Register of the Milly Bennett papers

Finding aid prepared by Grace M. Hawes
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Milly Bennett papers
Date (inclusive): 1915-1960
Collection Number: 82073
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 21 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 album box, 24 envelopes (13.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs, news dispatches, other writings, correspondence, clippings, and photographs relating to political conditions in China, social conditions in the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, and journalism in the United States.
Creator: Bennett, Milly, 1897-1960
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1982, with incremental materials received at a later date.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Milly Bennett papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1897 May 22 Born, San Francisco, California
1915 Graduate, Girls High School, San Francisco
1915-1917 Attended University of Hawaii
1917-1921 Reporter, The Daily News, San Francisco
1921 Married Mike Mitchell
1921-1926 Reporter, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii
1926 Divorced from Mike Mitchell
1926-1927 Editor, Chung-Mei News Agency, Peking, China

Assistant Editor, Peoples Tribune, Hankow, China
1927-1931 Reporter, The Daily News, San Francisco; Scripps-Howard News Service; United Press; Newspaper Enterprise Association
circa 1931 Married Evgeni Konstantinov, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
1931-1935 Reporter, Moscow Daily News
1931-1936 Resident, U.S.S.R.
1935-1936 Reporter, Newspaper Enterprise Association; The New York Times; International News Service
1936-1937 Reporter from Spain for Associated Press, United Press, London Times

Staff member, English-language section, Press and Propaganda Service, Foreign Ministry, Spanish Popular Front Government
1937 Married Hans Amlie
1938 Returned to the United States
1960 Died
Milly Bennett was the pseudonym of Mildred Jacqueline Bremler, who also wrote under her married names, Mildred Mitchell and Mildred Amlie.

Scope and Content of Collection

Memoirs, news dispatches, other writings, correspondence, clippings, and photographs relating to political conditions in China, social conditions in the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, and journalism in the United States.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Journalists
China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949
Journalism -- United States
Soviet Union -- Social conditions
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939

 

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1919-1942

Scope and Contents note

Memorabilia, newspaper articles, souvenirs belonging to Milly Bennett and her three husbands, Mike Mitchell, Evgeni Konstantinov, and Hans Amlie, arranged chronologically.
box 1, folder 1

General

box 1, folder 2

High school diploma and yearbook

box 1, folder 3

Magazine article, "Heroes of Labor," Time, quoting Milly Bennett 1935 December 16

box 1, folder 4

Membership cards, ads for speeches, press passes, identity cards

 

Newspaper articles about Milly Bennett

box 1, folder 5

1919

box 1, folder 6

Marriage of Milly Bennett and Mike Mitchell circa 1921

box 1, folder 7

Arrest in China 1927

box 1, folder 8

Experiences in China 1928

box 1, folder 9

Writing career 1929

box 1, folder 10

Experiences in the Soviet Union 1932

box 1, folder 11

Milly Bennett's interview with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine 1933

box 1, folder 12

Izvestia and Pravda articles 1936 November

box 1, folder 13

Milly Bennett and Hans Amlie in Spain and their marriage 1938

box 1, folder 14

Speaking engagements 1942

box 1, folder 15

O.G.P.U. - document on arrest of Milly Bennett's second husband, Evgeni Konstantinov 1934

Language of Material: Russian.
box 1, folder 16

Outline of Milly Bennett's career

box 1, folder 17

Safe conduct passes for Milly Bennett in Spain

box 1, folder 18

Souvenirs belonging to Hans Amlie

Scope and Contents note

Includes calling cards, Spanish money, and safe conduct passes.
 

