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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics*, Records of the, 1783-1962.
“The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics was formed in 1963 by
the merger of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences and the American Rocket
Society. These records constitute the historical aeronautical archives of the
Institute of Aerospace Sciences.”
Biographical information files, alphabetical, 1784-1962 (130 boxes); airplane
companies, alphabetical (43 boxes); scrapbooks: Wright Brothers, 1889-1921 (9
boxes) and others (82 v.).
1790+
American Colonization Society*, Records of the, 1792-1964, bulk: 1823-1912.
“Correspondence, financial and business papers, reports, and miscellaneous
material relating to administrative and financial matters, membership, slavery and
status of slaves in the pre-Civil War period, and emigration, colonization, and
education in Liberia. Includes William McLain's personal papers, 1831-1850, and
letter books, 1856-1875 of the Massachusetts Colonization Society.
Correspondents include Jehudi Ashmun, one of the society's early colonial agents,
Stephen Benson, Thomas Buchanan, Elliott Cresson, Thomas R. Hazard, John H.
B. Latrobe, J. W. Lugenbeel, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, and Gerrit Smith.”
Series I, letters received: domestic, 1896-1912, from Liberia, Africa, 1893-1917,
miscellaneous, 1896-1912; Series II, letters sent: domestic, 1895-1912; Series III,
letters: general, 1909-18, alphabetical, 1910-39; Series IV, financial papers:
miscellaneous accounts, 1895-1920; Series VI, subject file, alphabetical, 17921964.
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia*, Records of the, 1812-1925, microfilm
(38 reels).
Originals held by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
“Minutes, committee report book, 1875-1913, correspondence, membership lists,
material relating to the founding of the Society, and miscellaneous documents.”
Minutes and related documents, 1892-1925 (2 reels); official letters, mainly
received, 1812-1924 (alphabetical, 25 reels).
1815+
Henry L. Dawes* (1816-1903), Papers of, 1833-1933, bulk: 1848-1887 (11/66).
Henry Laurens Dawes*: Yale, 1839; Massachusetts Bar, 1842; Massachusetts
legislature, 1848-52; district attorney, 1853-57; U.S. Congress, 1857-75 and U.S.
Senate, 1875-93, Republican, Massachusetts; Chair, 1893-1903, Commission for
the Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Territory.
“Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, 1848-1887, diaries, speeches, reports,
notebooks, biographical material, family papers, . . . scrapbooks, clippings,
printed material, photographs, and an incomplete biography of Dawes by his
daughter, Anna Laurens Dawes. Includes material relating to . . . Dawes’s
connection with Oakes Ames and the Credit Mobilier, the George Chorpenning
claim case, the U.S. Weather Bureau, tariff questions, and Gallaudet College for
the Deaf in Washington, D.C.
Correspondents include Lyman Abbott, Charles Allen, Oakes Ames, James
Gillespie Blaine, Montgomery Blair, Cornelius Newton Bliss, Samuel Bowles,
Selwyn Zadock Bowman, Calvin Clifford Chaffee, William Claflin, Schuyler
Colfax, Cushman Kellogg Davis, Edward Everett, Cyrus W. Field, James A.
Garfield, Edward Everett Hale, Joseph R. Hawley, George Frisbie Hoar, Mark
Hopkins, Henry Oscar Houghton, L. Q. C. Lamar, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry
Cabot Lodge, John Davis Long, George Brinton McClellan, S. S. McClure,
Nelson Appleton Miles, John Tyler Morgan, T. J. Morgan, Justin S. Morrill, John
W. Noble, Orville Hitchcock Platt, William Porter, Theodore Roosevelt, Philip
Henry Sheridan, John C. Spooner, Charles Sumner, Ida M. Tarbell, L. G. Thayer,
E. R. Tinker, E. B. Washburne, and Herbert Welsh.”
Letters, 1896-1905 (3 boxes); speeches, 1896-1901 (3 boxes); subject files,
Native Americans, 1896-1903 (5 boxes).
Julia Ward Howe* (1819-1910), Papers of, 1845-1917 (1/5).
Daughter of Samuel Ward, Jr., a successful New York stockbroker.
Wife of Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876), Director, Perkins Institute for the
Blind, Boston MA; with Julia: published abolitionist The Commonwealth
(Boston); Unitarians, attended Theodore Parker’s church; associates of
Transcendentalists.
Julia Ward*: Playwright, poet: “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Atlantic
(February 1862); helped found, 1868, New England Woman Suffrage
Association; helped found, 1870, Woman’s Journal, and contributor, 1870-90;
editor and contributor, Sex and Education: A Reply to Dr. E.H. Clarke . . .
(1874); author: Modern Society (1881); President, 1890, General Federation of
Women's Clubs; pacifist, helped found, 1891, American Friends of Russian
Freedom and, 1894, activist with United Friends of Armenia; author: Women’s
Work in America (1891), and others; memoir: Reminiscences, 1819-1899 (1899).
“Correspondence, speeches, writings, notes, printed material, and other papers
pertaining to culture, education, immigration, prison reform, race relations,
religion, and women's rights. Correspondence chiefly relates to Howe's role as
Director of the Woman's Department, 1884-1885, World's Industrial and Cotton
Centennial Exposition, New Orleans LA, and to family matters.
Correspondents include the Howe family, William Henry Channing, and Francis
Lieber.”
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Susan Brownell Anthony* (1820-1906), Papers of, 1846-1934, bulk: 1846-1906 (5/7).
Susan B. Anthony*:
School teacher, 1839-45, New Rochelle NY and
Headmistress, 1846-49, Rochester NY; formed, 1852, Woman's New York State
Temperance Society and, helped organize, 1853, "Whole World's Temperance
Convention"; helped petition, 1854, in New York for woman suffrage and
improved Married Woman's Property Law; New York agent, 1856, American
Anti-Slavery Society; Corresponding Secretary, 1866, Equal Rights Association;
publisher, 1868-70, Revolution, edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton; organized,
1869, woman's suffrage convention, Washington DC; helped found, 1869 and
President, 1892-1900, National American Woman Suffrage Association;
California suffrage campaign, 1895-96; helped found, 1904, International Woman
Suffrage Alliance.
Manuscript Division (5/7):
“Correspondence, diaries, daybook, speeches, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous
papers relating primarily to Anthony's writings, lectures, and other efforts on
behalf of women's suffrage and women's rights. Includes material pertaining to
the National Woman Suffrage Association, after 1890 the National American
Woman Suffrage Association.
Individuals represented by either correspondence or diary entries include Rachel
Foster Avery, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Adelaide Johnson, Lucretia Mott, Wendell
Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy
Stone. Also includes material by and relating to Anthony's sister, Mary S.
Anthony.”
Finding aid online: Diaries: 1892-1906, but missing 1902, 1905 (13 small
volumes); letters, 1846, 1875-1905 (1 v.) and 1896; scrapbooks, 1892-06 (3
boxes); “Woman Suffrage,” 1891-1900 (1 box), 1905-06 (1 box); suffrage
clippings, 1890- , and programs, 1905-06.
Rare Books/Special Collections Division:
Collection, 1869-1903:
Official reports, National Suffrage Conventions;
addresses before Congressional Committees; files of reform journals, e.g., The
Woman’s Journal; scrapbooks of clippings; pamphlets.
Clara Barton* (1821-1912), Papers of, 1805-1958, bulk: 1861-1912.
Clara Harlowe Barton*: philanthropist, nurse, educator, and lecturer; founded
and President, 1881-1904, American Red Cross; founded, 1905, National First
Aid Association of America.
“Correspondence, diaries and journals, reports, addresses, legal and financial
papers, organizational records, lectures, writings, scrapbooks, biographical
material, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Barton's work
to provide relief services during the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, the
work of the American National Red Cross . . . and the National First Aid
Association of America.
Subjects include the Office of Correspondence of Friends of the Missing Men of
the U.S. Army, speaking tour of Barton and former Andersonville prisoner
Dorence Atwater concerning the identification of graves at Andersonville Prison,
Barton's civilian relief effort in cooperation with the International Committee of
the Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian War, the passage of the Geneva
Convention, the International Red Cross Committee, the founding and
administration of the American National Red Cross, the protection of Red Cross
insignia, Red Cross Park, the congressional investigation into Barton's
stewardship, the Red Cross's response to appeals for aid from victims of natural
disasters and war, stateside camp service during the Spanish-American War,
Harriette L. Reed's role in the National First Aid Association of America,
progressive movements, women's rights, woman suffrage, temperance, and other
reform issues.
Correspondents include Barton's family members, local chapters of the American
Red Cross, Alvey A. Adee, Susan B. Anthony, P. Louis Appia, Dorence Atwater,
Harriet N. Austin, E. Florence Barker, Stephen E. Barton, William Eleazar
Barton, Henry W. Bellows, Mabel T. Boardman, Samuel W. Briggs, Lucy Hall
Brown, Lucien Burleigh, Mary Weeks Burnett, Benjamin F. Butler, Henry
Dunant, Edmund Dwight, Frances Dana Gage, Joseph Gardner, Minna Kupfer
Golay, Lucy M. Graves, Leonora B. Halsted, John Hitz, Mary Seymour Howell,
Julian B. Hubbell, International Committee of the Red Cross, Samuel M. Jarvis,
George Kennan, Mrs. John A. Logan, Luise, Grand Duchess of Baden, Antoinette
Margot, William McKinley, Gustave Moynier, Ellen Spencer Mussey, Richard
Olney, Walter P. Phillips, George H. Pullman, Joseph Sheldon, Adolphus S.
Solomons, F.R. Southmayd, Sara J. Spencer, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Elvira
Stone, Harriet Taylor Upton, Bernard B. Vassall, Charlotte Fowler Wells, Mary
Isabelle (Kensel) Wells, Roscoe Green Wells, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary
Bannister Willard, and Henry Wilson.”
Diaries, 1896-1909, 1876-1911 (3 boxes); letterbooks, 1898-1909 (2 boxes);
scrapbooks, 1898-1912 (1 box); printed matter, photographs, 1859-1904 (1 box);
newspaper clippings, 1895-1918, including: Red Cross in China, Turkey,
Armenia, Greece, 1895-97, Cuba, 1898 (3 boxes); biographical, 1899-1918 (3
boxes).
Red Cross and general letters, 1895-1907 (41 boxes), including: Cuba, 1898 (24
boxes), Galveston TX flood, 1900 (2 boxes), lectures, 1878-1911 (2 boxes),
undated clippings (5 boxes), business papers and notes (2 boxes) plus microfilm,
diaries, 1903-04, 1910, in possession of American Red Cross (1 reel).
Blackwell Family Papers, 1759-1960, bulk: 1845-1890.
Elizabeth Blackwell* (1821-1910), Professor of Gynecology, 1875-1907,
London School of Medicine for Women.
Diaries, 1836-1908 (2 boxes); family letters (1 box); general letters,
alphabetical (3 boxes); speech, article, book file on Christian medicine,
social reform (2 boxes); subject file, social medicine (1 box).
Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell* (1825-1921), Ordained, 1853,
Congregational minister; author.
Family and general letters, miscellany (1 box).
Henry Brown Blackwell* (1852-1909), co-editor, 1872-1909, Woman’s Journal;
worker, 1869-1909, American Woman Suffrage Association.
“Correspondence, articles, speeches, reminiscences, autobiographical
material, and other papers of Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone
relating to their activities on behalf of women's rights, particularly as
organizers of the American Woman Suffrage Association and its
successor, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the
abolition of slavery.”
Family letters, alphabetical (2 boxes); general letters (1 box); miscellany
(2 boxes).
Alice Stone Blackwell* (1857-1950), editor, 1909-1917, Woman’s Journal and
1886-1905, Woman’s Column.
“Correspondence, diaries (1872-1937), translations of poetry and
correspondence with Armenian, Russian, and Spanish poets, and other
papers of Alice Stone Blackwell, . . . reflecting her literary endeavors and
her role in the woman's suffrage movement and other social reforms. . . .
Correspondence, diaries (1836-1908), speeches, and medical articles and
other writings of Elizabeth Blackwell, chiefly relating to her efforts to
open the medical profession to women in the United States. Kitty Barry
Blackwell's correspondence with Alice Stone Blackwell reflects her life
with her mother who had moved to England to practice medicine in 1869.
...
Correspondents include Sarah MacCormack Algeo, Susan B. Anthony,
Henry Ward Beecher, Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaia
(Catherine Breshkovsky), Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Carrie
Chapman Catt, Ricardo Flores Magón, Antoinette Funk, William Lloyd
Garrison, Sarah Moore Grimké, Ida Husted Harper, Julia Ward Howe,
Bedros A. Keljik, Gabriela Mistral, Thomas J. Mooney, Lydia Mott,
Florence Nightingale, Maud Wood Park, Wendell Phillips, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, and Bartolemeo Vanzetti.”
Diaries, 1872-1924 (1 box); family letters, alphabetical (17 boxes); subject
file (20 boxes), including foreign poetry translations: Armenian, Finnish,
French, German, Russian, Spanish (8 boxes); biographical papers (1 box);
financial papers (1 box); Catherine Breshkovsky papers (1 box).
J. C. Bancroft Davis* (1822-1907), Papers of, 1849-1902 (3/87).
John Chandler Bancroft Davis*: American correspondent before the Civil War
for the London Times and, 1883-1902, at the U.S. Supreme Court; American
negotiator with Great Britain before and after the Civil War.
“Bound volumes of correspondence, diaries, journals, reports, printed material,
and other papers chiefly relating to Davis's diplomatic career.”
Letters, 1895-1902 (3 v.).
Olivia Bigelow Hall* (1822-1908), Papers of, 1869-1905 (1/1).
Olivia B. Hall*: Daughter of John and Mary Payn Bigelow, Baldwinsville,
Saratoga County NY, who married, 1844, Israel Hall (1814-1889); the Halls
resided first in Syracuse NY, thereafter in Toledo OH from 1857 and Ann Arbor
MI from 1870, but retained commercial property in Toledo; in Ann Arbor, Olivia
“organized meetings in her hometown, obtained speakers for rallies there, and
corresponded with national leaders” of the women's suffrage movement.
“Correspondence, photographs, and printed matter relating to women's suffrage.
Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman
Catt, and members of the American Equal Rights Association and National
Woman Suffrage Association.”
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J. L. M. Curry* (1825-1903), Papers of, 1637-1939, bulk: 1866-1903.
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry*: University of Georgia, 1843; Harvard law,
Alabama Bar, 1845; Alabama legislature, 1847, 1853, 1855; U.S. Congress, 185761, Democrat, Alabama; Confederate Congress, 1861-64 and Lieutenant Colonel,
Confederate Calvary; became Baptist minister and President, 1865-68, Howard
College, Alabama; Professor of English and Public Law, 1868-1881, Richmond
College, Virginia; appointed, 1885-88, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Spain; administrative agent, 1881-1903, Peabody Fund for
Southern Education; agent, 1890-1903, John F. Slater Fund; supervising director,
1901-03, Southern Education Board; appointed, 1902, Ambassador Extraordinary
on special mission to Spain, upon the coming of age of the King.
“Diaries, correspondence, printed matter, clippings, memorabilia, notes and
memoranda, documents and legal papers, accounts, lectures and sermons, essays,
scrapbook, MS. of autobiography, speeches, and articles, and catalog of Curry's
library. Includes autographs of all U.S. Presidents from George Washington to
Theodore Roosevelt, Confederate statesmen, Spanish noblemen, royalty, and
writers, jurists, diplomats, educators, historians, scientists, reformers, artists,
statesmen, literary figures, clergymen, and military men of the United States and
European countries.
Reports and other papers concern the Peabody Education Fund, the Slater Fund
for the education of African Americans, the Southern Education Board, Curry's
studies on Civil War history and the civil government of the Confederacy, and
diplomatic matters in Spain. The diaries and much of the correspondence relate to
Curry's career as an educator, diplomat, and Baptist minister. Correspondents
include William Aiken, James B. Angell, Thomas F. Bayard, William A.
Courtenay, William M. Evarts, Hamilton Fish, Melville W. Fuller, Moses Coit
Gilman, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel A. Green, Henry R. Jackson, Theodore
Lyman, James D. Porter, Eben S. Stearns, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Moses Waddel,
Robert C. Winthrop, and others.”
Diaries, 1866-1902, (2 boxes); letters, 1896-1908 (5 boxes).
Joseph R. Hawley* (1826-1905), Papers of, 1638-1906, bulk: 1841-1906.
Joseph Roswell Hawley*: Born North Carolina, son of a Baptist minister who
returned to Connecticut, 1837; Hamilton College, Clinton NY, 1847; Connecticut
Bar, 1850 and practiced, Hartford; editor, from 1857, Hartford Evening Press and
Courant; Captain, 1st and 9th Connecticut Infantry; Brigadier General, 1865-66;
Connecticut Governor, 1866; President, 1873-76, U.S. Centennial Commission;
U.S. Congress, 1872-75, 1879-81, and U.S. Senate, 1881-1905, Republican,
Connecticut.
“Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, drafts of speeches, business papers, and
memorabilia relating to Hawley's personal and family life and to his business and
political work. Topics in the papers include Hamilton College, the antislavery
movement in New York and Connecticut, Connecticut and Republican Party
politics, Hawley's Civil War activities, Union Army veterans' groups,
Reconstruction, newspaper work, the Centennial, and congressional politics.
Correspondents include James G. Blaine, Schuyler Colfax, Richard Henry Dana,
Jr., Franklin B. Dexter, Benjamin Douglas, Richard S. Ely, William C. Endicott,
Joshua Reed Giddings, Francis Gillette, Edward Everett Hale, Hinton Rowan
Helper, Joshua Leavitt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Dwight Loomis, Horace Mann,
Whitelaw Reid, John Sherman, Gerrit Smith, Leland Stanford, Edwin M. Stanton,
Charles Sumner, Albion Tourgée, Amos Tuck, Amasa Walker, Charles Dudley
Warner, and Gideon Welles. Also includes correspondence of Hawley's wife,
Harriet Foote Hawley.”
Letters, 1896-1904 (1 v.); newspaper clippings, receipts, scrapbooks (27 boxes).
John Alexander Logan Family Papers, 1836-1925, bulk: 1860-1917.
