Microform Collections in Stauffer Library
ROSE PASTOR STOKES PAPERS
Description
Rose Pastor Stokes (1879-1933) wrote for the Jewish Daily News, from 1903 to 1905, and was known as a radical and a left-wing political activist. She corresponded with many eminent liberal figures and literary names in her time. She involved herself extensively in birth-control activities, opposed the United States' entry into WWI, and assisted in the organisation of the Communist Party of the U.S. In 1933, she died of cancer while undergoing treatment in a clinic in Germany.
The collection of her work is divided into five parts:
- Correspondence - Consisting of General, Family, and Correspondence of Others
- Writings - Jewish Daily News columns, an unfinished autobiography covering 1879-1905, and Minority Report to be appended to Program and Methods of Approach
- Printed Material - Scrapbooks & Newspaper Clippings
- Subject File - Miscellaneous writings, ephemera, articles, and photographs
- Drawings - Illustrations in various mediums & photographs of unpublished drawings
Also included are photographs from the albums of James Graham Phelps Stokes and Rose Pastor Stokes, noted in the supplemental Appendix I of the Guide.
Microfilm Location and Call Number Stauffer Library Compact Shelving at Microfilm HX no.020
Guides/Index Location and Call Number Stauffer Library Reference at HX84 .S86 A37 1970t
Collection Status Complete (7 of 7 Reels, plus Guide)
Notes
- The Guide, compiled by Linda Wrigley of Yale University, is also on the first reel of the collection.
- "Minority Report... is part of a report on the Negro Question in America presented to the 4th Comintern Congress, Patrograd (sic)-Moscow, 1922. Rose Pastor Stokes was [a] member of the reporting committee and worker under the nom-de-plume 'Sacha'." -- from the Yale University Guide to the Collection
- For a detailed subject record of the collection, which includes the names of prominent peers, refer to the Yale University Library catalogue entry.