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Manuscript Collections and Personal Papers

Dewson, Mary

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

White House Ushers Diaries

American Woman's Association

Earhart, Amelia

Earhart, Amy Otis

Mabie, Janet

Women's Educational and Industrial Union

Denison House

Allen, Carl B.

Earhart, Amelia

Studer, Clara

Earhart, Amelia

The First Women's Air Derby

Amelia Earhart Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Records of the Hydrographic Office

Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel

Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments

Records of U.S. Army Overseas Operations and Commands

Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs

Records of the Department of State

Collection of Jacqueline Cochran, containing the files of the Ninety-Nines, since transferred to the Ninety-Nines Archives

Collection of Eugene Luther Vidal

Amelia Earhart Collection in the Archives and Special Collections of the Library

Records of the Purdue Research Foundation

Collection of Amelia Earhart

History of Atchison, Kansas

Collection of papers on the history of Midland Lutheran College

Aircraft records of the Department of Commerce, Aeronautics Branch

Black, Richard Blackburn (1962)

Bruno, Harry A. (1960)

Clark, James Joseph (1962)

Noyes, Blanche (1960)

Morrissey, Muriel Earhart (1960)

Nichols, Ruth (1960)

Antich, Patricia Pollock

Aoki, Fukiko

Baker, Frank

Bible, Helen Day

Darrow, Louise de Schweinitz

Guest, Mrs. Pope

Lindbergh, Anne

Livingston, Clara

Manning, Diana Guest

Morrissey, Muriel Earhart

Morse, Nancy Balis

Park, Ann

Parsons, Bill

Pollock, Kathryn (Katch) Challiss

Smith, Page

Smith, Katharine Vidal

Southern, Neta Snook

Stabler, Marian

Tier, Nancy Hopkins

Trout, Bobbi

Vidal, Gore

Washburn, Bradford

Wells, Fay Gillis

Acknowledgments

This book mostly relies on primary materials: interviews, diaries, letters, newspapers, and manuscript collections, as well as the books written by Amelia Earhart and her husband George Palmer Putnam.

For access to this material the help of Amelia's relatives was crucial. Pointing the way, especially in the beginning, was Amelia's sister, Muriel Earhart Morrissey. Her daughter, Amy Kleppner, as well as Amy's husband Adam, were also invaluable. Kathryn Challis Pollock, who grew up with Amelia, gave me a particularly insightful interview. I wish as well to thank Patricia Antich, Kathryn's daughter, who found and gave to me after her mother's death her mother's childhood diaries and the diaries of Kathryn's sister, Lucy Van Hoesen Challiss, who lived with Amelia and George in Rye. I also want particularly to thank Nancy Balis Morse, who gave me many insights into her relatives and shared with me the personal letters of the Otis family; and Robert Tonsing, who sent me
Family Tree,
the anecdotal history of Amelia's mother's family, and John David Martin, who gave me permission to quote from his mother's work. Other relatives of Amelia who generously gave of their time were Beatrice Challiss Laws, James Otis, and Ruth M. Martin.

I want to thank Helen Day Bible, and her family. The letters from Fred Noonan to Helen were donated by her as her small contribution to the history of aviation. Kenneth Clapp gave me some wonderful photos from
the collection of his mother, Janet Mabie and permitted me to be the first biographer to quote from her unpublished biography of Amelia Earhart. I am also grateful to the Columbia University Oral History Collection for permission to quote from the oral histories of Muriel Earhart Morrissey, Blanche Noyes, Richard Blackburn Black, Harry A. Bruno, Ruth Nichols, and James Joseph Clark.

