Bergeret, Ida Treat, 1889?-1978

Papers reflect her personal and
professional life and include travel diaries and notes, manuscripts and published
versions of her articles and stories on China, Russia, Tahiti, Abyssinia, Djibouti,
and the Red Sea slave trade, 1928-1967; correspondence with her two of her three
husbands, Paul Vaillant-Couturier and Andre Bergeret; letters from Wolfgang Wolff
written from Tahiti, 1934-1939; correspondence with her literary agent Marie Rodell,
1965-1967, and with the and other publishers
and editors; 86 letters from her friend Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1926-1952, and
correspondence, contracts, and royalty statements, 1968, pertaining to Chardin's
book , 1926-1952; notes,
clippings, and scrapbooks concerning her experiences in London during World War II,
1943-1945; manuscripts and publications by other authors; letters and articles of
Simone and Max Begonen; and family and personal photographs.