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Seller: propicker ✉️ (5,908) 100%, Location: Santa Clarita, California, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 186257621978 1930s LETTERS - FAMOUS AUTHORS, COLLEGE PRESIDENTS, DIPLOMATS RE: THEIR LECTURES. We are offering 7 letters, dated from 1934 to 1940, to Mrs. John H. Mitchell [Lucy Mitchell], Springfield, Massachusetts from prominent lecturers made up of college presidents, authors, diplomats, political advisors, and college professors.  Each letter is signed by the sender. 1.) 1934 - typewritten letter from Tyler Dennett, who was President of Williams College, Williamstown, MA, from 1934 to 1937.   He thanks her for her check and says he had a pleasant visit with her in Springfield.  Tyler Dennett resigned as president of Williams College after only three years due to his disagreement with college board members when they wanted to purchase the Greylock Hotel with college funds.  Dennett believed the funds should be used to add faculty and equipment rather than buying property which didn't serve any educational purpose.  In a speech in 1937, he said he believed the college should try to enroll more students from public high schools rather than "rich boys" from prep schools. 2.) l936 - handwritten letter from Arthur Willert, British journalist & diplomat.  Letter is on Pierson College Master's House note paper, written while he was on a lecture tour.  He says it was a pleasure to speak to the Century Club [Springfield].  During WWI, in 1917 to 1918, he was Secretary of the British War Mission in Washington, D.C.   Through his American contacts he supplied the British government with valuable information concerning American politics during the war, and also provided American officials with Great Britain's views.  As head of the Foreign Office, he was Britain's delegate to the Washington Naval Conference, the London Naval Conference, the Geneva Disarmament, and the League of Nations.   He resigned from the Foreign Office in 1935 to devote his time to writing and lecturing on British foreign policy. 3.) 1937 - typewritten letter from Albert E. Wiggam on his home stationery - "A.E.W., 241 Central Park West, New York".  Wiggam was a psychologist, lecturer and author of several books.  He was one of the most influential promotors of eugenics, which was the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of inherited desirable characteristics to improve the human race.  The letter is regarding his upcoming lecture for Mrs. Mitchell's club.  He says, "I hope I shall be able to interest your group in "Who Shall Inherit America". 4.) 1936 - handwritten letter from George E. Boas, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.  His tenure at Hopkins was interrupted by WWII, in which he served as a Commander in the Naval Reserve.  The letter is regarding his upcoming talk at the Springfield Women's Club, asking where he was to give his talk to the club. 5.) 1940 - typewritten letter from Peter H. Odegard on Amhurst College, Massachusetts note paper.  Odegard was a political science professor at numerous prestigious colleges, and also special assistant to the U. S. Secretary of Treasury during WWII.  In 1938 he published "American Politics, A Study in Political Dynamics", a book on the interactions between pressure groups, politicians, and the public that included several chapters on "the fine art of propaganda".   In the letter he says he enjoyed their discussion at the Century Club and arrived home safely in Amhurst after a blizzard. 6.) 1935 - typewritten letter from Stanley King on Amhurst College note paper addressed "Dear Lucy".  Stanley King was a lawyer, the 11th president of Amhurst College, special assistant to U. S. Secretary of War in 1917, and secretary of President Woodrow Wilson's Industrial Conference Board in 1919.  As president of Amhurst, King made many improvements to the college, provided for the education of the children of faculty members, and managed the finances of Amhurst during the Great Depression and through WWII, keeping the college in the red with no reductions in salaries.  King's letter is in response to an invitation from Mrs. Mitchell to speak at the Century Club.  He eloquently writes, "You write like Circe and her sirens......but three years ago when I came to Amhurst I adopted the policy of accepting no speaking engagements except those which I was obligated to accept ex-officio......Please accept my profound regret that I cannot meet the request of so charming a Circe......Signed "Stanley". 7.) 1937 - a second handwritten letter from Arthur Willert [Willert is described above in t he first letter].  He thanks Mrs. Mitchell for looking after him so well on the previous Wednesday.  "I don't know which encouraged me most - your charming introduction [introducing him before he gave his talk, we assume] or your excellent sandwiches that carried me through beautifully at Cambridge......" [as part of his lecture tour].  He gives Mrs. Mitchell his address in England at Headington Hill, Oxford, and says he would welcome her there for a visit 
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