15. Ava Helen Pauling. 1927-2013.
Manuscript and typescript leaves, correspondence, assorted biographical materials, publications and government documents related to the life and work of Ava Helen Pauling are the foundation of this section. Items of special interest include writings by Ava Helen Pauling on issues of peace, civil liberties and women's rights. The section also contains extensive genealogical data; correspondence and meeting minutes chronicling the work of prominent peace groups including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Women Strike for Peace and Federal Union; and other assorted personal materials documenting Ava Helen's activities both within and outside the Pauling family home.
69 boxes
4. Materials re: Peace and Women.
Boxes 4.001 - 4.010 (Page: 1 - 10)
4.001.
Ava Helen Pauling: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1954-1981, No Date.
1.1.
Correspondence: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1959-1981.
1.2.
Typescripts: Darkness Before Dawn. A New Hope for Disarmament. "Denuclearised Zones", Jesse Street, 1954; and Disarmament Proposals 1899 to June 1954: A Paper Read Before the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom, Jesse Street, July 1954.
1.3.
Typescript: The Legal and Social Position of Swedish Women, Valborg Lundgren, November 1957.
1.4.
Assorted Materials re: Fourteenth International Congress of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom, Stockholm, Sweden, July 27-31, 1959.
1.5.
Publication: "Dr. Linus Pauling Addresses Congress", Pax Et Libertas, published by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, vol. 24, no.1,
January 1960.
1.6.
Publication Article: "WILPF Supports Dr. Pauling", I. F. Stone's Weekly, vol. VIII, no. 25, June 27, 1960.
1.7.
Memoranda, Agendas, Meeting Minutes re: assorted WILPF committees, 1959-1963, 1972-1979, No Date.
4.002.
Ava Helen Pauling: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1957-1981, No Date.
2.1.
Correspondence, Assorted Materials re: WILPF Triennial Congress, 1961-1962.
2.2.
Typescript: Conference of Women's International Democratic Federation, Annual Meeting, Author Unknown [AHP?], 1960.
2.3.
Agendas, Assorted Reports re: International Executive Committee, Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom, 1961-1964.
2.4.
WILPF Directories, Rosters and Membership Lists, 1962-1963.
2.5.
Typescript: Children and the Vietnam War, address by Madeline Duckles, WILPF meeting, San Francisco, California, June 21, 1967.
2.6.
AHP's WILPF International Associate Membership cards, 1968, 1970.
2.7.
Manuscript: "Talk to WILPF", AHP speech, November 18, 1975. [Original in Ava Helen Pauling 2.002, 2.2].
2.8.
Manuscript Notes, Correspondence, Program, Background Material re: meeting entitled
"Peace, Bread, and Life: In honor of Ava Helen and Linus Pauling", Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom, Santa Cruz, California, June 30, 1979.
2.9.
Certificate, Correspondence: "Certificate of Life Membership", awarded to AHP, Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, August 1981.
2.10.
Assorted WILPF Pamphlets and Publications, 1957-1962, 1970-1979, No Date.
4.003.
Ava Helen Pauling: Materials re: Virginia and Clifford Durr, 1960-1999, No Date.
3.1.
Correspondence: Virginia and Clifford Durr, 1961-1993.
3.2.
Publication: "Trial By Terror: A Palm Sunday Sermon by Clifford J. Durr, delivered
at The First Unitarian Church of Denver, March 18, 1951", published by Public Service
by Southern Farm and Home, 1960.
3.3.
Publication: "Jesus As A Free Speech Victim: Trial By Terror 2000 Years Ago", by Clifford
J. Durr, published by Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1960.
3.4.
Correspondence, Flyer, Advertisement re: "Civil Rights, The Negro and the South",
speech by Clifford Durr, Unitarian Public Forum, October 4, 1963.
3.5.
Invitation re: Luncheon honoring Mrs. Virginia Durr, The Council of Women for Legislative
Action, October 5, 1963.
3.6.
Publication: "Three Biblical Lessons In Civil Liberties", by Clifford J. Durr, published
by American Humanist Association, No Date. [1960s].
3.7.
Newspaper Clipping: "Clifford Durr, Ex-F.C.C Aide and Civil Rights Lawyer, Dies,"
New York Times, May 13, 1975.
3.8.
Program: Memorial Service for Clifford Durr, All Souls Church, Washington, D.C., June 12, 1975.
3.9.
