Finding Aid of the Mary Alice Jaqua Papers D439
Finding aid prepared by Michael P. Palmer, MLIS
Ella Strong Denison Library
1090 Columbia Ave
Claremont, 91711
(909) 607-3941
denison@scrippscollege.edu
April 28, 2011
Title: Mary Alice Jaqua Papers
Collection number: D439
Contributing Institution:
Ella Strong Denison Library
1090 Columbia Ave
Claremont, 91711
(909) 607-3941
denison@scrippscollege.edu
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Physical Description:
0.83 Linear feet
(2 document boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1940-1970
Abstract: Correspondence, photographs, and other materials,
relating to Mary Alice Jaqua (1913-1987), daughter of Ernest J. Jaqua, first
president of Scripps College. The materials document in particular her career,
1941-1946, first as secretary to the director of the American Red Cross-Harvard
Field Hospital Unit in Salisbury, England, then as civilian secretary in the office
of the Commander in Chief, European Theater of Operations (successively Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, and Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers) in London,
Algiers, and Caserta, Italy, and from 1945 as secretary to Jock Dunning, Executive
Vice President of Whitney Industries in New York City.
creator:
Jaqua, Mary Alice,
1913-1987
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing
to Ella Strong Denison Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Mary Alice Jaqua Papers. Ella Strong Denison Library,
Scripps College, Claremont, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Ernest Jaqua, 2002.
Processing Information note
Collection processed by Mario Pamplona for Archival Studies 311, Claremont Graduate
University, Spring 2010. Reprocessed by Michael P. Palmer, MLIS, April 2011.
Biography
Mary Alice Jaqua was born in Grinnell, Iowa, on July 24, 1913, the daughter of Ernest
J. Jaqua (1882-1972) and his wife Gwendolyn Evans (1885-1971). She moved with her
family to Claremont, California, in 1926, when her father accepted the position of
professor of education and dean of the faculty at Pomona College; he was appointed
first president of Scripps College ikn 1926. She received her BA from Scripps in
1934, and in 1935-1936 undertook graduate work in English Literature at the
University of California, Berkeley. In 1937-1938 she was a secretary in the office
of the President of George Washington University, Washington, DC, and from 1938 to
1941 secretary and research assistant in the Medical and Psychiatric Research
Project at Harvard University. In 1941 Jaqua went to England as secretary to Dr.
John E. Gordon, Director of the American Red Cross-Harvard Hospital Unit in
Salisbury. In 1942 she became a civilian employee of the US military, serving
successively as confidential secretary to Lt. Cdr. Harry C. Butcher, Naval Aide to
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commanding General, European Theater of Operations (August
1942), and secretary to Maj. Gen. Russell P. Hartle, Deputy Commander, European
Theater of Operations (November 1942). When Eisenhower was given supreme command of
the Allied forces and moved to Africa, Jaqua remained in London as secretary to his
successors, Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews (February 1943) and Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers
(May 1943), while continuing to handle Eisenhower's London business. In January 1944
she followed Devers, who had been appointed Commanding General, North African Field
of Operations, and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theater, to
Algiers and in July to Caserta, Italy. The following month she joined the staff of
the Historical Section, Mediterranean Allied Air Forces (Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker,
Commander), in Caserta, Italy. She returned to the United States in August 1945, and
after several months in Minneapolis, moved to New York City, where she served as
secretary to Jock Dunning, Executive Vice President, Whitney Industries, until March
1946.
Jaqua returned to California, settling in Los Angeles, and in 1951 received an MS in
Psychiatric Social Work from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From
1956 to 1962, she taught social case work at UCLA, and worked with a private
psychiatrist and at the Los Angeles Day Mental Hospital. She then became a counselor
with the Edgewood Family Counseling Agency in Covina. In 1969, she was appointed
staff consultant for residential affairs at Scripps College, a position she held
currently with her counseling job.
Jaqua married Murray Kahne, a teacher, sometime between 1951 and 1953. Nothing is
known of him, although he may be the man of this name who was born November 1, 1915,
and died in Ridgewood, New York, on October 2, 2009. She returned to Claremont in
1968, moving to a retirement home in Montclair in 1986, and died on February 12,
1987.
