New Gloria Biggs’ letters

I recently received a new file of letters from Florida women’s page editor Gloria Biggs during the 1970s and 1980s. They are at the Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University. Most of the letters were back and forth between Biggs and George Beebe about her work with the World Press Freedom Committee.

My favorite part of the file was a handwritten note from Biggs on a February 9, 1978 letter. She wrote: “P.S. I know you’re as delighted as I am about Marj Paxson’s promotion to publisher.”

Marjorie Paxson was a Florida women’s page editor who became the fourth female publisher in the Gannett newspaper chain. Biggs had been the first.

Those Florida women’s page journalists had a strong bond.

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