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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1915.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 18 Folder 37
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- League to Enforce Peace (U.S.).
- League of Peace.
- Peace movements.
- World War, 1914-1918--Protest movements--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (55 leaves)
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 18 Folder 37
- Place of Publication:
- 1915.
- Summary:
- Original draft of a speech to a group organizing the League of Peace, given on 16 June 1915 at the Bellevue-Statford Hotel in Philadelphia and nominally addressed to Mayor Blankenberg. Also includes a typed transcription and a xerox of the original.
- Includes a copy of a letter of documentation from John H. Reitinger, who was Day Editor of the Associated Press in Philadelphia and was assigned to report on the organization of the League. He says that the League was organized the following day, 17 June 1915, in Independence Hall.
- OCLC:
- 155886827
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