CORRESPONDENCE 1926-1956

Arrangement Statement

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
 

Unidentified

box 1, folder 19

Undated

box 1, folder 20

1927-1928

box 1, folder 21

1930-1933

box 2, folder 1

1930-1933

box 2, folder 2

1934

box 2, folder 3

1935

box 2, folder 4

1936-1940

box 2, folder 5

1941-1944

box 2, folder 6

Abramson, S. H. 1937

box 2, folder 7

Allan, Bill and Seema circa 1934

box 2, folder 8

Allen, Robert S. 1938

box 2, folder 9

Amlie, Hans 1938-1944

box 2, folder 10

Amlie, Paul J. 1938-1944

box 2, folder 11

Arthur, Chester A. 1942

box 2, folder 12

Baillie, Constance undated

box 2, folder 13

Ballantine, Betty 1939-1940

box 2, folder 14

Barnes, Esther 1941

box 2, folder 15

Benet, Frances Rose 1937

box 2, folder 16

Bliven, Bruce 1939

box 2, folder 17

Bremler, Mrs. (mother of Milly Bennett) 1926

box 2, folder 18

Bridges, Billie undated

box 2, folder 19

Buckley, Edmund 1941-1943

box 2, folder 20

Bullitt, William C. 1940

box 2, folder 21

Burkhards, William circa 1930

box 2, folder 22

Burnett, James, Sir undated

box 2, folder 23

Burton, Wallace 1931-1932

box 2, folder 24

Burton, Wilbur (?) 1926-1927

box 2, folder 25

California State Board of Prison Directors 1929

box 2, folder 26

California State Relief Administration 1940

box 2, folder 27

Copeland, A. R., Mrs. 1943

box 2, folder 28

Cornwell, Warren 1942-1943

box 2, folder 29

Cowley, Malcolm 1939

box 2, folder 30

Dalyrymple, Martha undated

box 2, folder 31

Detro, Agnes 1938-1943

box 2, folder 32

Dodd, Martha (?) 1939-1940

box 2, folder 33

Dooling, Mary undated

box 2, folder 34

Douning, Myrtle 1948

box 2, folder 35

Edmundson, Charles 1943

box 2, folder 36

French, Lucille 1939-1942

box 2, folder 37

Friends of Democracy, Inc. 1944

box 2, folder 38

Fuqua, Stephen O. 1940-1942

box 2, folder 39

Garoffolo, Vincent 1943

box 2, folder 40

Givens, Alice undated

box 2, folder 41

Goodall, Donald 1939

box 2, folder 42

Gould, Grace circa 1935

box 2, folder 43

Gould, Randall 1940 undated

box 2, folder 44

Greene, Abel 1937

box 2, folder 45

Hall, L. undated

box 2, folder 46

Hampel, "Sis," 1938-1942

box 2, folder 47

Hawkins, Maurice 1938

box 2, folder 48

Herbst, Jo 1943

box 2, folder 49

Hoover Library 1940-1943

box 2, folder 50

International Labor Defense 1931

box 2, folder 51

International News Service 1936

box 3, folder 1

James, Bessie L. 1938

box 3, folder 2

James, Edwin L. 1940

box 3, folder 3

Jones, George S. 1943

box 3, folder 4

Jones, R. M. undated

box 3, folder 5

Kennedy, Edward 1939-1941

box 3, folder 6

Klutts, Henry and Dot 1941-1942

box 3, folder 7

Knoblaugh, Ed 1941

 

Konstantinov, Evgeni Vasilivich (Zhenya)

box 3, folder 8

Undated

box 3, folder 9

1933

box 3, folder 10-13

1934

box 3, folder 14-15

1935

box 3, folder 16

Logan, Milla circa 1942

box 3, folder 17

Magdiel, Daniel and Valborg 1941

box 3, folder 18

Mangan, Kate undated

box 3, folder 19

Mann, Tom (?) undated

box 3, folder 20

Manson, Dan 1941

box 3, folder 21

Marca, Arnold undated

box 3, folder 22

Matson, Harold 1938-1943

box 3, folder 23

McCann, Steve and Tinka 1956

box 3, folder 24

McKillop, Marjorie 1938-1944

box 4, folder 1

Merrick, Owen undated

box 4, folder 2

Miller, Bob and Jenny 1937-1944

box 4, folder 3

Montrose, Sherman and Ethel 1945

box 4, folder 4

Morris, Gerry 1941

box 4, folder 5

Muggeridge, Eric 1939

box 4, folder 6

Muller, Hermann 1937

box 4, folder 7

Murphy circa 1938

box 4, folder 8

National League of American Pen Women 1939

box 4, folder 9

Ness, Roy 1942

box 4, folder 10

Norris, Charles and K. undated

box 4, folder 11

North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy 1937

box 4, folder 12

O'Connor, Jim 1940-1941

box 4, folder 13

Offie 1937

box 4, folder 14

Olson, Culbert 1941

box 4, folder 15

Parker, Dorothy 1937

box 4, folder 16

Phillips, Joseph B. 1942

box 4, folder 17

Podesta, Evelyn Wells 1941

box 4, folder 18

Prohme, Rayna 1927

box 4, folder 19

Prohme, William 1934

box 4, folder 20

Radomsky, Sergei (?) 1937

box 4, folder 21

Raffel, Daniel and Rosalee 1937-1942

box 4, folder 22

Roessner, Elmer 1934-1937

box 4, folder 23

Rose, Sol 1937

box 4, folder 24-25

Ross, C. Blake 1929-1930

box 5, folder 1

Rothman, Kajsa 1937-1943

box 5, folder 2

San Francisco-Oakland Newspaper Guild 1939

box 5, folder 3

Sartain, Geraldine 1941-1943

box 5, folder 4

Seldes, George and Helen 1938 undated

box 5, folder 5

Shaver, J. J., Mrs. (sister of Wallace and Wilbur Burton) 1937

box 5, folder 6

Sheean, Vincent 1927

box 5, folder 7

Shirer, William 1941

box 5, folder 8

Smith, Charles 1931 undated

box 5, folder 9

Steward, Pearl 1939

box 5, folder 10

Strong, Anna Louise 1931-1944

box 5, folder 11

Sutro, Ralph C., Mrs. 1941

box 5, folder 12

Van Ansdal, Alvin undated

box 5, folder 13

Vanderburgh, W. W. and Rose, Drs. 1939

box 5, folder 14

Vaughn, Peg 1936

box 5, folder 15

Wachtel, Marion 1938-1941

box 5, folder 16

Wiley, Donald and Marjorie 1940-1942

box 5, folder 17

Williams, Beryl 1940

box 5, folder 18

Williams, Spencer 1941-1944

box 5, folder 19

Wilson, J. E. and Mary Ann 1939-1944

 

COLLECTED CORRESPONDENCE 1927-1944

Arrangement Statement

Arranged alphabetically by writer of correspondence.
box 5, folder 20

Amlie, Hans (correspondence to and from Hans Amlie, third husband of Milly Bennett) 1937-1944

box 5, folder 21

Amlie, Thomas, to Hans Amlie 1938-1939

box 5, folder 22

Besant, G. A., Jr., to all Austinites 1931

box 5, folder 23

Douglass, Leon F., to W. N. Burkhards 1929

box 5, folder 24

Fox, Charles James, to Randall Gould 1927

box 5, folder 25

Gould, Randall, to Rayna Prohme 1927

box 5, folder 26

Houser, Lionel, to Elmer Roessner 1936

box 5, folder 27

Prohme, William, to Dr. Kou Meng-yu 1927

box 5, folder 28

Sun Yat-sen, Mme, to Rayna Prohme circa 1927

box 5, folder 29

Wintringham, T. H., to Robert Minor 1937

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1917-circa 1956

Scope and Contents note

Newspaper articles, drafts, magazine articles, book manuscripts, and research materials in holograph, typescript, carbon copies, and processed form, arranged chronologically, alphabetically, and in order of appearance (series).
box 6, folder 1

