The Morgan in the title is Anne Morgan, daughter of J.P. Morgan. Towards the end of WWI, Anne helped organize and volunteered with CARD the French acronym for The American Committee for Devastated France. In that role she hired young Jessie "Kit" Carson from the NYPL to organize a library in the devastated city of Blérancourt. Jesse's efforts not only resulted in the first free children's libraries in France but also led to the first female librarians in that country. Her work and the work of other CARD volunteers may have been forgotten except for the interest of NYC librarian Wendy Peterson whose work in the archives of the NYPL in 1987 sends her down a path of personal and historical discovery. An interesting piece of history that puts a slightly different face on the Anne Morgan we met in The Personal Librarian.
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