Collection Overview
Florence Guertin Tuttle
Florence Guertin Tuttle Papers1917-1948
8 boxes
(3.5 linear ft.)
English
Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College
Northampton, MA
The bulk of this collection consists of writings and speeches, research material, and records from Tuttle's involvement in organizations such as the American Association for International Cooperation, the American Union Against Militarism, the Women's Peace Party, and the League of Nations, among others, circa 1910s-1940s. Major themes include peace, internationalism, birth control rights, suffrage, women's clubs, and women writers. Significant correspondents include Virginia Gildersleeve, Florence Lamont, Anna Garlin Spencer, and Portia Willis (Berg) Fitzgerald. There is a small amount of biographical material, photographs, memorabilia, and family correspondence; and Tuttle's unpublished autobiography (1948).
Biographical Note
Florence and Frank Tuttle in
Palm Beach, FL, circa 1909
Florence Guertin Tuttle was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1869 to Lucy Henry, a descendent of Patrick Henry, and Pierre Guertin, a merchant and French-Canadian immigrant. Educated at a small private school, the Nassau Institute, Guertin was an avid reader and a prolific writer of poems and stories. As a young adult, Guertin was involved in one of the first women's clubs, the Avitas Club, where she was exposed to speakers such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In her late twenties she married Frank Day Tuttle (Yale class of 1887) and the couple settled in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Their sons, Day and Guertin Tuttle, were born in 1902 and 1904. When the children were small, Tuttle devoted part of her time to many causes including women's suffrage, the Woman's Peace Party and birth control. In 1915 she published The Awakening of Woman: Suggestions from the Psychic Side of Feminism and in 1917 a collection of stories entitled Give My Love to Maria.
Devastated by the horrors of World War I, Tuttle became a strong advocate for internationalism. In this new role she became Chair of the Women's Pro-League Council in 1920 and attended numerous meetings of the Council of the League of Nations in Geneva. There she befriended many important people such as First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson and Carrie Chapman Catt. During this time she also wrote Women and World Federation (1919) as well as numerous articles and leaflets on world cooperation, economic causes of war, and the League of Nations. In 1932 she was selected by Carrie Chapman Catt to be a delegate to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. Tuttle was in great demand as a speaker about peace and internationalism. She became the Executive Chairman of the Greater New York Branch of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association in 1924 and published two more books, including Alternatives to War (1931) before her death in 1951.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Florence Guertin Tuttle Papers include writings, speeches, research materials, and organizational records. Documents pertain to Tuttle's involvement in organizations such as the American Association for International Cooperation, the American Union Against Militarism, the Woman's Peace Party, and the League of Nations, among others, from the 1910s to the 1940s. Major themes include peace, internationalism, birth control rights, suffrage, women's clubs, and women writers. There is a small amount of biographical material, photographs, memorabilia, and family correspondence; and Tuttle's unpublished autobiography (1948). Notable correspondents include Virginia Gildersleeve, Florence Lamont, Anna Garlin Spencer, and Portia Willis (Berg) Fitzgerald.
Organization of the Collection
This collection is organized into four series:
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[BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS](list-ser1)
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[CORRESPONDENCE](list-ser2)
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[WRITINGS AND SPEECHES](list-ser3)
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[ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES](list-ser4)
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[OVERSIZE MATERIALS](list-serov)
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection without any additional restrictions.
Copyright ownership of Florence Tuttle's writings is unknown. Copyright to materials authored by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
Florence Guertin Tuttle Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Frank Day Tuttle donated his mother's papers to the Sophia Smith Collection from 1951-62. Reprocessed by Kelsey Radwilowicz, 2007.
Fitzgerald, Portia Willis--Correspondence
Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron, 1877--Correspondence
Lamont, Florence Haskell Corliss, 1873-52--Correspondence
Spencer, Anna Garlin, 1851-31--Correspondence
Tuttle, Florence Guertin, 1869-1951
League of Nations--History--Sources
Woman's Peace Party
Women--International cooperation--History--Sources
Feminists--United States--Biography--Sources
Peace Movements--History--20th century--Sources
Women and peace--History--20th century--Sources
Women's rights--History--20th century-Sources
APPENDIX: League of Nations Publications
Pamphlets (box 7, folders 6-7)
- The Political Activities of the League, No. 83, 1922
- Austria, What the League Has Done for Austria, No. 136, 1923
- The Technique of the League of Nations by Roth Williams, No. 144, 1924
- Annual Report of the Executive Committee to the General Council of the League of Nations Union for the Year Ending 31st December 1923, No. 147, 1924
- British Business and the League, No. 149, 1924
- Human Welfare and the League, No. 155, 1924
- Five Years' Treaties (1919 -23), No. 156, 1924
- Labour and the League of Nations, including a defense of the International Labour Organisation by The Right Honourable J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., No. 157, 1924
- Lantern Lecture on the League of Nations, No. 159, 1924
- How the League of Nations Union Spends Its Money, Being a Summary of the Annual Report for 1925, No. 160, 1924
- An Experiment in a Secondary School, No. 162, n.d.