Holograph notes undated

box 6, folder 2

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings (many with Milly Bennett's by-line) 1917-1921

box 6, folder 3

Verses 1917-1926

 

Articles and manuscripts

box 6, folder 4

"Ah, Girls, Have You See Wilson's Doctor," undated

box 6, folder 4

"Birthday Is Celebrated On Way to Prison," undated

box 6, folder 4

"Child Faces Anthony With Her Story," undated

box 6, folder 4

"Daily News Reporter Sits in Court of Woman Judge," undated

box 6, folder 4

"Guns on Casco Hold Up Treasure Hunt," undated

box 6, folder 4

"'I'm Very Well, Dear' Mrs. Wilson Tells Reporter," undated

box 6, folder 4

"Orphans Shiver While Clothes Are Rushed to Burned Home," undated

box 6, folder 4

"Reporter Sits on Pier in Early Morn; 'Rescued' Four Times," undated

box 6, folder 4

"San Quentin Visit Gives S.F. Judge New Crime Philosophy," undated

box 6, folder 4

"Starvation Pay Is Cause of Rail Strike, Men Say," undated

box 6, folder 4

"'Wild Westers' Arrive on Oakland Side in Night," undated

box 6, folder 4

"Wilson's Envoy in City: Saw Kaiser in 1915," undated

box 6, folder 4

"Writer Brands Probe of Russ a Farce," undated

 

"Milly Bennett, Maid" series 1917 February

Scope and Contents note

In the sequence in which they appeared. Number nine is missing and the headline in number seventeen is illegible.
box 6, folder 5

"'Milly Bennett' Gets First Job in City Home"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' Quits; Seeks Work in Big Hotel"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' Tries New Agency; Is Recognized"

box 6, folder 5

"Jobless, 'Milly' Haunts Employment Bureaus"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly Bennett' Clashes With Stranger; Seeks Army Job"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' Gets Job as Second Maid"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' Quits After Day of Housework"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' on New Job Overturns Bowl of Soup"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' Finds Silent Service Is Difficult"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' Invited to Party, Goes Through Ordeal"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' Leaves Country Job; Returns Home"

box 6, folder 5

"Send 'Milly' to Home of Acquaintance"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' Almost Gets Job in Big Home"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' in Berkeley Home Rebels at Cap"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' Learns Proper Way to Tend Door"

box 6, folder 5

"Beaus Are Bars to Job, 'Milly' Finds"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly' Goes to Work for Police Judge"

box 6, folder 5

"'Milly Bennett' Ends Her Career as Maid"

box 6, folder 6

"Hundreds Stranded in Berry Districts," 1917 June

box 6, folder 6

"Won't Send Boys to Farms, Say Officials," 1917 June

box 6, folder 7

"'Mother' Jones Comes to Help 'Her Boy'," 1918 April

box 6, folder 8

Series on the California Women's Army entitled "A Soldier of the Sod," 1918 June

box 6, folder 9

"'Newsboy Row' Desolate; 'Mother Lillian' Stricken," 1918 November

box 6, folder 10

"Civilized Life Palls; Pair Seek Solitude," 1919 April

box 6, folder 10

"Held Under 'Spell' Says S.F. Woman," 1919 April

box 6, folder 11

Series entitled "Oneita of the Ozarks," 1919 May-June

box 6, folder 12

"Boy, 9, Penniless, Lives Two Weeks in City," 1919 June

box 6, folder 12

"Daughters of Syrian Banker 'Bus-Girls' Now," 1919 June

box 6, folder 12

"Fund Completed Rocca Boy Gets a New Leg," 1919 June

box 6, folder 12

"Girl Confesses Love for Herbert Law," 1919 June

box 6, folder 12

"Grant-av," 1919 June

box 6, folder 12

"Northcott Pose Gone; Nerve Slips, Reporter Finds," 1919 June

box 6, folder 12

"Raid," 1919 June

box 6, folder 13

"Every One But Santa to Be Cheered Today," 1919 August

box 6, folder 13

"Find S.F. Meeting Place for 300 of Bolsheviki," 1919 August

box 6, folder 13

"Hard Luck," 1919 August

box 6, folder 13

"If 'Wheezer' Could Pitch With His Nose," 1919 August

box 6, folder 13

"Irish of America Will Aid Revolt, Says Kathleen O'Brennan," 1919 August

box 6, folder 13

"Jail Is Better Than Home, Thinks Carmelo Garcia," 1919 August

box 6, folder 13

"Oakland Judge Turns Hobo to Study Men," 1919 August

box 6, folder 13

"Thurston Says Wife Should Have Killed Him and Not Miss Kimball," 1919 August

box 6, folder 13

"Destitute Squatters Near Panic Stage as Government Prepares to Evict Them," 1919 September

box 6, folder 13

"New Reds Will Uphold the Glory of Old Reds - McVey," 1919 September

box 6, folder 13

"Woman Leads Move for Federal Service Shop Steward Plan," 1919 September

box 6, folder 13

"Woman Wanted Clothes, Drugs; Robbed for Them," 1919 September

box 6, folder 13

"Yep! S.F. Sure Wanted to See the Fleet," 1919 September

 

