Additional Correspondence and Papers: Edith How-Martyn and Margaret Sanger

Date:
1915-1961
Reference:
PP/EPR/H
Part of:
Eileen Palmer: collection of material on birth control, including papers of Edith How-Martyn and Olive Johnson
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

This Section consists primarily of correspondence between Edith How-Martyn and Margaret Sanger. Their correspondence covers many topics but generally is on the theme of their respective, and later combined, international birth control tours. They also discuss publications, mutual acquaintances, etc. Other organisations with which they corresponded include The World Union of Women, National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, Birth Control International Centre, Women's Indian Association, The Malthusian League, The Watumull Foundation among others.

There are also newspaper cuttings relating to How-Martyn's and Sanger's lecture tours along with journal articles and texts of speeches by How-Martyn, Sanger and others, plus some printed ephemera.

The catalogue entries are based on the detailed listing created by Margaret Sanger Papers Project, New York University, supplied with the donated material in 2016 (accessions 2280 and 2297).

Publication/Creation

1915-1961

Physical description

44 files

Finding aids

Database description based on the detailed listing created by Margaret Sanger Papers Project, New York University, supplied with the donated material in 2016.

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