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written by Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936, in Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Microfilm Reel 5, #24, [microform], Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988. Originals held by Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.) (Swarthmore, PA) (1914); in Diary 1914 - [No. 2]
Mead mainly writes about the state of the war, efforts to promote peace, and conversations with acquaintances about war. Frequently mentions Clara, Norman Angell, Abbott, Williams, the Cadburys, Perris, and Dr. Jordan. Lucia and Edwin Mead frequently attend and speak at unnamed peace meetings and conferences. O...
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written by Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936, in Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Microfilm Reel 5, #24, [microform], Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988. Originals held by Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.) (Swarthmore, PA) (1914); in Diary 1914 - [No. 2]
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Mead mainly writes about the state of the war, efforts to promote peace, and conversations with acquaintances about war. Frequently mentions Clara, Norman Angell, Abbott, Williams, the Cadburys, Perris, and Dr. Jordan. Lucia and Edwin Mead frequently attend and speak at unnamed peace meetings and conferences. Organizations noted: “Ch. Congress”, National Peace Council, Liberal Women’s Club, Neutrality League, Red Cross, The National Coun...
Mead mainly writes about the state of the war, efforts to promote peace, and conversations with acquaintances about war. Frequently mentions Clara, Norman Angell, Abbott, Williams, the Cadburys, Perris, and Dr. Jordan. Lucia and Edwin Mead frequently attend and speak at unnamed peace meetings and conferences. Organizations noted: “Ch. Congress”, National Peace Council, Liberal Women’s Club, Neutrality League, Red Cross, The National Council for Prevention of War, Suffrage headquarters. Diary begins after the Second Session of the Peace Conference, where participants sent telegrams to government leaders engaged in the war - the Kaiser, the Tsar, Woodrow Wilson, etc. Took the train to Constance, Germany. Notes the wartime environment in Germany – mobilization notices, anxious worshippers in Church, etc. Talks to German soldiers about the experience of war and what peace activists can do. The Meads mostly reside in London, where Lucia Mead notes that Allen Baker tried to speak to the British Prime Minister before Britain joined Belgium in the war against Germany, but Baker was unsuccessful. Angell’s Neutrality League purchased advertisements in the major papers. Voted on a statement of “substance of doctrine” peace at a committee meeting, calling for justice and law which sometimes required the use of force. Wrote an appeal to American Women, sent in to the Evening Post; Edwin Mead sent articles to the New York Times, Christian Monitor, and Times London. Lucia Mead notes the changing atmosphere of England – drinking is on the rise, the government has taken over the railroads, etc. The suffragists in jail were let out and the militants called a truce. Discusses what might have happened if England and President Wilson had taken more steps toward mediation before war broke out. Talked to soldiers staying at the YMCA before they shipped off to war. Mentions refugees coming over from the European continent. Left London for the British countryside for a vacation then got on a boat, presumably back to the US.
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Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
1914
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
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Author / Creator
Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936
Person Discussed
Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936
Archive Collection / Provenance
Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938
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written by Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936, in Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Microfilm Reel 5, #32, [microform], Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988. Originals held by Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.) (Swarthmore, PA) (1919); in Diary 1919 - [No. 1]
Mead’s diary begins onboard a ship, the Nordaam, while travelling to France. With her on the ship were Alice Thatcher Post, Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, Mrs. [Ida Floyd?] White, Mary Church Terrell, Rose Standish Nichols, Florence Kelley, Jeanette Rankin, and Emily Greene Balch. After arriving in France, Mead an...
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written by Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936, in Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Microfilm Reel 5, #32, [microform], Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988. Originals held by Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.) (Swarthmore, PA) (1919); in Diary 1919 - [No. 1]
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Mead’s diary begins onboard a ship, the Nordaam, while travelling to France. With her on the ship were Alice Thatcher Post, Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, Mrs. [Ida Floyd?] White, Mary Church Terrell, Rose Standish Nichols, Florence Kelley, Jeanette Rankin, and Emily Greene Balch. After arriving in France, Mead and her party took a train to Paris. On board the train, she was told that 100% of the men on board disapproved of their women’s congre...
