

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Samuel Ribeiro Ibánez

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Enrique Rojas

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Carmen Saco

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Luis Alberto Sańchez

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Manuel Seoane

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Manuel Ugarte

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Alberto Ulloa

Letters from Latin America (Peru); M. [UNK] Diaz

Letters from Latin America (Peru); Z. Evangelina Antay [UNK] de Vaughan

Letters from Latin America (Puerto Rico); Pedro Albizu Campos

Letters from Latin America (Puerto Rico); Carmen Luisa de Morales

Letters from Latin America (Puerto Rico); Julia M. and Luis F. [UNK]

Letters from Latin America; Miscellaneous

Box 18.

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); J.M. Akeyemi Adamah

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); J. Sabah Adoo

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); Asari Kisseado

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); Chrissie Kisseado

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); John Kisseado

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); Julius Kisseado

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); Rita Kisseado

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); E.W. Martinson

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); N. Quarmina-Hesse

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); H.A.B. Jones-Quartey

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); Rubey Quartey-Papafio

Letters from Negroes (Gold Coast); F.B. Ofori Owoo

Letters from Negroes (Sierra Leone); Adelaide Casely-Hayford

Letters from Negroes (Sierra Leone); Gladys Casely-Hayford

Letters from Negroes (Sierra Leone); Charles Easman

Box 19.

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); Jacob Browne

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); Sarah C. Brownell

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); Wilhelmina Bryant

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); Nathaniel H.B. Cassell

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); E. Gahie-Dodge

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); L.A. Grimes

Reel 74.9

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); Chalmcia Holden

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); Johnson

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); J.D. Kwee-Baker

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); S.O. Logomoh

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); K. Zumba Mbadiwe

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); Eva Morris

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); N.H. Sie-Brownell

Letters from Negroes (Liberia); S.B. Yudosie

Letters from Negroes ([UNK] America); (Brazil)

Letters from Negroes (French America); (Guiana, Martinique, Haiti); Etienne

Miscellaneous Correspondence

Box 20.

Letters from Persians; Mirza Ahmad Sohrab

Letters from Poles; Miscellaneous

Letters from Portugese; Miscellaneous

Letters from Russians (Armenians); Marguerite

Letters from Russians (Armenians); S. Dildaroff

Letters from Russians (Armenians); Kazandjian

Letters from Russians (Armenians);Paul Manoushagian

Letters from Russians (Armenians);Dirouki Sdakian

Letters from Russians (Armenians);Ossi Topouridze

Letters from Russians (Armenians);Clement Topouridze

Letters from Russians (Armenians);Constantin Topouridze

Letters from Russians (Armenians);Helene Topouridze

Letters from Russians (Armenians);Olga Topouridze

Letters from Russians (Armenians);Tamar Topouridze

Box 21.

Correspondence

Letters from the Russians: Natasha Iakovlev

Letters from the Russians: Lydie Myrtenkeyn

Letters from the Russians: A. Roubakine

Letters from the Russians: Alexandra L. Tolstoy

Letters from the Russians: Olga Tolstoy

Reel 74.10

Letters from the Russians: Alexander Yakovleff

Letters from the Russians: Miscellaneous

Letters from the Spaniards: Salvador de Madariaga

Letters from the Spaniards: Ramon Gomez de la Serna

Letters from the Spaniards: Miscellaneous

Box 22.

Letters from Swiss: Charles Baumann

Letters from Swiss: Ernest Bauman and Family

Letters from Swiss: Helene Gay

Letters from Swiss: Edith Ghosh

Letters from Swiss: Louisa Jaques

Letters from Swiss: Miscellaneous

Letters from Syrians: Inham El Azem

Letters from Syrians: Joumana Mouyad Azem

Letters from Syrians: Essaf Bayazid

Letters from Syrians: Ousama Bayazid

Letters from Syrians: Wildad Khatib

Letters from Syrians: Effat Mamlook

Letters from Syrians: Souad Mouahkih

Letters from Syrians: Amatilatif Mouayid-El Azem

Letters from Syrians: Farcedah El Akle

Letters from Syrians: Hassen Hemdan

Letters from Syrians: Ramzie Grayeb

Box 23.

Letters from Belgians-Danes-Dutch

Letters from Children (African)

Letters from Mildred Chao

Letters from Sylvia Fu

Reel 74.11

Letters from Chinese Girls and Women

Letters from Chinese Men

Box 24.

Letters from French

Letters from French (continued)

Letters from Constantin Topouridze

Letters from Andreé Etienne

Letters from Andreé Etienne (continued)

Reel 74.12

Letters from Madeleine Boutaud-Lacombe

Box 25.

Letters from Lini Diebold Allen

Letters from the Drewing and Drewing-Scholz Families

Drewing and Drewing-Scholz Families

Letters from Anneliese Friedsam

Letters from Germans

Letters from Germans - continued

Box 26.

Letters from Almut Glockner

Reel 74.13

Letters from Germans

Letters from Hungary - India - Italy - Japan - Portugal - Spain - Yogoslavia

Letters from Jews

Letters from Jews - continued

Box 27.

Letters from Mulattos in Latin America

Letters from Near East

Letters from Near East - continued

Letters from Swiss

Reel 74.14

Letters from Russians

Letters from Natasha Yakovlef

Letters from West Africans

Table of contents	Abstract Anna Melissa Graves (b. 1875, d.1964) was a writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist. From the 1920s to the 1940s Graves traveled through Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East. She taught school in many of these places and maintained a voluminous correspondence with the teachers, acquaintances, and former students she met on her travels.
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