- Geneva 1924 (Fifth Assembly of the League of Nations), No. 164, n.d.
- The Complete Text of the Covenant and the Geneva Protocol, No. 165, 1924
- The Covenant and the Protocol by Sir Frederick Pollock, 1924
- Lord Grey of Fallodon on the Geneva Protocol, No. 170, 1925
- Chemical Warfare, No. 171, 1925
- The "Labour Covenant" (Part XIII of the Treaty of Versailles), No. 172, Jan 1925
- League of Nations Union Policy (An Address delivered at a Meeting of the General Council of the League of Nations Union by Professor Gilbert Murray, LL.D., D.Litt., December 19, 1924), No. 173, 1925
- The Meaning of the Protocol by H. Wilson Harris, No. 175, 1925
- The Governments of Britain, France, Czechoslovakia and Canada on the Geneva Protocol, No. 177, 1925
- Geneva 1925 (being an account of the Sixth Assembly of the League of Nations), by H. Wilson Harris
- International Conciliation, "The Problem of Minorities": articles by Louis Eisenmann, William E. Rappard, H. Wilson Harris, and Raymond Leslie Buell, 1926
- International Conciliation, "Disarmament and American Foreign Policy": articles by James T. Shotwell, Tasker H. Bliss, David Hunter Miller, and Joseph P. Chamberlain, 1926
- League of Nations, "America and the Permanent Court of International Justice": Vol. V, No. 5
- International Conciliation, "The Political Doctrine of Fascism" by Alfredo Rocco, Minister of Justice in the Government of Italy, Oct, 1926
- World Peace Foundations Pamphlets, "Handbook on the League of Nations (1920-1924)": Vol. VII, No. 3-4, 1924 (2 copies)
- World Peace Foundations Pamphlets, "Hearings on the Permanent Court of International Justice": Extracts from testimony of Bishop Charles H. Brent, President A. Lawrence Lowell, Hon. George W. Wickersham, and others, Vol. VII, No. 2, 1924
- Synopsis of the Geneva Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, n.d.
- Secretary Hughes and The League of Nations by Raymond B. Fosdick, reprinted from the New York Times, 1924
- The League of Nations, A Survey, (1920-25)
- The International Labor Organization, Its Ideals and Results by E.J. Phelan, 1925
- Covenant of the League of Nations with Amendments in Force, 1926
- Report of Exhibit (held for Leaders of Young People to Suggest Ways and Means of Cultivating and Stimulating Ideas of International Friendship and Good Will), 1925
- Training in Summer Camps for World Co-operation, Educational Department, 1926
- Essential Facts in regard to The League of Nations, The World Court and the International Labor Organization, Educational Publications No. 2, 1926
- Essential Facts in regard to The League of Nations, The World Court and the International Labor Organization, The Educational Committee, 1934
- World Peace Primer, H.S. Thurber Co., 1925
- Willful Crimes by the Fakers Viz: The League of Nations (A Writ of Habeas Corpus for the Emperor of Germany, William the Second) by Countess Ida von Claussen, 1924
Articles (box 7, folders 8-11)
- League of Nations: Report on the League since the Fourteenth Session of the Assembly, Part I, Geneva, 1934
- High Commission for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany, 1934
- League of Nations Information Section No. 7118, Geneva, 1934
- League of Nations Information Section, Geneva, 1934
- The Fifteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly, Geneva: President Sandler, September 13th, 1934 at 11 a.m.
- The Fifteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly, Geneva: President Sandler, September 14th, 1934 at 10 a.m.
- Speech delivered by M. Motta, Federal Councilor, First Delegate of the Swiss Confederation, Before the Sixth Committee on the Application of the U.S.S.R. to the League of Nations
- League of Nations Information Section No. 7062, Sep 17 1934
- League of Nations: The Fifteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly, Verbatim Report of the Seventh Meeting Held at the Salle Du Conseil Général, Geneva, on Monday, September 17th, 1934 at 11 a.m. President: M. R.J. Sandler
- League of Nations: The Fifteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly, Verbatim Report of the Twelfth Meeting Held at the Salle Du Conseil Général,Geneva on Thursday, September 27th, 1934 at 10 a.m. President: M. R.J. Sandler
- League of Nations Information Section No. 7112, Geneva, Sep 28 1934
- Unnamed, Assembly Transcript(?) Reads: "The President: Interpretation: I therefore declare that the admission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the League of Nations has been decided by the Assembly with the necessary majority…"
- Fifteenth Assembly: Opening Speech by the President of the Council of the League of Nations
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
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1
Contents
Writings about Florence Guertin Tuttle
1
Manuscripts and drafts
1
2
Biographical writings and drafts, n.d.
1
3
"Journey to Geneva": manuscript of observations, 1926
1
4
"I Traveled Hopefully": manuscript and autobiography, 1948
1
5-6
Articles and clippings about Florence Guertin Tuttle (including travel, League of Nations, Carrie Chapman Catt and Margaret Sanger), 1921-27
1
7
Travel diary, engagement book, passport, and will, 1933-34
1
8
Photographs and postcards, n.d.