Mead’s diary begins onboard a ship, the Nordaam, while travelling to France. With her on the ship were Alice Thatcher Post, Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, Mrs. [Ida Floyd?] White, Mary Church Terrell, Rose Standish Nichols, Florence Kelley, Jeanette Rankin, and Emily Greene Balch. After arriving in France, Mead and her party took a train to Paris. On board the train, she was told that 100% of the men on board disapproved of their women’s congress as “spitting on the soldiers.” While in Paris, Mead met up with many colleagues, including Rose Schneiderman, Gabrielle DuChêne, and Mary Anderson. Jane Addams received a letter from President Woodrow Wilson, copied in Mead’s diary. Wilson respected and appreciated the work of Addams, Post, Balch, and others especially regarding the Italian claims. While in Paris, Mead visited a hospital with sick American soldiers, including black men from South Carolina. The soldiers all saw the League of Nations as a good thing, but the French women just wanted the American soldiers to leave. Mead spoke to Lincoln Steffens and Tchaikovsky, who were Bolsheviks, and had varying opinions about Lenin and the future of Russia. Mead took a trip to Epernay, Reines, Laon, Courcy, and Soissons, France. She then traveled to Geneva in May, where she met Sir Thomas Barlay, and spent much time discussing the role of Switzerland as a neutral nation. Mead frequently mentioned the opinions of Professor Charles Borgeaud on the League of Nations and Europe. She then traveled to Berne and Zurich. She discovered that French suffragists did not want to attend the Washington Convention, probably the International Congress of Working Women that was held in October 1919, and that Addams was going to have a hard time living down her reputation as a pacifist. At the Hotel Petrograd, Mead met a war work girl who had southern prejudices regarding the “race issue.” Mead did not agree with her. Nichols thought spies were watching President Wilson’s wife, who was with them. Mead spent much of her time with Miss N [presumably Nichols]. She also mentioned the following people: Madeleine Doty, Ray Stannard Baker, Ethel Snowden, Yella Hertzka, Fannie Fern Andrews, Anna Eckstein, Mr. Hudson, Fran Perlen, and Jong Van Beek en Donk. She frequently discussed the topics of socialism, suffrage, pacifism, the Red Cross, the YWCA, and the League of Nations.
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Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
1919
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Front/back matter
Author / Creator
Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936
Person Discussed
Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936
Archive Collection / Provenance
Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938
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Front Cover
written by Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936, in Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Microfilm Reel 5, #33, [microform], Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988. Originals held by Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.) (Swarthmore, PA) (May 1919); in Diary 1919 - [No. 2]
This portion of Lucia Ames Mead’s diary, beginning May 10, covered the 1919 WILPF Congress in Zurich. Mead described the proceedings of the Congress in detail, including speeches, motions for resolutions, and topics of discussion from delegates and observers from many nations. Mead called Jane Addams’s leaders...
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written by Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936, in Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Microfilm Reel 5, #33, [microform], Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988. Originals held by Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.) (Swarthmore, PA) (May 1919); in Diary 1919 - [No. 2]
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This portion of Lucia Ames Mead’s diary, beginning May 10, covered the 1919 WILPF Congress in Zurich. Mead described the proceedings of the Congress in detail, including speeches, motions for resolutions, and topics of discussion from delegates and observers from many nations. Mead called Jane Addams’s leadership, “patient, fair, shrewd, and kind.” Mead gave opening remarks on the Covenant of the League of Nations. The group issued the Bo...
This portion of Lucia Ames Mead’s diary, beginning May 10, covered the 1919 WILPF Congress in Zurich. Mead described the proceedings of the Congress in detail, including speeches, motions for resolutions, and topics of discussion from delegates and observers from many nations. Mead called Jane Addams’s leadership, “patient, fair, shrewd, and kind.” Mead gave opening remarks on the Covenant of the League of Nations. The group issued the Book on the Congress to peaceful people and governments. Over the course of the Congress, Mead wrote of discussions on topics including the League of Nations, disarmament, the rights of asylum, capital punishment, socialism, trafficking in women, blockades, trade, propaganda, the rights of prisoners, education, taxation, the Red Cross, and the malnutrition of children. The group was not in total agreement that capitalism was the cause of the war, but most seemed to identify as socialists. Some argued that the League was robbing and strangling Germany. They feared the creation of Alsace-Lorraine-like areas all over Europe. Addams hoped that once the bitterness died down, a better League of Nations could be developed. Lillian Wald thought that all countries should be more concerned about child welfare, malaria, and venereal disease. Ethel Snowden criticized the Paris peace treaty because it did not work for peace, but for war, which was not what the soldiers were fighting for. Mead wrote of their society’s “birthday” and new name [Women’s International league for Peace and Freedom]. The Congress received a telegram from President Wilson and he said their message appealed to both his head and heart. After the Congress ended, Mead described a banquet with several speakers, including Jane Addams. On May 18, she traveled to Berne, then Geneva, and back to Paris, to the Hotel Petrograd. Names mentioned by Mead in the diary include: Chrystal MacMillan, Emily Greene Balch, Jeanette Rankin, Florence Kelley, Alice Thatcher Post, Lillian Wald, Madeleine Doty, Aletta Jacobs, Dr. Wilson, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Mrs. Ashton (Lord Bryce’s sister-in-law), Rosa Kulka, Lida Gustava Heymann, Catherine Marshall, Ethel Snowden, Fran Perlen, Mademoiselle La Fontaine, and Anita Augspurg.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
May 1919, 1919
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Front/back matter
Author / Creator
Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936
Person Discussed
Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936
Archive Collection / Provenance
Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938
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