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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\"> The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\"> Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"Mary Maverick Lloyd (1906-1976) was an American writer and activist for peace and world federalism. She wrote for the Federated Press and the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project, and worked for the Campaign for World Government, Action for World Federation, and Conseil Mondial pour l'Assemblée Constituante des Peuples. The Mary Maverick Lloyd papers date from 1904 to 1976 and contain correspondence, writings, diaries, financial and real estate documents, photographs, and subject files that document her personal life and work."}
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{"value"=>"<p> Mary Maverick Lloyd papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Lloyd, Mary Maverick, 1906-1976", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
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{"value"=>"<p> Mary Maverick Lloyd (1906-1976) was an American writer and activist. Born into two wealthy families involved in political and social issues, the Lloyds and the Mavericks, Mary Maverick Lloyd was dedicated to many of the causes championed by her forebears, including pacifism, disarmament, and the creation of a democratically elected world government. Her mother, Lola Maverick Lloyd, was a passionate political activist who helped co-found the Woman's Peace Party, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the Campaign for World Government. Lola Maverick Lloyd was the granddaughter of Samuel Augustus Maverick: a signatory of the Texas Declaration of Independence, mayor of San Antonio from 1839 to 1840, and a rancher who refused to brand his cattle, giving rise to the term \"maverick.\"</p> <p> Lloyd's father, William Bross Lloyd, was a member of the Socialist Party of America; he ran as the Socialist nominee for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate in 1918, and was convicted of sedition in 1922 for his involvement with the party. William Bross Lloyd was the eldest son of muckraking journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd, author of <span class=\"title\">Wealth and Commonwealth</span>, and Jessie Bross, daughter of <span class=\"title\">Chicago Tribune</span> founder William Bross.</p> <p> Lloyd was born on June 9, 1906 in Little Compton, Rhode Island, the site of the Lloyd family's summer residence. In her early childhood, she, her parents, and siblings Jessie, William, Jr., and Georgia lived in Henry Demarest Lloyd's home, The Wayside, in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, Illinois. The Lloyds shared with the children their progressive beliefs and emphasized the importance of contributing their wealth to worthwhile political causes. The family socialized and worked with reformers and progressives of the early 20th century, and the children witnessed many of their parents' political activities. For instance, at age 9, Mary Maverick Lloyd joined her parents on the Henry Ford Peace Expedition to Europe. Lloyd's parents divorced in 1916 and thereafter the Lloyd siblings were raised on Birch Street in Winnetka by their mother. Lloyd attended New Trier High School in Winnetka and graduated in 1923.</p> <p> Beginning in her young adulthood, Lloyd traveled to Europe regularly, often for the purpose of observing or participating in world federalist and peace initiatives. In addition to traveling, Lloyd moved frequently among her family's properties throughout her adulthood, spending significant time at her mother's home in Winnetka; her father's winter residence, Bu Saaba, in Montego Bay, Jamaica; the Maverick Ranch near Boerne, Texas; and her summer home, on property purchased from her father and uncle Demarest Lloyd at Sakonnet Point, Little Compton, Rhode Island.</p> <p> From 1927 to 1934, Lloyd was a journalist for the Federated Press, reporting on the activities of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. In Geneva, she met Wilhelm Friedrich Schubert, an Austrian who worked in the Disarmament Section of the League. Schubert and Lloyd were briefly engaged, though the relationship dissolved and Schubert died in 1930. Lloyd later married John T. Whitaker, a fellow foreign correspondent, in 1933 while working between Geneva and the United States for the Federated Press; the couple divorced in 1936. Lloyd relocated to Washington, D.C. in 1935 and became an editor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project. She was assigned to the American Guide Series, a group of guide books on each of the then-48 states, and formed a close relationship with Writers' Project administrator Clair Laning. Lloyd continued to work for the Writers' Project through the 1930s, though her activities were limited after 1938, when she contracted tuberculosis. She was a patient at the Trudeau Sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York, and after returning home, Lloyd funded treatment for fellow patients unable to afford the cost of care at the sanatorium.</p> <p> Her mother Lola Maverick Lloyd and political activist Rosika Schwimmer founded the Campaign for World Government in 1937, and following her recovery from tuberculosis, Mary Maverick Lloyd returned to her mother's home in Winnetka and became actively involved with the group. The work of several world federalist organizations intersected closely during this period--including the Campaign for World Government, Action for World Federation, Students for Federal World Government, and United World Federalists--and often Lloyd pursued opportunities as a member of multiple organizations. She covered the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization as a member of the press, and she devoted significant time to distributing the Action for World Federation's petition to call a world constitutional convention between 1946 and 1948. Lloyd attended the congresses of the World Movement for World Federal Government throughout Europe from the late 1940s to the early 1950s, primarily as a delegate for the Campaign for World Government.