Series on American Forces in Siberia 1919 September-October

box 6, folder 14

"Americans Used to Break Mine Strike in Siberia, Says Veteran"

box 6, folder 14

"Canadian Veteran Declares He Robbed Drunken Officers Charity"

box 6, folder 14

"Crime for U.S. to Send 'Kids' to Siberia, Claim"

box 6, folder 14

"Destitute Squatters Near Panic Stage as Government Prepares to Evict Them"

box 6, folder 14

"Finds Siberia-Bound Lads Want 'To See World'"

box 6, folder 14

"He'd Drink Before He Would Return to Siberian Service"

box 6, folder 14

"Kopec Hill and Vodka Yanks' Only Relief in Vladivostok"

box 6, folder 14

"Manacles Welded on Yanks, Says Veteran"

box 6, folder 14

"Morale Is Gone, Says Siberian Soldier, Just Returned"

box 6, folder 14

"More Men of 27th, 31st home From Siberia"

box 6, folder 14

"Mother Walker Waits in Vain for Soldier Son"

box 6, folder 14

"Returned Yanks Tell of 'War' in Russia"

box 6, folder 14

"Siberian Veterans Tell Bitter Stories"

box 6, folder 14

"Soldiers Don't Know Why They Went to Siberia"

box 6, folder 14

"13 Trials, 1 Suicide in Month in Siberia Company"

box 6, folder 14

"U.S. Officers in Siberia Often Drunk, He Says"

box 6, folder 14

"Veterans Are Afraid to Talk"

box 6, folder 14

"Vodka Drives American Soldiers Mad, Siberian Veteran Declares"

box 6, folder 14

"'Why Are Yanks in Siberia?' Veterans Ask"

box 6, folder 14

"Yanks in Siberia For Private Interests"

box 6, folder 14

"Yanks in Siberia Study Maps to Find Ways to Make Their Escape"

box 6, folder 15

"Couldn't Stand Sight of Slain Husband, Says Slayer in Prison" 1919 November

box 6, folder 15

"Home Town Paper Vendors See Life Pass on S.F. Streets," 1919 November

box 6, folder 15

"Jury Duty Proves Strenuous to 'Society'," 1919 November

box 6, folder 15

"Lou Eagan Gets Real Fund From Theaters," 1919 November

box 6, folder 15

"Verdi, World Rover, Wants To Stay in Petlama (sic)," 1919 November

box 6, folder 15

"'Waterfront Widow' Hit by Dry Laws," 1919 November

box 6, folder 15

"Women Gossip at 'Flirt Murder' Trial," 1919 November

box 6, folder 15

"You Can't Cure a Drug Victim, Declares Jim M'Quaide," 1919 November

 

Series on Travelers Aid Society of San Francisco 1920 March

Scope and Contents note

In sequence in which they appeared.
box 6, folder 16

"'Husband' Is a Myth; Girl Tells Tragic Tale"

box 6, folder 16

"Girl Victim of War Works In S.F. Millinery Shop"

box 6, folder 16

"Girl Comes to S.F. For Joy, Finds Tragedy Waiting"

box 6, folder 16

"Weeks of Toil Do Not Bring Sweetheart"

box 6, folder 16

"Finnish Strangers Lost in Strange Maze of S.F."

box 6, folder 16

"Girl's Tragedy Turns Into Happiness"

box 6, folder 16

"Vice Rings Foiled by 'Badge' Women"

box 6, folder 17

"'Fate Made Me a Murderess,' Says Woman," 1921 September

 

Series 1922 March

box 6, folder 18

"Girl Reporter, With Only $5, Starts to Find Job in S.F."

box 6, folder 18

"Girl Hunting Job, Applies to S.F. Salvation Army for Aid"

box 6, folder 18

"Girl Reporter Finds Job First Day She Goes on Her Hunt"

box 6, folder 18

"Milly Bennett Gets Acquainted With Girls Working in Factory"

 

Series 1922 August

box 6, folder 18

"Crawling Like a Dirty Bug in Heavy Dust -- That Is Weed"

box 6, folder 18

"Men Held Like Slaves in Lumber Camps"

box 6, folder 18

"Lumber Company Owns Towns, Keeps Peace Officials on Its Payroll"

box 6, folder 19

"Destitute Squatters Near Panic Stage as Government Prepares to Evict Them," 1923

box 6, folder 19

"A Few Words by Milly," 1923

box 6, folder 19

"The Kona Coast: A Place to Dream," 1923

box 6, folder 19

"The Kona Coast - Arcadia - A Place to Rest and Dream," 1923

box 6, folder 19

"Memories of Honolulu," 1923

box 6, folder 19

"On the Kona Coast," 1923

box 6, folder 19

"She Walked in Beauty and Found the True Feeling That Is Hawaii," 1923

box 6, folder 19

"When the Old Burg Went Mad," 1923

box 7, folder 1

"Girl Griffin, Piloted by Gay Young Blade, Fails to Find Lovely Russian in Native City," 1926

box 7, folder 1

"Orient Is Not So Dangerous," 1926

box 7, folder 1

"Sun Has Set in Far East For Foreigners: 'China For Chinese' Is Battle Cry," 1926

box 7, folder 1

"'Teapot Dome' Shattered by U.S. Gun Fire," 1926

box 7, folder 2

Letter to the Editor of the Peking and Tientsin Times 1927 April

 