John Alexander Logan* (1826-86): Lieutenant, 1846-48, and Colonel to Major
General, Volunteers, 1862-65, U.S. Army; Illinois Bar and practiced from 1852;
Illinois legislature; U.S. Congress, 1859-62, Democrat, and 1867-71, Republican,
Illinois; U.S. Senate, 1871-77 and 1879-86, Republican, Illinois; husband of:
Mary Simmerson Cunningham* (1838-1923), Mrs. John A. Logan*: editor and
author, 1886-1923; mother of:
John Alexander Logan* (1894-1905) and Mary Logan* (b. ca. 1860), wife of
George E. Tucker*.
“Correspondence, legal and military papers, drafts of speeches, articles, and
books, scrapbooks, maps, memorabilia, and printed matter relating chiefly to the
military, political, and social history of the Civil War and postwar period. Topics
include . . . presidential campaigns of 1880 and 1884, Grand Army of the
Republic, Society of the Army of the Tennessee, World's Columbian Exposition,
Chicago IL, 1893, American Red Cross, Belgian relief work, and women's
suffrage.
Correspondents include Clara Barton, William Jennings Bryan, George B.
Cortelyou, Grenville M. Dodge, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert Todd Lincoln, John
Sherman, and William T. Sherman.”
Online finding aid, John Alexander Logan and Family: general letters, 1880-88
(3 boxes); family letters, 1880-1922 (6 boxes); scrapbook, 1871-1915 (1 box);
subject file (10 boxes).
Mrs. John A. Logan Papers: general letters, 1895-1925 (14 boxes), including:
Hearst Syndicate, 1901-07 (1 box) and Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1912-14 (1 box);
book file (9 boxes), including Part Taken By Women in American History (1912)
(3 boxes) and autobiography (3 boxes); speeches and articles, 1888-1915 (18
boxes); scrapbooks, 1898-1917 (33 boxes), including Spanish American War (17
v.).
John A. Logan, Jr. Papers, scrapbooks, 1894-1905 (3 boxes); Mary Logan Tucker
Papers, scrapbooks, 1867-1917 (8 boxes); George E. Tucker Papers, scrapbooks,
1888-1903 (3 boxes).
Stephen Bleecker Luce* (1827-1917), Papers of, 1799-1938, bulk: 1842-1912 (7/23).
U.S. Naval Academy, 1841; Rear Admiral, 1886; Author: Seamanship: Compiled
from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous Original and Select
Designs, for the Use of the United States Naval Academy (3d ed., 1866), Textbook of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail or
Steam (4th ed., 1898), and others.
“Correspondence, journals, order books, subject files, scrapbooks, notebooks,
newspaper clippings, and miscellany documenting Luce's naval career. Topics
include his work to establish, 1884, the U.S. Naval War College and the Naval
Historical Society, his service with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1863-165, and his diplomatic role in the arbitration of the Canadian fisheries
dispute, 1887.
Correspondents include Nelson W. Aldrich, George E. Belknap, Charles J.
Bonaparte, George Dewey, Albert Gleaves, Albert Bushnell Hart, Henry Cabot
Lodge, Alfred T. Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, John Sherman, William S. Sims,
and William C. Whitney.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (4 boxes).
Thomas F. Bayard* (1828-1898), Papers of, 1780-1899, bulk: 1860-1898 (27/238).
Thomas Francis Bayard*: U.S. Senate, Delaware, 1869-1885; U.S. Secretary of
State, 1885-1889; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1893-1897.
“Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, financial records, legal papers,
scrapbooks, printed material, photographs, and other papers primarily relating to
Bayard's career . . . and to real estate and financial matters, national politics, the
Fitz-John Porter case, Samoan Islands, fisheries and sealing questions, the
Venezuelan boundary dispute, Anglo-American and German-American relations,
presidential campaigns, the silver question, the Tilden-Hayes election, tariff
problems, the Sackville-West incident, the conflict between China and Japan over
control of Korea, American annexation of Hawaii, and the isthmian transit and
canal issue.
Correspondents include Alvey Augustus Adee, James Burrill Angell, George
Baden-Powell, James A. Bayard, August Belmont, Perry Belmont, William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Henry Lewis Bryan, Matthew C. Butler, John
Lee Carroll, Eugene Casserly, Joseph Chamberlain, Grover Cleveland, Samuel
Sullivan Cox, Charles Denby, Donald McDonald Dickinson, Henry Du Pont,
Charles William Eliot, William Crowninshield Endicott, William Maxwell Evarts,
Charles S. Fairchild, Hamilton Fish, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Edward Miner
Gallaudet, Augustus H. Garland, John Brown Gordon, Walter Quintin Gresham,
Wade Hampton, George Frisbie Hoar, William Henry Hurlbert, Lucius Q. C.
Lamar, Daniel Scott Lamont, Robert Todd Lincoln, Daniel Manning, Thomas
Courtland Manning, Manton Marble, Robert M. McLane, John Bassett Moore,
Justin S. Morrill, Richard Olney, Walter Hines Page, George Foster Peabody,
George H. Pendleton, Edward John Phelps, Lord Lyon Playfair, Fitz-John Porter,
Sir Lionel S. Sackville-West, Carl Schurz, John Sherman, William T. Sherman,
Oscar S. Straus, William F. Vilas, David Ames Wells, Francis Wharton, Henry
White, Horace White, William C. Whitney, Owen Wister, and members of the
Bayard (Baird) family.”
Letters received, 1896-99 (14 v. plus 2 boxes); letterbooks, 1895-98 (11 v.).
Horace Gray* (1828-1902), Papers of, 1845-1902, microfilm (2 reels).
Originals in the archives of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Harvard, B.A., 1845, and Law; Massachusetts Bar, 1851; Republican, but
eschewed politics for law; Associate, 1864, and Chief Justice, 1873,
Massachusetts Supreme Court, his clerk: Louis D. Brandeis; Associate Justice,
1882-1902, U.S. Supreme Court.
“Letters to Gray, many of which contain references to legal decisions and
opinions in which Gray was interested or involved, relating primarily to his career
at the U.S. Supreme Court. Correspondents include Charles F. Adams, John A.
Andrews, George Bancroft, Edmund H. Bennett, John B. Cogswell, Henry L.
Dawes, Stephen Field, Hamilton Fish, Manning Ferguson Force, John Marshall
Harlan, George F. Hoar, Denis Kearney, Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles Sumner,
James Bradley Thayer, and Daniel Webster.”
Henry Harisse Collection: Notes sur la Nouvelle-France 1543-1700 (2 v.).
Main title: “Notes pour servir à l'histoire, à la bibliographie et à la cartographie
de la Nouvelle-France et des pays adjacents 1545-1700 / par l'auteur de la
Bibliotheca Americana vetustissima.”
Henry Harisse* (1829-1910): French scholar and Americanist, who researched
the settlement of New France in North America, including Canada.
Rare Book/Special Collections:
“Copy 3: With additions and corrections in MS. by the author. Copy 4:
Authors's copy; interleaved, with additions and corrections in MS. by the author.”
1830+
R. Hoe & Company, Records of, 1830-1948, bulk: 1855-1870 (1/23).
Manufacturers and printers, New York City.
“Business and family correspondence, letterbooks, subject files, financial records,
advertising material, and legal papers, relating to business and printing press
patents,” especially their rotary press, which, after 1846, revolutionized the
printing industry.
Family members represented by business correspondence and other papers
include Richard M. Hoe (1812-1886), Robert Hoe (1815-1884), Peter S. Hoe
(1821-1902), and Robert Hoe (1839-1909). Subjects include travel in Europe, the
New York House of Refuge, and the Magnetic Telegraph Company.
Business letters, bills, and some personal letters, 1896-1920 (1 box).
James D. Barbee* (1832-1904) and David R. Barbee* (1874-1958), Papers of, 18161951, bulk: 1852-1904 (7/18).
James Dodson Barbee*: Ordained, 1852, Methodist minister; book agent,
Methodist Publishing House, Nashville TN, 1887-1904; settled, 1898, Methodist
Publishing House Civil War claims; Presiding Elder, Nashville District, 1902;
father of:
David Rankin Barbee*: reporter, news editor, managing editor, Nashville TN
Banner, 1896-99; Nashville American, 1901; Memphis TN Commercial Appeal,
1901-10; Chattanooga TN Star, 1908; Montgomery AL Advertiser, 1910-11;
Mobile AL Register, 1911-18; New Orleans LA States, 1918-26.
“Diaries, correspondence, including family letters, notebooks, account books,
printed matter, and notes and MSS. of sermons relating chiefly to the Methodist
Publishing House, Nashville TN, and to claims of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, growing out of Civil War property confiscations. Includes
correspondence and subject files of David Rankin Barbee, and letters from John
W. Cunningham, Virginius Dabney, Collins Denny, Waddy T. Duncan, William
W. Duncan, E. Embree Hoss, John C. Keener, James C. Morris, Elbert C. Reeves,
and others.”
Letters, 1895-1903 (2 boxes) and 1904-51 (1 box); sermons, drafts, notes (2
boxes); account books, 1867-1903, (1 box); subject file: All soul’s Memorial
Episcopal Church, Washington DC (3 boxes), Cleveland Park Memorial Library,
Washington DC (2 boxes); scrapbook, clippings, African-American slavery,
1904-28 (1 box); printed matter (1 box).
Octave Chanute* (1832-1910), Papers of, 1807-1955, bulk: 1860-1910.
“Civil engineer and aviation pioneer.”
“Correspondence, letterbooks, notebooks, articles, family papers, patents, kite
diagrams, sketches, plans of Chanute's railroad bridge across the Missouri River,
clippings, and photographs. The bulk of the collection relates to Chanute's
experiments with gliders and his scientific and financial support of aeronautical
pioneers. Other papers concern his career as a builder of railroads, his service as
chief engineer of the Erie Railroad and railroads in Illinois and Kansas, the laying
out of the railroad line from Chicago to Abilene, Kan., his planning and building
of the Chicago stockyards and the elevated railways of New York City, and his
contribution to the technique of preserving wooden railroad ties. Also includes a
thesis, 1955, by Earl F. Niehaus on Jefferson College, Convent, La., of which
Chanute's father was vice-president.
Correspondents include Louis-Pierre Mouillard, G. A. Spratt, and Orville and
Wilbur Wright. Other correspondents include Clément Ader, William A. Avery,
Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, Alexander Graham Bell, Samuel Cabot,
Lawrence Hargrave, Augustus Moore Herring, Edward C. Huffaker, Wilhelm
Kress, S. P. Langley, Otto Lilienthal, Hiram S. Maxim, Hermann W. L.
Moedebeck, John J. Montgomery, Thomas Moy, Percy Pilcher, and Albert
Francis Zahm.”
Letters, 1890-1910 (4 boxes); aeronautical papers, 1875-1912 (10 boxes);
letterpress books, 1896-1910 (4 boxes).
Joseph Hodges Choate* (1832-1917), Papers of, 1745-1927 (28/41).
Attorney, author, U.S. Ambassador:
Peace Conference, The Hague, 1907.
Great Britain, 1899-1905, International
“Letter books and other correspondence, addresses, lectures, legal memoranda,
memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed matter relating to Choate's student days at
Harvard and his work with the alumni, the American Bar Association, crisis in
China in 1900, Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, Morocco question of 1905, the Hague
conferences, Union League, and British-American relations.
Correspondents include his parents, George and Margaret Manning Choate; his
wife, Caroline Dutcher Sterling; his brother, William G. Choate; classmates and
associates, including Charles Francis Adams, Earl of Balfour, James M. Beck,
James Bryce, John R. Carter, the Marquis of Curzon, Charles W. Eliot, William
M. Evarts, John W. Foster, Francis V. Greene, John Hay, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Edwin T. Morgan, Henry K. Oliver, William Phillips, Robert S.
Rantoul, Whitelaw Reid, Elihu Root, William V. Rowe, Lord Sanderson, Sir
George Trevelyan, Henry White, and Lothrop Withington; and U.S. presidents
Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow
Wilson.”
Letters, 1896-1919 (11 boxes); scrapbooks, 1896-1920 (4 boxes).
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield* (1832-1918), Papers of, 1807-1958 (32/154).
Wife of President James A. Garfield.
“Correspondence, family papers, biographical material, addresses, articles,
photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, memorial poetry, and other papers relating to
family matters, the assassination of President Garfield, public reaction to the
assassination, the trial of Charles Julius Guiteau (1841-1882), Lucretia Garfield's
interest in genealogy and literature, and her interest in the publication of
Garfield's works and in Theodore Clarke Smith’s biography, The Life and Letters
of James Abram Garfield (1925). Includes correspondence of the Garfield
children: Abram Garfield, Irvin McDowell Garfield, and Mary Garfield StanleyBrown, and other members of the Garfield and Rudolph families.
Correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine, Robert Todd Lincoln, James
Russell Lowell, and Whitelaw Reid.”
Family letters, children: Abram, 1896-1918 (7 boxes); Irwin, 1896-1918 (8
boxes); Mary and her children (13 boxes); other family members, 1895-1917 (2
boxes). Financial papers, 1890-1919 (4 boxes); biographical notes.
Cooper, Hewitt & Company, Ringwood, N.J., 1833-1907, Records of.
“Business papers of the iron works and glue factory at Ringwood, N.J., of Peter
Cooper* (1791-1883) and Abram Stevens Hewitt* (1822-1903).”
Business and personal letters, 1894-1911 (11 boxes); western lands, 1897-1903 (1
box); receipts, 1896-1900 (5 boxes); circulars, 1894-97 (1 box); commercial
reports, 1896-99 (1 box); Paragon Wire Association, 1901-02 (1 box); Durham
Iron Works, 1900-02 (3 boxes); New Jersey Steel and Iron Company, 1899-1902
(2 boxes); Trenton Iron Company, 1896-1903 (8 boxes); cash books, 1896-1903
(4 boxes); Trenton Iron Company invoices, 1895-1904 (7 boxes); checkbooks,
1899-1900 and 1902-06 (3 boxes); sales book, 1904 and 1906 (2 boxes);
Ringwood office accounts, 1897-1903 (3 boxes); Trenton Iron Company journal,
1895-1907 (7 boxes); order books, 1895-99 (3 boxes).
Melville Weston Fuller* (1833-1910), Papers of, 1794-1949, bulk: 1849-1910.
Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME, 1853, Harvard Law, 1855; practiced law,
August ME, then Chicago IL; Illinois legislature, 1863-65; Chief Justice, 18881910, U.S. Supreme Court.
“Correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, scrapbooks, printed matter, and
memorabilia relating to Fuller's term on the Supreme Court; his law practice, real
estate holdings, and Democratic politics in Chicago IL; his work as a member of
the Permanent Court of Arbitration,” established in 1899 and called the Hague
Tribunal, “especially in relation to the matter of the Muscat dhows and the
Venezuelan boundary dispute,” settled 1904; “Fuller's personal and family affairs;
and his childhood in Maine and student life at Bowdoin.
Family correspondents include Henry Weld Fuller, Mary Ellen Coolbaugh Fuller,
Joseph Emerson Smith, Catherine Weston Fuller Wadleigh, Nathan Weston,
Paulina B. Weston, and other members of the Fuller, Weston, and Coolbaugh
families.
Other correspondents include Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone,
Hugh L. Bond, William H. Brawley, David J. Brewer, Charles Henry Butler,
Joseph Hodges Choate, Grover Cleveland, J. C. Bancroft Davis, William R. Day,
John W. Doane, A. H. Garland, Stephen Strong Gregory, Walter Quintin
Gresham, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, Farrer Herschell, Baron Herschell,
Henry M. Hoyt, Philander C. Knox, Heinrich Lammasch, Daniel Scott Lamont,
Robert Todd Lincoln, Fedor Fedorovich Martens, William McKinley, William H.
Moody, Henry C. Morris, John Morris, Richard Olney, Baron Julian Pauncefote,
Erskine Mason Phelps, William L. Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root,
Henry M. Shepard, Charles H. Simonton, William M. Springer, Henry Stone,
Oscar S. Straus, William Howard Taft, Lambert Tree, Hugh Campbell Wallace,
William Adolphus Wheeler, and George W. Wickersham.”
Benjamin Harrison* (1833-1901), Papers of, 1780-1948.
Great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison, 1726-1791, signer of the Declaration;
grandson of President William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); son of U.S.
Representative John Scott Harrison (1804-78).
Miami University, Oxford OH, 1852, and studied law, Cincinnati OH; Indiana
Bar, 1854; Assistant, then City Attorney, 1857, Indianapolis IN; State Supreme
Court Reporter, 1860, and campaigned for Abraham Lincoln; organized and
commanded, 1862-65, 70th Indiana Infantry Volunteers; Brigadier General, 1865
and resumed law practice, Indianapolis; State Supreme Court Reporter, 18641868; U.S. Senate, 1881-87, Republican, Indiana; U.S. President, 1888-93,
Republican; represented, 1900, Venezuela in boundary dispute with Great Britain.
“Correspondence, speeches, articles, notebooks in shorthand, legal papers,
financial records, scrapbooks, memorials, printed material, and memorabilia.
Subjects include the Civil War, Indiana politics, Harrison's presidency, his law
practice, and Venezuela.
Correspondents include Felix Agnus, William B. Allison, Wharton Barker,
Thomas F. Bayard, James Gillespie Blaine, Andrew Carnegie, Joseph Bradford
Carr, Schuyler Colfax, John M. Doane, Stephen B. Elkins, James P. Foster, James
A. Garfield, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Andrew B.
Humphrey, William McKinley, Louis T. Michener, William H. H. Miller, John
W. Noble, Charles Edward Pearce, Redfield Proctor, Matthew Stanley Quay,
Whitelaw Reid, John Rooney, James F. Secor, Jr., Charles Emory Smith, Clement
Studebaker, Benjamin F. Tracy, Lew Wallace, John Wanamaker, and William
Henry Woods.”
John Marshall Harlan* (1833-1911), Papers of, 1810-1971, bulk: 1861-1911.
Son of James Harlan (1800-1863), U.S. Congressman, 1835-39, and Kentucky
Attorney General, 1850-63; grandfather of John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971),
Associate Justice, 1954-71, U.S. Supreme Court.
Centre College, Danville KY, 1850; studied law, 1850-52, Transylvania
University, Lexington KY and Kentucky Bar, 1853; City Attorney, 1854-56,
Frankfort and Judge, 1858-61, Franklin County KY; unsuccessful candidacies:
1859, U.S. Congress, 1871 and 1875, Kentucky Governor, Republican Party;
Colonel, 1861-63, 10th Kentucky Infantry, Union Army; Kentucky Attorney
General, 1863-67; resumed law practice, 1867, Louisville KY; Associate Justice,
1877-1911, U.S. Supreme Court and wrote sole dissent, 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson;
taught Constitutional Law, 1889-1910, George Washington University,
Washington DC; U.S. Representative, 1892-93, Bering Sea Arbitration with Great
Britain.