</p> <p> In addition to her work in organizations, Lloyd was active in a close-knit group of journalists and pacifists to whom she provided professional and financial support. During her treatment for tuberculosis, she became a prolific letter writer and thereafter maintained relationships with social and professional contacts over many decades through correspondence with writers, labor organizer and activists such as Clair Laning, Jay Allen, Josephine Herbst, Louise Haakman, Jacob Baker, Irwin Elber, and Clifford McCarthy. Through this network, Lloyd learned of the plight of Gustav Regler, a German writer who faced arrest by the Nazi regime. Lloyd coordinated petitions and attempted to secure work visas for Regler, who eventually escaped to Mexico. Lloyd also maintained contact with the surviving family of Wilhelm Schubert, providing money and rationed goods to the Schuberts during and after World War II.</p> <p> Around 1951, Lloyd moved to Paris, where she was a founding member of the Conseil Mondial pour l'Assemblée Constituante des Peuples (also known as the World Council for a People's World Convention). There she began a long-term relationship with Jacques Savary, the Conseil Mondial's secretary general and a world government writer. While participating in the council's meetings and the publication of its periodical <span class=\"title\">Democratie Mondial</span>, she was also a founding member of the International Registry of World Citizens. Lloyd traveled to the United States regularly to visit family, though she maintained a residence with Savary in Paris throughout the 1950s.</p> <p> Lloyd returned to the United States in 1960 for a brief stay in Winnetka, keeping in close contact with her French colleagues and friends, including Savary and Camille Drevet, a writer and peace activist. She again moved to Paris in the early 1960s and lived with Savary until his death in 1964. Lloyd continued to travel abroad throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.</p> <p> Mary Maverick Lloyd died on January 14, 1976 in Paris.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p> The Mary Maverick Lloyd papers date from 1904 to 1976 (bulk dates: 1931-1964) and contain correspondence, writings, diaries, financial and real estate documents, photographs, and subject files that document Lloyd's personal and professional life. As a journalist and activist, her work with the Federated Press, Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project, Campaign for World Government, Action for World Federation, and Conseil Mondial pour l'Assemblée Constituante des Peuples is represented, as are her relationships with family members, writers, pacifists, and world government activists.</p> <p> While documenting Lloyd's participation with and press coverage of different peace and world government organizations and events, the papers also show the development of these movements in the mid-20th century through the letters and writings of individuals connected to Lloyd, including Gustav Regler, Jacques Savary, Camille Drevet, Clair Laning, and Josephine Herbst. The Maverick and Lloyd families are covered throughout the collection, with relationships between extended family members sustained over correspondence; the activist causes of Mary Maverick Lloyd, her mother, and siblings documented in correspondence and subject files; and materials that detail the management of the families' trusts and properties.</p> <p> Materials in the collection are in English, French, and German.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Mary Maverick Lloyd papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4802#c805774'>Series I: Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1911-1976</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> Series I: Correspondence comprises the bulk of the collection, and largely consists of incoming letters with small portions of Lloyd's outgoing letters present. Correspondence is personal, social, and professional in nature, and the materials in the series span Lloyd's lifetime.</p> <p> The most frequent and long-standing correspondents are Lloyd's family members, including both of her parents, stepmother Madge Bird Lloyd, sisters Georgia Lloyd and Jessie Lloyd O'Connor, brother William Bross Lloyd, Jr., as well as relatives by marriage and members of the extended Lloyd and Maverick families. These letters provide detailed accounts of her relatives' personal lives and professional activities, particularly during the interwar period. Events of note documented through letters from immediate family include Lola Maverick Lloyd's work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Campaign for World Government; William Lloyd, Jr.'s assignment to a conscientious objector camp during World War II; her sisters' attendance at Smith College and Antioch College; Jessie Lloyd O'Connor's work as a labor journalist; and Georgia Lloyd assuming the directorship of the CWG Chicago Office after their mother's death. Family correspondence also discusses the maintenance and administration of Lloyd and Maverick family properties in Winnetka, Illinois; Little Compton, Rhode Island; Boerne, Texas; and Montego Bay, Jamaica. Family members often enclosed carbon copies of outgoing letters and incoming letters to quickly circulate news, and these materials remain in place with the enclosing letter addressed to Mary Maverick Lloyd.