Series in The San Francisco News 1927 November

box 7, folder 3

"'Butterflying' Into China's Revolt"

box 7, folder 3

"Flames Save Milly's Life; Red Secrets Burned as Peking Police Storm at Her Door"

box 7, folder 3

"Hope for United China Lies in Education and Industry"

box 7, folder 3

"Talking to the $100,000 Head"

box 7, folder 4

Series entitled "Palmy Days" by E. J. Quillinan as told to Milly Bennett 1928

box 7, folder 5

"Flaming Youth Old Style, Novelist Says," 1929 March

box 7, folder 5

"Failure? Man in Almshouse Is Triumphant," 1929 May

box 7, folder 5

"He Failed, But World Fails, Too, His Solace," 1929 May

box 7, folder 5

"Life's a 'Lulu' Relief Home Inmate Finds," 1929 May

box 7, folder 5

"Meekness Is One Road to a Poorhouse," 1929 May

box 7, folder 5

"Blue Blood, No Less, Flows in S.F. Poorhouse," 1929 June

box 7, folder 5

"Charity Plea in Newspaper 'Racket' Hit," 1929 June

box 7, folder 5

"Fast Horses Convey Him 'Over the Hill'," 1929 June

box 7, folder 5

"She Tumbles From Trapeze to Poorhouse," 1929 June

box 7, folder 5

"Stanford to the Ganges," 1929 June

box 7, folder 6

Trip to Central America, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba and Colombia 1929 August-September

Scope and Contents note

Carbon copy of article on the trip, answers to questions (in Spanish) presented to the President of Guatemala by Milly Bennett, copy of The Voice of the Passengers edited by Milly Bennett on board the S.S. Colombia.
box 7, folder 7

"Janitor's Big Moment Comes at Court Session," circa 1930

box 7, folder 7

"Love in a Fudge Box," circa 1930

box 7, folder 7

"Mrs. Mooney Keeps Up High Heart for Son," circa 1930

box 7, folder 7

"Old West Still Lives in Lively Border Town," circa 1930

box 7, folder 7

"A Scripps Slave Spends a Profitable Morn Over Her Keys" (carbon) circa 1930

box 7, folder 7

"Vets Protest Ban on Radios at Livermore," circa 1930

box 7, folder 8

Holograph notes 1931

box 7, folder 9

"Garner to Work With Hoover If Elected Speaker of House," 1931

box 7, folder 9

"Mrs. Rolph Is 'First Lady'," 1931

box 7, folder 10-13

Partial manuscript on Judge Sylvain Lazarus (presiding Judge in the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle case and the Liu Fook case), outline, drafts, research materials circa 1931

Scope and Contents note

This manuscript may not have been published.
box 8, folder 1

"Prince In Tiflis," typescript of article circa 1931

box 8, folder 2

"Problems of U.S. Engineers in Russia", The San Francisco Daily News, 1931 September 5

box 8, folder 3

"China and Russia Begin Negotiations as 'War' With Japan in Manchuria Ends," The Honolulu Advertiser 1931 December 13

box 8, folder 3

"Russia, China to Sign New Trade Treaty Which Will Be Soviet's Great Advantage," The Honolulu Advertiser 1931 December 20

box 8, folder 3

"Tragedies, Comedies Make Life In Moscow Quartiera Like Scenes From Balzac," The Honolulu Advertiser, 1932 January 4

box 8, folder 4

Notes, verses 1932

box 8, folder 5

"Art for Nizhi Novgorod," draft 1932

box 8, folder 6

"American Girls in Red Russia," two page proofs of article for This EveryWeek Magazine 1932 May 28-29

box 8, folder 7

"Moscow's First American School," two page proofs of article for This EveryWeek Magazine 1932 June 11-12

box 8, folder 8

Chapters, notes on Milly Bennett's experiences in the Soviet Union 1933

box 8, folder 9

"Reveals Forgotten Chaikovski Score," Moscow Daily News, 1933 April 5

box 8, folder 9

"'Evgeni Onegin' Resurrected," Moscow Daily News 1933 May 5

box 8, folder 9

"The World's Newest Drama," Moscow Daily News 1933 June 3

box 8, folder 9

"A Ballet Which Youth has Created," Moscow Daily News 1933 June 8

box 8, folder 9

"Fairy Tales in Moscow," The Honolulu Advertiser 1933 December 2

box 8, folder 10

"Big News Comes to Russia," The Nation 1934 January 17

box 8, folder 11

"Life of Durov," partial manuscript, research materials circa 1934

box 8, folder 12

Carbon copy of article, probably written for the Moscow Daily News circa 1935

box 8, folder 13

"Soviet Russia Discovers 'Home Sweet Home'," The New York Times Magazine 1935 November 10

box 8, folder 14

"Russia's New Hero Sticks to Mines," The New York Times 1935 December 8

box 8, folder 15

News cables to the International News Service from Milly Bennett 1936

box 8, folder 16

Copies of news stories for the International News Service by Milly Bennett 1936

box 9, folder 1-3

Typescripts, carbon copies, parts of articles, notes 1931-1936

box 9, folder 4

Typescripts, carbon copies for the Associated Press, written in Spain by Milly Bennett 1937

box 9, folder 5-7

Carbons, drafts, notes - Spain 1937

box 9, folder 8

Processed articles from Valencia, Spain 1937

box 10, folder 1

Radio interview with Milly Bennett on Chronicle "Feature Edition" program 1938 March 18

box 10, folder 1

Draft, notes on radio interview conducted by Milly Bennett with her husband, Hans Amlie, KSRO, Santa Rosa, California 1938 July 1

box 10, folder 2

"Write a Book?," Scoop, the magazine of the Press Club of San Francisco 1938 August

box 10, folder 3

"A Bouquet for the Bride" (carbon copy) circa 1940-1945

box 10, folder 4

"Camp Follower - 1944 Style" (draft) circa 1940-1945

box 10, folder 5

"The Dog Collar" (draft) circa 1940-1945

box 10, folder 6

"The Friendship Quilt" (draft) circa 1940-1945

box 10, folder 7

"How To Lose a Ration" (draft) circa 1940-1945

box 10, folder 8

"I Almost Lost My Head" (carbon copy) circa 1940-1945

box 10, folder 9

Miscellaneous notes circa 1940-1945

 

