Mary Barnett Gilson was an economist at the University of Chicago, 1931-1942, and a specialist in industrial relations with various private companies and government agencies. She retired to Chapel Hill, N.C., in the 1940s. The collection contains Gilson's papers, including three diary-memorandum books, 1909, 1926, and 1959, from trips to Europe, which contain narrative entries, as well as notes on accommodations, engagements, and persons she met; and letters, 1937-1938, from Herbert G. Williams, Neville Chamberlain, and Henry L. Stimson, concerning British and American policy toward Japan in 1932, Chamberlain's lack of popularity in the United States, and other matters.
