European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 20 the stars and stripes thursday june 2, 1977 modern living women s lib Rary at Radcliffe by Israel Sii Enker new York times Radcliffe College in Cam Bridge mass. Collects not Only women but women s collections in act a whole Library on women s history. Comfortably housed in the Radcliffe Yard this Monument to women began with n collection donated in 1943 by mud Wood Park Ika Cliffe class of 1h9ii. First presi Dent of the league of women voters. To supervise the Monument Radcliffe s Pru Sidcot appointed a Board headed by Harvard s prof. Arthur m. Schlesinger. The distinguished historian who in 1922 deplored colleagues writing As though one Naif of our population have been negligible factors in our country s  after so Liesinger s death in 19b5, the women s archives was renamed in Honor of him and his widow. The Arthur and a  Schluc Singer Library on the history of women in America overflows with source material of rare pathos on rights and suffrage social Reform professions politics labor govern ment feminism household arts. Among the collections arc those of the he Cher Slowe family of the National organization for women and of the Lydia f Inkham Medicine co. In 3.371 folders 60 volumes and several untapped bottles. Here repose accessible to scholars the Susan b. Anthony papers purchased at auction by a Radcliffe trustee and his wife. Included is the manuscript of the Suffragette s text on the True woman 1857 Why is it that the pages of All history glow with the names of illustrious men. While Only Here and there a Lone woman appears who. Like the eccentric Cornet Marks the centuries and Here is the letter from Anthony l Comstock. Once guardian of morals in the United slates Post office department to miss Florence Cross who had received obscenity through the mails you arc a Brave and heroic woman. There Are few who would have the courage to do what you have done to place in our hands the infamous things that have been sent to you through the mail. I will do All in my Power to avenge the insult offered  in its most recent report on the years 1974 to 1976. The Library announces the acquisition from Corliss Lamont. Of correspondence on what it Calls a shameful episode in when s struggle for fair conditions of employment at a neighbouring institution. The contents of two Large boxes document the affair of the Harvard scrub women. As the Schlesinger report puts it the controversy arose when Harvard dismissed with out notice Nineteen scrub women in november and december of 1929, rather than pay them the minimum wage of 37 cents per hour. The Field of women s history has grown so dramatically that the Library is collect ing not Only materials of that history but is also documenting the history of that Histo  Rockefeller foundation Money the Schlesinger has been compiling an Oral history of pioneering in birth control and abortion Mary s. Calderone medical director of planned parenthood. 1953 to 1964 every Oiler year 1 would write to the Ama trustees and i would say. Look Here s whal s happening. Don l you think it s High time the Ama reconsidered its position and they d write Back formally and say. No. We see no reason to change our  in the Library on the history of women in America. Suffragettes in Washington in 1913, marching for the right to vote. Sarah r. Weddington who successfully pleaded the landmark abortion Case before the supreme court. I can remember arguing to an imaginary jus Tice Burger in my mind what it would be like to be pregnant and nol want to be. I m not sure i Ever really phrased that in a Way i was satisfied  Lana Clarke Phelan. A Leader in the abortion Campaign ". When i got out of the Hospital the doctor told me nol to have another baby or i d die. Well thai scared me a Little bit. Hut he did t Tell me How not to. Not a word about contraception. Of. I asked him How nol to. And he said stay away from your husband Loraine Iceson Campbell president. Planned parenthood. 1956-1959 ". The whole women s movement or what Ever it s called leaves me  but few enthusiasms Are scorned. In the office of the Library director simmers a Cookbook collection largely reflecting the to secs of its donors. Samuel and Narcissa Chamberlain. The Library had Long sought a first edition of the Boston cooking school Cook  by Fannie Farmer and finally found one in the Library of the late Schlesinger. His widow who is 90. Promptly donated it. My Mother is an excellent  said prof. Arthur m. Schlesinger or. Mother and son Are the two honorary members of the Library s advisory Board. Though the recipes on the Library shelves can Hardy be improved on much of the editorial sauce is Cju re. In cooking As men Uke it 11930george Frederick complains about women who come out of the Kitchen and slur ail interest in food in favor of chimerical pursuits of one kind and another which so often come to naught. The american frugal housewife so plainly 19th century1, is contemporary enough to suggest substitutes for Coffee ". Some use dry Brown bread crusts and roast them others soak Rye Grain in rum and roast it others roast peas in the same Way As Coffee. None of these Are very Good. After All the Best Economy is to go  the Library also collects women s periodicals everything from seventeen whose charms can be intoxicating to so Bering thoughts whose message is abstinence. Published by women for sobriety inc. This journal asks How much debris do we Curry with us Inlo sobriety from those Nightmare Days of drinking about 270 manuscript collections Are catalogued the rest Are future toll. The Betty Friedan collection for example awaits its cataloguer who will find the accumulated papers and oddments a perfect delectation of random order. Linda Henry carefully skirts these riches As she toils on the papers of Joanna and Martha Elizabeth Bucknall Sisters who established a girls school in Newark in1841. Afler finishing the Bucknall miss Henry May turn to the papers of Jeannette Kan 11880-1973. The first woman elected to Congress and the Only person there who voted against participation in both world wars. Six months have been ullo Ted to cataloguing her papers under a Grant from the National endowment for the humanities which also provided funds for transcribing and editing the Mannie a callers written by a reformed prostitute and former mor Phine addict to Fanny Quincy mrs. Mark do Wolfe Howe excerpt i lived in a luxurious Home until 1 was sixteen and then for years Afler that had the easy life Hal immoral living brings and i just Cunnutt be moral enough to see where Drudgery is belter than a Lifet Lazy vice