Sarah Logan Wister Starr (1873-1956) was a prominent philanthropist and member of Philadelphia society throughout the early 20th Century. A descendant of the wealthy and well-known Wister and Logan families, she became a public figure throughout the region for her humanitarian activities. Starr served as State Vice-Chairman of the World War I- era National League for Women’s Services and from 1921 to 1941 as President of the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. The correspondence in this collection is primarily concerned with her public service activity during World War II. During the 1940s and 1950s, Sarah Logan Wister Starr obtained permission to utilize Loudoun Mansion as the meeting place for the Women’s Permanent Emergency Association of Germantown. This organization was formed by her grandmother in the 1870s and revived by Starr in approximately 1940 as an effort to unite local women and provide clothing and knitted material to the Allied troops. The WPEA aligned themselves with the Maple Leaf Fund of Canada- an unusual occurrence for such a prominent American group. This may be attributed to Starr’s close ties with Nova Scotia, as she frequently summered in this location. The Maple Leaf Fund eventually became a branch of the British War Relief Society, and the WEPA worked to provide non-military aid to the people of Great Britain. After the end of World War II, the WPEA remained in effect to continue aiding the less fortunate worldwide. They were major contributors to the Daniel and Emily Oliver Orphanage, a school for boys and orphanage in Lebanon administered by Quakers. They also sent care packages to Holland, Norway, and Greece over the next five years. Included in this collection is the correspondence of the WEPA and, more specifically, their President, Sarah Logan Wister Starr. Correspondence includes meeting invitations and responses, Board membership nominations and acceptances, correspondence with the Maple Leaf Fund, the Maple Leaf newsletter, lists of supplies needed and shipped to this organization, thank you letters from receivers of shipments, and personal correspondence amongst the ladies of this organization. There is also information regarding the everyday upkeep of Loudoun Mansion, such as water bills and repairs to furniture, and a miscellaneous file which includes correspondence to James Starr, Sarah’s husband, from the American Swedish Association regarding involvement with World War II, a copy of a petition for a World Federation (possibly a precursor to the United Nations), and advertisements addressed to the previous owner, Maria Dickinson Logan, for flower market in Rittenhouse Square.