Scope and Contents note
The collection consists primarily of correspondence, together with photographs and
other materials, relating to Mary Alice Jaqua (1913-1987), daughter of Ernest J.
Jaqua, first president of Scripps College, during the period 1941-1946. The
materials document in particular her life in wartime England, from July 1941 to the
summer of 1942 as secretary to the Director of the American Red Cross-Harvard Field
Hospital Unit in Salisbury, England; from August 1942 as civilian secretary in the
office of the Commander in Chief, European Theater of Operations (successively Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, and Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers) in
London, Algiers, and Caserta, Italy; and from 1945 as secretary to Jock Dunning,
Executive Vice President of Whitney Industries in New York City. The materials
provide details of the hardships faced by the British, both in the countryside and
in London, during the War, including the difficulty of obtaining basic goods and
services; the relations between the Americans and the British, both before and after
the United States entered the War; and the social life and wide and varied circle of
friends, both civilian and military, of a single woman working for high-ranking
American military officers in London, North Africa, and Southern Italy. With a
single exception the materials relating to General Eisenhower are represented by
photocopies, the family having retained the originals.
Arrangement note
The collection is arranged into 4 series:
- Series 1: Correspondence
- Series 2: Personal
- Series 3: Photographs
- Series 4: Scrapbook Pages and Newspaper Clippings
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American Red Cross-Harvard Field
Hospital Unit.
Eisenhower, Dwight D., (Dwight David),
1890-1969
Jaqua, Ernest L.,
1926-2003
Whitney, John Hay,
1904-1982
Correspondence
Photographs
World War, 1939-1945--England
World War, 1939-1945--Italy
World War, 1939-1945--Mediterranean Region
Series 1:
Correspondence.
1940-1970
(bulk 1940-1946)
Physical Description:
102 folders
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of correspondence relating to Mary Alice Jaqua and her
life from December 1940 to September 1946. The letters through July 1942
document Jaqua’s life as secretary to John Gordon, MD, Director of the
American Red Cross-Harvard Medical Hospital Unit, in Salisbury, England, and
give details of her voyage to Liverpool and of work and life in rural
wartime England, before the United States entered the War. The letters give
much information on living conditions, the costs and difficulty of obtaining
food and clothing, and relations between the Americans and the local
population, including several families (in particular Lord Pendland, his
wife, and his sister, Peggy Sinclair) with whom Jaqua became close
friends).
The letters from August 1942-January 1944 document Jaqua’s life in London,
where she served in the office of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commanding General,
European Theater of Operations, first as secretary to Lt. Cdr. Harry C.
Butcher, Eisenhower’s Naval Aide (August-November 1942), then as secretary
to Maj. Gen. Russell P. Hartle, Eisenhower’s deputy commander (November
1942-February 1943). When Eisenhower became Supreme Allied Commander, Jaqua
remained in London, handling Eisenhower’s “London business”, while serving
as secretary to his successors as Commanding General, European Theater of
Operations, Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews (February 1943) and, after his death,
Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers (May 1943). While the confidential nature of her
work prevents Jaqua from describing it in more than the most general terms,
the letters do contain extensive descriptions of the social life in wartime
London of a single American woman whose work for high-ranking American
military officers enables her to develop a wide circle of friends, some of
whom—such as Stephen Stackpole, Sydney “Spivie” Spivack, and Leslie (later
Sir Leslie) Rowan—went on to distinguished careers after the War.
Jaqua followed Devers to Algiers when he was transferred to the Mediterranean
Theater in January 1944, and in July 1944 moved to Caserta, Italy, where she
remained based until she returned to the United States in August 1945. Her
letters from this period give a vivid account of military life in North
Africa and southern Italy, the condition of Italy in the weeks and months
following the American invasion, and her wide circle of friends, including
Hermione Countess of Ranfurly (who later published a best-selling diary of
her wartime experiences), her roommate in Algiers; Lt. Col. Bernice “Bunny”
Wilbur, chief army nurse for the Mediterranean Theater, who had been a nurse
at the American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital Unit and was her roommate
in Caserta; air force commander Lt. General Ira C. Eaker; Sydney Spivack;
and John Hay “Jock” Whitney, of the OSS, and his circle.
