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Mary Kelsey is an American internationalist, pacifist and feminist and philanthropist. With her husband, economics professor Francis W. Kelsey, she participated in activities with the Belgian Relief Fund during the First World War. In the 1920s, she co-organized the Honfleur summer conferences with Jeanne Mélin (French feminist). These meetings, taking place during the summers of 1923, 1925, 1925, should promote intellectual cooperation between nations, remove the younger generations from the grip of war by dispelling the misunderstandings conveyed by national propaganda.
Paul Otlet in his will wrote a letter to her dated 12/27/1938 (never sent) asking him if American institutions would be able to collect his intellectual legacy (Palais Mondial, Mundaneum).