I want to thank Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, for permission to quote from the Denison House records, the Amy Otis Earhart papers, the Janet Mabie papers, and the records of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. At the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Robert Parks initiated me into the intricacies of the various collections. Claudia Spencer, of the Atchison Public Library, was unstintingly generous of her time and the library's resources. Joan Hrubek opened the files of the International Women's Air and Space Museum to me. Loretta Gregg, president of the Ninety Nines, patiently responded to all my inquiries. Doris Pearson, secretary of the Board of Trustees at Purdue University; Bill Griegs of the Purdue Research Foundation; and Katherine M. Markee, Purdue Special Collections & Archives supplied much information, as did Louise Foudray, director of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison; Paul Palmer at Columbia University; and Anne M. Gefell, who presides over the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University. At the National Air and Space Museum Larry Wilson helped me find the files I needed; Nora Walkup aided me at the Federal Aviation Administration. At the Hyde Park High School Tom Staniszewski provided all the information the school possessed, as well as Amelia's yearbook photo. Peter Filardo guided me in the Tamiment Library at New York University, Paul Vesiopi supplied information about Greenwich House. At the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador Howard Brown, archivist, helped me. The New York Public Library with its excellent staff (particularly Philip Yockey) and extraordinary holdings was a great resource.

For an understanding of latitude and longitude I want to thank Richard Newick; for help on medical matters, Joel A. Danisi. For keeping my nose to the grindstone I must thank Pat Beard.

At Addison-Wesley I owe thanks to Liz Maguire, Lynne Reed and to Albert De Petrillo. I was very fortunate to have Albert De Petrillo as my editor; his enthusiasm, editing skills, and focus on the many details involved in pulling the book together were crucial. I also owe thanks to my agent Julian Bach and his very able assistant, Carolyn Krupp.

And I couldn't have done it without the support and encouragement of my husband, Allan Churchill Butler. The book took years and he was always behind me.

Index

Acosta, Bert

Adams, Eustace

Adams, Porter

Aerial refueling

Aero Club of America

Aero Club of Southern California

Aeronautical Digest

Aeronautical Hall of Fame

Africa, Amelia's flight across

Air mail

Air shows/races .
See also
Bendix air race; National Air Races and Aeronautical Exposition; Women's Air Derby

Airline Pilots Association

Air-marking program

Airplane engines .
See also
Wright Whirlwind airplane engines

Airster.
see
Kinner Airster

Aldrin, Edwin

Allen, Carl

as adviser to Amelia on marriage

Amelia described by

opposed to Amelia's circumnavigation

Allen, Cecil

Alstulund, Nora

America
(airplane)

America
(ship)

American Woman's Association (AWA)

Andrews, Roy Chapman

Antich, Patricia

Aoki, Fukiko

Appleyard, William

Archibald, Rose

Arnold, Henry (Hap)

Arnold, Lt.

Asia, Amelia's flight across

Astor, Nancy

“Atalanta in Calydon

Atchison, David Rice

Atchison, Kansas

Amelia's childhood in

Amelia's visit, 1933

Earhart museum in

history of

Atlantic flights.
See also Friendship
flight across Atlantic

commercial

unsuccessful

women's solo attempts

Australia

Autogiro airplane

Avro Avian airplane

Baker, Frank

Balch, Earl

Balch, Emily

Balchen, Bernt

Baldwin, Herbert

Balis, Clarence

Balis, Margaret (Otis)

Amelia at Ogontz school and

death of mother and

at Lake George

Otis family financial affairs and

Balis, Nancy.
See
Morse, Nancy Balis

Ball, Daisy Elizabeth

Barnard College speech

Barnes, Pancho

Barnes, Peter

Batten, Jean

Battison, Wallace

Bayles, Lowell

Beachey, Lincoln

Beebe, William

Beech-Nut Company

Beinhorn, Elly

Belinn, Clarence

Belknap, Reginald R.

Bendix, Vincent

Bendix air race

Bendix radio direction finder. See Radio equipment

Bennett, Floyd

Bevan, Ernest

Bible, Helen Day.
See
Day, Helen

Black, Richard B.

Blanco, Josephine

Blodgett, Marion

Bly, Nellie

Boardman, Russell

Bogie game

Boll, Mabel

Boston, Massachusetts

Amelia in flying community of

Amelia's years in

Friendship
flight and

Boston Evening Transcript, The

Boston Globe, The

Bostonian, The

Boston-Maine Airways

Bourdon, Allan P.

Bournewood Hospital (Brookline, Massachusetts)

Brady, Austin C.

Brandreth, Jean

Brashay, Mary

Brock, William

Bromwell, Laura

Brown, Margaret

Brown, Postmaster General

Browne, Nathan