Anna Melissa Graves Papers

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Anna Melissa Graves 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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Anna Melissa Graves Papers

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Addams promises to send Graves information regarding the International Congress of Women.

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Addams tells Grave she is unable to give a lecture due to an engagement in New York and clarifies the meaning of an international member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

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Addams asks Graves to reach out to contacts in South America to invite them to the International Congress of Women and notes that there is currently no room for any residents at Hull-House.

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Addams tells Graves that she cannot meet in Baltimore in March and discusses her nephew John Addams Linn.

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Addams gives Graves her travel plans for Baltimore and hopes to see her there.

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Balch writes to Anna Graves in the hopes that she extends the information in her letter to Jane Addams, informing graves about Addams ill health from an 'attack' and of some trouble in South Africa and within a W.I.L board meeting.