“Correspondence, legal and financial papers, and other material relating to
Harlan's legal practice in Kentucky when he was in partnership with Benjamin H.
Bristow and John Newman; Harlan's political activities in Kentucky during 1876
when he supported Bristow's candidacy for the Republican presidential
nomination; Harlan's appointment, 1877, as a member of the commission to settle
the disputed state election in Louisiana;” his service with the Union Army, role in
the Bering Sea-Fur Seal Controversy, tenure as a law professor, and “other
aspects of his legal and judicial career. Letters from Bristow between 1867 and
1877 are especially significant for information concerning the administration of
Ulysses S. Grant. Miscellaneous material includes published copies (9 v.) of
Harlan's Supreme Court opinions, compiled by Richard D. Harlan. Also included
are extensive financial and legal papers, 1810-1863, of Harlan's father, James
Harlan, including material relating to political appointments in Kentucky.
Family correspondents include Harlan's wife, Malvina (Shanklin) Harlan, his
sons, James S., Richard D., and John Maynard Harlan, and his brother-in-law,
James G. Hatchitt. Other correspondents include James G. Blaine, J. B. Bowman,
Henry Clay, J. J. Crittenden, David Davis, George C. Drane, John W. Finnell,
William Cassius Goodloe, Walter Q. Gresham, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B.
Hayes, John Rodman, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Augustus E. Willson, and Bluford
Wilson.”
Robert Green Ingersoll* (1833-99), Papers of, 1826-1940, bulk: 1866-1899.
Illinois Bar, 1854; practiced Peoria, Ill., and, beginning 1882, New York City;
Colonel, 11th Illinois Calvary, Union Army, captured and paroled; Illinois
Attorney General, 1867-69; Lecturer, “Why I Am an Agnostic” (1896), Ingersoll:
Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays,
Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel
Ingersoll's Complete Works (1920).
Diaries, correspondence, letterbooks, writings, lectures, scrapbooks, family
papers, and miscellaneous financial, legal, and personal material relating to
Ingersoll's involvement in Illinois state and Republican Party politics, including
his address” nominating James G. Blaine, “before the 1876 Republican
Convention, Cincinnati OH; lectures and writings on agnosticism and religion;
law practices; and personal and family affairs. Other topics include antivivisection, the gold standard, impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Reconstruction,
tariffs, and women's suffrage.
Family members represented prominently include Ingersoll's brother Ebon, his
wife Eva Parker*, Clinton and Sue Parker Farrell, and his daughters, Maud
Ingersoll Probasco and Eva Ingersoll Brown.
Correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Paul
Blouët (Max O'Rell), Edward William Bok, John Burroughs, Benjamin F. Butler,
Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Moncure Daniel Conway,
Eugene V. Debs, Thomas Dixon, Edgar Fawcett, Henry M. Field, Minnie
Maddern Fiske, Melville Weston Fuller, Walter Quintin Gresham, John Marshall
Harlan, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, George Jacob Holyoake, John E. Mulholland,
Richard James Oglesby, Courtlandt Palmer, Parker Pillsbury, James Redpath,
Thomas B. Reed, Eduard Hoffman Reményi, Anton Seidl, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Horace Traubel, and Walt Whitman.”
General letters, 1895-1925 (3 boxes); letterbooks, 1895-96 (1 box); speeches,
articles (2 boxes); book file, 1895-1911 (1 box); scrapbooks of letters, clippings,
1896-97 (6 boxes); newspaper clippings, 1900-19, relating to Ingersoll, his ideas,
followers, and his family after his death (7 boxes); biographical material (1 box).
Robert R. Hitt* (1834-1906), Papers of, 1830-1905 (14/42).
Robert Roberts Hitt*: Rock River Seminary, Mount Morris IL and De Pauw
University, Greencastle IN; diplomatic post, 1874-81, Paris; U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State, 1881; U.S. Congress, 1882-1906, Republican, Illinois.
“Personal and political correspondence, 1865-1905, diplomatic correspondence
and other papers relating to Hitt's service in France, correspondence and other
materials, 1892-1905, relating to Abraham Lincoln, letter books, 1875-1883 (3
v.), family financial papers, 1830-1903, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, 18901903, and a large number of papers in Pitman shorthand, including a diary, 1858,
a journal, 1859, notes and notebooks, 1856-1904. . . . Also included are records
of Hitt’s political activities, 1884-1904 and of Congressional committees on
which he served.”
Letters and letterbooks, 1896-1906 (2 boxes); scrapbooks, 1896-1905, (10 boxes).
Sir Francis Joseph Campbell* (1834-1914), Papers of, 1870-1935.
“American-born musician, educator, and advocate for the blind”; co-founder and
Head, 1872-1912, Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind,
London, England.
“Correspondence, biographical notes and MSS., speeches, articles, printed matter,
and photographs; personal letters, family papers, and MS. of a biography of
Campbell by his wife, Lady Sophia Campbell; and papers of a son, Charles F. F.
Campbell. Part of the material is in braille. Includes papers relating to the Royal
Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind and of various members of
the family identified with the college.
Correspondents include Sir Rutherford Alcock, Thomas R. Armitage, William A.
Arrol, John P. Coldstream, Charles Eden, Henry Fawcett, Richardson Gardner,
Carl C. Fitzroy, Edward Hopkins, John MacDonald, Sir Lyon.”
Letters: received, 1895-1908 (7 boxes) and sent, 1895-1909 (3 boxes).
Manton Marble* (1834-1917), Papers of, 1838-1916, bulk: 1864-1898 (7/97).
Rochester University, 1855; Boston and New York newspapers, 1856-60; staff,
1860-62, and editor, owner, 1862-76, New York World.
“Correspondence, telegrams, articles, and drafts of Democratic Party policy
statements, and other papers chiefly relating to Marble's career and his role in
New York State and national Democratic Party politics in the period between the
beginning of the Civil War and the close of the 19th century. Subjects include the
presidential election of 1876, silver question, as well as Marble's efforts on behalf
of bimetallism in the United States and his mission to Europe in 1885 as President
Grover Cleveland's representative to consult with European governments on the
subject.
Correspondents include Samuel Green Arnold, Samuel L. M. Barlow, Thomas F.
Bayard, August Belmont, William H. Bogart, Calvert Comstock, Samuel Sullivan
Cox, David G. Croly, George Ticknor Curtis, Charles A. Dana, James R.
Doolittle, John Fiske, William Henry Hurlbert, Reverdy Johnson, Michael C.
Kerr, Joseph Medill, Fitz-John Porter, John Finley Rathbone, Horatio Seymour,
Herbert Spencer, Richard Henry Stoddard, Samuel J. Tilden, Clement L.
Vallandigham, Henry Watterson, and Horace White.”
Letters, 1896-1916 (7 boxes).
1835+
Henry Van Ness Boynton* (1835-1905), Papers of, 1897-1910 (1/1).
President, District of Columbia Board of Education, 1897-1905.
“Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and clippings concerning the District of
Columbia Board of Education, and the investigation of certain school officials in
the District's public school system (400 items).”
Andrew Carnegie* (1835-1919), Papers of, 1803-1935, bulk: 1890-1919 (250/304).
Industrialist and steel manufacturer; philanthropist.
“Correspondence, reports, memoranda, speeches, articles, book files, financial
papers, printed materials, and other papers. . . . Topics include African
Americans, corporations, education, imperialism, industrial arbitration, industrial
relations, investments, Panama Canal, peace, and Scottish Americans. Includes
materials concerning the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., Carnegie Institution of Washington,
and Carnegie Steel Corporation.
Correspondents include Lord Acton, Lord Balfour, John Barrett, James P.
Bertram, William Jennings Bryan, Lord Bryce, Nicholas Murray Butler, Joseph
Hodges Choate, Samuel Harden Church, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Grover
Cleveland, W. Evans Darby, Frank Nelson Doubleday, Theodore W. Dwight,
Charles William Eliot, Robert Erskine Ely, Baron d'Estournelle de Constant,
Robert A. Franks, Henry Clay Frick, Richard Watson Gilder, Daniel Coit Gilman,
W. E. Gladstone, Lord Grey of Fallodon, Edward Everett Hale, William Vernon
Harcourt, John Hay, Abram S. Hewitt, Robert Green Ingersoll, Robert
Underwood Johnson, Philander C. Knox, George Lauder, Sr., George Lauder, Jr.,
David Lloyd George, Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis T. F. Lovejoy, Seth Low, and
Frederick H. Lynch.
Other correspondents include Theodore Marburg, S. S. McClure, Nelson
Appleton Miles, Thomas N. Miller, J. Pierpont Morgan, John Morley, Simon
Newcomb, Walter Hines Page, Alton Brooks Parker, George Foster Peabody,
Henry Phipps, Henry S. Pritchett, Whitelaw Reid, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore
Roosevelt, Elihu Root, John Ross, Carl Schurz, Charles M. Schwab, James Brown
Scott, William H. Short, Goldwin Smith, James Carnegie (Earl of Southesk),
Herbert Spencer, Hermann Speck von Sternberg, Oscar S. Straus, James Moore
Swank, William H. Taft, Charles L. Taylor, J. Edgar Thomson, Charlemagne
Tower, Joseph P. Tumulty, Booker T. Washington, Andrew Dickson White,
Henry White, Horace White, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, Woodrow
Wilson, and Robert Simpson Woodward.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (210 boxes); scrapbooks, 1892-1919 (10 boxes); philanthropy,
189601920 (27 boxes).
William E. Chandler* (1835-1917), Papers of, 1863-1917 (66/167).
William Eaton Chandler*: U.S. Assistant Treasury Secretary, 1865-1867; U.S.
Navy Secretary, 1882-1885; U.S. Senate, Republican, New Hampshire, 18871901; Chair, Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, 1901-1908.
“Principally bound volumes of correspondence” and other papers “documenting
Chandler's work in government. Includes material reflecting Chandler's
prominence in the Republican Party and his roles in the presidential campaigns of
1868, 1872, and 1880 and in the disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B.
Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden.
Correspondents include Chester Alan Arthur, James Gillespie Blaine,
Montgomery Blair, George S. Boutwell, Jay Cooke, Walter Quintin Gresham,
William Pitt Kellogg, Philander C. Knox, William McKinley, William Orton,
Orville Hitchcock Platt, Thomas Collier Platt, and Lew Wallace.”
W.A. Croffut* (1835-1915), Papers of, 1774-1933, bulk: 1880-1915 (8/31).
William Augustus Croffut*: Founder, secretary, 1899, Anti-Imperialist League;
campaigned, 1900, for William Jennings Bryan.
“Correspondence pertaining to Croffut's publications, his activities with the AntiImperialist League, and the presidential campaign of 1900; drafts and copies of
Croffut's articles, books, and other works; papers pertaining to the AntiImperialist League, including minutes, drafts of articles advocating the cause of
the Philippines and of the Boers in South Africa, pamphlets, and newspaper
articles; scrapbooks containing newspaper columns and an account of the
Columbian Exposition of 1893; material on Ethan Allen Hitchcock, including a
copy of his memoir which was used for the book, Fifty Years in Field and Camp,
edited, 1909, by Croffut, copies of correspondence with Mrs. Nathaniel
Hawthorne and material on George Washington, and letters of John Quincy
Adams and Jefferson Davis; journals of Dr. Henry A. Robbins containing
accounts of his travels in Europe during the 1870's and relating information
concerning medicap practices in Europe; and papers, mostly after 1915, of his
wife, Bessie Croffut.
Correspondents include George S. Boutwell, William J. Bryan, Edward Corser,
Samuel Gompers, John W. Hayes, Joseph B. Henderson, Patrick O'Farrell, Carl
Schurz, Bertrand A. Shadwell, Charles A. Towne, George W. Van Siclen, and
Erving Winslow.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (2 boxes); official papers, Anti-Imperialist League (1 box).
Thomas Ewing Family Papers, 1757-1941, bulk: 1815-1896 (20/314).
Thomas Ewing* (1789-1871): Ohio University, 1816; Ohio Bar, 1816; U.S.
Senate, 1831-47, Anti-Jacksonian, Ohio, and 1850-51, Whig; Secretary of
Treasury, 1841; Secretary of Interior, 1849-50; thereafter, practiced law,
Lancaster OH; father of Union Brigadier Generals Thomas, Hugh, and Charles
Ewing, father-in-law of General William Tecumseh Sherman, and grandfather of
Thomas Ewing (1862-1942), attorney, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, author.
“Correspondence, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, biographical and
genealogical material, military papers, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks,
printed materials, maps, photographs, and other papers concerning American
political, economic, and social life. Subjects include westward expansion and
frontier life, the disposal of public lands and land speculation, law and legal
practice in Ohio, Ohio and national Whig politics, anti-Jacksonianism, the Bank
of the United States, the organization of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, the
California gold rush, the rise of the Republican Party, sectionalism, Kansas
statehood, the Washington Peace Convention (Conference Convention) of 1861,
the Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the impeachment of Andrew
Johnson, the currency question and Greenback movement, the Ohio centennial,
and the development and administration of patent law in the U.S. from 1913 to
1917.
Correspondents include Philemon Beecher, Nicholas Biddle, James Gillespie
Blaine, Orville Hickman Browning, Henry Clay, Thomas Corwin, John J.
Crittenden, Charles B. Goddard, Horace Greeley, William Henry Harrison,
Britton Armstrong Hill, Hocking H. Hunter, Reverdy Johnson, Abbott Lawrence,
Abraham Lincoln, John McLean, Richard Olney, Thomas Collier Platt, Samuel C.
Pomeroy, William S. Rosecrans, William Henry Seward, John Sherman, William
T. Sherman, Henry Stanbery, Noah Haynes Swayne, Allen Granbery Thurman,
John Tyler, Samuel Finley Vinton, and Daniel Webster.”
Diaries, 1896-1913 (2 boxes); letters, 1896-1920 (18 boxes).
Thomas Ewing* (1789-1871), Papers of, 1815-72, microfilm (6 reels).
Originals held by University of Notre Dame, South Bend IN.
“Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, dockets and account
books, speeches, financial papers, legal papers, and clippings.”
Charles Ewing Family Papers, 1769-1950 (6/31).
Charles Ewing* (1835-1883): Son of Thomas Ewing (1789-1871); University of
Virginia; practiced law, 1860-61, St, Louis MO; youngest of three brothers, who
were at times under the command of their sister Eleanor’s husband, Union
General William Tecumseh Sherman, and who became Brigadier Generals in the
Union Army; practiced law, 1867-1883, Washington DC; also, after 1869,
Catholic Commissioner, Washington DC, for Indian Missions, Catholic Indian
Bureau; brother of:
Thomas Ewing* (1829-96): Brown University, 1854; Ohio Bar, 1855; Chief
Justice, 1861-62, Kansas Supreme Court; practiced law, 1865-71, Washington DC
and 1881-96, New York City; U.S. Congress, 1877-81, Democrat, Ohio.
Thomas Ewing* (1829-96), Papers of, 1856-1908, microfilm (2 reels).
Originals held by Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka.
His brother, Hugh Boyle Ewing* (1826-1905): attended U.S. Military Academy;
practiced law, 1854-56, St. Louis MO; U.S. Minister, 1866-1870, Holland;
practiced law briefly, Washington DC; thereafter a writer, Lancaster OH.
“Correspondence, diaries, biographical material, genealogies, legal and business
papers, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers. Some papers
concern the Civil War and its aftermath, especially the military circle formed by
the brothers, Thomas, Hugh, and Charles Ewing, and their brothers-in-law,
General Sherman and Colonel Clement F. Steele. The legal papers concern
courts-martial and other cases in which the government was involved; Mexican
claims, land grants, Indian affairs, and patent rights. Includes looseleaf volumes
of family history and genealogy, illustrated with letters, family trees, clippings,
and portraits.
Persons represented include Charles Ewing's father, Thomas Ewing; his brother,
Philemon Ewing; his sisters, Eleanor Boyle Ewing Sherman and Maria Theresa
Ewing Steele; and his wife, Virginia Larwill Miller; and members of the Larwill,
Miller, and Stibbs families.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (6 boxes).
William Torrey Harris* (1835-1909), Papers of, 1866-1908.
Studied Yale; teacher and Superintendent of Schools, 1857-80 and introduced,
1873, public kindergarten, St. Louis MO; U.S. Commissioner of Education, 18891906. Harris influenced Melville Dewey’s efforts to classify knowledge in
libraries as well as American educators’ and philosophers’ study of Georg
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s idealism while founding, 1866, St. Louis
Philosophical Society and, 1867, the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, which he
edited until 1893; lectured, 1879-88, at Bronson Alcott’s Concord MA School of
Philosophy, mainly on Hegel; co-author: A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and
Philosophy (1893), and many others.
Mainly drafts and printed copies, some 890 numbered MSS. in all: “Harris'
articles, addresses, lectures, and reports, with notes and printed material used in
their preparation, and the MSS. of his books.”
McCook Family Papers, 1809-1966, bulk: 1850-1900.
Anson George McCook* (1835-1917): Brother of Union Army Brigadier General
Edward M. McCook; first cousin of Brevet Brigadier General Edwin S. McCook.
Captain to Brevet Brigadeer General of Volunteers, 1861-65; Ohio Bar, 1866; U.
S. Assessor of Internal Revenue, 1865-1873, Steubenville OH; moved to New
York City and founded Law Journal; President, New York Law Publishing
Company; U.S. Congress, 1877-1883, Republican, New York.
“Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs, memorabilia,
printed materials, and other papers relating to the Ohio family of "Fighting
McCooks" which became prominent through the service of fifteen of its sons in
the Civil War. The McCooks were active in legal, military, and political affairs.
The larger part of the collection concerns the military and political career of
Anson G. McCook.
Correspondents include Cornelius Newton Bliss, Grover Cleveland, Samuel
Langhorne Clemens, Robley D. Evans, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Ulysses
S. Grant, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford Birchard Hayes,
William McKinley, Thomas Nelson Page, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root,
William T. Sherman, and Edwin McMasters Stanton.”
Letters, 1896-20 (3 boxes); scrapbooks, 1896-1920 (5 boxes).
William Conant Church* (1836-1917), Papers of, 1862-1924 (1/2).
