Correspondence, May 1977-December 1978

Component identifier:

File 23-24

Content Summary:

Correspondence received and sent while Director, UN Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development, Teheran. The Centre was a regional research and training institute of ESCAP. Elizabeth Reid's task was to establish, staff and work out the Centre's program. The correspondence includes copies of letters sent, letters received and telegrams dealing both with work and personal matters, including the dangers of being in Iran during the period immediately preceding the overthrow of the Shah and the establishment of the government of Ayatollah Khomenei. Some of the correspondence deals with Reid's negotiations about a job with the Commonwealth Secretariat following her APCWD contract. Included also is correspondence with her daughter Kathryn (who remained in Australia) and her parents.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Elizabeth Reid were donated to the Library under the Cultural Gifts Program in 2002.

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