Sources: University Club History

  • "Administration Notes." Barnard College Alumnae Monthly, May 1935, p. 7. 
  • “American University Women’s Paris Club.” AAUW Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, 1923, p. 25-26. 
  • “American University Women’s Paris Club.” The Bulletin of the Associate Alumnae of Barnard College, vol. 13, no. 1, December 1923, p. 9. 
  • "American Women's Club Names its Paris Centre Reid Hall." The Paris Times, December 15, 1928, p. 3. Gallica.
  • “American Women Open Students' Club in Paris.” New-York Tribune, July 16, 1922, p. 10. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “An American Home for Girls.” Bulletin, American Women’s Club of Paris, Inc. vol. II, no. 2 October 1928, pg. 64.
  • Chandet, Henriette. “Une grande amie de la France retourne aux États-Unis.” Scrapbook. RH Archives.
  • Cooper, Gertrude Homans. Report to the Joint Operating Committee, May 17, 1939. RH Archives.
  • “Dans un ancient pavillon de chasse, à Paris américaines et françaises cultivent la fleur de l’amitié.” Paris-soir, March 2, 1931, p.2. Gallica.
  • Dimnet, Ernest Abbé. "Rue de Chevreuse." The Barnard College Alumnae Bulletin, December 1932, p. 7. 
  • “Farewell Poem.” New York Herald Tribune, March 18, 1938, n.p. Scrapbook. RH Archives.
  • “French Honor Reid Hall; Prize is Given to Center.” The New York Times, July 31, 1938, p. 38. 
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Roselle Shields, February 7, 1919. RH Archives.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Mrs. Edgerton Parsons, February 10, 1919. RH Archives
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Mrs. Edgerton Parsons, May 28, 1919. RH Archives.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Reid, September 18, 1920. Reid family papers, box 10B.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Reid, February 21, 1921. Reid family papers, box 12B.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Reid, September 21, 1925. Reid family papers, box 18B.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Reid, June 17, 1926. Reid family papers, box 52B.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Reid, October 19, 1926. Reid Family papers, Library of Congress, box 52B.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Reid, November 23, 1926. Reid Family papers, Library of Congress, box 52B. 
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Reid, October 27, 1927. RH Archives.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Mrs. Reid, November 14, 1927. RH Archives.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Mrs. Henry Hoover. November 12, 1930. Barnard College Archives, BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1931-1932, Box 95
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Frederick Keppel, November 29, 1935. Carnegie Corporation of New York Records, Series III.A, box 16, folder 10. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Columbia University Libraries.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia. Letter to Frederick Keppel, December 2, 1933. Carnegie Corporation of New York Records, Series III.A, box 16, folder 10. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Columbia University Libraries.
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia C. “The International Federation of University Women.” The Bulletin of the Associate Alumnae of Barnard College, vol. 13, no. 1, December 1923, p. 8. 
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia, C. “Tribute to Reid Hall.” The New York Times, June 14, 1933, p. 18. 
  • Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron. Many a Good Crusade: Memoirs. New York: Macmillan, 1954.
  • Harper, Donald. Letter to Mrs. Elisabeth Mills Reid, September 14, 1927. Reid Family Papers, box 52B.
  • Heilig, Sterling. Girls In Paris Find Freedom.” The Baltimore Sun, July 11, 1926, p. SF 21. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Reid Hall is Mecca of all Nations for University Women.” New York Herald Tribune, February 12, 1931, n.p. Scrapbook. RH Archives
  • Howard, Clare. "Dorothy Leet." Barnard College Alumnae Monthly, October, 1934, pp. 10-12. 
  • Josephy, Helen and Mary Margaret McBride, Paris is a Woman’s Town. New York: Coward-McCann, inc., 1929.
  • “Le Congrès international des femmes universitaires.” Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 23 juillet 1922, p. 4. Gallica.
  • Leet, Dorothy F. “Reid Hall, the American University Women’s Paris Center.” The Bulletin of the Associate Alumnae of Barnard College, vol. 18, no. 2, May 1929, pp. 5-6. 
  • “Le Prix de la Bonne Volonté franco-américaine.” Le journal des débats politiques et littéraires, vol. 4, no. 6, July 2, 1938. RetroNews.
  • Leet, Dorothy F. Letter to Gildersleeve, October 8, 1929. RH Archives.
  • Leet, Dorothy F. Letter to Gildersleeve, October 24, 1930. RH Archives.
  • Leet, Dorothy F. Letter to Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, October 2, 1935. Barnard College Archives, BC5.1, Box 157.
  • Leet, Dorothy F. Letter to Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, November 1936. Barnard College Archives, BC 5.1, Box 136.
  • Leet, Dorothy, F. Letter to Dean Virginial Gildersleeve, November 6, 1937. Barnard College Archives. BC5.1, Box 143, folder 94a.
  • Leet, Dorothy F. Letter to the Ministre de l'éducation nationale. August 17, 1938. Reid Hall records, Series I, Box 1, folder 7, Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Columbia University Libraries. 
  • Leet, Dorothy F. "Reid Hall: Franco-American Center in Paris." Légion d'Honneur Magazine, vol. 9, no. 3, 1939, pp. 244-249.
  • Leet, Dorothy, F. “Report 1938.” Barnard College Archives, BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1937-1938, Box 143, Folder 94a.
  • Minutes. Meeting of the Board of Managers, October 18, 1922. RH Archives.
