Box 180
Container
Contains 7 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Lorena Hickock to Helen Douglas concerning Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, April 17, 1945
Item — Box: 180, Folder: 18
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_180_18_2
Letter from Lorena Hickock to Helen Douglas concerning Maureen Corr, December 11, 1945
Item — Box: 180, Folder: 18
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_180_18_1
Letter from Lorena Hickock to Helen Douglas - Personal and Affectionate, April 22, 1945
Item — Box: 180, Folder: 18
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_180_18_3
Two letters from Lorena Hickock to Helen Douglas concerning Eleanor Roosevelt and her book for Putnam, and other personal friendship topics, September 21-September 24, 1953
Item — Box: 180, Folder: 18
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_180_18_6
Letter from Lorena Hickock to Helen Douglas concerning general friendship topics, January 19, 1946
Item — Box: 180, Folder: 18
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_180_18_5
Letter from Lorena Hickock to Helen Douglas concerning the possibility that Douglas could lose election, November 11, 1950
Item — Box: 180, Folder: 18
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_180_18_8
Hickok, Lorena, Correspondence from, 1945-1946
File — Box: 180, Folder: 18
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_180_18_0000
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...