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Book Condition: Used Good
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

United States
About Item: Chicago: July 20, 1923., 1923.. Good. - A one-and-a-quarter page letter with over 325 words typed on 2 sides of her 11 inch high by 8-3/8 inch wide light blue "4740 Dorchester Ave., Chicago" stationery. In her letter to the American lecture agent James B. Pond, the noted feminist & pacifist Rosika Schwimmer outlines her intention to offer a lecture on Henry Ford's role in the Peace Ship expedition she led in the early years of the First World War, a timely subject as Henry Ford was then campaigning for the Presidency. "Though numbers of Ford biographies and articles have been poured out, none of them contains more than a hint about his peace efforts in 1915 (Peace Ship and Neutral Conference)." She goes on to explain that she is not proposing to "make a propaganda speech for or against him, but merely to give the facts about a highly picturesque venture. It certainly would help the public to make up its mind what attitude to take in Ford's coming presidential campaign." Schwimmer also tells Pond… Read More
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