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| Title: | Mather, Kirtley Fletcher. Papers |
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| Dates: | 1943-1946 |
| Size: | .5 linear ft. (1 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Kirtley F. Mather, geologist, political organizer. The Kirtley F. Mather Papers contain correspondence, minutes, proceedings, speeches, newsletters, announcements, agenda, and bulletins. Materials in the collection relate to the National Wartime Conference and the American Association of Scientific Workers. |
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Kirtley F. Mather helped organize and was chairman of the National Wartime Conference, which met in New York on May 8-9, 1943 and June 2-3, 1944. The NWC's aim was the federation of organizations representing scientists, technicians, professional and "white-Collar" workers in order to gain a stronger voice for the "war-effort" and for more liberal legislation in Congress. In addition to his work in the NWC, Mather, during the Second World War, was President of the American Association of Scientific Workers, an association founded in 1938 to "promote and extend the applications of science and the scientific method to all problems of human welfare."
The Kirtley F. Mather Papers contain correspondence, minutes, proceedings, speeches, newsletters, announcements, agenda, and bulletins. Materials in the collection relate to the National Wartime Conference.
The collection is comprised of two series: Series I: Papers of the National Wartime Conference; Series II: Papers of the American Association of Scientific Workers.
Series I: Papers of the National Wartime Conference |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Mather's correspondence (March-May, 1943) in preparation for the first conference May 8-9, 1943. |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Minutes, agendas and proceedings of conference. |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | Mather's speeches delivered at the conference. |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Speeches delivered by other participants of the conference. |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Mather's correspondence (May, 1943-Spetember, 1943) organizing executive committee of the NWC. |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | Mather's correspondence (November, 1943-March, 1944) in preparation for the second conference, June 2-3, 1944. |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | Mather's correspondence (April-June 1944) concerning the administration of the second conference. |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | Mather's correspondence, June 1944. |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | Minutes, agendas and proceedings of second conference. |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | Pepper Senate Sub-Committee: Mather's correspondence and testimony. |
Series II: Papers of the American Association of Scientific Workers |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | Mimeographed bulletins, newsletters and announcements released January, 1944-January, 1945. |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | Mimeographed bulletins, newsletters, announcements released February, 1945. |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | Mimeographed bulletins, newsletters, papers of the International Relations Committee-undated. |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | Boston-Cambridge Branch's minutes, November 1943-January, 1945. |
| Box 1 Folder 15 | Boston-Cambridge Branch's minutes, February-July, 1945. |
| Box 1 Folder 16 | Boston-Cambridge Branch's minutes, July-October, 1945. |
| Box 1 Folder 17 | Boston-Cambridge Branch's minutes, November 1945-March, 1946. |
| Box 1 Folder 18 | Boston-Cambridge Branch's minutes, April-July, 1946. |
| Box 1 Folder 19 | Boston-Cambridge and New York branches of the AAScW and the American Astronomical Society: miscellaneous materials, undated newsletters, bulletins, advertisements. |
| Box 1 Folder 20 | Mather Correspondence, January, 1943-February, 1944. |
| Box 1 Folder 21 | Mather Correspondence, March-August, 1944 and Bok - Bridgeman letters. |
| Box 1 Folder 22 | Mather Correspondence, September-December, 1944. |
| Box 1 Folder 23 | Mather Correspondence, January-March, 1945. |
| Box 1 Folder 24 | Mather Correspondence, April-May, 1945. |
| Box 1 Folder 25 | Mather Correspondence, June-August, 1945. |
| Box 1 Folder 26 | Mather Correspondence, September, 1945-January, 1946. |
| Box 1 Folder 27 | Mather Correspondence,March-November, 1946 and undated letters. |