Jaqua’s letters from 1945 to 1947 relate to her move to Minneapolis,
apparently to pursue an abortive romance with Andreas “Andy” Luksch, an
immigrant from Europe whom she had known in Boston before the War (it was he
who took the photographs of her on the day prior to her departure for
England that can be found in box 2, folder 42), and her subsequent move to
New York City to become the secretary to Jock Dunning, a former RAF officer
and friend of Jock Whitney whom she had met in Caserta and whom Whitney had
appointed Executive Vice President of Whitney Industries.
The majority of the letters is from Jaqua to her parents and family, and in
addition to news and gossip these letters contain many requests for her
family to send her clothing, toiletry, and other items not readily available
in wartime Europe, as well as comments on her parents’ peripatetic life
since her father’s precipitate retirement from Scripps College in June 1942.
All but a handful of the letters are typed; many of those from the War years
are carbon copies that Jaqua sent to her sister Eleanor and her brothers.
The series includes a small number of letters written by others, including
several by the generals to whom she reported. The two letters from Dwight
Eisenhower are photocopies: the originals were retained by the family. The
two most recent letters, addressed to Jaqua (by this time Mrs. Murray Kahne)
in 1969 and 1970, discuss the possibility of her donating her Eisenhower
photographs and letters to the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene,
Kansas.
Arrangement note
Arranged chronologically.
Box 1, Folder 1
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to father.
Before December 23, 1940
Extent: 1 page; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 2
Letter. C. Sidney Burwell, MD, Dean of Harvard Medical School, to
Miss Mary Alice Jaqua.
December 23, 1940
Extent: 1 page; typescript.
Scope and Contents note
Confirmation of the appointment of Jaqua as secretary for an initial
period of one year in the Harvard Public health Unit for service in
Great Britain under the direction of Dr. John E. Gordon.
Box 1, Folder 3
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
n.d. [late 1940]
Extent: 5 pages; manuscript.
Box 1, Folder 4
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
13 Holyoke Street, n.d.
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
General note
Undated, but January 1941.
Box 1, Folder 5
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to father.
n.d. [early 1941]
Extent: 1 sheet (2 sides); manuscript.
Manuscript annotation: "sometime early 1941".
Box 1, Folder 6
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
June 3, 1941
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 7
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents, et al.
Pennsylvania Hotel, #545, June 25,
1941
Extent: 2 sheets (7 sides);
manuscript.
Box 1, Folder 8
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents and all.
En route [mailed at Halifax], July 3,
1941
Extent: 4 sheets (8 sides);
manuscript.
Box 1, Folder 9
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
On board the
Sourabaya, July 18, 1941
Extent: 4 sheets (7 sides); manuscript.
Excisions.
Box 1, Folder 10
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents, etc.
34 Cavendish Square, W., July 27,
1941
Extent: 5 sheets (9 sides);
manuscript.
Box 1, Folder 11
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents and family.
August 11, 1941
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 12
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
August 25, 1941
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 13
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to Eleanor Jaqua [sister].
Salisbury, Wiltshire, American Red
Cross-Harvard Field Hospital Unit, September 4, 1941
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 14
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
Salisbury, September 29, 1941
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 15
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
October 13, 1941
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 16
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
Salisbury, November ... [page section
missing]
Extent: 2 pages; typescript. Top left of both
pages torn away and text missing.
Box 1, Folder 17
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents and family.
Salisbury, December 7, 1941
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 18
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
Salisbury, December 15 [1941]
Extent: 1 page [?incomplete];
typescript.
Box 1, Folder 19
Letter. John E. Gordon, MD, Director, American Red Cross-Harvard
Field Hospital Unit, to Ernest J. Jaqua.
December 19, 1941
Extent: 1 page; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 20
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
December 27, 1941
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 21
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
January 11, 1942
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 22
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
Salisbury, January 29, 1942
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 23
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
Salisbury, [no month] 12, 1941
[1942]
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 24
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
Salisbury, March 31, 1942
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 25
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
Salisbury, April 25, 1942
Extent: 2 pages; typescript. Hole torn in both
pages, and text missing.
