Collection Dates: 1896 -- 1988
.5 linear ft.
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Biographical Note
Maud Elizabeth Charlesworth Ballington Booth was born on September 13, 1865, in England, the youngest daughter of a clergyman. As a teenager she joined the Salvation Army, founded by William Booth. On September 16, 1886, she married his second son, Ballington Booth. The following year they moved to the United States to head that branch of the Salvation Army. In 1896, after breaking with that organization, they founded Volunteers of America. A pioneer social worker, Maud Ballington Booth is best remembered for her work with the sick and poor in the slums and for her prison reform efforts. She died in 1948.
The papers of Maud Ballington Booth date from 1896 to 1988 and contain correspondence (arranged chronologically) and photographs. The correspondence between herself and author, Susan Welty, is generally of a personal and social nature, occasionally describing lectures or travels for the Volunteers of America. Booth's children, Charles and Theodora, also corresponded with Welty and these letters are included. There is also a speech given by Susan Welty which is a sketch of Look Up and Hope, her biography of Maud Ballington Booth. There are also business letters written to various representatives of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau and others for whom Maud Ballington Booth lectured. These letters discuss schedules, her work for the Volunteer Prison League, and her husband, Ballington Booth.
Correspondence
1898.1936.
1896 -- 1919.
1920 -- 1925.
1926 -- 1935.
1936 -- 1943.
1944 -- 1949, 1962 -- 1969, 1986 -- 1988. Together with letters from Theodora Booth, speech by Susan Welty, and material regarding Look Up and Hope.
Undated.
"Memories: The Grand Canyon." Typescript
"Memories of Childhood." Handwritten in a stenographers notebook
"Salvation Army Treatment of Volunteers of America" Handwritten in a notebook