Series: Correspondence, 1873-1981   

Scope Note: The War Orphan materials, 1917-1925, are described in detail. These are interfiled with the rest of the correspondence. Correspondence is arranged chronologically.

Among the correspondents represented in the collection are:

• Bramson, Ben
• Acheson, Barclay
• Adams, Frederick Baldwin
• Adler, Elmer
• Adomeit, Ruth Elizabeth
• Aley, Maxwell
• Baisnée, Jules Albert
• Ball, Bertha (Crosley)
• Ball, Edmund Arthur
• Ball, Edward Osborn
• Ball, Elisabeth Woodworth
• Ball, George Alexander
• Ball, George Harvey
• Ball, Lucina Amelia
• Ball, Sarah (Rogers)
• Ball, William Hudson
• Barrett, Clifton Waller
• Beall, Karen (Freidmann)
• Beals, Ralph Albert
• Beard, Frances (Birkhead)
• Bennet, Gertrude (Witschief)
• Bertke, Wilson A.
• Blanck, Jacob Nathaniel
• Boocook, William Henry
• Borden, Fanny; Boston Evening Transcript, Notes and Queries Editor
• Boyce, Sherman A.
• Brewer, Frances Joan (Werner)
• Brigham, Clarence Saunders
• Brooks, Alfred Mansfield
• Cahoon, Herbert Fuller
• Cary, Melbert Brinkerhoff
• Chandler, John E.
• Chaundy, Leslie
• Cleverdon, Douglas
• Clifford, Henry
• Cohen, Morton Norton
• Coleman, Satis Narrona (Barton)
• Conklin, J. Howell
• Couse, Eanger Irving
• Cross, Emily Richmond
• Cunningham, Jesse
• Delafield, Edward Coleman
• Dickerson, Luther L.
• Dobell, Percy John
• Dubester, Henry Joachim
• Dunthorne, Robert Gordon
• Duschnes, Philip C.
• Dutton, Leland Summers
• Ellis, Richard Williamson
• Embury, Lucy
• Everett, Louella Dorothea
• Finch, Edward J.
• Fortune, William
• Foster, Thomas Henry
• Frost, E. H.
• Funk, Clotilde (Embree)
• Gooch, Robert Charles
• Goodspeed, George T.
• Grady, Marian Behethlan
• Greenaway, Emerson
• Greenberg, May
• Greene, Marian H.
• Griffith, Reginald Harvey
• Grimes, James Walter
• Halliday, Bernard
• Hamille, Frances
• Harkins, Lee F.
• Harper, Henry Howard
• Harzof, Max
• Haviland, Virginia
• Heaney, Howell J.
• Heiman, Samuel
• Henne, Frances E.
• Hodges, Fletcher
• Hook, James Lewis
• Hostick, King V.
• Howe, Randall Lionel Bentham
• Howell, John Gilson
• Howland, Virginia C. (Lazarus)
• Hughes, A. A.
• Hull, Maude (Pollard)
• Hunt, Mabel Leigh
• Hunter, Dard
• Hyde, Donald Frizell
• Jackson, Stuart Wells
• Jaggard, William
• Jervoise, Edwyn
• Johnson, Edna
• Kerlan, Irwin
• Kimbrough, Emily
• King, Marian
• Kirstein, Lincoln
• Kneeland, Thomas E.
• Krull, Theresa Vinton (Pierce)
• Lambert, Edward
• Landon, Alfred Mossman
• Lawler, Percy E.
• Leigh, William Colston
• Le Mair, Henriette Willebeek
• Lenard, Alexander
• McCorison, Marcus Allen
• McCreary, Samuel L.
• McFadden, Marian
• Mackall, Leonard Leopold
• McKearin, George Skinner
• McKell, David McCandless
• McNitt, Esther Uhl
• Masten, Helen Adams
• Mauck, Joseph William
• Mears & Stainbank, firm
• Meeks, Bernard M.
• Melcher, Fredric Gershom
• Miller, Bertha Everett (Mahony)
• Montgomery, Lall G.
• Morley, Christopher Darlington
• Morris, Ernest
• Moss, Frances Dallam
• Mott, Howard S.
• Muir, Percival Horace
• Naesmyth, George Cresswell
• Naesmyth of Posso
• Ney, Lew
• Nichols, John Robert
• Norris, Lester J.
• O'Melia, Pauline Agnes
• Opie, Iona Margaret Balfour (Archibald)
• Opie, James
• Opie, Peter Mason
• Owen, Elsie H.
• Owsley, Alvin Mansfield
• Paine, Alfred White
• Palfrey, Thomas Rossman
• Papantonio, Michael
• Parma, V. Valta
• Pearson, James Larkin
• Peckham, Howard Henry
• Pettit, Henry Jewett
• Plimpton, George Arthur
• Plum, Dorothy Alice
• Preminger, Alexander Salo
• Quarles, Diana (Pittman)
• Randall, David Anton
• Ratchford, Fannie Elizabeth
• Reichner, Hugo
• Retz, Charles
• Riley, Elizabeth Mildred
• Ripley, Robert LeRoy
• Robb, Wallace Havelock
• Roberts, Edith Adelaide
• Robinson, Lionel Keir
• Robinson, Wilbur J.
• Rogers, Arthur
• Rogers, James H.
• Roscoe, Sydney
• Rosen, Katherine N.
• Rosenthal, Erwin
• Ryskamp, Charles Andrew
• St. John, Judith
• Salminen, Carl H.
• Sanford, William Wells
• Sauvage, Elsie (Peddie)
• Schatzki, Walter
• Scholle, Hardinge
• Scott, Carrie Emma
• Scott, Lorene Laura
• Shaffer, Ellen Kate
• Shaw, John MacKay
• Shaw, Margaret M.
• Shipton, Clifford Kenyon
• Sickels, Evelyn Ray
• Siegel, Max
• Smith, Alice (Gullen)
• Smith, Charles Alphonso
• Spiller, Ethel M.
• Stark, Lewis Morgrage
• Stark, Sheldon H.
• Starr, Allen E.
• Stevens, Lydia (Hathaway)
• Stewart, Donald S.
• Stone, Malcolm Newton
• Stone, Wilbur Macey
• Stonehill, Charles Archibald
• Suter, Thomas Lyttleton
• Sutherland, Robert Lee
• Swann, Arthur
• Swift, Mary Ella (Lyon)
• Targ, William
• Tregaskis, James & Son, firm
• Tribolet, Harold W.
• Tully, Alice
• Turnbull, Leonard Young
• The Typophiles
• Walker, Dugald Stewart
• Walters, Thomas
• Washburn, William Lewis
• Weber, Carl Jefferson
• Welch, James d'Alté Aldrige
• Wells, Edgar Huldekoper
• Wells, Herman B
• Wetzel, Julian S.
• Wiggins, James Russell
• Wise, Murray Monroe
• Woodworth, Marion (Towne)
• Wright, Philip A.
• Yelton, Donald Charles
• Zigrosser, Carl
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1873-1890 

