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Schlesinger Library

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Oct 14, 2026

Joshua KendallGUEST
15:20
So you go to Archive Grid and you look.
Joshua KendallGUEST
15:23
Where else is there? And I found that there were two Gary Trudeau letters at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard.
Joshua KendallGUEST
15:30
So why are there two letters? And then it turned out that there was a woman who was married to a congressman in the 1970s.
Joshua KendallGUEST
15:40
And she wrote a bestselling book about being a Washington hostess.
Joshua KendallGUEST
15:45
and the Schlesinger Library, which focuses on women's history at Harvard, had her papers.
Joshua KendallGUEST
15:52
And in her papers are two letters from Garry Trudeau.
Joshua KendallGUEST
15:56
And the reason she got those two letters is that Gary was dating her daughter in 1968 to 1970, and Gary wrote the mother, the hostess, to thank her for hosting him at her daughter's house.
Megan SmithGUEST
24:25
And so we can work together with them if we know the history of what they did, and we can build on their work.
Megan SmithGUEST
24:31
In this case, Amelia is-- has this letter from Beatrice Pugly, right? And I love this because the Schlesinger Library's pulled this out to show to me, and it's, it's a beautiful set of advice to a young woman about how to come into STEM.
Megan SmithGUEST
24:47
You know, she's like: "Hey, if you wanna do, like, air traffic control stuff, you should go over to the train station and start looking around and work on that.
Megan SmithGUEST
24:52
If you wanna fly, you better learn how to fix your car." Uh, and it's, it's a fabulous real window into what Amelia thought and did as told by advice that she gave to someone else.
Liam CallananGUEST
5:48
And Amelia Earhart was actually one of the first people to fly from Hawaii back to California.
Liam CallananGUEST
5:55
And he knew Amelia Earhart, and we know that for a very, I found a very haunting photo in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, the Radcliffe Institute.
Liam CallananGUEST
6:07
And it's a picture of Maitland in a soutane.
Liam CallananGUEST
6:10
He, he became a priest later in life.

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