Box 182
Container
Contains 5 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Evelyn Chavoor, Secretary to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas to Pearl S. Buck, 1949 October 28
Item — Box: 182, Folder: 2, Item: 1
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_182_2_0001
Scope and Contents
Chavoor acknowledges the late receipt of the letter and details busy circumstances with Douglas' 1950 Senate campaign kickoff, travel and her work on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Letter from Pearl S. Buck to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1949 September 19
Item — Box: 182, Folder: 2, Item: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_182_2_0002
Scope and Contents
Buck is sending this letter as a preface to a letter she is forwarding from a Japanese woman (Telon Mogi) regarding "her disappointment with American women, and in general with the more spiritual aspects of our democracy". Buck forwarded this letter to "a few of our very best women" in hopes that they will write Mogi back. According to the archivist's own research, Buck also forwarded this letter to Eleanor Roosevelt who did respond to Mogi, according to documents found in the Anna Eleanor...
Letter from Telon Mogi to Pearl S. Buck, 1949 May 12
Item — Box: 182, Folder: 2, Item: 3
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_182_2_0003
Scope and Contents
The author of this letter is a Japanese woman living in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In this letter, she discusses Japanese-United States relations, cultural differences, wealth disparity between occupying American soldiers and Japanese people, and the United States occupation of Japan.
Letter from Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas to Shigemi Mazawa, Editor of SCENE Magazine, Chicago Publishing Corporation, 1950 March 1
Item — Box: 182, Folder: 2, Item: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_182_2_0004
Scope and Contents
Douglas thanks Mr. Mazawa for his letter stating his interest in H.J.Res.238 and complies with his request for a photograph.
Letter from Shigemi Mazawa, Editor of SCENE Magazine, Chicago Publishing Corporation to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1950 February 27
Item — Box: 182, Folder: 2, Item: 5
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_6_182_2_0005
Scope and Contents
Letter thanks Douglas for her support of Japanese Americans and other minority groups, her support of H.J.Res.238, confirms the magazine will publish her letter and will run an editorial regarding the resolution, and asks for a photograph of Douglas.