Journalist, editor; co-founder and editor, 1863-1917, Army and Navy Journal; cofounder, 1882, and director, National Rifle Association.
“Correspondence pertaining to Church's business and professional matters as
editor of the Atlantic Monthly, Galaxy, Journal of the Armed Forces, and New
York Sun. Includes biographical writings in English and Swedish on the Swedish
American engineer and inventor, John Ericsson.
Correspondents include William W. Belknap, William C. Browness, William E.
Chandler, Bradley A. Fiske, William Babcock Hazen, Stephen Bleecker Luce,
Nelson Appleton Miles, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. Sherman, Emory
Upton, and Leonard Wood.”
John Watson Foster* (1836-1917), Papers of, 1872-1917, bulk: 1872-1905.
University of Indiana, 1855; Harvard Law; editor, Evansville IN Daily Journal;
U.S. Secretary of State, 1892-93; Special Mission, 1897, to Great Britain, Russia;
Anglo-Canadian commission, 1898; U.S. Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903;
represented China, The Hague Conference, 1907; helped found, 1906, American
Society of International Law and, 1910, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace.
“Chiefly letters received, 1872-1905, relating to Indiana politics, Republican
Party, Alaska-Canadian boundary dispute, sealing rights in the Bering Sea, and
diplomatic relations with Mexico, Russia, Spain, and China.
Correspondents include James G. Blaine, Schuyler Colfax, William M. Evarts,
Walter Q. Gresham, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, Richard Olney, Whitelaw
Reid, and Theodore Roosevelt.”
Lyman J. Gage* (1836-1927), Papers of, 1897-1906 (5/5).
Lyman Judson Gage*: Defended, 1870s, the gold standard and helped organize
the “Honest Money League of Chicago,” and “. . . of the North West”; VicePresident, 1891-96, First National Bank of Chicago IL; U.S. Secretary of the
Treasury, 1897-1902; President, 1902-06, U.S. Trust Company of New York.
“Correspondence documenting Gage's service . . . in the McKinley and Theodore
Roosevelt administrations and subsequently” in banking. “In addition to material
on fiscal matters, including the financing of the war with Spain, there are files of
private letters.
Correspondents include Russell A. Alger, George B. Cortelyou, Ralph M. Easley,
Mark Hanna, Orville Peckham, James B. Pond, Elihu Root, Charles Emory Scott,
and others.”
Maria Kraus-Boelté* (1836-1918), Papers of, 1904-1913 (4/4).
Wife of John Kraus* (d. 1896): Born Germany, arrived United States, 1851;
U.S. Bureau of Education, 1873.
Maria Boelté*: Born Germany, disciple of Fredreich Wilhelm August Froebel
(1782-1852), but tutored by his widow; taught at Froebel-influenced schools in
London, England, Germany, and after 1872, United States; operated with her
husband a demonstration kindergarten, New York City, for training teachers and
wrote, The Kindergarten Guide: An Illustrated Hand-Book Designed for the SelfInstruction of Kindergarten [Teachers], Mothers, and Nurses (2 v., 1877);
President, 1899-1900, Kindergarten Department, National Education Association;
taught summer courses for kindergarten teachers, 1903, 1904, 1907, New York
University School of Education.
“Correspondence, notes, and original drawings of Madame Kraus-Boelté, relating
to kindergarten education, as well as letters and notes by some of her students.”
Notes on the kindergarten (3 v.); drawings (1 v.)
David J. Brewer* (1837-1910), Papers of, 1865-1906.
David Josiah Brewer*: Associate Justice, 1889-1910, U.S. Supreme Court.
“Chiefly pamphlets and periodicals containing speeches and writings of Justice
Brewer. Also included are typescripts of speeches, a letter, and some photographs
(64 items).”
Pamphlets and periodicals, 1896-1910, containing speeches and articles by
Brewer (4 boxes).
Grover Cleveland* (1837-1908), Papers of 1859-1945, bulk: 1885-1908.
Stephen Grover Cleveland*: Mayor, 1881, Buffalo NY; Governor of New York,
1883-84; President of the United States, 1885-89 and 1893-97.
“Correspondence, diaries, 1898-1905, messages, speeches, writings, and other
papers. Most of the collection relates to Cleveland's first presidential
administration, 1885-1889. Includes some papers of his wife, Frances Folsom*.
Correspondents include John Peter Altgeld, Chester Alan Arthur, Norval B.
Bacon, Thomas F. Bayard, August Belmont, Erastus Cornelius Benedict, Wilson
Shannon Bissell, John T. Carey, John Griffin Carlisle, Joseph Hodges Choate,
Alonzo B. Cornell, George William Curtis, L. Clarke Davis, Donald McDonald
Dickinson, Sanford B. Dole, Robert Dosia, William Crowninshield Endicott,
Robley D. Evans, John H. Finley, Melville Weston Fuller, Richard Watson
Gilder, Walter Quintin Gresham, Charles Hamlin, Judson Harmon, Benjamin
Harrison, Thomas Nelson Haskell, Robert P. Hayes, Abram S. Hewitt, David B.
Hill, Joseph Jefferson, Robert Underwood Johnson, L. Q. C. Lamar, Daniel Scott
Lamont, Fitzhugh Lee, Daniel Manning, Richard Olney, Alton B. Parker, Edward
B. Pond, Terence Vincent Powderly, William Gorham Rice, William H. Rideing,
Theodore Roosevelt, Horatio Seymour, Edward Morse Shepard, Hoke Smith,
Francis L. Stetson, Oscar S. Straus, John DeWitt Warner, Henry Watterson,
James B. Weaver, William C. Whitney, and William Lyne Wilson.”
George Dewey* (1837-1917), Papers of, 1805-1949, bulk: 1885-1931.
U.S. Naval Academy, 1858; Lieutenant Commander, 1865; Commodore, 1896
and Commander, 1898, Asiatic Squadron; defeated, 1898, Spanish fleet, Manila
Bay, Philippines, and Real Admiral; Admiral of the Navy, 1899; President, 189917, General Board of the Navy; Commander-in Chief, winter maneuvers, 190203.
“Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, journal, military papers, financial papers,
scrapbooks, and photographs” mainly related to his career, 1899-1917. “Also
includes Dewey's letters to his second wife, Mildred McLean Hazen Dewey, her
correspondence, financial records, and papers pertaining to her estate;
correspondence between Dewey's parents, Julius Y. Dewey and Mary Perrin
Dewey; letters from James A. Garfield and William T. Sherman to Mildred
Dewey's first husband, William Babcock Hazen; and an account, 1904, of
‘Admiral Dewey and the Manila Campaign’ written by Commander Nathan
Sargent, U.S.N.
Correspondents include Charles J. Bonaparte, William E. Chandler, George B.
Cortelyou, George Creel, Josephus Daniels, Grenville Mellen Dodge, John Hay,
Robert Lansing, John Davis Long, A. T. Mahan, William H. Moody, Paul
Morton, Truman Handy Newberry, Redfield Procter, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu
Root, and Oscar Fitzalan Williams. Mildred Dewey's correspondents include
Frederick M. Bugher, Jonathan Daniels, George G. Dewey, Henry Cabot Lodge,
John R. McLean, Elisabeth Ellicott Poe, and Alvin Untermyer.”
Diaries, 1892-97, 1902-03, 1909 (1 box); letters, 1898-10 (46 boxes); letterbooks,
1897-1903 (3 boxes).”
George Dewey* (1837-1917), Papers of, 1890-1943, 16 items.
“Letter, 1890, of Dewey to the commanding officer, U.S.S. Pinta, Sitka, Alaska;
letter, n.d., of Dewey to William Corcoran Hill; letter, 1898, of Charles A.
Boutelle to Sally Phenix Hill with enclosed letter of Garret A. Hobart; historical
account entitled “Admiral Dewey and the Manila Campaign,” compiled by
Nathan Sargent, with a covering note, 1943, by George G. Dewey; and
photographs.”
T. H. and Edward Miner Gallaudet, Papers of, 1806-1958 (4/10).
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet* (1787-1851) and his youngest son:
Edward Miner Gallaudet* (1837-1917), both helped found, 1816 and 1856
respectively, schools for the deaf.
“T. H. Gallaudet's papers include correspondence, 1806-1851, diaries, 1810-1811,
1847-1850, poetry and composition books kept while he attended Yale, combined
journal and letter book, 1815-1816, account book, 1840-1851, documents relating
to the American School for the Deaf, Hartford, Conn., genealogical studies,
memorabilia, and printed material
Edward Miner Gallaudet's papers include correspondence, diaries, journals,
memoirs, speeches, articles, and documents relating to Columbia Institution for
the Deaf and Gallaudet College,” named for his father. “Also includes several
Gallaudet family photographs and the papers of Maxine Tull Boatner, biographer
of Edward Miner Gallaudet, namely, correspondence, printed matter, and page
proof of her book, Voice of the Deaf: A Biography of Edward Miner Gallaudet
(1959).”
Edward: Diaries, 1896-1917 (2 boxes); memoir, 1857-1909, and letters, 18961917 (2 boxes).
Hanna-McCormick Family Papers, 1792-1985, bulk: 1902-1944).
Marcus Alonzo Hanna* or Mark Hanna* (1837-1904): Western Reserve
University, Hudson OH; wholesale grocery, iron and coal, and other businesses,
Cleveland OH; advisor to U. S. presidents; Chair, 1896, Republican National
Committee; U.S. Senate, 1897-1904, Republican, Ohio; father of:
Ruth Hanna McCormick* or Ruth Simms* (1880-1944): owned and operated a
dairy and breeding farm, Byron IL; publisher, President, Rockford IL
Consolidated Newspapers, Inc.; leader, 1913-20, women’s suffrage movement;
Chair, Women’s Executive Committee and Associate Member, 1919-24, and
Member, 1924-28, Republican National Committee; U.S. Congress, 1929-31,
Republican, Illinois; wife of:
Joseph Medill McCormick* or Medill McCormick* (1877-1925): Yale, 1900;
reporter, editor, publisher, owner, 1900-25, Chicago Daily Tribune; war
correspondent, 1901, Philippines; Vice Chair, 1912-14, National Campaign
Committee, Progressive Party; Illinois legislature, 1913-17; U.S. Congress, 191719 and Senate, 1919-25, Republican, Illinois.
“Correspondence, diary and notebook fragments, speeches, financial records,
scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers focusing chiefly on the political
activities of Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms*. . . . Marcus Hanna's
correspondence relates mainly to Ohio and national politics and also to his
personal and business affairs. Includes copies of interviews, 1905-1906, about
him conducted by James B. Morrow with Joseph Benson Foraker, Theodore
Roosevelt, and members of Hanna's family. Medill McCormick's papers relate to
Illinois and national politics. Also included are papers relating to the Chicago
Tribune and its publishers, Joseph Medill and Robert Rutherford McCormick,
grandfather and brother of Medill McCormick. Family papers include much
correspondence between Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms and her daughter, Ruth
McCormick Tankersley, known as Bazy.
Mark Hanna's correspondents include his wife, Augusta Rhodes, and their
daughter, Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and Benjamin Butterworth, J. C.
Donaldson, Joseph Benson Foraker, Charles Foster, William McKinley, John
Sherman, and John Wanamaker.
Medill McCormick's correspondents include Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Edward
Jackson Brundage, Calvin Coolidge, Joseph M. Dixon, Warren G. Harding,
Charles Evans Hughes, Henry Cabot Lodge, Frank O. Lowden, Theodore
Roosevelt, and George Richard Walker.”
Mark Hanna: letters, 1896-1910 (1 box); interviews, 1905-06 (1 box).
Ruth Hanna McCormick*: letters, 1912-22 (1 box).
Medill McCormick: letters, 1843-1920 (2 boxes); speeches, 1913-19 (1 box);
scrapbook, 1897 (1 v.); miscellany, 1900-18 (1 box).
Franklin MacVeagh* (1837-1934), Papers of, 1799-1933, bulk: 1909-1913.
Yale, 1862, Columbia Law and New York Bar, 1864, practiced 1864-66; moved
to Chicago IL, 1866 and founded wholesale grocery business; President, 18661909 and 1913-31, Franklin MacVeagh & Company; U.S. Treasury Secretrary,
1909-13.
“Correspondence, family papers, subject files, business, legal, and financial
papers, speeches, and miscellany relating primarily to MacVeagh's government
service. Also includes materials pertaining to the MacVeagh (McVey) and Eames
families, Chicago social and civic affairs, and to other business, personal, and
political matters.
Specific topics include U.S. Customs and Internal Revenue Services, political
patronage, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, American Civic Association,
National Civic Federation, Immigration Restriction League, National Civil
Service Reform League, U.S. Commission on Economy and Efficiency, U.S.
Tariff Board, and the election of 1896.
Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Richard Ballinger, Rupert Blue,
Henry S. Boutell, George Cortelyou, S. M. Cullom, J. M. Dickinson, Walter L.
Fisher, John Hay, F. H. Hitchcock, Rollin A. Keyes, Philander C. Knox, Carl
Lumholtz, Lee McClung, Eames MacVeagh, Lawrence O. Murray, Charles
Nagel, Charles D. Norton, Whitelaw Reid, Eliza Scidmore, Henry Stimson,
William Howard Taft, and George Wickersham.”
General letters, 1896-1920 (6 boxes); special letters, arranged alphabetically (5
boxes); subject files (4 boxes).
Burton Norvell Harrison Family Papers, 1812-1926, bulk: 1913-1921.
Finding aid online: “Correspondence, diaries, reports, memoranda, MSS. of
articles, speeches, and books, and other papers” of:
Samuel Jordan Harrison (1771-1846), merchant. Letters from Thomas Jefferson;
father of:
Jesse Burton Harrison (1805-1841), lawyer and newspaper editor. Includes
correspondence with William W. Norvell about national and Virginia politics
during the Andrew Jackson administration, J. B. Harrison's travels in Europe,
1829-1831, and his notes on conversations with James Madison; father of:
Burton Norvell Harrison* (1838-1904): Attended, 1854-55, Mississippi
University; Yale, 1859; private secretary, 1862, Jefferson Davis; prisoner, 1865,
Union Army; New York Bar, 1866; Secretary and Counsel, 1875, New York
Rapid Transit Commission; eschewed politics after 1880; opposed William
Jennings Bryan’s platforms. Papers include letters written as private secretary to
Jefferson Davis, a prisoner, and later, as a lawyer in New York City; husband of:
Mrs. Burton Harrison*, formerly Constance Cary* (1843-1920), resided and
traveled in Europe, 1890s; adapted French plays for amateur performance; author
of short stories and historical articles, especially about the South and New York
City, in Scribner’s Monthly, Harper’s, and Century; author: Woman's Handiwork
in Modern Homes (1881), The Well-bred Girl in Society (1898), and others.
Papers, mainly concerning her literary career and the family's social prominence
in New York City; mother of Fairfax and Francis Burton Harrison:
Fairfax Harrison* (1869-1938), lawyer and president of the Southern Railway.
Business papers; correspondence with his brother in the Philippines.
Francis Burton Harrison* (1873-1957), Yale, 1895, New York Law School,
1895 and Bar, 1898; New York Volunteer Calvary, 1898; Captain, Assistant
Adjutant General, U.S. Volunteers, 1898-99; U.S. Congress, 1903-05 and 190713, Democrat, New York; Governor General, 1913-21, Philippines; lived on
estate in Scotland, 1921-34: Papers, mainly his advocacy of Philippine
independence and diplomatic affairs during the Woodrow Wilson administration.
“Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Matthew Arnold, G. T.
Beauregard, James Gillespie Blaine, Andrew Carnegie, Salmon P. Chase, Henry
Clay, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, Austin Craig, Charles A.
Dana, Varina Davis, Chauncey M. Depew, Lord Byron and Lady Mary Falkland,
Stephen Johnson Field, Lindley M. Garrison, Ralph Randolph Gurley, Joel
Chandler Harris, Benjamin Harrison, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean
Howells, Robert E. Lee, Camilo Osias, Sergio Osmeña, Gifford Pinchot, T. H.
Pardo de Tavera, Manuel Luis Quezon, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Jeb Stuart,
Walt Whitman, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (about 17 boxes); cablegrams, 1913-21 (4 boxes); subject
files, 1913-21 (8 boxes); printed material, 1899-21 (7 boxes).
John Hay* (1838-1905), Papers of, 1783-1999, bulk: 1897-1905.
John Milton Hay*: Illinois State University, Brown, M.A., 1858; studied law,
1859-60, Springfield IL; assistant private secretary, 1861-1864, to Abraham
Lincoln; Assistant Adjutant General, 1864-65, U.S. Army; diplomatic posts:
France, 1865-67; Austria, 1867-68; Spain, 1869-70; editorial writer, 1870-75,
New York Tribune; married, 1874, moved to Cleveland OH, and oversaw fatherin-law’s considerable assets; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, 1879-81; editor,
1881, New York Tribune; world travels, writing, 1882-97; U.S. Ambassador,
1897-98, Great Britain; U.S. Secretary of State, 1898-1905; author: Jim Bludso of
the Prairie Belle, and Little Breeches (1871); co-editor: Abraham Lincoln:
Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and
Miscellaneous Writings (2 v., 1902), and others.
“Correspondence and letterbooks, speeches, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks,
memorabilia, memoranda, and other papers relating chiefly to Hay's service in
Great Britain, and in the State Department under William McKinley and
Theodore Roosevelt. Earlier papers deal with his work as a lawyer in Springfield
IL, his poetry, the Tribune, and Abraham Lincoln.
Also includes letters, 1882-1914, of his wife, Clara Louise Stone* (1849-1914),
Correspondents include Brooks Adams, Alvey A. Adee, Joseph Hodges Choate,
George B. Cortelyou, Charles William Eliot, Henry James, Clarence King, Henry
Cabot Lodge, William McKinley, Baron Julian Pauncefote, William Woodville
Rockhill, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, and Mark
Twain.”
Finding aid online: Diaries, 1904, 1905 (1 box); letterbooks, 1898-1905 (1 box);
Hay letters sent and family letters, 1896-1914 (5 boxes); special letters received,
arranged alphabetically by correspondent, 1896-1905 (ca. 5 boxes); general
letters, 1898-1905 (15 boxes); scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, arranged
alphabetically by subject, mainly Spanish American War and diplomacy, 18961905 (46 v.).
John Lowe* (1838-1930), Papers of, 1860-1945, bulk: 1870-1898 (1/3).