Newspaper Clipping: "A friendship that bridged the racial divide", by Lucy Durr Hackney,
The Inquirer, August 2, 1999.
3.10.
Typescript: Biographical Sketch of Clifford J. Durr, Author Unknown, No Date.
4.004.
Ava Helen Pauling: Women International Strike for Peace, 1962-1975, No Date.
4.1.
Correspondence: Women International Strike for Peace, 1962-1975.
4.2.
Correspondence, Flyer re: "Hiroshima Walk", featuring Ava Helen Pauling and Mildred
Simon, sponsored by Women for Peace, San Francisco, California, August 5, 1962.
4.3.
Correspondence, Assorted Materials re: Conference of Woman for International Cooperation
Year, sponsored by Voice of Women and Woman Strike for Peace, Montreal, Canada, 1962.
4.4.
Typescript: Women Strike for Peace [narration of slide show re: role of WSP/WISP], Dr. Frances Herring, 1962.
4.5.
Typescript, Correspondence: No Title [re: short history of WISP in Norway], Author Unknown, 1962.
4.6.
Invitation: "An Evening of International Cuisine and Entertainment", hosted by AHP
and LP, sponsored by Women Strike for Peace, September 28, 1963.
4.7.
Publications: Memo - National Bulletin of Women Strike for Peace, 1963-1967.
4.005.
Ava Helen Pauling: Women International Strike for Peace, 1964-1980, No Date.
5.1.
Memorandum: Ava Helen Pauling to Women International Strike for Peace, [re: peace
movement in western Germany], July 31, 1964.
5.2.
Typescript and Manuscript: You Can Beat the Dutch, speech by Ava Helen Pauling, re: WSP meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, 1964.
5.3.
Assorted Typescripts, Pamphlets, Correspondence, and Flyers re: WSP peace rally in
The Hague, Netherlands, 1964.
5.4.
Newspaper Clipping: "WISP Garden Brunch", Santa Barbara News Press, September 27, 1965. [Original in Ava Helen Pauling 3.002, 2.54].
5.5.
Typescript: A Joint Statement by Nineteen Women from North Vietnam, The National Liberation Front
of South Vietnam, and the United States, who met July 13-18, 1965 in Djakarta, Indonesia,
for Informal Discussions, Initiated by Women Strike For Peace, Frances Herring et al., 1965.
5.6.
WSP anti-Vietnam war advertisements, 1969.
5.7.
Offprint: "The Launching of a Multi-National Womens' Peace Force in the NATO Countries",
Women Strike for Peace, No Date. [1960s].
5.8.
Pamphlet: "What happens if a hydrogen warhead explodes at a missile base in L.A. Area?",
published by Women Strike for Peace, No Date. [1960s].
5.9.
Pamphlet: "You Can't Get Rid Of Radioactive Waste From Nuclear Power Plants", WSP
Nuclear Waste Committee, 1973.
5.10.
Program: "Light the Billboards", luncheon celebrating the Fifteenth Anniversary of
WSP, April 3, 1976.
5.11.
Publication: Journal of Women Strike For Peace, commemorating eighteen years of conscientious concern for the future of the world's
children, published by Women Strike for Peace, 1979.
5.12.
Newspaper Clipping: "We Are Angry Women", Women International Strike for Peace paid
advertisement, New York Times, June 1, 1980.
5.13.
Assorted Newsletters and Pamphlets: Women International Strike for Peace, 1962-1964, 1973, No Date.
4.006.
Ava Helen Pauling: National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, 1960-1964, No Date.
6.1.
Correspondence: SANE, 1960-1961, 1964.
6.2.
Memorandum: Linus Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling, re: information about the National
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, Inc., October 16, 1961.
6.3.
Assorted Publications: SANE, 1960-1961, No Date.
4.007.
Ava Helen Pauling: Women Act for Disarmament, 1960, 1974.
7.1.
Correspondence: Women Act for Disarmament, 1960, 1974.
7.2.
Offprint: "A Call to Geneva", Women Act for Disarmament, March 25, 1974.
7.3.
Blank Letterhead.
4.008.
Ava Helen Pauling: First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, 1959-1981.
8.1.
Correspondence: First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, 1961-1976.
8.2.
Correspondence: Reverend Stephen H. Fritchman, 1959-1981.
8.3.
Directories, Manual: First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, 1963.
8.4.
Correspondence, Assorted Materials re: Unitarian Forum, 1963-1964.
8.5.