Box 1, Folder 26
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
Salisbury, May 7, 1942
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 27
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
Salisbury, June 30, 1942
Extent: 1 sheet (letterhead of American Red
Cross-Harvard Field Hospital Unit, Salisbury, England).
Box 1, Folder 28
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
August 5, 1942
Extent: 1 page; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 29
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
August 12, 1942
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 30
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
London, undated [August 1942]
Extent: 1 page; typescript. Original and
typescript copy.
Box 1, Folder 31
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
September 5, 1942
Extent: 1 page; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 32
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to Ernest L. Jaqua
[brother].
September 18, 1942
Extent: 1 page; typescript copy.
Text 1, Folder 33
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to father.
October 6, 1942
Extent: 1 page (letterhead of Headquarters
European Theater, United States Army, Office of the Commanding General);
typescript.
Box 1, Folder 34
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
October 6, 1942
Extent: 1 page [incomplete];
typescript.
Box 1, Folder 35
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
November 20, 1942
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 36
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to father.
November 26, 1942
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 37
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
December 17, 1942
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 38
Card [hand drawn] with Christmas wishes from John [Sinclair, 2nd
Lord Pentland] and Lucy [wife] and Mary [daughter] to Mary Alice
Jaqua.
December 1942
Box 1, Folder 39
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
January 6, 1943
Extent: 1 page; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 40
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
February 2, 1943
Extent: 1 page; typescript. FRAGILE.
Box 1, Folder 41
Letter. Brigadier General Everett Strait Hughes to Mary Alice
Jaqua.
APO 512, February 16, 1943
Extent: 1 page; typescript. Photostat
copy.
Box 1, Folder 42
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
February 19, 1943
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 43
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
March 12, 1943
Extent: 2 pages; typescript. Typescript copy +
photocopy of page 2.
Box 1, Folder 44
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
April 8, 1943
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 45
Letter. General Dwight D. Eisenhower to Mary Alice
Jaqua.
May 1, 1943
Extent: 1 page; typescript. Photostat
copy.
Box 1, Folder 46
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
May 4, 1943
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 47
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
June 10, 1943
Extent: 3 pages (page 2 cut short);
typescript.
Box 1, Folder 48
Letter. Major General R[ussell] P. Hartle to Mary Alice
Jaqua.
APO 305, June 14, 1943
Extent: 1 page; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 49
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
September 11, 1943
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 50
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to Eleanor Jaqua [sister].
September 19, 1943
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 51
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
October 14, 1943
Extent: 4 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 52
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
November 12, 1943
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 53
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
November 28, 1943
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 54
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
January 30, 1944
Extent: 6 pages; typescript. 2nd copy of pp.
2-6.
Box 1, Folder 55
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
February 16, 1944
Extent: 3 pages (letterhead of Allied Force
Headquarters, Office of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief);
typescript.
Box 1, Folder 56
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
February 24 [1944]
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 57
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
March 15, 1944
Extent: 3 pages; typescript. Also carbon copy
of pages 2-3.
Box 1, Folder 58
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to father.
April 4, 1944
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 59
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
April 24, 1944
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 60
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to Mrs. Hal C. Hardin [Aunt
Alice].
April 24, 1944
Extent: 3 sheets (6 sides);
manuscript.
Box 1, Folder 61
Letter. Lieutenant General Ira Eaker to Mary Alice
Jaqua.
May 12, 1944
Extent: 2 sheets (letterhead of Headquarters
mediterranean Allied Air Forces, Office of the Commander-in-Chief, APO
650) (3 sides); manuscript.
Box 1, Folder 62
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
May 18, 1944
Extent: 6 pages; typescript.
Unsigned.
Box 1, Folder 63
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
June 18, 1944
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 64
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
July 19, 1944
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 65
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
August 18, 1944
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 66
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
August 28, 1944
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 67
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to family.
September 30, 1944
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 68
Letter. Ernest J. Jaqua to Archbishop Francis J.
Spellman.
October 18, 1944
Extent: 1 page; typescript. Carbon
copy.
Box 1, Folder 69
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
300th General Hospital, December 7
[1944]
Extent: 5 sheets (10 sides);
manuscript.
Box 1, Folder 70
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
January 12, 1945
Extent: 1 page; typescript. 1 photostat copy
and 1 typescript copy.