Untitled, incomplete manuscript on Milly Bennett's experiences in China (first draft ?) circa 1950

box 10, folder 10

Synopsis

box 10, folder 11

Chapter 2

box 10, folder 12

Chapter 3

box 10, folder 13

Chapters 10-16

box 10, folder 14

Chapters 17-21

box 10, folder 15

Chapters 22-26

 

Untitled, incomplete manuscript on Milly Bennett's experiences in China (second draft ?) circa 1950

box 11, folder 1

Chapters 1-5

box 11, folder 2

Chapters 6-9

box 11, folder 3

Chapters 16-17

box 11, folder 4

Chapters 18-19

box 11, folder 5

Chapters 20-22

box 11, folder 6

Chapters 23-26

box 11, folder 7

Miscellaneous notes, parts of chapters

 

Autobiography (first draft ?) circa 1956

box 12, folder 1

Prologue

box 12, folder 2

Chapter 1

box 12, folder 3

Chapter 2

box 12, folder 4

Chapter 3

box 12, folder 5

Chapter 4

box 12, folder 6

Chapters 5-8

box 12, folder 7

Chapter entitled "The End of Book"

box 12, folder 8

Notes, parts of chapters

box 12, folder 9

Draft, typescript with holograph notes

 

"The Girl With the Whistling Eye" autobiography, incomplete (second draft ?) circa 1956

box 13, folder 1

Chapters 2-3

box 13, folder 2

Chapters 5-8

box 13, folder 3

Chapters 9-12

box 13, folder 4

Chapters 13-17

box 13, folder 5

Chapters 18-22

box 13, folder 6

Chapters 23-26

box 13, folder 7

Chapters 28-30

box 13, folder 8

Chapters 31, 32, 35, 36, miscellaneous notes

 

"The Girl With the Whistling Eye" autobiography (third draft ?) circa 1956

box 14, folder 1

Chapters 1-5

box 14, folder 2

Chapters 6-10

box 14, folder 3

Chapters 11-15

box 14, folder 4

Chapters 16-20

box 14, folder 5

Chapters 21-25

box 14, folder 6

Chapters 26-29

box 14, folder 7

Chapters 30-33

box 14, folder 8

Chapters 34-36, postlude

 

COLLECTED WRITINGS 1917-circa 1941

Scope and Contents note

Writings of other authors, including typescript, holograph, and autographed manuscripts, arranged alphabetically by name of writer.
 

Amlie, Hans

box 15, folder 1

"Friends of Humanity - Friends of Democracy"

box 15, folder 1

"I Still Have Mine"

box 15, folder 1

"Story of Hans Amlie" related to Leland Stowe

box 15, folder 1

"War in Spain" (a talk by Amlie to migrant workers)

box 15, folder 1

"War Without Love" (2 copies)

 

Bland, Henry Meade

box 15, folder 2

"Mount Davidson Park"

box 15, folder 2

"To John McLaren"

box 15, folder 3

Daily News staff, San Francisco - Drawings, verses, notes 1917-1922

box 15, folder 4

Hawkins, Ann - Letters about Spain (planned for publication) 1938

 

Mitchell, Mike

box 15, folder 5

Untitled

box 15, folder 5

"Autotell of One W. K. 'Doc' Adams"

box 15, folder 5

"Between Editions" - verses

box 15, folder 5

"California Chronicles, or Life in the Far West"

box 15, folder 5

"Dayton Days"

box 15, folder 5

"Leomele Hawaii"

box 15, folder 5

"Mitchell Tells All; Not Hit by Crutch"

box 15, folder 5

"Searching"

box 15, folder 5

"Song from the Chinese"

box 15, folder 5

"When I Was in the Army"

box 15, folder 6

Prohme, William - "Rayna Simons Prohme, A Report on the Last Months of Her Life"

box 15, folder 7

Spender, Stephen - "Hitch-hiking in Republican Spain" (holograph)

box 15, folder 8

Sterling, George - "The Revenge" (poem)

 

Strong, Anna Louise (manuscript on the Spanish Civil War, may not have been published)

box 15, folder 9

Chapter I - "Why They Went"

box 15, folder 9

Chapter II - "Where They Are"

box 15, folder 9

Chapter III - "Training Camp - A Bit of America"

box 15, folder 9

Chapter IV - "Battles at Jarama"

box 15, folder 9

Chapter V - "American Base Hospital"

box 15, folder 9

Chapter VI - "July Offensive - Madrid"

box 15, folder 9

Chapter VII - "Wounded Men"

box 15, folder 9

Chapter VIII - "The Taking of Villa Nueva de la Canada"

box 15, folder 9

Chapter X - "Harder Days"

 

SUBJECT FILE 1921-1942

Scope and Contents note

Reports, printed matter, and press releases, arranged alphabetically and chronologically.
box 16, folder 1

Asia, 1927 April May

 

California

box 16, folder 2

The Coast, 1938 July August October

box 16, folder 3

Sunset, 1928 June

 

China

box 16, folder 4

Miscellany - Cartoon, calling cards, emblems circa 1927

 

