Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Kathryn H. Stone Papers, Accession 10555-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

This collection was made a gift to the Library by Ms. Suzanne Stone (daughter of Kathryn H. Stone), of Narberth, Pennsylvania, on August 10, 1994.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection consists of ca. 760 items, 1906(1943-1982)1993, concerning Kathryn H. Stone and her involvement in the Gray Commission , the Greater Washington Research Center , the League of Women Voters , the planning of Reston, Virginia , and Virginia politics . There is a scrapbook, November 1955 -July 1956, of papers and newspaper clippings, pertaining to Virginia public schools, chiefly the Gray Commission and the desegregation issue. The loose papers and newspaper clippings were removed from the badly deteriorated scrapbook and foldered; the newspaper clippings were copied and discarded. League of Women Voters material includes correspondence, writings on the LWV and its history, memoranda, and printed material. There is also correspondence and papers of Anna Lord Strauss , and biographical material on Strauss and Lucretia Mott . Among the miscellaneous material on Women's Issues is a travel journal (electrostatic copy) of Alice Ilchman , titled "Fellow Travellers: The Ilchmans in Russia, Winter, 1987-1988." There are also several writings by Kathryn Stone concerning women's issues: "Women as Citizens" (1947); "Statement of Mrs. Kathryn H. Stone" (1965) prepared for the American Association of University Women ; "Modernizing Government for a New Virginia" (1965); "The New Lib in Perspective," convocation address for Hood College (1970); "The 'New Lib' Through the Ages" 1970; and, other brief essays.