Box 1, Folder 71
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua To Eleanor Jaqua [sister].
April 16, 1945
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 72
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
April 19, 1945
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 1, Folder 73
Letter. Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker to Ernest J.
Jaqua.
May 4, 1945
Extent: 1 page; typescript. 2 carbon copy
transcripts.
Box 1, Folder 74
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
May 10, 1945
Extent: 2 pages; typescript. Also one-page
typescript copy.
Box 1, Folder 75
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
May 14 [1945]
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 1
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
June 3 [1945]
Extent: 4 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 2
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
June 11, 1945
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 3
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
July 2 and 13, 1945
Extent: 4 pages (+ 1 page of exerpts);
typescript.
Box 2, Folder 4
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
July 24 [1945]
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 5
Western Union telegram. Mary Alice Jaqua to father.
August 5, 1945
Box 2, Folder 6
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
August 8 [1945]
Extent: 1 sheet (3 sides);
manuscript.
Box 2, Folder 7
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
August 10 [1945]
Extent: 2 pages; manuscript.
Box 2, Folder 8
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
August 25, 1945
Extent: 2 pages; manuscript.
Box 2, Folder 9
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
September 19 [1945]
Extent: 4 sheets; manuscript.
Box 2, Folder 10
Letter. Allen Grover to Mary Alice Jaqua.
9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, October 2,
1945
Extent: 1 page; typescript. Copy.
Box 2, Folder 11
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to mother.
October 5, 1945
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 12
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to father.
October 18, 1945
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 13
Letter. Elvira Fiumara to Mary Alice Jaqua.
Via. S. Carlo N 18, Caserta (Italy), October
23, 1945
Extent: 1 page; typescript. Copy.
Box 2, Folder 14
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
October 31, 1945
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 15
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
November 5, 1945
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 16
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
Room 1920, 247 Park Avenue, New York, November
17, 1945
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 17
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
Whitney Realty Company, 247 Park Avenue, New
York 17, N.Y., December 11, 1945
Extent: 1 page; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 18
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
December 17, 1945
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 19
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to mother.
December 19, 1945
Extent: 1 page; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 20
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
January 29, 1946
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 21
Letter. Mary Alice Jaqua to parents.
February 6, 1946
Extent: 2 pages; typescript.
Box 2, Folder 22
Letter. Peggy Sinclair to Mary Alice Jaqua.
Mayor House, Farley Heath, Guildford, Surrey,
October 22, 1946
Extent: 3 sheets (6 sides);
manuscript.
General note
The writer is the Hon. Margaret Ishbel Sinclair (born 1906), daughter of
the first Lord Pentland.
Box 2, Folder 23
Letter. Hermione [Countess of Ranfurly] to Mary Alice
Jaqua.
3 Red Place, Green Street, London, W.1,
December 17, 1946
Extent: 3 pages; typescript.
General note
The writer is Hermione, née Llewellyn (1913-2001), wife of Daniel Knox,
6th Earl of Ranfurly.
Box 2, Folder 24
Letter. Dwight D. Eisenhower to Mary Alice Jaqua.
War Department, Washington, August 18,
1947
Extent: 1 page; typescript.
Photocopy.
Box 2, Folder 25
Letter. John E. Wickman, Director, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library,
to Mrs. Mary Alice (Jaqua) Kahne.
February 17, 1969
Box 2, Folder 26
Letter. Edwin A. Thompson, Supervisory Archivist, Dwight D.
Eisenhower Library, to Mrs. Mary Alice Kahne.
February 10, 1970
Box 2, Folder 27
Extracts from correspondence.
1941-1942
Extent: 4 sheets; typescript. Numbered "5"
(1941), "6" (1942), "8" (no dates; sheet cut), and "9"
(1942).
Series 2:
Personal.
1941-1946,
1965
Physical Description:
14 folders
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of Jaqua's wartime civilian and military identification
papers, including her 1941 passport; her 1946 curriculum vitae, with
certifications from Generals Eisenhower and Devers; her travel orders, 1945;
and a small number of ephemera (money conversion table, performance program,
restaurant menu) from her years in England.
Box 2, Folder 28-31
American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital Unit.