Born Liverpool, England; studied engineering; emigrated and joined, 1861, 2d
Ohio Infantry, then U.S. Navy; as Captain and Chief Engineer, 1898, personally
tested and recommended purchase of its first submarine, U.S.S. Holland and,
1901, personally demonstrated that a crew could survive fifteen hours of
submersion.
“Private journals; orders to duty; scrapbook containing newspaper clippings,
typewritten copies of articles, holograph notes, and reprints of articles by Lowe;
and miscellaneous material. The journals, some of which have been edited by
Lowe's daughter, Edith Blinston Lowe, contain personal entries, entries pertaining
to various ships, autograph letters, copies of letters, general orders, circulars,
newspaper clippings, diagrams, photographs, and printed matter.
Correspondents include Daniel Ammen and Aniceto G. Menocal in the journals
kept on the U.S.S. Despatch; Samuel S. Cox, William H. Emory, and Edwin
Thacher in the journal kept on the U.S.S. Dolphin and the U.S.S. Thetis; Philip
Hichborn in the journal kept on the U.S.S. New York; and John D. Long in the
journal kept on the submarine Holland.”
Elizabeth Burt*, Papers of, 1797-1917, 200 items (1/2).
Elizabeth Reynolds Burt* (b. 1839) and husband, Andrew Sheridan Burt*
(1839-1915): Captain, U.S. Army, Civil War; served at several frontier posts
during Indian Wars in West; general officer, Philippines, 1902.
“Letters to her daughter, Edith Burt, discussing family matters and describing the
routines of military post life at Fort Bidwell, Calif., Forts Bridger, Laramie, D.A.
Russell, Sanders, and Washakie, Wyo., Forts Missoula and C.F. Smith, Mont.,
Forts Omaha and Robinson, Neb., and elsewhere. Includes material on relations
with the Indians, particularly Shoshone Chief Washakie, and social events and
meetings with prominent figures such as Mark Twain and Owen Wister.
Includes correspondence, diaries, and other papers of her husband, Andrew S.
Burt*, her father-in-law Andrew Gano Burt, 1810-1875, and Andrew Burt, 1771?1817.”
Typescript autobiography, “An Army Wife’s Forty Years in the Service, 18621902”: Philippine Islands, last 60 pages.
Samuel W. Dike* (1839-1913), Papers of, 1870-1913 (10/28).
Samuel Warren Dike*: Williams College, 1863; Andover, Congregational
minister, 1866; pastorates in Vermont; helped form, 1881, and became Secretary,
the New England Divorce Reform League, the nucleus of a national movement;
moved, 1882, to Auburndale MA, and devoted full time to efforts to enact more
restrictive and uniform divorce laws in all states.
“Correspondence with members of the National Divorce Reform League (later
National League for the Protection of the Family) and others, relating to business
matters and social and family problems; annual reports and other publications of
the League, including articles contributed by Dike; U.S. Commissioner of Labor,
Report on Marriage and Divorce in the United States, 1867-86 (1889); and
material on temperance published by the Committee of Fifty for the Investigation
of the Liquor Problem. Also includes family papers; speeches; unfinished
autobiography; proposed divorce reform laws; notes on divorce statistics; notes
and outlines for correspondence courses; news clippings relating to divorce,
Mormons and polygamy, home study movement in the Congregational Church,
and the elections of 1884, 1888, and l892; and articles written by and about Dike.
Correspondents include Herbert Baxter Adams, Newton D. Baker, Francis G.
Peabody, and Carroll D. Wright.”
Letters, 1896-1913 (7 boxes).
Forbes Family Papers, 1732-1931*, microfilm (52 reels).
Originals held by Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston MA.
Frances Blackwell Forbes* (1839-1908): Bimetallist, investor in China and
France, including Serrell Automatic Silk Reeling Company, Paris.
Diaries, letters, business papers and letters, 1850-1908 (12 reels).
Otherwise, “Diaries, correspondence, ships' logs, and business papers of James
Murray Forbes (1845-1937), Robert Bennet Forbes (1804-1889), . . . and other
family members. Relates to interests of the Forbes family including the China
trade, English settlement in East Florida in the 18th century, Chinese botany,
railroad building in the Midwest, consular service in Europe, and diplomatic
service in Argentina in the 1820's.”
1840+
Christian A. Fleetwood* (1840-1914); Papers of, 1797-1945, bulk: 1860-1907.
Christian Abraham Fleetwood*: Maryland Colonization Society Office,
Baltimore, and Ashmun Institute (later, Lincoln University), Oxford PA; Union
Army, 1863-66, Sergeant Major, Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor; Major
and commander, 1887-91, 6th Battalion, D.C. National Guard; clerk, 1881-1914,
U.S. War Department; choirmaster of churches in Washington DC.
Sara Iredell Fleetwood* (1811-1908): Superintendent of Nurses, Freedman’s
Hospital, Washington DC.
“Correspondence, diaries, legal documents, scrapbook, printed material,
memorabilia, and photographs pertaining chiefly to Fleetwood's activities as a
Union soldier during the Civil War and as a leading African-American citizen of
Washington, D.C. Subjects include education, nursing, slavery, and other civic
and social concerns of the African American community in the District of
Columbia where Fleetwood held various government and business positions.”
Includes papers relating to his wife’s career and letters of family members.
A.T. Mahan* (1840-1914), Papers of, 1779-1970, bulk 1890-1914.
Son of Dennis Hart Mahan, Professor, U.S. Military Academy.
Alfred Thayer Mahan*: Columbia University, U.S. Naval Academy, 1859; Union
Navy, 1861-65; duty aboard the U.S.S. Iroquois Asiatic Squadron; commanded
U.S.S. Wachusett, South Pacific Squadron; and, 1893, U.S.S. Chicago, European
Station; President, 1886-89, 1892-93, Naval War College, and retired, 1896;
member, 1897, Naval War Board; member, 1899, U.S. Delegation, Hague
Conference; member, 1908, Commission on Documentary Historical Publications
of U.S. Government; author: Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783
(1890), The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire,
1793–1812 (2 v., 1892), and others; memoir: From Sail to Steam (1907).
“Correspondence, family papers, subject file, speeches and writings, scrapbooks,
biographical file, printed material, and other papers relating to Mahan's naval
education and career, publication of and reaction to his books on sea power; and
personal and family life. Other topics include the Hague Conference and Mahan's
views on armament, international arbitration, and shipbuilding.
Persons represented prominently either through correspondence or subject
material include Samuel Ashe, Henry Erben, John Hay, Hilary Herbert, Frederick
Holls, William Kirkland, Henry Cabot Lodge, David Long, Seth Low, Stephen B.
Luce, William McAdoo, John Bassett Moore, Joseph Pulitzer, Theodore
Roosevelt, Elihu Root, and Winfield Schley.”
Special letters, 1896-1915 (4 boxes); letters, 1896-1914, publishers (2 boxes);
subject file, 1892-1914 (1 box); William D. Puleston, biographer’s research
materials (3 boxes); clippings, 1898-1914 (3 boxes).
A.T. Mahan, Papers of, 1861-1913.
“Four letters, 1911-1913, by Mahan to Carter H. Fitz-Hugh concerning U.S.
defense policy, the Panama Canal, and Germany's territorial conditions; letter by
Mahan, 1861 Oct. 10, to C. S. Newcome from the sloop Pocahontas; photocopy
of a report, 1906, by Mahan on the Naval War Board of 1898 with attachments
that include copies of letters to and from Admiral George Dewey and Navy
Secretary Charles J. Bonaparte; and photocopies of excerpts from two published
works on Mahan referring to the report.”
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich* (1841-1915), Papers of, 1762-1930 (80/143).
U.S. Senate, 1881-1911, Rhode Island, Republican; Chair, National Monetary
Commission, 1908-12.
“Correspondence, journal, 1906, relating to the Hepburn bill, appointment books,
1906-1909, drafts of speeches with related notes and memoranda, personal bank
accounts, bills, receipts, and other financial papers, tariff schedules (1880-1894),
documents, reports, bills, scrapbooks, clippings, pamphlets and other printed
material, chiefly relating to Aldrich's career in congress. Includes diaries, 1904
and 1912, kept by Aldrich's wife, Abby Chapman Aldrich; biographical material
concerning Aldrich and his family, dating from 1762; and a group of biographer's
papers, 1924-1930, containing correspondence and notes of Nathaniel W.
Stephenson and Jeannette P. Nichols.
Correspondents include Henry B. Anthony, Johnson Newlon Camden, Henry
White Cannon, Jonathan Chace, Charles Francis Choate, Winthrop Murray Crane,
Eugene Hale, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Thomas Nicholson, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and William
Whitman.”
General letters, 1892-1915 (35 boxes); financial periodicals, 1885-1915 (8 boxes).
Silas Casey* (1841-1931), Papers of, 1771-1941, bulk: 1862-1903 (1/6).
Silas Casey III*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1856; commanded, 1897-1900, League
Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia,; Rear Admiral, 1899; Commander-in-Chief of
Pacific Fleet, U.S.S. Wisconsin, 1901-03; participated in Panamanian Revolution
and retired, 1903.
“Correspondence, journal, daybook, bills, receipts, commissions, and other papers
relating to Casey's naval service in Japan, the Civil War, the North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, Kanghoa Island (Kanghwa-gun), Korea, Samoan Islands,
Panama Bay, and the United States. Ships represented include the Colorado,
Niagara, Portsmouth, Quinnebaug, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes* (1841-1935), Papers of, microfilm (72 reels).
Son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-94), physician, poet, author.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.*: Harvard, 1861; Captain, 20th Massachusetts
Infantry “Harvard Regiment,” and Brevet Colonel, Union Army; Harvard Law
and Massachusetts Bar, 1867; practiced, 1867-82, Boston; constitutional law
professor, 1882, Harvard and Justice, 1882-99, Massachusetts Supreme Court;
Chief Justice, 1899-1902; Associate Justice, 1902-32, U.S. Supreme Court;
author: The Common Law (1881), and others.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection, 1862-1935 (1/3).
“Chiefly letters, February 21, 1903-September 21, 1932 from Holmes to
American diplomat Lewis Einstein*. Also, notes on the Holmes-Einstein
correspondence, letters, 1908-1920, from Holmes to Dorothy and T.
Wayland Vaughan*, clippings, and miscellany.”
Letters, 1921-33, of John C. H. Wu*, microfilm (1 reel).
Ching-hsiung Wu* (1899- )
Originals held privately.
James Sullivan Clarkson* (1842-1918), Papers of, 1851-1917 (2/4).
Editor of newspaper, Iowa State Register; delegate, 1876-1896, to the Republican
national conventions; member, 1880-1896, Republican National Committee;
president, 1891-1893, Republican League of the U.S.; First Assistant Postmaster
General under Benjamin Harrison; Surveyor of Customs, Port of New York;
railroad and other commercial interests.
“Correspondence, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, and printed matter,
relating chiefly to Clarkson's” political activities and his “connection with the
Iowa Republican State committee,” . . . and to his railway and other commercial
interests. . . .
Correspondents include William B. Allison, Grenville M. Dodge, Jonathan P.
Dolliver, Samuel Fessenden, Joseph B. Foraker, Leigh S. J. Hunt, William E.
Mason, Thomas C. Platt, James F. Wilson, and George G. Wright.”
Letters, arranged chronologically, 1893-1917 (2 boxes).
Henry Clark Corbin (1842-1909), Papers of, 1864-1980, bulk: 1898-1909 (16/22).
Studied law, 1860-61; volunteer, 1862, Second Lieutenant, 83rd Ohio Infantry;
Colonel and breveted Brigadier General, 1865, U.S. Colored Troops; entered
1866, Regular Army; detailed, 1877, to White House; was with James A. Garfield
in Washington DC, 1881, both when the President was shot and when he later
died in Elberon NJ; Lieutenant General and retired, 1906.
“Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, writings including an
autobiography, autograph albums, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers
concerning Corbin's military career and his life in Washington, D.C. Subjects
include the Spanish American War; administration of the Philippines, 1900-1906;
the China Relief Expedition, 1900-1901; the presidential inaugurations of James
A. Garfield, 1881, and William McKinley, 1901; the social and political affairs of
Corbin's family, a prominent family in Washington, D.C., at the turn of the
century; and Corbin's wife, Edythe Agnes Patten Corbin” (1869-1959), whom he
married in 1901, and “other Patten (Patton) family members.
Correspondents include Adna Romanza Chaffee, George B. Cortelyou, Charles
Henry Grosvenor, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, William Loeb, William Ludlom,
John James McCook, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Schwan, William Rufus
Shafter, William H. Taft, and Leonard Wood.”
General letters (1 box); special letters (6 boxes); subject files (3 boxes);
scrapbooks (7 boxes).
Anna E. Dickinson* (1842-1932), Papers of, 1859-1951, bulk: 1859-1911.
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson*: Active speaker after 1863 for the Republican Party;
actress and playwright, 1876, and some Shakespearean roles; social reformer.
“Correspondence, speeches, writings, plays, legal files, financial papers,
newspaper clippings, itineraries, scrapbooks, obituaries, and printed material
relating to Dickinson's activities on behalf of abolition, women's rights, and
suffrage and to her career in the theater. Also includes the research notes for
Giraud Chester’s Embattled Maiden (1951). Topics include . . . her travel
throughout the U.S. while on lecture and campaign circuits, . . .her 1891
confinement at the State Hospital for the Insane, Danville PA and her lawsuits for
damages incurred by the confinement. . . .
Correspondents include her mother Mary, her sister Susan, other members of the
Dickinson family, William B. Allison, Susan B. Anthony, Henry Ward Beecher,
Samuel Bowles, Noah Brooks, Benjamin F. Butler, Fanny Davenport, Frederick
Douglass, Ellen Everett, William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
Isabella Beecher Hooker, Wendell Phillips, Samuel C. Pomeroy, Whitelaw Reid,
Carl Schurz, Theodore Tilton, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, and John
Greenleaf Whittier.”
General letters, 1860-1910, arranged alphabetically (10 boxes).
Charles Monroe Dickinson* (1842-1924), Papers of, 1897-1923 (3/4).
New York Bar, ca. 1866; manager, editor, 1878, and owner, 1880, Binghampton
NY Republic; U. S. diplomatic representative, 1897-1908, Turkey and Bulgaria.
“Correspondence, writings, biographical material, clippings, passports,
photographs, and reviews of Dickinson's book, The Children, and Other Verses
(1889). Much of the material relates to Dickinson's activities” as a diplomat,
“particularly concerning Ellen Stone, a missionary abducted by brigands in
Macedonia in 1901; and investigations of Thomas H. Norton and Selah Merrill,
U.S. consuls in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey, and Jerusalem, respectively. Also
includes material relating to Dickinson's law practice” in Binghampton NY.
Letterbook, 1901-03 (342 pp.); letters, 1901-08 (2 boxes).
Georgiana Klingle Holmes* (1842 ?-1940), Papers of, 1887-1935.
Conservationist; poet, sometimes published under George Klingle*; author:
Perdita: a Book of Verses (1894), A Page of Dreams (1914), and others.
“Correspondence, poetry manuscripts, and clippings.”
Charles Stanhope Cotton* (1843-1909), Papers of, 1860-1921 (2/3).
Charles Cotton*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1858, Ensign, 1862; commanded U.S.S.
Harvard, 1898, off Martinique, W.I. and Cuba during the Spanish-American War;
Commander-in-Chief, 1903, of the U.S. Fleet until retirement, 1904.
“Includes several letters from the Civil War period. Correspondents include
William S. Cowles, Charles H. Darling, Edwin Denby, David G. Farragut,
William E. Harvey, and William H. Moody.”
Official Letters, 1862-1908 (1 box); newspaper clippings (1 box).
Joseph Dutton Collection, 1919-21 (18 items).
Born Ira Barnes Dutton* (1843-1931): Volunteered, 1861, Private, 13th
Wisconsin Infantry; discharged, 1865, First Lieutenant, Quartermaster; thereafter,
a lay missionary: Brother Joseph Dutton; author: The Story of Forty-four Years
of Service Among the Lepers of Molokai, Hawaii, Honolulu (1931).
Letters, photographs, 1919-21, relating to the leper settlement (1 v.).
Bernard R. Green* (1843-1914), Papers of, 1885-1911.
Bernard Richardson Green*: Graduate civil engineer, 1863, civilian employee,
U.S. Army Engineer Corps; worked, from 1877, in Washington DC on
completion of Washington Monument and new construction: Executive Office
(then State, War, Navy) Building, Library of Congress, Museum of Natural
History, and Smithsonian Institution; Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds,
Library of Congress.
“Consists of three scrapbooks containing clippings, and a photocopy of the
Journal of Operations, mainly relating to the construction of the Jefferson
Building of the Library of Congress,” and also includes pages from the
Congressional Record.
Elijah Walker Halford* (1843-1938), Papers of, 1867-1928.
Emigrated from England, 1850; printer; war correspondent, managing editor in
1876, Indianapolis IN Journal; private secretary, 1889-1893, to President
Benjamin Harrison; with others, editor, Militant Methodism: The Story of the
First National Convention of Methodist Men, Held at Indianapolis, Indiana,
October 28-31, 1913 (1913).
“Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, printed material, photographs, and other
papers concerning Halford's service during the Harrison administration. Also
includes a volume of articles from the Journal written by Halford during a trip to
Europe in 1887.
Correspondents include Chester Alan Arthur, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Calvin
Coolidge, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford Birchard Hayes,
Robert Todd Lincoln, William McKinley, Helena Modjeska, James Whitcomb
Riley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Lew Wallace, and members of
Halford's family.”
Henry James* (1843-1916), Papers of, 1883-1914.
Studied some law at Harvard, but far more interested in literature; traveled the
world and finally settled in England; wrote articles and short stories for such
journals as the Nation and Atlantic Monthly, including Watch and Ward (1871),
the first of many novels and plays; autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others
(1913), Notes of a Son and Brother (1914), and The Middle Years (1917).
“Correspondence and miscellaneous papers.”
Letters, 1899-1907 (1 box) and 1896-1915 (2 v.).
H. W. Lawton* (1843-1899), Papers of, 1849-1930 (5/9).
Henry Ware Lawton*: Enlisted, Sergeant, 1861, 9th Indiana Infantry, rose to
Brevet Colonel, 1865; Major General, Volunteers, 1898, Santiago, Cuba;
successfully engaged Philippine Insurgents, 1899, but fatally shot by a
sharpshooter.
