{"value"=>"<p>General incoming correspondence consists of letters Jessie O'Connor received from friends and associates in organizations with which she was affiliated. The materials from 1909 through the early 1930s are primarily family correspondence.</p> <p>The letters make reference to various aspects of O'Connor's professional and activist efforts, in addition to her personal life. These include items documenting her 1944 membership on the board of the Abraham Lincoln School--a progressive school in Chicago focusing on peace, international cooperation, labor rights, and civil liberties; her status as a national committee member with International Labor Defense; her composition of songs for the Young Americans for Roosevelt, and the UAW-CIO; and her membership in the League of Woman Shoppers, the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, and the League for Mutual Aid. Additional materials reference donations O'Connor made to various progressive organizations, conferences attended, and materials on the Spanish Civil War and refugees.</p> <p>Of interest is the 1974-1975 exchange of two letters between Jessie O'Connor and Madame Sun Yat-Sen, whom O'Connor had met in Moscow in the 1920s. O'Connor's letter reminds Madame Sun of their acquaintance, and states that \"you once did me the honor to suggest that I should go to China and help organize unions, because probably as an American I could not be shot.\" Madame Sun's warm response invites O'Connor to \"...come to see our people building Socialism.\"</p> <p>Additional prominent correspondents include Alice Henry, Rosika Schwimmer, and Caro Lloyd Strobell.</p>"}