</p> <p> Social and professional correspondence, beginning in the mid-1930s, documents Lloyd's relationships with American and European writers, labor organizers, and peace and world government activists. During her illness with and recovery from tuberculosis between 1938 and 1939, she received voluminous letters from former Federated Press and Federal Writers' Project colleagues, including Clair Laning, Jacob Baker, Irwin Elber, Marcia Phelps, Hugh Ferris, Henry Alsberg, Fleta Coe, Lyle Saxon, Murray Godwin, and Clifford McCarthy. These letters reported to Lloyd updates from the Federal Writers' Project offices; the assignments pursued by journalists covering pacifism, labor rights, and disarmament; the status of novels and stories in progress; and social news for the large network of friends. Lloyd's correspondence in this era shows her efforts to assist fellow writers financially and in getting their work published. In particular, the series holds extensive correspondence from the 1930s through the 1960s with writers Clair Laning, Jay Allen, Josephine Herbst, and Louise Haakman (known as \"la Lous\"). Her romantic relationships are also documented in voluminous love letters from suitor Wilhelm Friedrich Schubert and husband John T. Whitaker.</p> <p> Approaching World War II, Lloyd's correspondence centers on her involvement in the relocation of writer Gustav Regler to Mexico, as he first fled Nazi Germany, and later, occupied France. During and after the war, her letters also focus on coordinating food and relief packages through the agency CARE for the Schubert family remaining in Austria. Her regular correspondents throughout the 1950s and 1960s include Regler, Camille Drevet, Edith Wynner, and Jacques Savary, who provide detailed reports of their peace activism and world federalist efforts. While much of Lloyd's professional correspondence deals with issues associated with world government activism, her efforts in this area are best represented in Series III of the collection, with subject files containing correspondence that directly stems from her work with various world government organizations.</p> <p> The series is arranged chronologically. For correspondence between 1925 and 1964, general correspondence files are followed by alphabetical files. Correspondents in the alphabetical files include family members and social and professional contacts for which there are voluminous letters, but the files do not collocate every letter by a certain individual or group of individuals for that year. For instance, Family files primarily contain the correspondence of extended family members, such as aunts Rena Maverick Green and Augusta Maverick Kelley, and cousin George Maverick Green, but may also include Lloyd's siblings, parents, and stepmother. If searching for all available letters from a particular individual, researchers should consult general files and all relevant alphabetical files. Undated letters have been arranged with the closest estimated year.</p> <p>Correspondence is in English, French, and German.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4802#c806069'>Series II: Personal Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1906-1976</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> Series II: Personal Files consists of Lloyd's diaries, photographs, financial files, address books, school papers, notebooks, and personal ephemera. Diaries chronicle Lloyd's daily activities in brief entries, and cover most of her adulthood with some gaps. In particular, her travel and extended stays in France and other European countries are detailed in the diaries. The short personal essay “Tourist Americana” expands on Lloyd's earliest experiences traveling abroad.</p> <p> Personal and family photographs date from the early 20th century to the 1970s and include portraits of Maverick and Lloyd family members and friends, as well as prints depicting family gatherings, family properties, and Lloyd's travels. Individual portraits of the 1923 graduating class of New Trier High School are also present.</p> <p> Financial files primarily contain correspondence with bankers, attorneys, parents, and siblings discussing investments, stocks, and the inheritance of her parents' and stepmother's estates. Real estate properties documented in the Financial files include the William Bross Lloyd properties (particularly Bu Saaba in Jamaica), Lola Maverick Lloyd's home in Winnetka, the Henry Demarest Lloyd Wayside home in Winnetka, the Maverick family properties (primarily the Maverick Ranch outside of Boerne, Texas), and Mary Maverick Lloyd's property on Sakonnet Point. Surveys, architectural plans, and maps within the Financial files depict the Lola Maverick Lloyd Winnetka house; Keflawn, a predecessor name of Henry Demarest Lloyd's Wayside; the Maverick Ranch; and the Sakonnet properties of Henry Demarest Lloyd, William Bross Lloyd, and Mary Maverick Lloyd.</p> <p> Lloyd's parents' divorce is represented by court petitions, and custody and child support documents. Portions of a deposition with Lola Maverick Lloyd detail her concerns over her ex-husband's influence on their children's morals, specifically Mary's open attitudes toward sex and marriage. Her school papers contain subject notebooks, essays, drawings, and school publications. Personal ephemera includes sketches, programs, travel memorabilia, clippings, poetry, and unidentified notes. Identification cards begin with Lloyd's birth certificate and also contain licenses, passports, and press passes dating from throughout her life.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4802#c806104'>Series III: Subject Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1904-1975</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> Series III: Subject Files consists of materials assembled by Lloyd that represent her interests in peace activism and world government; her work as a journalist and with world government organizations; and the activities of her family members, fellow writers, and activists. The series is arranged alphabetically by personal name, organization name, or topic.