“Correspondence, military papers, scrapbooks, printed matter, and photographs
relating chiefly to Lawton's military career, his campaign, 1886, against and
capture of Geronimo, life in the field in Cuba during the Spanish-American War,
and the campaign in the Philippines.
Includes a copy of diary, 1886, of Leonard Wood, and letters to Lawton’s wife,
Mary Craig (d. 1934) after 1900 from Dean C. Worcester describing the
Philippine Commission's struggle and adjustment in governing the Philippines.”
Subject files, Philippines (3 boxes).
William McKinley* (1843-1901), Papers of, ca. 1847-1935, bulk: 1897-1901.
Attended one term, 1860, Allegheny College, Meadville PA; enlisted, Private,
23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, rose to Major, 1865; Ohio Bar and practiced, 186776; U.S. Congress, 1877-83 and 1885-91, Republican, Ohio; Ohio Governor,
1891-96; U.S. President, 1897 until fatally shot, 1901, Pan American Exposition,
Buffalo NY.
“Correspondence, speeches, will, messages, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other
papers pertaining primarily to McKinley's presidential administration. Includes
copies of outgoing letters signed by John Addison Porter and George B.
Cortelyou, presidential secretaries, and records kept at the time of McKinley's
assassination.
Correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, R. A. Alger, James Gillespie Blaine, John
Rutter Brooke, Julius C. Burrows, William E. Chandler, Joseph Hodges Choate,
Grover Cleveland, Henry Clark Corbin, Shelby M. Cullom, Charles Gates Dawes,
William R. Day, William W. Dudley, Joseph Benson Foraker, Charles Foster,
John Fowler, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Lyman J. Gage, James A. Garfield,
James Albert Gary, Charles Henry Grosvenor, Murat Halstead, Marcus Alonzo
Hanna, John Hay, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, George Hoadly, Garret A. Hobart,
Philander C. Knox, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Davis Long,
John Tyler Morgan, Levi P. Morton, William McKinley Osborne, Henry C.
Payne, Thomas Collier Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, James A. Saxton,
John Sherman, William H. Taft, James Wilson, Leonard Wood, and John Russell
Young.”
Series: 1. general letters and related items, 1847-1902 (86 v.); 2. letterpress copy
books, 1894-1901 (99 v.); 3. additional letters and related items, 1879-1901 (55
boxes); 4. speeches, 1878-1901 (6 boxes); 5. messages to Congress,
proclamations, 1897-1900 (4 boxes); 6. record of letters received, 1897-1901 (7
v.); shorthand notebooks and notes, 1898-1901 (2 boxes); 8. guest lists, White
House, 1901 (1 v.); 9. photographs, 1901; 10. assassination records, 1901 (3 v.);
11. miscellaneous manuscripts, 1897-1901 (3 boxes); 12. scrapbooks, 1897-1901
(34 v.); 13. newspaper clippings, 1897-1901 (5 boxes); 14. printed matter, 18971901 (10 boxes); 15. bound volumes and books (4 boxes); 16. ???; 17. family and
general letters, 1872-1935, some printed material, mainly political (300 items).
George Albert Converse* (1844-1909), Papers of, 1895-1908 (2/2).
Naval officer, 1861-1906; Rear Admiral, 1903; Chief of Bureaus, 1903-07:
Equipment, Ordnance, Navigation, in retirement; pioneered use of electricity
aboard ships, smokeless powder, torpedo boats.
“Letterbooks, general correspondence, printed matter, and miscellaneous
material,” including MSS., “Statement Regarding Criticism of Navy”. Copies of
letters to “Charles J. Bonaparte, Willard H. Brownson, French E. Chadwick,
George Dewey, William F. Halsey, Henry Cabot Lodge, Benjamin R. Tillman,
and George P. Wetmore,” mainly about such topics as “torpedo boats, battleships
and the Russo-Japanese War, 1904, and plans for the review of the Atlantic Fleet,
1906.”
A.W. Greely* (1844-1935), Papers of, 1753-1959, bulk: 1880-1935.
Adolphus Washington Greely*: Private to Brevet Major, 1861-65, Massachusetts
Volunteers; Second Lieutenant, 1867, U.S. Army; volunteered, 1881-84, for
hazardous Arctic scientific exploration; Brigadier General and Chief, 1887-1903,
Army Signal Corps and, to 1891, U.S. Weather Service; directed construction of
telephone lines and underground cables, 1898-1902: Puerto Rico, Cuba, China,
Philippines and, 1900-04, Alaska; delegate, 1903, London International Telegraph
Conference and Berlin International Wireless Telegraph Congress; Major General
and commanded, 1906-08, Northern, then Pacific Divisions, including San
Francisco.
“Correspondence, memoranda, letter books, diaries, notes, MSS. and galley
proofs of Greely's books and articles, speeches, lectures, military papers,
biographical material, financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, printed materials,
maps, pictures, memorabilia, and other papers relating primarily to his military
career, the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition and the polar regions in general. . . .
Correspondents include Henry T. Allen, Edward W. Bok, David L. Brainard,
William E. Chandler, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, William Babcock Hazen, Francis
Long, George W. Melville, and Charles Scribner.”
Family letters, 1896-1920 (3 boxes); general letters, 1896-21, (21 boxes);
letterbooks, 1896-1903, (2 boxes); San Francisco CA earthquake relief, 1906 (2
boxes).
Lewis M. Haupt* (1844-1937), Papers of, 1861-1923 (7/9).
Son of Union Army Brigadier General Herman Haupt, later Chief Engineer,
Pennsylvania Railroad and General Manager, Northern Pacific Railroad.
Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt*: University of Pennsylvania and U.S. Military
Academy, 1867; resigned, 1869, U.S. Army; directed engineering surveys and
construction projects, many in Philadelphia PA; directed town surveys in North
Dakota and Assistant Engineer, Northern Pacific Railroad; Member, 1897-99,
Nicaragua Canal Commission and, 1899-1902, Isthmian Canal Commission;
author: “Planning the Site for a City,” The Engineering Magazine (1895), and
others.
“Correspondence, 1890-1923, speeches, and articles relating to the selection of a
route for an isthmian canal and to Haupt's efforts to secure the Nicaraguan route.
Includes such records as work papers, reports, minutes, memoranda, drawings and
charts, news clippings, and copies of congressional hearings, speeches, and
proposed bills.
Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, William Jennings Bryan, Andrew
Carnegie, John Hay, John Tyler Morgan, and Theodore C. Search. Includes
letterbook, 1861-1863, of Haupt's father, concerning his duties as Chief of
Construction and Operation of the U.S. Bureau of Military Railroads.”
Letters and other papers, 1896-1905, isthmian canal (7 boxes).
Horace H. Lurton* (1844-1914), Papers of, 1860-1914 (250 items).
Horace Harmon Lurton*: Douglas University, Chicago IL; Confederate Army
and twice a Union prisoner; Cumberland University Law, 1867, and thereafter
practiced; Justice and Chief Justice, 1886-1893, Tennessee Supreme Court;
professor and Dean, 1898-1909, Vanderbilt University Law School; Judge, 18931909, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; Associate Justice, 1909-14, U.S.
Supreme Court.
“Correspondence and telegrams, some written before 1865.
Most of the letters are addressed to A. W. B. Allen, of Bridgeford & Company,
Louisville KY. Other correspondents include William Rufus Day, John Marshall
Harlan, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root,
William Howard Taft, and Edward Douglass White.”
1845+
Rebekah Crawford and Linda Clarke-Smith*, Papers of, 1715-1929.
Rebecca Crawford* (1845-1934): Social worker; Red Cross, 1915-19, France
and Italy.
“Correspondence, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous papers concerning relief work
with the Red Cross and Duryea War Relief during and after World War I with
Italian and French war wounded and children. Also includes family papers,
account books, scrapbooks, manuscript plays and miscellany, some relating to
Richard Crawford.”
George Kennan* (1845-1924), Papers of, 1840-1937.
Great-uncle of George Frost Kennan (1904-2005), diplomat, advocate of
containment: “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” by “X”, Foreign Affairs (July
1947).
Messenger, telegrapher, and office manager, Cleveland and Toledo Railroad
Company; telegraph engineer in northeast Siberia, 1865-67, Russia-American
Telegraph Company; studied, 1870, Caucasus region, and 1886, Russian exile and
penal system for Century Club; special observer, 1898-1909, for Red Cross,
Outlook, and McClure’s Magazine in Cuba, Martinique, and Japan, during the
Russo-Japanese War; author: Tent-life in Siberia and Adventures Among the
Koraks and Other Tribes in Kamtchatka and Northern Asia (1881); A Russian
Comedy of Errors, with Other Stories and Sketches of Russian Life (1915), and
others.
Correspondence, including family letters and letter books, notes and notebooks,
articles, diaries, journals, clippings, lecture material, printed matter, memorabilia,
autobiographical and biographical material, photographs, and maps.
The collection is particularly detailed for Czarist Russia and Siberia, where
Kennan made extensive explorations and prepared studies on social conditions,
the prisons, and the exile system. Other materials deal with travels and events in
Japan, Korea, Cuba, the Caucasus, Arctic regions, and Martinique, where Kennan
reported the Mont Pelée volcano disaster.
Also includes papers concerning the Alexander Graham Bell family, and
correspondence, 1891-1937, of Kennan's wife, Emeline Rathbone Weld*.
Among George Kennan's correspondents are Theodore Roosevelt, Robert
Lansing, Walter Hines Page, Stephen Wise, Felix Volkhovsky, Catherine
Breshkovsky, and S. Stepniak.”
Diaries, journals, notebooks, 1896-1920 (3 boxes); letters, 1896-1920 (10 boxes);
notes on flowers, especially Nova Scotia (5 boxes); subject files, 1896-1920 (25
boxes).
L. R. Klemm* (1845-1925), Papers of, ca. 1870-1907.
Louis Richard Klemm*: Superintendent of Schools, 1884-87, Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio; Special Superintendent of German, Cleveland OH Schools.
Author: Elementary German Reader (1883), Educational Topics of the Day
(1888), European Schools (1889), and others, some in German; translator:
Higher Education of Women in Europe (1897).
“Drafts of Klemm's books, monographs, essays, articles, addresses, and book
reviews; scrapbooks; clippings; and printed matter concerning agriculture,
European and American educational institutions and systems, history, and
culture.”
Wharton Barker* (1846-1921), Papers of, 1870-1920.
Financier; publisher, 1880-1900, of financial weekly, The American; agent for
Czar of Russia; Republican until 1896; Populist Party nominee for U.S. president,
1900.
“Correspondence, letter books, photos, pamphlets, clippings and other printed
matter, and scrapbooks, reflecting Barker's broad interests in American and
foreign business matters (banking, mining, railroad, telegraph, and telephone
rights in China and Russia) and in the late 19th century political agitation over
bimetallism, which at successive periods drew him into the Republican,
Democratic, and Populist Parties.
Correspondents include George Baird, William Carroll, Shelby M. Cullom, James
A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, Anthony Higgins, Henry
M. Hoyt, William D. Kelley, Henry Cabot Lodge, Alexander MacKenzie, John I.
Mitchell, Count Mitkiewicz, Boies Penrose, Orville H. Platt, Thomas C. Platt,
Theodore Roosevelt, John Sherman, Goldwin Smith, Henry M. Teller, John
Wanamaker, and Andrew D. White.”
Letters, 1896-1921 (5 boxes); scrapbooks, 1896-1917 (2 boxes).
William D. Bynum* (1846-1927), Papers of, 1894-1905, bulk: 1896 (1/1).
William Dallas Bynum*: Attorney; U.S. Representative, 1885-95, Democrat,
Indiana; Chair, 1896, National (Gold-Standard) Democratic Party.
“Incoming and outgoing correspondence relating primarily to the National
Democratic Party convention held in Indianapolis IN, prior to the U.S.
presidential election of 1896, and to the party's support of the gold standard” in
opposition to Democrats like William Jennings Bryan. “Correspondents include
Calvin Tomkins, Charles Tracey, Joseph E. Washington, and Thomas A. Wilson.”
Donald McDonald Dickinson* (1846-1917), Papers of, 1863-1917 (1/3)
University of Michigan Law, 1867; active, from 1872, in Michigan Democratic
Party; member from Michigan, 1880-85, Democratic National Committee; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1888-89; helped organize, 1896, Gold Democrats in
opposition to William Jennings Bryan; supported, 1900, William Mckinley and,
1912, Theodore Roosevelt; Senior U.S. Counsel, 1896-97, Bering Sea claims
Convention.
Letterbooks, 1888-89, mainly regarding personal matters; letters related to politics
and the Bering Sea Claims Convention.
Correspondents include Robert Lansing, Richard Olney, and U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Stephen J. Field (24 letters, 1887-96).
Robley D. Evans* (1846-1912), Papers of, 1901-1950
Robley Dunglison Evans*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1864; commanded, 1898,
battleship Iowa, Battle of Santiago, Cuba; member, 1998, President and Rear
Admiral, 1901-02, Naval Board of Inspection and Survey.
“Typescript, in bound volume, entitled ‘Sea Fight at Santiago as Seen From the
Iowa’ with pictures of Evans and autographs of William McKinley, Theodore
Roosevelt, Andrew S. Rowan, and William T. Sampson; photo of Evans, 1901;
printed matter; and two copies of letters concerning the collection.”
Joseph Benson Foraker* (1846-1917), Papers of, 1884-1916 (1/2).
Cornell University, studied law, Ohio Bar, 1869; practiced law, Cincinnati OH;
Superior Court Judge, 1879-1882, Cincinnati OH; Ohio Governor, 1885-1889;
U.S. Senate, 1897-1909, Republican, Ohio.
“Five volumes of correspondence pertaining chiefly to national politics and to the
Republican Party. Correspondents include Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Theodore
Roosevelt, John Sherman, and William H. Taft.”
Letters, 1896-1919, (1 v.).
Frank Samuel Lahm* (1846-1931), Papers of, ca. 1850-1931
Frank S. Lahm*: Pioneer aviator, balloonist, and U.S. Army’s first airplane pilot;
AEF during World War I; businessman in Paris, France; Vice President,
Federation Aeronautique International.
Correspondence, logs and barograph records of Lahm's balloon ascensions,
regulations, resolutions, receipts, lectures, memoranda, photographs, clippings,
part of an unfinished history of aeronautics, a biographical sketch by Lahm's
children, and memorabilia. Includes several writings and two diaries of Henry
Weaver, who, in 1905, investigated for Lahm the achievements claimed by
Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Includes correspondence of the Wright brothers and their sister Katharine, Griffith
Brewer, Patrick Y. Alexander, Walter Wellman, Melvin and Ida Vanniman, and
R. P. Skinner.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie* (1846-1916), Papers of, 1882-1914 (1/1).
Williams College, 1867; Columbia University Law, 1869; an editor and Associate
Editor, Christian Union (from 1893, Outlook ); essayist, anthologist, and critic:
Books and Culture (1896), American Ideals, Character, and Life (1913), and
others.
“Principally Mabie's correspondence with literary and political figures concerning
literature, relations with Japan, and the European crisis of 1914.
Correspondents include Thomas Bailey Aldrich, John Burroughs, William Dean
Howells, J. J. Jusserand, Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund C. Stedman, Henry Van
Dyke, and Owen Wister.”
G. F. Becker* (1847-1919), Papers of, 1814-1928.
George Ferdinand Becker*: Geologist, mathematician, engineer, physicist;
Geologist-in-charge, 1879-1919, U.S. Geological Survey; geophysicist, 1898,
Carnegie Institution; geologist, 1898-99, U.S. Army, Philippines; U.S.
Representative, 1910, Radioactivity Congress, Brussels; President, 1914,
Geological Society of America.
“Correspondence (including family letters dating from 1814), diaries, letter books,
notebooks, notes and memoranda, charts, tables, reports, articles, memorabilia,
landscape sketches, blueprints, maps, and miscellaneous printed matter relating
primarily to Becker's service with the U.S. Geological Survey, during which time
he conducted investigations in Nevada, southern Alaska, South Africa, the Pacific
slope, and the Philippines.
Correspondents include Andreas Arzruni, James F. Bell, Theodore E. Burton,
William Crozier, Edward S. Dana, James D. Dana, Samuel F. Emmons, Archibald
Geikie, Arnold Hague, Eugene W. Hilgard, Edmund O. Hovey, Henry M. Howe,
Louis Janin, Waldemar Lindgren, Charles W. Merrill, Simon Newcomb, Charles
S. Peirce, Chester W. Purington, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry W. Turner, Charles
D. Walcott, and Robert S. Woodward.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (6 boxes) and subject file (8 boxes).
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, 1834-1974.
Alexander Graham Bell* (1847-1922): Studied, 1868-70, University College,
London, England; emigrated, 1870, with parents to Canada; instructed teachers in
the use of visible speech, 1871-78, Boston MA and helped educate a deaf child,
George Sanders; experimented, 1873-76, with phonautograph, a multiple
telegraph, and an electric speaking telegraph or telephone; experimented, with
aerial flight, 1891, tetrahedral kites, 1898, and hydrodrome or hydrofoil, 1908;
helped found: Science, 1883, and Aerial Experiment Association, 1907;
President, 1898-1903, National Geographic Society; Regent, 1898-1922,
Smithsonian Institution.
“Correspondence, diaries, journals, laboratory notebooks, patent records,
speeches, writings, subject files, genealogical records, printed material, and other
papers pertaining primarily to Bell's invention, 1876, of the telephone. Also
includes material documenting his contributions to the education of the deaf and
his interests in a wide range of scientific and technological fields including
aviation, eugenics, and marine engineering.”
Also includes “correspondence and related papers of the Genealogical Record
Office founded by Bell to study the impact of heredity on longevity. Also
included are docket books of United States and British patents, published volumes
of the American Annals of the Deaf, some of which were annotated by Alexander
Graham Bell, scrapbooks, and court proceedings of Bell patent litigation.”
“Correspondents include Edward Miner Gallaudet, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph
Henry, Helen Keller, George Kennan, S. P. Langley, Guglielmo Marconi, Simon
Newcomb, John Wesley Powell, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Charles
Sumner Tainter, and Woodrow Wilson. Family papers include papers of Bell's
father, Alexander Melville Bell, relating chiefly to elocution and the physiology
of speech; papers of Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law, Gardiner Greene
Hubbard; papers of Mabel Hubbard Bell including correspondence with her
husband, Alexander Graham Bell; correspondence of their daughter, Marian
Fairchild; and papers of other members of the Bell, Fairchild, Grosvenor, and
Hubbard families.”
Finding aid online: Journal, 1910 (1 v.); family papers, 1834-1972, arranged
alphabetically (100 boxes); letterbooks, 1894-1922 (21 boxes); general letters,
1870-1922, arranged alphabetically (10 boxes); stenographic notebooks, 1895-97
(2 boxes); subject file, 1870-1970, arranged alphabetically, including some letters
available online (185 boxes); Bell’s bulletin: Beinn Bhreagh Recorder, bound
volumes, 1909-22 (8 boxes); scientific notebooks, 1879-1922 (50 boxes); article
and book file, 1901-04 (4 boxes); speeches, some holograph, and interviews,
1876-1922 (6 boxes).
Diaries of Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, 1865-1931 (7/30).
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke* (1847-1931): Professor of Chemistry, 1873-1883,
Howard University, Washington DC and University of Cincinnati; Chief Chemist,
1883-1925, U.S. Geological Survey; Collaborated while a professor in atomic
weight research with the Smithsonian Institution, which holds the Clarke Papers,
1873-1921; author of articles in scientific and popular journals.
While the early volumes provide a youthful narrative of the social scene (e.g.,
Boston’s reaction to Abraham Lincoln’s death), and Clarke’s college experiences
at Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, class of 1867, the entries, 1896-1920 (7
v.), become increasingly brief and mainly concern personal activities.
John Alexander Dowie Collection, 1902-21 (7 items).
John Alexander Dowie* (1847-1907): Born Edinburgh, Scotland, emigrated,
1860, to Australia; studied, University of Edinburgh, ordained a Congregational
minister in Australia, 1872 and founded International Divine Healing Association;
emigrated, 1888, to United States, founded Ministry of Divine Healing and settled
in Chicago; editor, from 1894, Leaves of Healing, Zion Publishing House;
founded in Chicago, 1895, Christian Catholic Apostolic Church and opened
“Divine Healing Homes”; founded with his parishioners, 1901, Zion City IL, on
Lake Michigan, between Chicago and Milwaukee WI; administered, until 1905,
this Christian utopian settlement, with its several businesses: Zion Bank, Zion
Land Development, Zion Cookie Factory, Zion Lace Factory, etc.
Tithe cards, coupon stock certificates, and circulars relating to the Church and
Zion City IL.
Vinnie Ream and Richard Leveridge Hoxie, Papers of, 1853-1937, bulk: 1853-1914
(3/11).
Vinnie Ream*, Vinnie Hoxie* (1847-1914): Sculptor: statue of Abraham
Lincoln, now standing in the U.S. Capitol rotunda, and others; first wife of:
Richard Leveridge Hoxie* (1844-1930):
Enlisted man, 1861-64; Iowa
Volunteer Calvary; U.S. Military Academy, 1868; Army engineer, 1868-1908
who built fortifications and Washington DC sewer system; Brigadier General,
Chief, Army Engineer Corps.
“Correspondence, memoranda, commissions, essays, poetry by Vinnie Ream and
Albert Pike, reports, notebooks, biographical data, scrapbooks, clippings, printed
material, and memorabilia pertaining chiefly to Ream's sculpture of Lincoln.
Other topics include racial conditions after the Civil War and social life in
Washington DC during Reconstruction.
Papers, 1853-1937, of Richard Leveridge Hoxie include two diaries, 1872-1873,
kept while serving on the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian led
by George M. Wheeler and material pertaining to Hoxie's Civil War service and
career as an officer.
Correspondents include George Caleb Bingham, Elias A. Boudinot, Georg Morris
Cohen Brandes, Olivia Briggs, Ezra Cornell, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Jubal
Anderson Early, G. P. A. Healy, Joaquin Miller, Crosby Stuart Noyes, Albert
Pike, David D. Porter, James S. Rollins, Edmund G. Ross, Alexander Robey
Shepherd, William T. Sherman, Thaddeus Stevens, and Daniel W. Voorhees.”
Vinnie Ream: letters, 1890-1927 (1 box); biographical material, scrapbook,
clippings (1 box).
Richard Hoxie*: letters and other papers, 1853-1937, clippings, notes (1 box).
Charles Follen McKim* (1847-1909), Papers of, 1838-1928, bulk: 1890-1910 (9/14).
Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University; Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris,
1867-72; thereafter an architect, New York City; founder and President, American
Academy, Rome, Italy.
“Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, diaries, notes, legal and financial
papers, sketches, drawings, and photographs relating chiefly to the architectural
firm of McKim, Mead, & White, founded 1879. Documents the establishment of
the American Academy and the construction of the Boston Public Library.
Correspondents include Daniel Chester French, John La Farge, Frank Davis
Millet, Charles Moore, Harry Siddons Mowbray, Frederick Law Olmsted, and
Augustus Saint-Gaudens.”
Letterbooks, 1895-1910 (6 boxes); letters, 1896-1920 (2 boxes); American
Academy (3 boxes).
William Waldorf Astor*, Viscount Astor (1848-1919), Papers of, 1904-10, 49 items
(1/1).
Financier, art collector.
Letters, clippings, and photographs that describe his villa in Sorrento, Italy and
his life-style.
John Vance Cheney* (1848-1922), Papers of, 1862-1927 (3/10).
Author, poet, librarian, 1894-1909, Newberry Library, Chicago IL.
“Family and general correspondence, diary, MSS. of poems, short stories, articles,
and drafts of Cheney's unpublished autobiography, and other papers. Includes
Cheney's letters (1865-1875) to his father, Simon Pease Cheney, and to his
secretary, Jessie Sherk, and many letters Cheney received from various
publishers. Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Richard E. Burton, Bliss
Carman, Hamlin Garland, Elbert Hubbard, and Edwin Markham.”
Diary, 1908, and letters, 1900-22 (1 box); literary MSS. (7 boxes); autobiography
(2 boxes).
William Dudley Foulke* (1848-1935), Papers of, ca. 1470-1952; bulk: 1868-1935.
Columbia College Law, 1871, practiced in New York and, after 1876, Richmond
IN; Indiana Legislature, 1882-86; organized and President, Indiana Civil Service
Reform Association; President, 1886-90, American Woman Suffrage Association;
investigated, 1889, Federal Civil Service for National Civil Service Reform
League; Member, 1901-03, U.S. Civil Service Commission; Editor, 1909-12,
Richmond IN Evening Item; President, 1910-15, National Municipal League;
Member, 1912, Platform Committee, Progressive Party.
“Correspondence, diaries, journals, copybook, speeches, writings, notes, legal
papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers. The bulk of the collection
consists of Foulke's correspondence reflecting his literary career and public
service. Of special note are letters from Theodore Roosevelt discussing civil
service reform, the Progressive movement, Woodrow Wilson, the World Court
(Permanent Court of International Justice), and pacifism. The collection also
includes diaries and related material documenting the travels of Foulke, Arthur
Middleton Reeves, and Mark E. Reeves in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land
(Palestine); correspondence of the Foulke (Faulk) family and related Cates,
Reeves (Reeve), and Shoemaker families; a copybook kept by the Shoemaker
family; scrapbooks kept by Foulke's daughter, Mary Foulke Morrisson; and a late
15th century fragment of the Tristram Saga obtained by Arthur Middleton Reeves
on a trip to Iceland.
Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Jane Addams, George Ade,
Alvey A. Adee, Felix Adler, Susan B. Anthony, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge,
Henry Brown Blackwell, Charles J. Bonaparte, Claude Gernade Bowers, James
Bryce (Viscount Bryce), Nicholas Murray Butler, Richard Henry Dana, Max
Eastman, Charles William Eliot, Charles W. Fairbanks, John Fiske, James
Rudolph Garfield, Richard Watson Gilder, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, Samuel
Gompers, Lady Gregory, Walter Quinton Gresham, John Hays Hammond, Mark
Alonzo Hanna, Benjamin Harrison, Albert Bushnell Hart, John Hay, Rutherford
Birchard Hayes, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Herbert Hoover, O. O. Howard,
Julia Ward Howe, Harold L. Ickes, Robert Green Ingersoll, J. Franklin Jameson,
Hiram Johnson, David Starr Jordan, George Kennan, Robert M. La Follette, Jr.,
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Henry Charles Lea, Henry Cabot Lodge, Seth Low,
Samuel S. McClure, William McKinley, S. Weir Mitchell, Thomas Nelson Page,
Walter Hines Page, William Lyon Phelps, Gifford Pinchot, Thomas B. Reed,
James Whitcomb Riley, Elihu Root, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Charles
Edward Russell, Carl Schurz, Albert Shaw, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Lucy
Stone, Moorfield Storey, William H. Taft, Oswald Garrison Villard, Lew
Wallace, Booker T. Washington, Andrew Dickson White, William Allen White,
and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (3 boxes); Civil Service Reform League, 1886-1930 (1 box).
George M. Gould Collection of Lafcadio Hearn Materials, 1877-1931 (3/9).
George Milbry Gould* (1848-1922): M.D., ophthalmologist; collector and donor
of medical books; pioneer, 1890s, “Medical Library Movement”; helped found,
1898, and President, Medical Library Association, Philadelphia PA; author, "The
Union of Medical and Public Libraries," Philadelphia Medical Journal, 2 (1898):
237-240; Concerning Lafcadio Hearn (1908).
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn* (1850-1904): Born in Greece, but became Irish expatriot, American journalist, and after 1890 in Japan: English teacher; naturalized
citizen as Koizumi Yakumo*, author and anthologized folklorist, e.g., The Boy
Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales (Dover, 1998).
“Eleven letters from Lafcadio Hearn to J. W. Boulton (1883-87); copies of Hearn
letters; articles, short pieces, and translations by Hearn; articles on Hearn by
Gould and others; reviews of books by and about Hearn; typescripts of
discussions between Gould and others on Hearn; correspondence of Gould and
Mrs. Gould (Laura Stedman) with publishers, editors, friends, and critics
concerning the relationship between Gould and Hearn and the publication of
Gould's book; and photographs, bibliographies, and news clippings pertaining to
Hearn. Correspondents of Gould include Page M. Baker, Edward G. Clapham,
Ferris Greenslet, Alexander Hill, Rudolph Matas, Mitchell W. McDonald, DeWitt
Miller, Paul Elmer Moore, Jacques W. Redway, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and
Andrew D. White.”
William R. Day* (1849-1923), Papers of, 1820-1923, bulk: 1897-1917 (40/40).
William Rufus Day*: University of Michigan, 1870; Ohio Bar, 1872; Judge,
1886-90, Court of Common Pleas; U.S. Assistant Secretary, 1897-98, and
Secretary of State, 1898; Chair, 1898, U.S. Commission to negotiate peace treaty
with Spain; Judge, 1899-1903, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; Associate
Justice, 1903-22, U.S. Supreme Court; Umpire, 1922-23, Mixed Claims
Commission, U.S. and Germany.
“Correspondence, financial papers, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers,
chiefly relating to personal matters but also touching on foreign affairs, political
patronage requests, legal matters, Day's relationship with President McKinley,
and his activities as . . . president of McKinley National Memorial Association.
Correspondents include Clara Barton, George B. Cortelyou, Charles W.
Fairbanks, Mark Hanna, Warren Harding, John Hay, William R. Hearst, Charles
Evans Hughes, Henry Cabot Lodge, William McKinley, J. A. Porter, Theodore
Roosevelt, Elihu Root, the Marquess of Salisbury, William H. Taft, Joseph P.
Tumulty, and Willis Van Devanter.”
Letterpress books, 1899-1917 (4 boxes); letters, mainly received, 1897-1918 (31
boxes); financial papers, 1903-18 (4 boxes).
1850+
Daniel Chester French* (1850-1931), Papers of, 1850-1968.
Scupltor: “Minute Man,” Concord MA, 1875; “General Lewis Cass,” U.S.
Capitol, 1888; seated “Abraham Lincoln,” Lincoln Memorial, 1922.
“Correspondence of French, his daughter, Margaret French Cresson*, and other
members of the French family including his sister, Sarah (French) Bartlette, his
wife, Mary (French) French, his father, Henry Flagg French, and his son-in-law,
William Penn Cresson; drafts and proof of Margaret Cresson, Journeys into
Fame: The Life of Daniel Chester French (1947); financial records; 300
photographs of the French family and acquaintances; scrapbooks; and newspaper
clippings. Correspondence of Margaret Cresson* reflects her career as a sculptor,
author, and lecturer as well as her service with many cultural organizations.
Correspondents include Henry Bacon, Gutzon Borglum, Robert M. Bush,
Margaret F. Jameson, Hermon A. MacNeil, Charles Moore, George Foster
Peabody, Edward Robinson, Lorado Taft, and Adolf A. Weinman.”
General letters, 1896-1920 (6 boxes); scrapbooks, 1896-1920 (2 boxes).
Daniel Carter Beard* (1850-1941), Papers of, 1798-1941.
Co-founder and leader, Boy Scouts of America; author, illustrator, singletaxer.
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, collected source material for further
articles and speeches, school composition books, address books, sketch books,
illustrations, photos, memorabilia, and other printed matter relating to Beard's
activities at the Culver Military Academy, at the Dan Beard Outdoor School, and
with the Boy Scouts. Includes family papers dating from 1798 that contain
writings and illustrations by other members of the family, and reports, minutes,
circulars and publications, letters to and from Boy's Life magazine, and other
correspondence relating to the Boy Scouts.
Correspondents include Robert Baden-Powell, Belmore Browne, Samuel L.
Clemens, Hamlin Garland, Charles Dana Gibson, Gifford Pinchot, Frederic
Remington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest T. Seton, and
Andrew J. Stone.”
Diaries, 1875-1900 (1 box); alphabetically by writer: family correspondence,
1814-1938 (6 boxes), family papers, 1798-1933 (11 boxes), general
correspondence, 1865-1941 (129 boxes), special correspondence, Dan Beard
School, 1915-21 (21 boxes); subject file (13 boxes); speech, article, and book file,
1890-1940 (23 boxes); miscellany (17 boxes).
Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von Berlepsch*, Papers of, 1874-1913 (2/3).
Hans von Berlepsch* (1850-1915): Ornithologist, collector of bird specimens;
member of distinguished German family: Hans von Berlepsch (1480?-1533) was
an early convert to the teachings of Martin Luther.
“Principally letters received by Berlepsch from ornithologists concerning
neotropical birds. Topics include the collection of bird skins and eggs, the
illustration of birds, taxidermy, and taxonomy. Correspondents include Jean Louis
Cabanis, K. Dernedde, Ernst Hartert, Paul Leverkühn, Adolph Nehrkorn, T.
Salvadori, Philip Lutley Schlator, and Jean Stolzmann.”
Letters, many in German, 1896-1913 (2 boxes).
Roswell Randall Hoes* (1850-1921), Papers of, 1895-1912 (5/5)
Chaplain, U.S. Navy; collector, genealogist, bibliographer, and editor: Baptismal
and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County,
New York 1660-1809 (1891), and others.
“Roswell Randall Hoes Collection: The Hoes Collection relating to the SpanishAmerican War and its results in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, was
gathered by Chaplain Roswell Randall Hoes. His untiring efforts in this direction
commenced at the very beginning of the war. Such prompt recognition of a
bibliographic opportunity resulted in bringing together possibly the most nearly
complete collection of books and pamphlets relating to the subject now anywhere
existing. It covers not only the military operations, diplomatic negotiations, and
administrative activities of the governments involved, but also the native customs,
institutions, and political movements. As a matter of course the collection is rich
in official publications, but it includes a large proportion of unofficial publications
of positive historic value as source material, especially insular imprints of great
rarity. It numbers some 43,866 pieces: 1,405 volumes, 3,459 pamphlets, 1,416
number of periodicals, 37,215 leaflets (army orders, acts, etc.), 208 manuscripts
(including four MS. volumes), 128 prints, 33 maps, and two pieces of music.
Since its arrival in 1911, the collection has been dispersed and cataloged
throughout the Library's custodial divisions.” The Manuscript Division holds:
“Correspondence, notebooks, ship records, and printed matter relating to the
Spanish-American War and its aftermath. Includes letters from Hoes soliciting
material for his Spanish-American War collection, replies from members of
Congress consisting of copies of speeches and legislation, materials relating to
Gen. Leonard Wood's tenure in Cuba, and the U.S. Senate committee's inquiry
into Wood's governorship.
Also includes material on the history of the Navy Chaplin Corps and its personnel
from 1799 to 1899, notes on the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy, and
other related naval data. Correspondents include Marcus Alonzo Hanna, G. C.
Rathbone, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Henry Moore Teller, and the family
and military colleagues of Leonard Wood.”
J. Laurence Laughlin* (1850-1933), Papers of, 1902-1931 (6/13).
James Laurence Laughlin*: Harvard, 1873 and Ph. D., 1876; executive, insurance
business; Professor and Chair, 1892-1916, Political Economy Department,
University of Chicago; editor, 1892-1933, Journal of Political Economy; Chair,
1911, National Citizens' League for the Promotion of a Sound Banking System;
author: Elements of Political Economy (1896), Banking Reform (1912), The
Federal Reserve Act: Its Origin and Problems (1933), and others.
“Correspondence, financial papers, notes, drafts of articles and lectures on various
current problems, printed matter, clippings, and article and book MSS. The
papers relate to Laughlin's career at the University of Chicago, to his activities
with the Journal of Political Economy and as a member, delegate, or chairman of
various official and unofficial groups concerned with money and banking, credit,
and related economic matters. Includes subject and name files on economics,
finance, the tariff, the silver question, and similar topics.
Correspondents include Leon C. Marshall, Paul M. Warburg, and H. Parker
Willis.
Subject files (3 boxes); articles, lectures (3 boxes).
Henry Cabot Lodge* (1850-1924), Papers of, 1892-1911, 18 items (1/1).
Harvard, 1871 and Ph. D., History and Government, 1876; U.S. Congress, 188793; U.S. Senate, 1893-1924.
Letters, 1902-11 (17 items).
Charles Joseph Bonaparte* (1851-1921), Papers of, 1760-1921, bulk: 1874-1921.
Member, 1902-04, U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners; U.S. Navy Secretary,
1905-06; U.S. Attorney General, 1906-09.
