Authors: Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey.
Year: 1857
Subjects: Acheson, Dean,; Blackwell, Alice Stone,; Brandeis, Louis Dembitz,; Brinton, J. Y.; Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey.; Brown, Eleanor LaRue.; Brown, Herman LaRue,; Burns, James MacGregor; Carr, Cecil T.; Catt, Carrie Chapman,; Clark, Evans,; Clark, Michael.; Comstock, Ada Louise.; Cunningham, Minnie Fisher,; Ely, Joseph B.; Frankfurter, Estelle S.; Frankfurter, Felix,; Hamilton, Alice,; Hapgood, Norman,; Holmes, Oliver Wendell,; Hurley, Katherine Driscoll.; Keep, Janet T.,; Kelley, Florence,; Kirchwey, Freda.; Kirchwey, George W.; Kirchwey, Karl.; Kirchwey, Mary Frederika,; Larue family.; Laski, Harold J.; Lathrop, Julia Clifford,; Lloyd-Jacob, George.; Ludington, Katherine.; Luscomb, Florence,; Mahoney, Mildred.; O'Keefe, Ruth Evans.; O'Neill, Tip.; Owen, Marguerite.; Park, Maud Wood,; Perkins, Frances,; Peterson, Esther,; Ratcliffe, S. K.; Roosevelt, Eleanor,; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Sherwin, Belle,; Smith, Alfred Emanuel,; Stantial, Edna Lamprey.; Thompson, Margaret Stewart Dismorr,; True, Ruth S.; Van Waters, Miriam.; Walsh, David I.; Barnard College Students.; Democratic National Committee (U.S.); Democratic Party (Mass.).; Democratic Party (U.S.); Horace Mann School (New York, N.Y.) Students.; League of Women Voters (U.S.); League of Women Voters of Boston.; League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.; Massachusetts Child Council.; Massachusetts.; Massachusetts Training Schools.; Massachusetts.; Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.; Unitarian Service Committee.; United States.; Childbirth.; Child labor.; Child rearing; Child welfare.; Courtship.; Juvenile delinquency Massachusetts.; Maternal and infant welfare Law and legislation United States.; Politics, Practical Massachusetts.; Sisters.; Women Political activity Massachusetts.; Women Suffrage United States.; Brazil Description and travel.; Europe Description and travel.; Great Britain Description and travel.; Great Britain Social life and customs; Massachusetts Politics and government.; Panama Description and travel.
Abstract: Collection includes family and general correspondence; school records; photographs; scrapbooks; and travel diaries. These papers document Dorothy Kirchwey Brown's activities for social betterment, particularly in the areas of maternal care and child welfare, child labor legislation, prison reform, and other progressive causes. Dorothy Kirchwey Brown was active in Democratic Party politics, and her correspondence is rife with Democratic politicians at all levels in Massachusetts and the United States. Correspondence, writings, and other material document Brown's work with the national and Massachusetts Leagues of Women Voters in the 1920s and 1930s. Extensive family correspondence, particularly with her husband LaRue Brown and her sister Freda Kirchwey, addresses personal subjects such as marriage difficulties, death of several young children, finances, and navigating issues with aging parents, etc. General correspondence include letters from friendships that spanned decades, documenting women's lives from youth to old age; political activism; life in England during and after World War II, etc.