Correspondence , 1927

This series contains material that document the activities of Mrs. Hope outside of the Neighborhood Union. Included are letters from Jane Adams, Margaret Murray Washington (Mrs. Booker T. Washington), Mary E. McDowell, Georgia Douglass Johnson, Will W. Alexander, and W.E.B. Debois. Other items consist of Mrs. Hope's work with the Y.M.C.A.'s War Council's Hostess Horse Program (World War I) including her contract and letters from various Y.M.C.A. staff among them letters from Eva Bowles. There are also materials from her appointment and subsequent work with the Colored Advisory Commission Flood of 1927, including telegrams from Robert R. Morton and Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover.