Charles F. Horner letter to Mrs. Edna Gellhorn - March 30, 1918
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Madison, [Wisconsin], May 6, 1918. Mrs. George Gellhorn, c/o U.S. Food Administration, 905 Locust St., St. Louis, [Missouri] My dear Mrs. Gellhorn: You touched me very deeply by sending the lovely flowers with their symbolic bow I feel always that it is the message of hope more than any other that should come out of Belgium. All I learned about your wonderful work will continue to be an inspiration to me, and I hope I can pass the word along of what you have been accomplishing. I do wish that somehow there could be an active committee of women in St. Louis gathering funds for some part of the Belgian relief work. There are so many specific shelters for children or works for women appealing for help (I find a file of letters each time I return to my desk) that we ought all to be doing something toward answering their appeals. There is a men
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| Title | Charles F. Horner letter to Mrs. Edna Gellhorn - March 30, 1918 |
| Creator | Horner, Charles F. |
| Source | Horner, Charles F. Letter to Mrs. Edna Gellhorn. 30 March 1918. Edna Gellhorn Papers. Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Letter from Charles F. Horner of the Treasury Department to Mrs. Edna Gellhorn. He asked for Gellhorn's support of the Third Liberty Loan and to use her power of a public figure to promote people to purchase and keep their bonds. Mrs. Edna Gellhorn was an active civic leader and reformer. She became a leader in the women's suffrage movement and in 1920 became a founder and first vice president of the National League of Women Voters. |
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| Language | English |