PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1936-1971

Summary: Primarily letters from individuals relating the Dyckman's personal concerns and involvement in various family, community and political issues, mostly unrelated to her work in the Consumers League of New Jersey. This series includes, for example, responses to her comments on President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Message on Improving the Political Process in America" (1967). These files also contain scattered materials from and about personal colleagues, acquaintances and friends, such as articles and publications they wrote, Christmas cards and friendly letters they sent, newspaper items mentioning them and obituaries. There are individual folders for the correspondence of Joseph A. Califano (Special Assistant to President Johnson), Richard Dyckman (Mary's brother), Samuel J. Ferster (a judge who served with Mary Dyckman on the Emergency Child Labor Commission), Doctor Alice Hamilton (president of the National Consumers League), Mrs. Ruth Manley, Carl Holderman (New Jersey Labor Commissioner) and James E. Siddell (a member of the National Committee on Child Labor), in addition to a "miscellaneous" folder of single items.

Of note in this series are two photographs of Mary Dyckman at the retirement party of Mrs. Thomas McCardle (1964). Also interesting are acknowledgments of Dyckman's financial contributions to the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities (1936), the Survey Committee on Case Work of the Welfare Federation of Oranges-Maplewood (1943), the Local Assistance Board of the City of Orange (1960) and the New Jersey Audubon Society (1967). There is also an oversize broadside advertizing a presentation to the given by Richard Dyckman to the Washington Club, discussing the state of Singapore before the Japanese invasion (1942).