Lella Faye Secor Papers

Description

Secor's papers contain letters to her family (1915-1917), most of which were used in the book Lella Secor, A Diary in Letters, 1915-1922, edited in 1978 by her daughter-in-law, Barbara Moench Florence, and available in the SCPC library. There is also a small amount of correspondence written to her. The bulk of her papers consists of the records from pacifist causes in which Secor was active during the years 1916 through 1918. There is correspondence written by members of the Henry Ford Peace Expedition as well as newsclippings and accounts of the voyage, some written by Secor twenty years later. There are minutes from the Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation (1916), The American Neutral Conference Committee (1916-1917), and the Emergency Peace Federation (1917), as well as literature, drafts of reports, and correspondence of these organizations. There is also noteworthy material about the People's Council of America (1917-1919), the Young Democracy (1918-1923), and the American Union Against Militarism (1917-1919). Correspondents include Louis P. Lochner, Gaston Plantiff, and Rosika Schwimmer.