May Walden
1865-1960
Socialist Party activist, writer & speaker
- About the creator
Lilly May Walden grew up in North Carolina and Metamora, Illinois, and by 1891 she was working in Chicago in the U.S. Pension Office. Once settled in Chicago she met and married Charles Hope Kerr, publisher first of Unity, organ of the Western Unitarian conference, and later the monthly New Occasions, the International Socialist Review and many other Socialist and liberal books and pamphlets. The couple divorced in 1904. As the wife of a Socialist publisher, May Walden developed passionate interests in the causes of the party...
- About the collection
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Half of the collection consists of correspondence, primarily incoming, the bulk of which is letters to May Walden from her daughter, Katharine Kerr Moore. Moore's letters to her mother give a detailed picture of domestic life during the Great Depression of the thirties. Some of the letters included in Walden's papers are addressed to Charles H. Kerr relating to the publishing house he founded, Charles H. Kerr & Co. The outgoing correspondence is almost entirely letters from May Weldon to Katharine Kerr Moore...
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