Carrie Chapman Catt papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 9500
Subjects: Correspondence; Suffrage; Women's Centennial Congress (1940 : New York, N.Y.); Description and travel; Women's rights; Peace; National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (U.S.); Feminism; Women
Description: Correspondence, diaries, drafts of speeches and articles, subject files, biographical papers, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Catt's efforts on behalf of the women's suffrage movement, feminism, and international peace.  Also includes material on the Women's Centennial Congress of 1940 and the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War.  Diaries describe her travels to Africa, East Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Correspondents include Grace Abbott, Jane Addams, Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Newton Diehl Baker, Alice Stone Blackwell, Josephus Daniels, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ida Husted Harper, Mary Garrett Hay, Clara Hyde, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Rosette Suzanne Manus, Katherine Dexter McCormick, Maud Wood Park, Mary Gray Peck, Helen Rogers Reid, Rose Schneiderman, Rosika Schwimmer, Edna Lamprey Stantial, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, William H. Taft, Joseph P. Tumulty, William Allen White, and Justina Leavitt Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 17,349.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.

Gift, Alda Wilson and Edna Lamprey Stantial, 1947-1960.

Feminist, lecturer, and author.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.