Printed matter

box 16, folder 5

Hankow Herald, 1927 July 19

box 16, folder 5

North China Standard, 1926 March 26

box 16, folder 5

The Peking Leader (clipping) 1927 March 26

box 16, folder 5

The People's Tribune, 1926 November 7

box 16, folder 6

Council of Jamaica Farm Workers' Welfare Association

box 16, folder 7

Daily News San Francisco (advertisement)

box 16, folder 8

Hawaii - Printed matter

box 16, folder 9

Harding, President Warren G. - Galley of front page of The Honolulu Advertiser on the death of Harding 1923 August 2

box 16, folder 10

Health - Moray radiant energy device

 

Miscellany

box 16, folder 11

General

 

Printed matter

box 16, folder 12

Undated

box 16, folder 13

1921

box 16, folder 14

1925

box 16, folder 15

1928

box 16, folder 16

1929

box 16, folder 17

1930

box 16, folder 18

1933

box 16, folder 19

1935

box 16, folder 20

1936

box 16, folder 21

1938

box 16, folder 22

1939

box 16, folder 23

1940-1942

box 17, folder 1

Moscow Daily News 1931 March 28 April 2 May 24 1936 November 3

box 17, folder 2

Outer Mongolia - "The Truth About Outer Mongolia" by Edward Dunn 1935

 

Spain

 

Civil War

box 17, folder 3

Amlie, Thomas - Letter and newsletter by Thomas Amlie

box 17, folder 4

British Royal Air Force - Report by Wing Commander Gade and Captain Pearson on Republican Spain 1938 February

box 17, folder 5

International Brigade

box 17, folder 6

Miscellany

box 17, folder 7

News of Spain (incomplete) 1938 February - 1939 February

box 17, folder 8

Poetry

 

Press releases 1937

box 17, folder 9

February-April

box 17, folder 10

May-June

box 18, folder 1

July-September

 

Printed matter

box 18, folder 2

Undated

box 18, folder 3

1937

box 18, folder 4-5

1938

box 18, folder 6

1939

 

Valencia

box 18, folder 7

Map

 

Press bulletins

box 18, folder 8

Excerpts from the speech of Largo Caballero, President of the Council of Ministers, at the Cortes in Valencia 1937 February 1

box 18, folder 8

Information bulletin 1937 October 3 14 21

 

Communist Party

box 18, folder 9

"An Open Letter from the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Spain to the Executive Commission of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party Making an Official and Concrete Proposal of Unification"

box 18, folder 9

Report of Jose Diaz, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party held in Valencia 1937 November

 

Printed matter

box 18, folder 10

1935

box 18, folder 11

1940

box 18, folder 12

1954

 

U.S.S.R.

box 19, folder 1

Children's book 1933

box 19, folder 2

List of foreign correspondents (in Russian)

box 19, folder 3

Karelia

 

Maps

box 19, folder 4

Caucasus-Crimea

box 19, folder 4

Kharkov

box 19, folder 4

Kiev

box 19, folder 4

Minsk

box 19, folder 4

Moscow

box 19, folder 4

Odessa

box 19, folder 4

Soviet Union

box 19, folder 4

Stalingrad

box 19, folder 5

Moscow Trial 1936

Scope and Contents note

Indictment, testimony (incomplete), summary of evidence of the Zinovieites: G. E. Zinoviev, L. B. Kamenev, G. E. Yevdokimov, I. N. Smirnov, I. P. Bakavev, V. A. Ter-Vaganyan, S. V. Mrachkovski, A. E. Dreitser, E. S. Hatsman, I. I. Reingold, R. V. Pikel, V. P. Olberg, K. B. Berman-Yurin, Fritz David (I. I. Kruglyanski), M. Lourier, and N. Lourier.
box 19, folder 6

Music, including a booklet of Red Army songs (in Russian)

box 19, folder 7-11

Translations from the Soviet Press - Typescripts, carbons, holographs 1936

box 19, folder 12

United Federal Workers of America - Constitution

box 19, folder 13

United States Department of Agriculture - Farm Security Administration - Migrant camps (newsletters, notes, correspondence, printed matter) 1941-1942

box 19, folder 14

United States Department of Justice - Alien registration form

box 20

PRINTED MATTER

Scope and Contents note

Originals of newspaper articles by and about Milly Bennett, photocopies of which are filed in the collection.
 

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Contents note

503 prints / 5 albums / 32 negatives / 186 post cards
album fA

5 photograph albums 1922-1939

Scope and Contents note

1 album in Hawaii, 1922-1925; 1 album in Spain, 1936-1937 (contains clippings, 1938-1939).
box 22

3 photograph albums 1920-1927

Scope and Contents

1 album of childhood photographs; 1 album in Hawaii, circa 1920; 1 album in China, 1926-1927.
envelope B

18 prints of unidentified people in Hawaii; 5 prints, 1 negative of Professor Hermann J. Muller

envelope C

3 prints of Mike Mitchell (first husband of Milly Bennett); 4 prints of the University of Hawaii; 3 early family prints, Milly Bennett and others; 4 prints of Milly Bennett and others; 19 prints of Milly Bennett and others in Hawaii; 31 prints of scenes in Hawaii; 6 prints of Milly Bennett and others; 2 unidentified prints circa 1920

envelope D

2 prints related to the murder trial of Liu Fook: Liu Fook and others; Liu Fook, Judge Sylvain Lazarus and others 1930

envelope E

2 prints of Milly Bennett, Randall Gould and others, circa 1918; 1 print of Milly Bennett and others, 1918 (probably in the office of The Daily News); San Francisco, 1918; 37 unidentified prints, 1917-1922