</p> <p> Subject files for organizations cover Lloyd's efforts in world government advocacy groups, including the Campaign for World Government Chicago Office, Action for World Government, World Movement for World Federal Government, Conseil Mondial pour l'Assemblée Constituante des Peuples, and closely associated campaigns and actions such as the People's Committee for a World Constitutional Convention. These files consist of correspondence, minutes, proposed statutes, position statements, petitions, printed materials, and periodicals, and represent Lloyd's individual work for each organization. Much of the material from Action for World Federalists concentrates on the creation and distribution of a petition to the United Nations to call a world constitutional convention; general office files, correspondence, and outreach materials for seeking partner organizations abroad are also included. Campaign for World Government files consist of carbon copies of letters to and from Lola Maverick Lloyd and William Bross Lloyd, Jr., as well as copies of William Bross Lloyd, Jr.'s reports and speeches. These files document the activities of the Campaign for World Government office on a daily basis while detailing the campaign's position on current events and its communication with elected leaders and constituents. For world government organizations, some overlap exists within the files, as Lloyd attended conferences and congresses representing the interests of multiple entities (such as the Campaign for World Government and the Conseil Mondial at the World Movement for World Federal Government congresses).</p> <p> Lloyd's employment with the Federal Writers' Project and the Federated Press are documented by correspondence, article drafts, notes, editorial memoranda, press releases, and publications. Federal Writers' Project files include an editorial manual for the American Guide Series, as well as address cards for research and writing contacts in each region or state profiled in the series.</p> <p> Topical subject files include correspondence, printed material, periodicals, and clippings on broad subjects allied with Lloyd's activism, and range from general files on world government and pacifism to the formation of the League of Nations and United Nations.</p> <p> Subject files on individuals hold manuscripts from Lloyd's writing colleagues, including Jay Allen, Camille Drevet, Jacques Savary, and Gustav Regler. Printed materials and clippings regarding immediate and extended family members are found in the Family file, with the exception of Lola Maverick Lloyd, Robin Lloyd, and Samuel Maverick, for whom individual files are present. For files on Wilhelm Schubert, Jacques Savary, and Lola Maverick Lloyd, a small amount of correspondence with outside individuals and personal work files are also present. For instance, letters between Rena Maverick Green and Lola Maverick Lloyd in the possession of Mary Lloyd are found in Lola Maverick Lloyd's file, along with Lola Maverick Lloyd's notes on her daughter's infancy, printed matter and manuscripts documenting Lola Maverick Lloyd's political activities, and condolence letters to the family following Lola Maverick Lloyd's death. The Wilhelm Schubert file contains his diaries and daybooks before and during during his courtship with Lloyd, Schubert's letters to Lloyd's parents, and a small number of Schubert's writings and personal photographs. Along with Jacques Savary's letters and documents generated by his work with Conseil Mondial and <span class=\"title\">Democratie Mondial</span>, the collection also holds nine audio recordings of Savary's lectures in the 1950s.</p> <p> Materials in the subject files are in English, French, and German.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Georgia Lloyd, 1987-1990.</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p> Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Weatherly Stephan</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}
{"value"=>"<p> Correspondence and subject files on Gustav Regler from this collection were opened to researchers in 2001. The entire collection described herein was processed in 2014, with existing Regler files integrated into the new arrangement.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Weatherly Stephan, 2014.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Sound recordings are unavailable for use pending preservation transfer.</p>"}
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{"type"=>"formspartof", "value"=>"<p> Forms part of <span class=\"unittitle\">Schwimmer-Lloyd collection</span></p>"}
{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\"> Campaign for World Government. Records of the Chicago Office. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\"> Campaign for World Government. Records of the New York office. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\"> Georgia Lloyd papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\"> Jacques Robert Savary papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\"> Jessie Lloyd O'Connor papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\"> Lola Maverick Lloyd papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\"> Maverick family papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\"> Schwimmer-Lloyd collection. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\"> William Bross Lloyd papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\"> William Bross Lloyd, Jr. papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span>"}
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45.98 linear feet (106 boxes, 3 oversized folders, 1 volume)