1
9-12
Memorabilia (invitations, programs, miscellaneous items and European trip memorabilia), circa 1920's-36
2
1
Business: banks statements and miscellaneous items, 1917-36
2
2
Bible, 1917
2
3
Miscellaneous pamphlets and clippings, re: world affairs, 1936
SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE
Individuals
2
4
Bartlett, Alice, 1936
2
5
Berg, Portia Willis, 1921(?)-22
2
6
Cecil, Robert, 1923
2
7
Guertin, Henri ("Harry"), 1934-35
2
8
Randall, Fay, 1921-22, 1934
2
9
Tuttle, Day, 1921 (?), 1935-36
2
10
Tuttle, Guertin, 1922-36
2
11
Tuttle, Laura Lee, 1935-36
General
2
12
Family (Francis and others), 1921, 1923
2
13
A-D, 1918-36
2
14
E-J, 1920-39
2
15
K-Q, 1920-36
2
16
R-Q, 1918-39
2
17
Telegrams, 1922-36 (European trip)
2
18
Correspondence and invitations (mostly 1939)
2
19
Miscellaneous (including League of Nations Non-Partisan Association), 1921-27
2
20
Miscellaneous (including European trip, 1936), 1921-34, 1936
SERIES III. WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Writings
[[see also OVERSIZE MATERIALS]](list-serov)
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1
The Awakening of Woman: reviews, 1915
3
2
"Woman and Peace": manuscript, n.d.
Women and World Federation
3
3
Manuscript (chaps. 1 - 5), 1918
3
4
Manuscript (chaps. 6 - 9), 1919
3
5
Correspondence, royalties, etc. 1920
3
6
"Women and World Problems": manuscript and notes, n.d.
Articles
3
7
From magazines and newspapers, 1920-22
3
8
Correspondence
3
9
Speeches: League of Nations, disarmament, war, etc., 1922-24
SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
3
10
American Association for International Cooperation: correspondence, 1921-23
3
11
American Peace Award, 1923-24
3
12
American Union against Militarism: correspondence, 1917
3
13
Berry School: pilgrims, 1934-35
3
14
Birth control: population conference, Geneva, 1927
3
15
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage: correspondence, 1917-22
3
16
Democratic National Convention: correspondence, 1927
Foreign Policy Association
3
17
Correspondence, 1921-35
3
18
The Bulletin
3
19
Pamphlets
4
1
International Federation of Business and Professional Women, 1935-36
4
2
International peace organizations: pamphlets, correspondence, and miscellaneous items, 1924-39
4
3
League for Political Education: Countess Karolyi and the Earl of Lytton, 1924-35
4
League of Nations
[[see boxes 5-8]](box5)
4
4
National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, 1926-31
4
5
New York League of Business and Professional Women: tribute dinner, 1935
4
6
New York State League of Women Voters: correspondence, 1923
4
7
Peace organizations and articles, 1923-26
4
8
Unitarian Laymen's League, 1926
Woman's Peace Party of New York City, 1917
4
9
Open letter to President Wilson
4
10
Correspondence
4
11
Women's Trade Union League, 1923-26
4
12
Women's University Club: New York branch, 1925
4
13
World Court, 1922-26
4
14
Miscellaneous organizations, 1936-46
League of Nations
5
1
League of Nations Association, 1936-39
5
2
Correspondence
Disarmament Conference, Geneva, 1932
5
3
Speech by Tuttle, articles, and correspondence
Scrapbook
[[see box 8]](box8)
5
4
Education committee, 1925
5
5
Geneva Conference, 1934
5
6
General information, 1925-27
5
7
Headway (periodical), 1924-26
5
8
League of Nations Herald, 1924-25
5
9
International Federation: Glasgow Congress, 1936
5
10
Monthly summary, 1920-26
5
11
Pamphlets, 1923-36
5
12
General: reports, minutes, memoranda, and correspondence, 1923-35
Non-Partisan Association
6
1
Memoranda, 1923-27
6
2
History, procedures, etc., 1923-27
6
3
Correspondence, 1923-26
6
4
Publications, 1923-27
6
5
Reports, 1923-26
Woman's Pro-League Council, 1921-24
6
6
Correspondence
6
7
Correspondence (Tuttle)
6
8
Minutes, procedures, etc.
6
9
Publications
6
10
League of Nations School, 1934-35
7
1
Invitations, 1935, n.d.
Publications
7
2
League of Nations News
7
3-7
Pamphlets
[[see Appendix for title list]](odd)
7
8-11
Reports
[[see Appendix for title list]](odd)
8
Disarmament Conference, Geneva: scrapbook, 1932
[[see also OVERSIZE MATERIALS]](list-serov)
SERIES V. OVERSIZE MATERIALS
Flat file
Posters advertising The Awakening of Woman, circa 1915, and Give My Love to Maria, 1917 (2 copies)
Flat file
Political cartoons (2) "from disarmament conference at Geneva by the famous official cartoonists of the League of Nations, Derso and Kalen" and description, 1932, 1934