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mnsss311 Helen Hiett Waller Papers, 1838-1958 Finding Aid Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College

Northampton, MA

Finding aid exported into EAD from InMagic DB/Textworks 7.01. Encoded by Margaret Jessup and Jennifer Smar. 2006-04-07 Finding aid written in English. Sophia Smith CollectionSmith College Helen Hiett Waller Papers, 1838-1958 Finding Aid MS 273 2005 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Waller, Hiett Helen Helen Hiett Waller Papers1838-1958 MS 273 5 boxes (5.5 linear ft.) English Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

Journalist. Papers include are broadcasts, diaries, and letters sent from Europe where she was a foreign correspondent during World War II and the Spanish Civil War; plus printed material, writings, photographs, and memorabilia. Biographical Note

Helen Hiett was born in Chenoa, Illinois, 1913. After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1934, she lived in Europe where she studied at the League of Nations in Geneva and edited a monthly review for the Graduate Institute of International Affairs. In 1937 she lived in a girls' labor camp in Germany, studying Nazi indoctrination methods. She was a foreign correspondent for NBC during World War II in France, Spain and Gibraltar, the first outsider to broadcast from the Spanish Civil War. She continued her career as a foreign correspondent for NBC after returning to the U.S., from 1941 to 1944; and was a war correspondent from 1944 to 1945 in Italy, Germany and Austria. After the war she was director of the New York Herald Tribune Forum, from 1945 to 1961. She published No Matter Where (1944) based on her experiences in Europe. She married Theodore Waller in 1948; they had 3 children. Helen Hiett Waller died in 1961.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Helen Hiett Waller Papers include correspondence, clippings, diaries, printed material, writings, photographs, audio tapes, and memorabilia. Of particular interest are broadcasts, diaries, and letters sent from Spain and Gibraltar where she was a foreign correspondent during World War II, plus letters home to her family from Europe.

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Helen Hiett Waller Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

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