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Alice Riggs Hunt, journalist and activist, was born in New York City June 14, 1884. She was educated at private schools in New York City, one being Graham's School for Girls from 1895-1898. In 1907-1908 she attended Columbia University as a student in the School of Journalism. Later she attended the Drake Business School. She was organizer, speaker and writer on both New York Campaigns for Women's Suffrage and in several other states. She contributed to the New York Evening Post, New York Tribune, New York Evening Mail, New York Call, London Daily Herald, La Vie Ouvriere (Paris), The Workers' Dreadnought, London, Bulletin of the Peoples, Council of America, and Bulletin of the American Woman Suffrage Association. She attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, attached to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace as special correspondent for the New York Evening Post. She attended the International Congress of Women in Zurich, 1919, as part of the American delegation. She was a member of Colonial Dames of America, Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America and Huguenot Society of New York. She died August 21, 1974 in Calgary, Alberta. (Description from original in-house finding aid)
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File consists of 18 items of correspondence to and from Alice Riggs Hunt and a number of correspondents. Includes correspondence about her "Voters Column," one letter to her mother, and letters to and from Phyllis E. Wheelock, sister of Helena DeKay.
- Date and Place from: 1918.09.26 Ticonderoga, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Hyde, Grace G.
- Date and Place from: 1918.10.02 Buffalo, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Binder, Blanche
- Date and Place from: Sept. 26, 1918 Ticonderoga, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Hyde, Grace G.
- Date and Place from: Oct. 2, 1918 Buffalo, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Binder, Blanche
- Date and Place from: Oct. 11, 1918 New York, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Howard, Gertrude Hunter
- Date and Place from: Oct. 12, 1918 Brooklyn, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Lloyd, George
- Date and Place from: Oct. 14, 1918 New York, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Steinhardt, Geo.
- Date and Place from: Oct. 15, 1918 New York, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Hartshorn, C.F.
- Date and Place from: Oct. 30, 1918 New York, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Hodgdon, Jeannette
- Date and Place from: Oct. 30, 1918 New York, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Pette, Julia
- Date and Place from: [1919?] Vienna [Austria] To Mother From Hunt, Alice Riggs
- Date and Place from: Apr. 14, 1920 Portland, Oregon To To Whom it May Concern From Stuart, H.A. Notes: Letter of introduction
- Date and Place from: June 11, 1920 New York, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Jones, Olive M.
- Date and Place from: June 23, 1921 New York, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Gruening, Ernest H. Notes: Managing editor
- Date and Place from: Jan. 3, 1938 Wingdale, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Ross, John R. Attachments: Attachment re Helena DeKay
- Date and Place from: Feb. 19, 1950 Wingdale, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Ross, John R.
- Date and Place from: Jan. 19, 1950 To Wheelock, Phyllis E. From Hunt, Alice Riggs
- Date and Place from: Jan. 25, 1950 New York, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Wheelock, Phyllis E.
- Date and Place from: Jan. 31, 1950 New York, N.Y. To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Wheelock, Phyllis E.
- Date and Place from: June 26, 1950 To Soupault, Mme From Hunt, Alice Riggs