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Lot of 19 letters from Anne Tracy Morgan, one each from Frieda Warburg and Wenona Marlin. Notes and letters from Anne Morgan are all on 219 Madison Ave. stationery other than War Relief Work and the last note: TNS, Feb. 24, 1913 TLS, Mar. 17, 1913 ANS, 3.25 x 5.25 in mourning bordered card, Mar 1, 1913 TLS, Mar. 26, 1913 TLS, Dec. 15, 1913 ANS, 3.25 x 5.25 in. with mourning borders, Jan 16, 1914 ANS, 5 x 6.75 in. with mourning borders, Jan. 31, 1914 TLS, Oct. 28, 1914, on letterhead of Vacation War Relief Work Committee letterhead. Plus a flier with the committee's information and what they need for European refugees. TNS, Oct. 31, 1914 - note at bottom "dictated but not signed by Miss Morgan" TLS, Feb. 11, 1915 TLS, Feb. 15, 1915 TLS, Mar. 27, 1915 TNS July 6, 1915 TLS, July 22, 1915 TLS, Sept. 15, 1915, on larger than average stationery, 9.25 x 10.25 in. (European sizing?) TNS, 4.25 x 5 in. card, Jan. 15, 1916 TLS, March 30, 1917 TNS, 6 x 6.75 in., Dec. 24, 1920 TNS, 6 x 6.75 in., Nov. 26, 1927 (3 Sutton Place) Anne Tracy Morgan (1873-1952) was the daughter of John Pierpont Morgan and Frances Louisa Tracey. She grew up amid wealth and privilege, and used her influence to make life easier for others. She was a union activist in the early decades of the 20th century. In 1903 she purchased a French villa with two friends, who became known as the "Versailles Triumverate." They hosted a salon in France. About the same time, with Ann Vanderbilt, they organized the Colony Club in New York, the first women's social club. Her Sutton Place townhouse was donated to the United Nations. It is now the official residence of the Secretary General of the UN. During WWI, the women set the American Friends of France to give aid to non-combatants, providing furnishings and personal items to those bombed out of their homes, medical care, a camp for children, a library, etc. Some of the efforts were funded from her own pockets, others through fund-raising efforts such as those she seems to have arranged with Wiley (especially to get ads placed in the NYT). ANS, 5 x 6.75 in., [New York], Nov. 7, n.y. To Miss Wiley, probably Carrie. Signed Frieda Schiff Warburg (1876-1958). Frieda Schiff was born into the wealthy German Jewish community in New York City to Jacob Schiff (head of Kuhn, Loeb and Co.) and Therese Loeb (daughter of the firm's founder). The family was already backing the Henry Street Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service. She married Felix Warburg in 1895. She continued the family tradition, becoming director of the Brightside Day Nursery and later of the Young Women's Hebrew Association. By the mid-1930s, her father, husband and brother (Mortimer Schiff) had all died, leaving the philanthropic responsibilities to her. Her education as a privileged female did not prepare her for this kind of role. She adapted and continued to support (and serve on boards of many) schools and charities, most for Jewish causes, but a number also to fund art, music and African-American charities. She actively worked to rescue family and friends in Europe after the Nazis came to power, housing many refugees in her own home. For her charitable work she received many awards, including degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College. ALS, written on the inside of an envelope, Washington, DC, May 15, 1918, signed Wenona Marlin, and below her name "Now a War Clerk." Congratulating Wiley on the part played by the New York Times in establishing the New York-Philadelphia-Washington air mail route. Wenona Marlin (1889-1945) worked for women's suffrage and other causes, as well as being an author. In a letter to the editor of the NYT in May 1911, she writes that the Suffragist parade was not a society affair or dress parade, although many who marched to support suffrage happened to be from old and wealthy families. Louis Wiley was born in Homell, Steuben County, NY in 1869. The family moved shortly after to Mt. Sterling, KY, then to Ft. Wayne, IN