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Correspondence : Romain, Madeleine and Marie Rolland.
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Alice Riggs Hunt, journalist and activist, was born in New York City June 14, 1884. She was educated at private schools in New York City, one being Graham's School for Girls from 1895-1898. In 1907-1908 she attended Columbia University as a student in the School of Journalism. Later she attended the Drake Business School. She was organizer, speaker and writer on both New York Campaigns for Women's Suffrage and in several other states. She contributed to the New York Evening Post, New York Tribune, New York Evening Mail, New York Call, London Daily Herald, La Vie Ouvriere (Paris), The Workers' Dreadnought, London, Bulletin of the Peoples, Council of America, and Bulletin of the American Woman Suffrage Association. She attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, attached to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace as special correspondent for the New York Evening Post. She attended the International Congress of Women in Zurich, 1919, as part of the American delegation. She was a member of Colonial Dames of America, Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America and Huguenot Society of New York. She died August 21, 1974 in Calgary, Alberta. (Description from original in-house finding aid)
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File consists of 36 pieces of correspondence between Alice Riggs Hunt and correspondents Phyllis Bury (later Phyllis E. Wheelock), Romain Rolland, his sister Madeleine, and his wife Marie. Much of the correspondence concerns the visits of Alice Riggs Hunt to Helena DeKay, made at the request of the Rollands and of her sister Phyllis E. Wheelock.
- Date and Place from: Apr. 28, 1919 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Romain
- Date and Place from: Sept. 6, 1920 Schoneck, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Aug. 19, 1921 Schoneck, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Sept. 7, 1921 Paris To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Bury, Phyllis Notes: Same person as Phyllis E. Wheelock, 2. "Bury" is her 1st husband's name.
- Date and Place from: Sept. 9, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Sept. 19, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Oct. 2, 1921 New York, N.Y. To Rolland, Madeleine From Hunt, Alice Riggs
- Date and Place from: Oct. 14, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Oct. 23, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Romain
- Date and Place from: Oct. 24, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Oct. 25, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Romain
- Date and Place from: Nov. 2, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Nov. 7, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Romain
- Date and Place from: Nov. 8, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Romain
- Date and Place from: Nov. 8, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Nov. 18, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Romain
- Date and Place from: Nov. 23, 1921 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Dec. 8, 1921 Paris To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Dec. 19, 1921 Paris To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: May 18, 1922 California To Rolland, Madeleine From Hunt, Alice Riggs
- Date and Place from: June 10, 1922 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: June 22, 1922 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Romain Notes: + stamped envelope
- Date and Place from: Jan. 3, 1923 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: April 24, 1924 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Jan. 16, 1925 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Romain
- Date and Place from: Jan. 16, 1925 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Romain
- Date and Place from: Apr. 21, 1925 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Dec. 17, 1926 Villeneuve, Switzerland To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Aug. 1, 1937 To Rolland, Madeleine From Hunt, Alice Riggs
- Date and Place from: Jan. 5, 1950 Paris To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: Jan 16, 1950 [Hawthorne, N.Y.] To Rolland, Marie From Hunt, Alice Riggs
- Date and Place from: June 5, 1950 Paris To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine
- Date and Place from: June 19, 1950 [Hawthorne, N.Y.] To Rolland, Marie From Hunt, Alice Riggs
- Date and Place from: July 12, 1950 Paris To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Rolland, Madeleine Attachments: plus attachments
- Date and Place from: July 22, 1950 [Hawthorne, N.Y.] To Rolland, Marie From Hunt, Alice Riggs
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In English and French.