  • “Miss England and Miss America: Where They Meet in Paris.” The Times of India, June 16, 1928, p. 17. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Miss Leet Leaving Reid Hall for Foreign Policy Association.” New York Herald Tribune, Paris, January 19, 1938, n.p. Scrapbook, RH Archives.
  • “Miss Leet Quits Reid Hall Post; Miss Porter Heads Paris Center.” New York Herald Tribune, January 17, 1938, n.p. Scrapbook, RH Archives.
  • "Miss Leet Returns." Barnard College Alumnae Monthly, February 1938, p. 8. 
  • “Miss D. Leet is Honored by Reid Hall Members.” The New York Herald Tribune, March 18, 1928, n.p. Scrapbook, RH Archives.
  • “Mrs. Margaret Proctor Smith Praises Nationalists in Paris Speech.” The China Weekly Review, July 6, 1929, p. 245. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.” The New York Times, April 30, 1931, p. 22. 
  • Neilson, W. A. Letter to Gildersleeve, June 12, 1926. Reid family papers, Library of Congress, box 52B.
  • Niemczyk, Caroline. “Elisabeth Mills Reid and Helen Rogers Reid: The Founder and Perpetuator of Reid Hall, 1893 – 1964.” Manuscript, June 1993. RH Archives.
  • Newcomb, Virginia. “Second Biennial Conference of the International Federation of University Women.” The Bulletin of the Associate Alumnae of Barnard College, vol. 12, no. 1, December 1922, p. 3. 
  • No Title: Incomplete Source. New York Herald Tribune, July 31, 1936, p. 4A. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • "On and Off the Campus." Barnard College Alumnae Monthly, May 1934, p. 3. 
  • "On and Off the Campus." Barnard College Alumnae Monthly, November 1938, p. 3. 
  • One of the Obscure. “Memories of a Paris House: An Intimate Appreciation of One of Mrs. Reid's Gifts.” New York Herald Tribune, May 11, 1931, p. 14. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Oregon Woman, New Director of Reid Hall.” New York Herald Tribune, Paris, July 10, 1938. Scrapbook. RH Archives.
  • “Parisian Adventure Quest Leaves D.C. Dancer 'Cold'.” The Washington Post, September 2, 1934, p. M1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • Parsons, Mrs. Edgerton. Letter to Gildersleeve. May 14, 1919. RH Archives.
  • “Reception Held at American Club House.” AAUW Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, March 1923, p. 21. HathiTrust.
  • Reid, Elisabeth Mills. Draft letter to Gildersleeve, 1921, Reid family papers, Library of Congress, box 12B.
  • Reid, Elisabeth Mills. Letter to Gildersleeve, June 1, 1926. Reid family papers, Library of Congress, box 52B.
  • Reid, Elisabeth Mills. Letter to Gildersleeve, June 2, 1928. Reid family papers, Library of Congress, box 52B.
  • “Reid Hall Incorporated: Organization to Aid American Women Students in France.” The New York Times, March 24, 1929, p. 35. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Reid Hall, Paris Center for Students, Honored: Franco-American Good Will Association Gives It.” New York Herald Tribune, July 21, 1938, p. 8. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Reid Hall Will Hold Tea in Honor of New Director.” New York Herald Tribune, September 25, 1938. n.p. Scrapbook. RH Archives. 
  • Smith, Hugh A. “The American University Union at Paris.” The French Review, vol. 3, no. 3, January 1930, pp. 161-168.
  • “Social Season Starts Tomorrow for American University Women.” New York Herald Tribune, November 8, 1938, n.p. Scrapbook, RH Archives.
  • Talbot, Marion and Lois Kimball Matthews Rosenberry. The History of the American Association of University Women 1881-1931. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. 
  • “The American University Women’s Club.” Bulletin, American Women’s Club of Paris, Inc., vol. II, no. 5, February 1929, p. 412.
  • “The International Federation of University Women.” Bulletin of the Associate Alumnae of Barnard College, vol. 14, no. 1, December 1924, p. 9. 
  • Thomas, M. Carey. Letter to Reid, September 2, 1920. Reid Family Papers, Library of Congress, box 11b.
  • Thomas, M. Carey. Letter to Gildersleeve, January 27, 1928. RH Archives.
  • Trueblood, Louise, N. “Reid Hall and Dorothy Leet.” Barnard College Alumnae Monthly, vol. 25, no. 8. May 1936, pp. 20-21.
  • “U. S. Student Life in Paris Back to Oldtime Zest, Says Miss Leet.” New York Herald Tribune, April 19, 1937, p. 8. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Women's Club Chartered for Paris Students.” New York Herald Tribune, May 5, 1929, p. B6. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Women Form Paris Club.” The New York Times, March 24, 1929, p. 55. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

The following archival sources were also consulted:

Barnard College Archives

  • Helen Rogers Reid Collection
  • Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve Papers, 1901-1964
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1928-1929, Box 83
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1929-1930, Box 89
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1931-1932, Box 95
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1932-1933, Box 101
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1933-1934, Box 108
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1934-1935, Box 115
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1934-1935, Box 123
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1935-1936, Box 130
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1936-1937, Box 136
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1937-1938, Box 143
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1938-1939, Box 150
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1939-1940, Box 157
  • BC 5.1, Dean’s Office Correspondence 1940-1941, Box 163, 167, 172, 178, 182,187
  • BC 5.30 Box 1, Folder 3 (Reid Hall, University Residence and Educational Center in Paris)

Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscript Library

Reid Family Papers, Library of Congress

Reid Hall archives, especially the scrapbook of newspaper clippings, brochures, events programs, and invitation cartons.