envelope F

6 prints of Milly Bennett; 9 prints of Milly Bennett and others; 2 unidentified prints 1917-1922

envelope G

1 print of Stephanie Dolgorouky (autographed) 1927

envelope H

1 print of Eugene Chen; 1 print of Mme. Sun Yat-sen (Soong Ching-ling); 1 print of Michael Borodin and Yu Yu-jen; 1 print of General Fa-Kwei; 2 prints of Rayna Prohme, 1 print of Milly Bennett, Rayna Prohme, William Prohme and others in Hankow, China, 1927; 1 print of Henry H.Y. Hsu and Harold C. A. Ra (?); 2 unidentified prints of China, 1927

envelope I

1 print of William Prohme

envelope J

1 print of Hsu Chien, Sun of, Tang Yen-kai, Feng Yu-hsiang, Yu Yu-jen, Wang Ching-wei, Tang Shen-chi, General Galen (Vasily K. Blucher) Chengchow; 1 print of Tang Shen-chi,Yu Yu-jen, Feng Yu-hsiang, Chengchow, China 1927 June

envelope K

2 prints of Earl Browder and Tom Mann in China, 1927; 1 print of Tom Mann; 4 prints of Milly Bennett in China; 6 prints of Milly Bennett and Wilbur Burton (?); 6 prints of Milly Bennett and others, China, 1927; 1 print of Wilbur Burton (?); 2 prints of Randall Gould and others, China, 1927; 1 print of Peg Vaughn and others, China; 18 prints of scenes in China, 1926-1927; 1 print of Yolande and Sylvia Chen; 1 print of Percy Chen (children of Eugene Chen); 1 print of Vincent (Jimmy) Sheean (?), 1927; 3 prints of wall posters, Hankow, China, March 1927; 2 prints of Milly Bennett, Anna Louise Strong and others; 1 print of Milly Bennett and others; 2 scenes of the Chung Yang Dyke Project, China, circa 1927; 1 print of Milly Bennett; 17 prints taken in Hankow, China on May 19 and May 30, 1927; 1 print of Li Li-san; 4 unidentified prints of China

envelope L

3 prints of Milly Bennett, 1929; 1 print of Milly Bennett and others; 37 prints taken on Milly Bennett's trip to Central America, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, August 15-September 17, 1929; 5 prints of Milly Bennett; 11 prints of Milly Bennett and others

envelope M

9 prints of Milly Bennett and others, San Francisco, 1928-1929; 1 print of the San Francisco Press Club, 1930

envelope N

12 unidentified prints; 1 unidentified drawing. circa 1929

envelope O

1 print of Harpo Marx; 1 print of the Marx Brothers: Chico (Leonard), Zeppo (Herbert), Harpo (Arthur) and Groucho (Julius) 1933

envelope P

2 prints of Alex Enukidze, Joseph Stalin, and Maxim Gorky; 1 print of Leo Tolstoy; 2 prints of "Kamenev"; 1 print of Lenin undated

envelope Q

2 prints of Milly Bennett and others in the Soviet Union, circa 1931; 1 unidentified print; 15 prints of Milly Bennett and others in Moscow, 1931-1936; 4 prints of Evgeni Konstantinov; 1 print of Konstantinov and others; 2 prints of Konstantinov, Milly Bennett and others; 2 unidentified prints; 6 prints of the Children's Theatre, Moscow, circa 1933

envelope R

9 prints of Pushkina, U.S.S.R.; 1 print of Milly Bennett; 1 print of Milly Bennett and others, 1933; 1 print of Bill Shatov and others; 2 prints of Evgeni Konstantinov; 15 prints of scenes in the Soviet Union; 36 prints of Soviet Lapland, 1932; 1 print of Milly Bennett; 4 unidentified prints

envelope S

6 prints of Milly Bennett and others in the Soviet Union; 5 unidentified prints in the Soviet Union; 2 prints of Milly Bennett, Bob and Jenny Miller, 1936; 11 prints of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre and actors; 1 print of Milly Bennett and others; 1 unidentified print

envelope T

10 prints of children's art in Spain 1937

envelope U

1 print of Hans Amlie, 1938; 1 miscellaneous print; 6 unidentified prints, possibly of migrant camps, circa 1941; 1 print of Hans Amlie, circa 1940; 2 prints of Hans Amlie during the Spanish Civil War, circa 1937; 5 prints belonging to Hans Amlie; 6 prints of Milly Bennett, circa 1940; 10 unidentified prints, circa 1940; 8 negatives; 23 negatives; 1 print of Hans Amlie and others, Pozarubio, Spain, circa 1937

envelope V

63 postcards from the Soviet Union undated

envelope W

14 postcards, Leningrad; 31 postcards, Spain 1936

envelope X

25 postcards, Paris, circa 1936; 53 postcards, Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow

envelope mY

1 print of migrant camp circa 1941

 

INCREMENTAL MATERIALS 1936-1960

box 21, folder 1-2

Correspondence 1936-1960

Scope and Contents note

Primarily consists of letters (sent and received) between Milly Bennett and Seema Allan.
box 21, folder 3

Writings undated

Scope and Contents note

Primarily typescript drafts with handwritten annotations and edits.
box 21, folder 3

Deathbed notes 1960

Scope and Contents note

Handwritten notes written by Milly Bennett to Seema Allan after she was no longer able to speak.
box 21, folder 4

Materials relating to Milly Bennett's will and death 1960 November

box 21, folder 6

Writings of Seema R. Allan about Milly Bennett undated

box 21, folder 7

Meeting minutes, Ward A-8 1956 August

box 21, folder 8

Miscellany undated