1891-1892   

1893   

1894-1895   

1896   

1897-1900   

1901-1917   

Emily Cross, Paris, for the Comite Franco-Americain Pour La Protection Des Enfants de la Frontiere. To Elisabeth Ball, Oakhurst, Muncie, Indiana. 1917, Aug. 12    (T.L.S. --typed letter signed, 1 p.)

About Solange Santens

Virginia Howland (Mrs. Charles P. Howland, Sec'y. Central Supply Committee), Comite Franco-Americain.... To Mrs. Ball. 1917?    (A. and T.L.S., 2 p.)

About Solange Santens and a printed list of clothing for one year.

1918   

Solange Santens to Mrs. G. A. Ball, Oakhurst, Muncie, Indiana. 1918, Jan. 18   

In French. (1 p. with envelope of the Children of the Frontier)

Mme. Marlez, "pour Oudre," Paris, to Elisabeth Ball. 1918, Dec. 30   

In French. (A.C.S. --autograph card signed, postcard - New Years Greeting)

Postcard photograph of ten children, all of whom are named, including no. 7, Solange Santens, at Verneuil. 1918, Dec.   

War Orphans Committee. Official information about Robert Douard, his family, and a photograph. 1918?     (2 items)

1919-1920   

Mme. Veuve Douard to Dear Benefactor and Benefactress. 1919, Feb. 14   

In French. (A.L.S., 4 p.)

About her son Robert. Envelope addressed to French Relief Fund, War Orphans Committee, 44 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Accompanied by English translation.

Envelope only addressed to Miss Elisabeth Ball from Children of the Frontier. No letter. 1919, Mar. 28   

Mme. Veuve Douard to "Cher Bienfacteur." 1919, May 2   

In French. (A.L.S., 3 p.)

About her son Robert. Envelope addressed to Elisabeth Ball and Mr. George Ball of the French Relief Fund, War Orphans Committee, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Enclosed are two postcards, dated 2 May 1919 from Robert Douard, one to Elisabeth Ball and one to Mrs. George Ball.

