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Margaret Sanger founded the American birth control movement and was a leader in efforts to internationalize birth control from the 1920s-1950s. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, worked to overturn the Comstock Act's ban…

The Manuscript Division was one of several "departments" established in 1897 when the Library of Congress moved from the United States Capitol to a separate building nearby. Its staff of four assumed custody of a collection of twenty-five thousand…

A birth control information center established in London in 1928 under the direction of Edith How-Martyn. In 1930, following the Seventh International Conference on Birth Control in Zurich, the center was re-organized as the Birth Control…

How-Martyn discusses Sanger's plans to travel to Europe and a meeting with Hung-Chung Chang about efforts in China.

How-Martyn updates Sanger on the happenings in the birth control movement in England, the Archbishop of Canterbury's support of birth control.

Sanger enjoyed Humbert's La Reforme Modern and describes Congressional Hearings on doctors'-only bill.
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