{"value"=>"<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>"}