Solange Santens to Elisabeth Ball. 1919, Aug. 21   

In French. (A.L.S., 1 p. with envelope of the Children of the Frontier)

Robert Douard to Elisabeth Ball. 1919, Dec. 3   

In French.

Postcard--New Years Greetings.

Both enclosed in envelope in care of the War Orphans Committee, Mrs. Lucius B. Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Solange Santens to "Marraine." 1919, Dec. 21   

In French. (A.L.S., 2 p.)

Elisabeth Ball to Solange Santens. 1919?     (Draft of A.L.S. with French translation, 2 p. each)

Solange Santens to "Marraine." 1920, Feb. 2   

In French. (A.L.S., 2 p.)

Solange Santens to "Marraine." 1920, Dec. 29   

In French. (A.L.S., 2 p.)

Letters to George A. Ball from Indiana Boys School, Plainville. 1920, Dec.-1921, Jan.   

1921   

Mrs. Lucius B. Swift, the War Orphan Committee of the French Relief, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Miss Ball. 1921, Feb. 25    (2 p.)

About Robert Douard and Lucienne Chaumet. Encloses carbon of "...my stories of my visits to our war orphans..." including Meurthe-et-Moselle and Nancy with an internal date of November 2. Pages 1-3.

Mrs. Lucius B. Swift to Miss Ball. 1921, Mar. 16    (2 p.)

About Robert Douard and Lucienne Chaumet. Encloses carbon of "visits," with internal date of October 27. Pages 5-7.

1922-1925   

Lucienne Chaumet to "Chere protectrice." 1922, May 19   

In French. (2 p.)

Encloses printed form about contribution and invoice for clothing with envelope addressed to Elisabeth Ball, Oakhurst, Muncie, Indiana.

Nevart, Constantinope. To "Dear American." 1922, June 1   

In Turkish.

Accompanied by English translation and form letter from Near East Relief, Constantinople, Orphanage Department, May 25, 1922, with a lace doily. Envelope addressed to Miss Elisabeth Ball, Oakhurst, Muncie, Indiana.

Lucienne Chaumet to "Chere Bienfaitrice." 1922, Aug. 3   

In French. (A.L.S., 2 p.)

Encloses printed form for contribution. With envelope to Miss Elisabeth Ball.

Mrs. Lucius B. Swift to Mrs. Ball. 1922, Oct. 31 

Report on pensions for war orphans.

Lucienne Chaumet to "Cher bienfaitrice." 1922, Nov. 16   

In French. (A.L.S., 2 p.)

Encloses printed form for contribution and photograph of Lucienne. With envelope to Miss Elisabeth Ball.

Lucienne Chaumet to Cher Marraine. 1922, Nov. 26   

In French. (A.L.S., 1 p.)

Accompanied by A.D. 1 p. (in French). Information on Lucienne's family, with English translation.

Lucienne Chaumet to "Chere bienfaitrice." 1923, Jan. 24   

In French. (A.L.S., 2 p.)

With envelope to Mademoiselle Elisabeth Ball. With printed form for contribution.

Envelope of Mrs. Lucius B. Swift to Mrs. George A. Ball., 1923, May 7 

enclosure only: Envelope to Madam Lucius B. Swift, postmarked 1923, April 21

Letter of Henri from Luneville. 1925, Feb. 14    (A.L.S., 2 p.)

Letter of Lambotin Charles to Nancy. 1925, Feb. 15    (A.L.S., 4 p.)

With photograph of the [Lambotin family?]; printed form for contribution to the Lambotin family.

Envelope only to Elisabeth Ball [Fund?]. May have enclosed the two previous letters. 1925, Mar. 19   

1926-1927   

1928   

1929   

1930-1932, Sept.   

1932, Oct.-Dec.   

1933   

1934-1935   

1936, Jan.-May   

1936, June-Dec.   

1937   

1938   

1939-1940   

1941   

1942   

1943   

1944   

1945   

1946   

1947   

1948-1949   

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1956-1960   

1961   

1962, Jan.-July   

1962, Aug.-Dec.   

1963 

1964   

1965-1966   

1967-1968   

1969   

1970   

1971-1981   

A-E n.d.   

F-Z n.d.   

Solange Santens to "Cher Marraine."  

In French. (A.L.S., 2 p.)

Solange Santens to "Chere Marraine."  

In French. (A.L.S., 1 p.)

Solange Santens Photo 1

Photograph of Solange Santens, alone, accompanied by penciled note.

Solange Santens Photo 2

Photograph of Solange Santens with a group of unidentified children.

Morris, Ernest. The Angelus Bell. n.d.