1941-1965
Box 2, Folder 28
Friends of the American Red Cross-Harvard Public Health Unit.
Newsletter.
June 3, 1941
Box 2, Folder 29
Friends of the American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital
Unit, Salisbury, England. Newsletter.
October 1, 1941
Box 2, Folder 30
Friends of the harvard Public Health Unit.
Newsletter.
January 29, 1942
Box 2, Folder 31
American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital Unit. Reunion
Newsletter.
n.d.; November 25, 1969
Box 2, Folder 32
Chase National Bank of the City of New York, West End Branch, 51
Berkeley Square, London, W.1. Dollar Exchange Table.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 33
Curriculum vitae of Mary Alice Jaqua.
circa 1946
Extemt: 3 pages (carbon copy); typescript. 1
page missing.
Box 2, Folder 34
Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers. Signed certification that Mary Alice
Jaqua was his private secretary from May 1943 to October
1944.
October 1, 1944
Box 2, Folder 35
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower. Signed certification
that Mary Alice Jaqua was a member of his personal staff during the time
he was in London in 1942.
September 24, 1945
Extent: 1 photocopy + 1 typescript
copy.
Box 2, Folder 36
Hasel & Ruel, Ltd., Ladies Tailors and Habit Makers, London,
W.1. Invoices.
September 19 and 24, 1944
Box 2, Folder 37
Identification Papers - Civilian.
May 16 and September 17, 1941;
May 29, 1943
Contents
(1) United States passport, May 16, 1941; (2) Driving Licence (Wilts
County Council), September 17, 1941; (3) National Registration identity
Card [Great Britain], May 29, 1943.
Box 2, Folder 38
Identification Papers - Military.
1942-1945
Contents
(1) War Department Identification Card, July 31, 1942; (2) Allied Force
permit (North Africa), September 22, 1944; (3) Military Pass to A F H Q,
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 39
Maison Prunier, 72 St. James's Street, london, S.W.1.
Menu.
November 5, 1943
Box 2, Folder 40
Travel Orders for Mary Alice Jaqua, Civilian, Office of the
Commanding General, MAAF.
January 8, 1945
Extent: 1 sheet (2 carbon copies);
typescript.
Box 2, Folder 41
Westminster Abbey, Christmas and New Year's Services.
December 1943-January
1944
Series 3:
Photographs.
circa 1941-1948.
Physical Description:
6 folders
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of photographs of Jaqua, her family, friends, and
associates, from the period 1941-1948. The materials include a series of
photographs taken of Jaqua in June 1941, just prior to her departure for
England; photographs of the Sinclair family (Lord Pendland); and a large
series of photographs of the Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital in Salisbury.
The materials also include photographs of friends and colleagues during
Jaqua's time in London, Algiers, and Caserta, Italy, among them informal
photographs of Generals Andrews and Devers, to whom she reported; several
snapshots of her close friend, Stephen Stackpole, Harvard Class of 1933, who
later had a distinguished career with the Carnegie Corporation; and a series
of photographs of John Hay "Jock" Whitney, then with the OSS, playing
backgammon with friends in his cabin at Caserta. The series includes a print
of Margaret Bourke-White's photograph of Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff
(including Jaqua) published in
Life in
November 1942, and photocopies of several signed photographs of Eisenhower,
the originals of which were retained by the family.
Arrangement note
Arranged chronologically.
Box 2, Folder 42
Mary Alice Jaqua, family, and friends.
1941-1948
Contents
9 photographs:
- Mary Alice Jaqua and older man (possibly her father, Ernest J.
Jaqua). 1 photograph, undated.
- Mary Alice Jaqua, T. Wharf, Boston, June 22, 1941, the day
before leaving for England. 6 photographs (3 pasted on page + 3
loose).
- John Sinclair, 2nd Lord Pendland, and Lucy Elizabeth Babington
Smith on wedding day, September 11, 1941. 1 photograph.
- Hon. Margaret Ishbel "Peggy" Sinclair and dog Wattie, Mayor
House, Albury, Guilford, England, October 1948. 1
photograph.
Box 2, Folder 43
American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital Unit, Salisbury,
England.
1941-1942
Extent: 19 photographs : b & w.