Sermon: "Are Men Necessary?: In Praise of Women", given by John A. Crane, Unitarian
Church, Santa Barbara, California, December 1965.
8.6.
Assorted Unitarian Church Bulletins and Newsletters, 1959-1981.
8.7.
Typescript: Why I am A Unitarian, by Ava Helen Pauling, September 18, 1977. [Original in Ava Helen Pauling 2.002, 2.3].
8.8.
Pamphlet: "The First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles Centennial Celebration", 1877-1977.
8.9.
Transcript: "Transcription of the tape recording of part of the memorial meeting for
Ava Helen Pauling at the Unitarian Church of Palo Alto, December 12, 1981.".
4.009.
Ava Helen Pauling: General Peace, 1945-1960.
9.1.
Pamphlet: The United States and the International Trusteeship System, published by the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, September 1945.
9.2.
Publication: "The United Nations Charter: What Was Done at San Francisco", by Clark
M. Eichelberger. Published by the American Association for the United Nations, Inc.
Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, 1945.
9.3.
Pamphlet: Strategic Bases In the Pacific: Plan For Trusteeship, published by the Commission to Study The Organization of Peace, February 1946.
9.4.
Pamphlet: The United States and the United Nations Report Series No. 2: United States Atomic
Energy Proposals, June 14, 1946.
9.5.
Publication and Pamphlets: "Here Is Tomorrow", The Cooperative League of the U.S.A.,
1946. Includes various pamphlets regarding cooperatives.
9.6.
Reprint: "Security under the United Nations: A plea for peace through world opinion",
Newsweek, June 16, 1947.
9.7.
Pamphlet: United Nations Charter - Together with the Statute of the International Court of Justice, American Association for the United Nations, No Date. [1940s].
9.8.
Memorandum: Clark M. Eichelberger to AHP, re: "Memorandum on the Crisis Situation
in the United Nations" No Date. [1940s].
9.9.
Pamphlet: Equal Rights Amendment, 82nd Congress, 1st session, Document no. 74, Government Printing Office, October 3, 1951.
9.10.
Reprint: "All Military Knowledge is Now Useless", by Cpt. B. H. Liddell Hart, reprinted
from News Chronicle, March 1, 1955.
9.11.
Pamphlet: "Questions and Answers About Nuclear Tests", by the Friends Committee on
Legislation, 1957.
9.12.
Pamphlet: "Science, Disarmament and Peace", addresses by Adlai E. Stevenson and Gerard
Piel, January 31, 1958.
9.13.
Newspaper Clipping: "Drew Pearson: Radioactivity Fall-Out Pattern", Mirror News, 8 April 1958.
9.14.
Pamphlet: Bulletin, published by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, July 11, 1958.
9.15.
Copy of AHP Journal: "Fifth World Conference Against A&H Bombs", Hiroshima, August 1959.
9.16.
Offprint: "United States Mission to the United Nations", (Press Release #3252), Statement
by Henry Cabot Lodge, October 14, 1959.
9.17.
Pamphlet: Hangman, by Maurice Ogden, 1959.
9.18.
Pamphlet: A Collection of Ideas, by W. S. Hughes, No Date. [1950s].
9.19.
Pamphlet: In Ignorance, Refrain!, [re: Strontium-90] Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, No Date. [1950s].
9.20.
Offprint, Correspondence: "Background on the October-December 1959 Sessions of the
Geneva Negotiations for the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons Tests, U.S. Department
of State, February 11, 1960.
9.21.
Newspaper Clipping: "What Would Happen?" Main Line Daily Times, February 26, 1960.
9.22.
Pamphlet: The Hazards of Atomic Radiation, University Group on Defense Policy, March 1960.
9.23.
Reprint: "Unsound to the Summit", by J. B. Priestley, New Statesman, May 7, 1960.
9.24.
Song Sheet: Walk and Rally for Disarmament, July 9, 1960.
9.25.
Publication: Peace Issues, published by Association for the Rights of Man, July 1960.
9.26.
Press Release: "News from Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc.", [re: civil
rights movement] November 28, 1960.
9.27.
Newspaper Clipping: "Our Defense Policy is Foggy, Paradoxical and Useless", Financial Post, December 3, 1960.
9.28.
Newspaper Clipping: "Britain to Urge Varied Defenses", New York Times, December 10, 1960.
9.29.
Newspaper Clipping: "Foreign Affairs: Fifteen Men on the Dead Man's Chest", New York Times, December 17, 1960.
