[4] In the summer of 1924, Williams took a semi-official trip through central and southeastern Europe, including the Balkans and Turkey, making unofficial survey of conditions and interviewing heads of governments for purpose of gathering material for writing.
She co-authored The American Year Book, 1925, and was the author of "Nations Gather to Assist China" (The New York Times, October 25, 1925); "Head of Bulgaria's Disordered House" (Washington Star, April 26, 1925); "Williamstown" (International Interpreter, September 8, 1923); "Japan's Envoy of Good Will" (The New York Times, January 4, 1925); "Scholar President Puts Austria Back on Her Feet" (The New York Times, December 21, 1924); "China in Anti-Foreign Mood" (Current History, July 1925); "America's Opportunity in Siberia" (Current History, December 1923); "Is Japan Overpopulated?"
(Current History, September 1923); "Measuring the Heat of the Stars" (The New York Times, January 20, 1924); "New Forces in Old Japan" (Century, April 1926), and other works.
[2] She was a resident of New York City and Cumberland, Maryland, before removing to Washington, D.C..[2] A bibliophile, her hobby was book collecting.
[4] Margaret Hicks Williams died at Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, on August 18, 1972; interment was in Chatham, New Jersey.