Box 2, Folder 44
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1942
Extent: 3 items. (1) Photograph of Eisenhower
and his staff by Margaret Bourke-White, September 26, 1942 (published in
Life Magazine, November 2, 1942, p.
122). 1 photographic print (mounted) + 1 photocopy from Scripps College
publication. Back row (l to r): civilian driver Albert Gilbey, orderly
Sergeant Michael "Mickey" McKeough, secretary Kay Summersby, adjutant
general Colonel Thomas Jefferson Davis, secretary Mary Alice Jaqua,
stenographer Warrant Officer Walter Marshal. Front row (l to r): naval
aide Commander Harry Butcher, Lieutenant General Eisenhower, army aide
Captain Ernest R. Lee. (2-3) Photocopies of photographs of Dwight D.
Eisenhower, signed and inscribed to Mary Alice Jaqua.
Box 2, Folder 45
General wartime photographs.
circa 1942-1945
Box 2, Folder 46
Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers with soldiers in the Mediterranean
Theater of Operations.
1944
Extent: 13 photographs : b & w. Stamped
"Official War Office Photograph" with numbers 14271, 14274-14276,
14278-14285, and 14287 added in pencil.
Box 2, Folder 47
John Hay "Jock" Whitney.
1945
Extent: 6 photographs. (1) (L to R) Jock
Whitney (OSS), Jock Dunning (RAF), "Spivie" [Major Sydney Shepherd
Spivack] playing backgammon in Whitney's cabin in Caserta (mounted).
(2-4) Backgammon; people named on backs of photographs: Sheriff, Jock
Whitney, Tex McCrary (Public Relations Officer, MAAF), Jock Dunning,
Spivie. (5) Jock Whitney reading
The Secret
History of the War
. (6) Good-bye to Jock Whitney, 5 a.m. (L
to R) Van Nostrand, Wesley, Rat, Jock, unidentified, Sheriff,
unidentified, unidentified, Spivie, Tony Scafedi, circa March
1945.
Series 4:
Scrapbook Pages and Newspaper Clippings.
circa 1934-1969.
Physical Description:
5 folders
Access
The materials are extremely fragile: folders 48-49 contain photocopies for
researcher use; folders 50-52 contain the original materials, which should
be consulted only upon approval of library staff.
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of several scrapbook pages and loose newspaper
clippings, relating primarily to Jaqua's voyage to England in July 1941, and
the American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital Unit in Salisbury, England.
The scrapbook pages include some Jaqua family materials dating back to 1934.
The loose materials include an article by Lincoln Barnett in
Life, November 2, 1942 (with photograph by
Margaret Bourke-White of Eisenhower and his staff, including Mary Alice
Jaqua), and 1969 reminiscences by Jaqua on John F. Kennedy and Eisenhower,
1969.
Box 2, Folder 48
Scrapbook Pages and Newspaper Clippings.
1934-1964
General Physical Description note: Photocopies
of original materials in folders 50-52.
Box 2, Folder 49
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1942,
1969
Contents
(1) Article by Lincoln Barnett in
Life,
November 2, 1942 (with photograph by Margaret Bourke-White of Eisenhower
and his staff, including Mary Alice Jaqua); (2) reminiscences by Mary
Alice (Jaqua) Kahne on Eisenhower,
Claremont
Courier
, April 5, 1969; (3) article by William Wingfield,
Tribune Staff Writer, with reminiscences by Mary Alice (Jaqua) Kahne on
John F. Kennedy and Eisenhower. Photocopies of original materials in
folders 50-52.
Box 2, Folder 50 access
restricted
Life magazine.
November 9, 1942
General Physical Description note: Original of
photocopies in folder 49. FRAGILE.
Access
Access restricted: use photocopy in folder 49.
Box 2, Folder 51 access
restricted
Scrapbook pages [original].
1934-1964
General Physical Description note: Originals of
photocopies in folder 48. FRAGILE.
Access
Access restricted: use photocopies in folder 48.
Box 2, Folder 52 access
restricted
Newspaper clippings [original].
1941-1969
General Physical Description note: Originals of
photocopies in folder 48. FRAGILE.
Access
Access restricted: use photocopies in folder 48.