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Kimball papers
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Contents List
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1919-1927
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15 folders
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Arrangement:
Arranged chronologically.
Restrictions on access: Scope and content:
This series consists of typed transcripts of letters that Kimball wrote to her mother, Leonetta Nichols Kimball, and sister, Lorenia ("Rene") M. Kimball, from 1919-1921 and 1923-1927. These documents concern her work as a relief worker and stenographer for the Near East Relief (N.E.R.) organization in Armenia and the Republic of Georgia and as a clerk and translator for the Georgian Manganese Company in Tchiatouri (Ciat'ura), Georgia, and in Moscow, Russia. The letters often include transcripts of letters, reports, telegrams, and newspaper articles from the N.E.R., friends, co-workers, and orphans. These letters include detailed descriptions of her work in orphanages in Akhalkalaki and Batoum (Batumi), Georgia, and Kars, Armenia in 1920-1921, Alexandropol (Alekandropol), Armenia in 1923, and at the Djalal Oghlou Farm School and orphanage near Alexandropol from 1923-1925. She describes the horrific lives of the children in her care, the difficulty of providing for them during famines, defending them from Turks and looters, massacres of Armenians, conditions in refugee camps, the impact of the Greco-Turkish War on the region, and the effects of earthquakes in Tiflis (T'bilisi), Georgia in 1920 and Alexandropol in 1926. In a letter dated August 30, 1919, she describes spending time with Gertrude Knox Wells, a Mount Holyoke classmate who was also doing relief work in the area. Kimball also discusses working in Tiflis as a secretary for William M. Haskell, Allied High Commissioner to Armenia and Director General of the American Commission for Relief in the Near East in the Caucasus, and for Ernest A. Yarrow, Director General of the N.E.R. Other letters discuss her work as a clerk and translator for the Georgian Manganese Company, a mining firm owned by the William Averell Harriman family, from 1926-1927. She describes her American and British co-workers, living accommodations, details of her work, her active social life, and the people she meets during her work and travels. The letters also give accounts of her journey to the Near East through Italy, Greece, and Turkey in 1919 and her travels in Central Asia in 1927.
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Correspondence,
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July-September, 1919
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Box 1: folder 1
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Correspondence,
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October-December, 1919
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Box 1: folder 2
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Correspondence,
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January-March, 1920
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Box 1: folder 3
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Correspondence,
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April-June, 1920
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Box 1: folder 4
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Correspondence,
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July-September, 1920
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Box 1: folder 5
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Correspondence,
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October-December, 1920
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Box 1: folder 6
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Correspondence,
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January-May, 1921
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Box 1: folder 7
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Correspondence,
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June-August, 1921
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Box 1: folder 8
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Correspondence,
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September-December, 1921
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Box 1: folder 9
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Correspondence,
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May-August, 1923
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Box 1: folder 10
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Correspondence,
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September-December, 1923
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Box 1: folder 11
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Correspondence,
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1924
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Box 1: folder 12
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Correspondence,
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1925
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Box 1: folder 13
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Correspondence,
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1926
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Box 1: folder 14
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Correspondence,
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1927
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Box 1: folder 15
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Biographical Information,
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1921-1930, circa 1950
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1 folder
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Arrangement:
Arranged chronologically.
Restrictions on access: Scope and content:
This series consists of articles, newspaper clippings, and a form letter dating from 1921-1930 and circa 1950. Most of this material concerns Kimball's work with the Near East Relief (N.E.R) organization and dates from 1921-1930. Of particular interest is a form letter addressed "To the Alumnae of Mount Holyoke" dated December 10, 1923, and sent by the N.E.R. to encourage alumnae to donate money to the relief work. This letter outlines Kimball's work for the organization and the support that Mount Holyoke College President Mary Emma Woolley has given to war relief efforts. A newspaper article dated January 3, 1928, mentions the medal bestowed upon Kimball for her N.E.R. service and includes an account of her defense of an orphanage against Turkish soldiers. The clipping from about 1950 concerns her retirement from the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation.
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Biographical information,
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1921-1930, circa 1950
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Box 1: folder 16
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circa 1919-1920
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1 folder
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This series contains a photograph of Armenian refugee homes near Akhalkalaki, Georgia, circa 1919-1920.
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Photograph,
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circa 1919-1920
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Box 1: folder 17
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