9.30.
Newspaper Clipping: "Peiping Emergence As A-power Feared", New York Times, No Date; "East-West Group Asks Disarmament", New York Times, No Date.
9.31.
Newspaper Clipping: "Bonn Backs U.S. On Atomic Force", New York Times, December 18, 1960.
9.32.
Article: "Toward Disarmament: Significance of Statement Made by Khrushchev on Controls
Weighed", by Jay Orear, New York Times, December 18, 1960.
Newspaper Clipping: "Cadet Turned Scientist: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett", New York Times, December 26, 1960.
Newspaper Clipping: "Cadet Turned Scientist: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett", New York Times, December 26, 1960.
9.33.
Contact information for assorted peace organizations, 1960.
9.34.
Pamphlet: Common Sense in Defense, by Cmdr. Sir Stephen King-Hall, 1960.
9.35.
Publication: Bulletin No. 2, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1960.
4.010.
Ava Helen Pauling: General Peace, 1961-1964.
10.1.
Pamphlet: Non-Violent Direct Action Against Polaris, published by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, January 1961.
10.2.
Article: "The 'Arms-Control' Doctrine", The Nation, February 11, 1961.
10.3.
Newspaper Clipping: "If Sixteen Countries had the Bomb", New York Times Magazine, February 12, 1961.
10.4.
Newspaper Clipping: "Sweden Lagging in Nuclear Work", New York Times, February 19, 1961.
10.5.
Newspaper Clipping: "Controversy Blasts Debate in Greece on Fallout Shelter", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 24, 1961.
10.6.
Publication: "Security Through World Disarmament", Report of the Seventh National
Conference on World Disarmament and Development, April 10-11, 1961.
10.7.
Article: "Towards Total, Universal Disarmament", Pax Et Libertas, vol. 26, no. 2, April-June 1961.
10.8.
Publication: The Nation, May 13, 1961.
10.9.
Publication: WRL News, War Resisters League, May-June 1961.
10.10.
Publication: Window on the World, American Federation of World Citizens, June 1961.
10.11.
Newsletter: Lobby for Peace (Northern California), vol. II, no. 4, June 1961.
10.12.
Reprint: "The Nuclear Bomb", by Margaret Robertson, Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard, September 16, 1961.
10.13.
Reprint: "Let Mankind be Heard In This Hour Of Peril", Toronto Globe and Mail, Voice of Women, November 18, 1961.
10.14.
Newsletter and Pamphlets re: Committee for Nonviolent Action; Peace Action Center,
1961.
10.15.
Newspaper Clipping: "The neutrals' 11th-hour effort at Geneva", National Guardian, April 23, 1962.
10.16.
Correspondence, Pamphlet: "The Decline of the State and the Coming of World Society",
by Kathleen Gough, April 1962.
10.17.
Article: "Who's in Charge Here? - Not Women!", New York Times Magazine, September 2, 1962.
10.18.
Article: "The Peace Ladies", Harpers Magazine, March 1963.
10.19.
Newspaper Clippings: "Text of Pope John's Encyclical 'Pacem in Terris', Calling for
a World Community", New York Times, April 11, 1963.
10.20.
Reprint: "The Urgency of a Test Ban Treaty", Askov American, May 2, 1963.
10.21.
Newsletter and Summary Report: One World International Conference of Brussels, May 1-5 , 1963.
10.22.
Newspaper Clipping: "Two Kinds of Women Who Made History", New York Times, October 4, 1963.
10.23.
Newspaper Clipping: "Petite Senator Is A Fearless Fighter", (York, Pennsylvania) Gazette and Daily, November 16, 1963.
10.24.
Newspaper Clipping: "Beware of Women in Next Election", Pasadena Star-News, November 19, 1963.
10.25.
Reprint: "The Invisible Americans", The Saturday Evening Post, December 21-28, 1963.
10.26.
Publication: Let There Be a World, by Felix Greene, 1963.
10.27.
Assorted Typescripts, Flyers, Pamphlets, and Correspondence: Australian Congresses
for International Cooperation and Disarmament, 1963-1965.
10.28.
Publication: Friendship Universal, Summer 1964.
10.29.
Newspaper Clipping: "The Cyprus Crisis - Who is Guilty", The Ghanaian Times, August 13, 1964.
10.30.
Pamphlet: Editorials, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1964.
10.31.
Publications: Pomoi, 1964. [in Greek].
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