“Correspondence, articles, speeches, memoranda, notes, personal miscellany,
legal papers, real estate papers, biographical material, clippings, and other printed
matter. Correspondence, 1874-1921, comprises the bulk of the collection. Papers
relate to Bonaparte's Progressive and Republican Party political activities, his
government service, and his positions as member and chairman of council of the
National Civil Service Reform League, member of the board of overseers of
Harvard, trustee of the Catholic University of America, president of the Enoch
Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md., member of the Maryland Board of State Aid
and Charities, president of the National Municipal League, and member of the
executive committee of the National Civic Federation. Legal papers of Bonaparte,
his family, and clients cover the period 1760-1920.
Correspondents include Louis D. Brandeis, Champ Clark, Richard H. Dana,
Charles W. Eliot, James R. Garfield, Elbert H. Gary, James Cardinal Gibbons,
Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, William Howard Taft,
Benjamin R. Tillman, Richard M. Venable, Owen Wister, and Clinton Rogers
Woodruff.”
General letters, 1896-1920: received (88 boxes), sent (26 boxes); letters, U.S.
Navy: received (5 boxes), sent (8 boxes); letters, Justice Department: received (6
boxes), sent (4 boxes).
William H. Carter* (1851-1925), Papers of, 1886-1919 (1/1).
William Giles Harding Carter*: U.S. Military Academy, 1873; Lieutenant,
awarded Medal of Honor for actions against Apache Indian attack, 1881; studied
and revised, 1901-03, the organization and administration of the U.S. Army;
Major General, 1909; author of, among others: From Yorktown to Santiago With
the 6th Cavalry (1900), The American Army (1915), Creation of the American
General Staff (1924).
“Personal and official correspondence, reports, pamphlets, clippings, printed
material, and other papers relating to Carter's career, military matters, and to
General Leonard Wood's actions during the Geronimo campaign in the Apache
wars and the Battle of San Juan Hill, 1898, in the Spanish-American War.
Correspondents include R. A. Alger and Daniel Read Anthony, Jr.”
Charlotte Everett Hopkins* (1851-1935), Papers of, 1916-1918 (7/7).
Granddaughter of Edward Everett (1794-1865); cousin of Edward Everett Hale
(1822-1909).
Charlotte Everett Wise*; Mrs. Archibald Hopkins*; Mrs. C.E. Hopkins*: Toured,
1895, five states, 1895, for John F. Slater Fund and co-authored, A Report
Concerning the Colored Women of the South (1896); President, Washington DC
Home for Incurables; member, District of Columbia Chapter, American Red
Cross; Chair, District of Columbia Section, Women’s Department, National Civic
federation; Chair, 1917-18, Woman's Division of the District of Columbia
Council of National Defense.
Letters, draft reports, 1900-15 (5 boxes); pamphlets (1 box).
Daniel Scott Lamont* (1881-1905), Papers of, 1853-1928.
Daniel S. Lamont*: Union College, Schenectady NY; Chief Clerk, 1875-1882,
New York Department of State, part owner, 1877-82, Albany Argus; staff, 1883,
of New York Governor Grover Cleveland and Private Secretary, 1885-89, to
President Cleveland; entered business with William C. Whitney; U.S. Secretary of
War, 1893-1897; director of corporations and Vice-President, 1898-1904,
Northern Pacific Railroad.
“Correspondence, letterbooks, copies of telegrams, diaries, drafts of speeches and
memoranda, financial papers, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia
relating principally to Lamont's role and interest in New York State Democratic
politics and to his work in the Cleveland administration. Other papers pertain to
Lamont's post-Cabinet life and interests, especially his financial and business
affairs, and his interest in the development of railroads in the U.S. and abroad.
Correspondents include Edward Rathbone Bacon, August and Perry Belmont,
Erastus Cornelius Benedict, Wilson Shannon Bissell, Joseph D. Bryant, Andrew
Carnegie, Grover Cleveland, Donald M. Dickinson, Richard W. Gilder, William
Russell Grace, Mark Hanna, James J. Hill, Daniel Manning, Julius Sterling
Morton, Richard Olney, Alton B. Parker, James Stillman, and William C.
Whitney.”
Letters, 1896-1905, arranged in two chronological series (21 boxes); letterbooks,
1895-1908 (2 boxes).
Frederick Crayton Ainsworth* (1852-1934), Papers of, 1901-28, 200 items.
U.S. Military Academy, 1879; Major General, Adjutant General, U.S. Army;
appointed, March 1911, Chair, War Department Board on Business Methods;
forced by President Howard Taft to retire soon after he harshly criticized in a
letter, February 1912, members of the Army General Staff as well as his superiors
for suggesting improvements in the administration of the Adjutant General’s
command.
“Letters relating mainly to smokeless powder, investigations of rifle bore
corrosion, and a new or improved composition for the cleaning and lubricating of
gun and rifle barrels.
Correspondents include Edward Cathcart Crossman (b. 1881) and Arno Carl
Fieldner (1881-1966).”
William James Chalmers* (1852-1938), Papers of, 1914-1918 (3/3).
Industrialist, Allis Chalmers Company.
“Miscellaneous correspondence, clippings, and printed matter. Includes letters
from Roger A. Burrell (a soldier at the European front) exchanges with Walter
McDermott (a British mining engineer and metallurgist), James Hamilton Lewis,
Francis S. Peabody (chairman of the Committee on Coal Production of the
Council of National Defense), and R. T. Bayliss (a prosperous London
manufacturer) with comments on English and American politics and the progress
of the war.”
Edwin Markham* (1852-1940), Papers of, ca. 1893-1937 (43 items).
Charles Edwin Anson Markham*: California College, Vacaville, San Jose
Normal, and Christian College, Santa Rosa CA; teacher and school administrator
in California, beginning 1872; helped found, 1910, Poetry Society of America;
author: Man with a Hoe and Other Poems (1899), Lincoln and Other Poems
(1901), and others.
“Correspondence, autobiographical notes, drafts and published versions of poems,
notebooks of writings on poems and religion, and printed matter. Includes an
annotated typescript with a cover note by H. L. Mencken and page proofs from
the American Mercury of Markham's poem, “The Ballad of the Gallows-bird.”
Correspondents include Amelia Josephine Burr, Frederic Lathrop Colver,
William Griffith, Robert Underwood Johnson, Anna Catherine Markham, and
George Sylvester Viereck.
Moreton Frewen* (1853-1924), Papers of, 1871-1932.
Member of Parliament, represented Cork, Ireland; economist, businessman.
“Correspondence with royalty, noblemen, diplomats, American and British
political and social leaders, writers, poets, journalists, financiers, industrial
magnates, and others; speeches; extracts of writings; photographs; newspaper
clippings; and other printed matter documenting Frewen's activities in business
ventures or government service in England, the American West, Hyderabad,
Kenya, Ireland, Mexico, China, Canada, and Australia. The correspondence
relates primarily to bimetallism and other currency affairs of the British Empire
and the United States; other papers concern tariff matters, Imperial preference,
world trade, and Frewen's period in Parliament. Includes some family letters.
Correspondents include Arthur James Balfour, William Jennings Bryan, Austen
Chamberlain, Randolph Churchill, Henry George Grey, James K. Jones, Henry
Cabot Lodge, and the Duke of Marlborough.”
Letters, 1896-1920, arranged chronologically (40 boxes).
Tasker Howard Bliss* (1853-1930), Papers of, 1870-1930.
U.S. Military Academy, 1875; Puerto Rico, 1898; Chief, Cuban Customs Service,
1898-1902; Philippines, 1905-09; Mexican border during insurrection, 1911;
General, Chief of Staff, 1917-18; member, American Commission to Negotiate
Peace, 1918-19.
“Correspondence, printed matter, drafts of speeches, lectures, and articles, diaries,
memoranda, reports, minutes of meetings, and scrapbooks. Detailed coverage,
through personal and official papers, of Bliss's military career. . . .
Correspondents include Henry T. Allen Newton D. Baker,, Oscar T. Crosby,
Joseph C. Grew, Leland Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Edward M. House, Robert
Lansing, Frank L. Polk Henry White, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, Cuba, 1899-1902 (34 v.); letters, 1903-04 (4 v.); Philippines, 1905-09 (55
v.), including: diary, 1907-09 (10 v.), letters, 1910-13 (14 v.), Mexican border
material, 1913-15 (43 v.), letters, 1913-19 (84 v.); subject file, 1917-19 (200
boxes), including: diaries (1 box), letters and cables (5 boxes), Supreme War
Council (8 boxes), Paris Peace Conferences (19 boxes), Supreme council of
Allied and Associated Powers (3 boxes), League of Nations (1 box), foreign press
comment (3 boxes), Supreme Headquarters Bulletins (19 boxes), resume of news
(6 boxes), mimeo telegrams and cables (25 boxes).
Mira Lloyd Dock* (1853-1945), Papers of, 1814-1947, bulk: 1896-1930 (5/9).
Mira Dock*: Studied, 1896, botany, chemistry, geology, University of Michigan;
helped found, 1898, Harrisburg PA Civic Club; member, 1901-13, Pennsylvania
State Forestry Reservation Commission; helped found and taught botany, 190329, Pennsylvania State Forest Academy; forestry advocate, State Federation of
Pennsylvania Women and General Federation of Women’s Clubs.
“Correspondence, printed matter, clippings, photos, and maps, dealing mainly
with forestry, gardening, park development, conservation, and nature study in
Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the United States as well as in Germany,” and the
City Beautiful movement; includes Lloyd and Dock family letters.
Correspondents include “Florence Bascom, Sir Dietrich Brandis, Marion A.
Crocker, William Dean Howells, J. Horace McFarland, Warren H. Manning,
Gifford Pinchot, Joseph T. Rothrock, and Harvey A. Surface.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (5 boxes).
Arthur Foote* (1853-1937), Papers of, 1904-37 (140 items).
Composer; organist, 1878-1910, First Unitearian Church, Boston; organizer,
1881-1900, chamber music concerts, Boston; pianist, 1890-1910, Kneisel Quartet;
President, 1909-12, American Guild of Organists.
Letters, 1904-37, relating to music in greater Boston.
Eugene Gano Hay* (1853-1933), Papers of, ca. 1770-1933, bulk: 1877-1933.
Prosecuting Attorney, 1880-84, Indiana; Republican, temporary secretary to
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) during presidential campaign, 1888; U.S. District
Attorney, 1890-1903, Minnesota; Member, 1903-23, U.S. Board of General
Appraisers, New York City (after 1926, “U.S. Customs Court”); author:
Reciprocity with Canada: Report of Eugene G. Hay, to the Advisory Board of the
Minnesota Branch of the National Reciprocity League . . . (1903).
“Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, speeches, writings, and printed
materials documenting Hays' career and political activities. Subjects include the
Harrison campaign, antitrust cases: Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company v.
Minnesota and Minnesota v. Northern Securities Chicago, and trade reciprocity.
Includes papers relating to the family of his wife, Nora Farquhar*.
Correspondents include Albert Cummins, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin
Harrison, John Hay, Frank B. Kellogg, Philander C. Knox, John Lind, Henry
Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1896-1921 (28 v.).
Philander C. Knox* (1853-1921), 1893-1922, bulk: 1901-1921 (73/75).
Philander Chase Knox*: University of West Virginia, Mount Union College,
Alliance OH, 1872; Pennsylvania Bar, 1875 and practiced, Pittsburgh PA; U.S.
Attorney General, 1901-04; U.S. Senate, 1904-09 and 1917-20, Republican,
Pennsylvania; U.S. Secretary of State, 1909-13.
“Correspondence, scrapbooks, memoranda, clippings, cartoons, printed matter,
speeches and articles, bills and resolutions, drafts, biographical sketches, legal
papers, notebooks, reports, and library catalog, which are most detailed for his
years of government service.
Topics include the antitrust prosecution of the Northern Securities Company, the
reorganization of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the founding of the
Commerce and Labor Department, railroad rate legislation, the Panama Canal and
Panama toll revision, Latin American affairs, relations with Russia, China, and
other countries, the Versailles treaty and the League of Nations, and national
politics, especially efforts to promote Knox as a Presidential candidate.
Correspondents include Chandler P. Anderson, Newton D. Baker, Albert J.
Beveridge, Charles J. Bonaparte, William E. Borah, Andrew Carnegie, J. Reuben
Clark, George B. Cortelyou, Harry M. Daugherty, W. A. Day, Henry Clay Frick,
Mark Hanna, Warren G. Harding, John Hay, James J. Hill, George Hoar, Henry
M. Hoyt, Hiram Johnson, William Loeb, William McKinley, Andrew W. Mellon,
Samuel W. Pennypacker, Boies Penrose, Matthew S. Quay, Whitelaw Reid,
Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, John C. Spooner, William H. Taft, George W.
Wickersham, and Huntington Wilson.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (30 boxes); State Department files, 1909-13 (12 boxes);
scrapbooks, 1896-1921 (19 boxes); speech files, 1896-1920 (6 boxes).
W. J. McGee* (1853-1912), Papers of, 1822-1916.
William John McGee*: Husband of Anita Newcomb* (1864-1940), physician.
Mentored by John Wesley Powell; geologist and Director, 1883-93, Division of
Atlantic Coastal Plains, U.S. Geological Survey; Ethnologist in Charge, 18931903, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution; founding member,
1902, and Senior Vice-President, American Anthropological Association;
member, 1903, Inland Waterways Commission; directed anthropological exhibit,
Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, 1904, St. Louis MO.
“Correspondence, letter books, speeches, articles, scientific papers, lectures,
notes, geological notebooks, scrapbooks, bibliographical notes, and memorabilia,
relating chiefly to his professional career. Also includes correspondence, 190305, pertaining to the International Geographical Meeting and the St. Louis
Museum.
Correspondents include Franz Boas, R. Ellsworth Call, Frank Moore Colby,
Robert Hay, Florence Hayward, Robert T. Hill, Jerome Johnson, Lawrence C.
Johnson, Willard D. Johnson, Samuel P. Langley, S. W. McCowan, Frederick J.
V. Skiff, Frederick Star, George H. Williams, and Henry Shaler Williams.”
Letters, 1880-1916, arranged alphabetically (13 boxes); letterbooks, 1905-07 (2
boxes); St. Louis activities, 1903-05 (9 boxes).
John Bigelow* (1854-1936), Papers of, 1866-1936.
Historian; son of Captain John Bigelow, Sr., 1841-1917, wounded Union hero
who commanded the Ninth Massachusetts Battery, Light Artillery at Gettysburg.
“Correspondence, MSS. of articles, lecture notes, bibliographical material,
photographs, photostats and blueprints of maps, clippings, and pamphlets relating
to the early history of Latin America with emphasis on the isthmian transit routes.
The bulk of the collection pertains to canals, the Panama and Suez Canals in
particular. Includes an extract from the diary of Bigelow's father, John Bigelow,
Sr,, relating to Panama, 1886-1911; MSS. and notes on military history and
policy; and material for an unpublished MS., “Robert E. Lee and Secession-A
Study in Loyalty,” ca. 1936.”
Pamphlet material: Panama Canal (18 boxes), Suez Canal (7 boxes).
Edward John Dorn* (1854-1937), Papers of, 1868-1936, bulk: 1875-1922 (3/5).
Captain, U.S. Navy; Governor: Pago Pago, Samoa, 1900 and Guam, 1907-10;
Corresponding Secretary, 1917, Navy Relief Society; Vestryman, St. Margaret’s
Episcopal Church, Washington DC.
“Correspondence, diaries, orders to duty, speeches, notes, photographs, and
printed materials pertaining to Dorn's naval cruises to Brazil, South Africa,
Samoan Islands, Guam, and Japan, and to his experiences as governor of
American Samoa and Guam, especially in regard to missionaries, schools, water
supply, and immigrants.
Correspondents include Josephus Daniels, George Leland Dyer, Lloyd S.
Shapley, Benjamin F. Tilley, and Beekman Winthrop.”
Diaries, 1902-11; letters and letterbooks, 1907-10 (2 boxes).
Bradley A. Fiske* (1854-1942), Diaries of, 1914-1918 (2 v.).
U.S. Naval Academy, 1874; Aide for Inspection, 1912-13 and Aide for
Operations, 1913-15, to Secretary of the Navy; member, 1913-14, Army-Navy
Joint Board; Naval War College, 1915-16; retired, 1916; temporary duty, 1920,
Navy Department.
Two diaries that contain brief descriptions of Fiske’s discussions, with U.S. Navy
Secretary Josephus Daniels, Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
others, regarding the strength and war plan of the U.S. Navy during World War I.
William Crawford Gorgas* (1854-1920), Papers of, 1885-1919, bulk:
(33/39).
1904-1913
Son of Confederate Brigadier General Josiah Gorgas, U.S. Military Academy,
1841.
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, M.D. 1879; U.S. Army Medical Corps, 18801918; investigated spread of yellow fever: Cuba, 1898-99, Panama, 1904,
Transvaal, 1913, Central and South America, 1916, and West Africa, 1919-20.
Brigadier, 1914, and Major General, 1915, U.S. Army Surgeon General, 1914-18;
International Health Board, 1916-20; author: Sanitation in Panama (1915).
“Correspondence, reports, addresses, articles, financial and miscellaneous records,
medical papers, charts, clippings, photographs, and printed material dealing with
the fight against yellow fever primarily in Cuba and Panama.
Correspondents include Henry Rose Carter, William M. Doughty, Carlos J.
Finlay, and William Keen.”
Letters, 1896-1919 (22 boxes); subject files, “Yellow Fever,” 1899-1918 6
boxes).
Myron T. Merrick* (1854-1929), Papers of, 1901-1929 (1/2)
Myron Timothy Merrick*: U.S. Ambassador to France, 1912-14;
Scrapbooks, letters, and memorabilia mainly related mainly to his years in France.
William Temple Hornaday* (1854-1937), Papers of, 1866-1975 (bulk 1906-1936).
Oskaloosa College, Iowa State University, Natural Science Establishment,
Rochester NY, 1874; Chief Taxidermist, 1882, U.S. National Museum (later,
Smithsonian Institution); helped plan, 1889-90, National Zoo, Washington DC;
Director, 1896-1926, Bronx NY Zoological Park; President, 1905, Camp Fire
Club; President, 1907-10, American Bison Society: author, The Extermination of
the American Bison (1889), and others.
“Correspondence, diaries and journals, MSS., and production materials for
articles and books, notebooks, financial papers, clippings, scrapbooks,
memorabilia, and other papers reflecting Hornaday's career. Subjects include
protection of birds, natural history, taxidermy, wildlife conservation, and
zoological expeditions.
Correspondents include Carl Akeley, Roy Chapman Andrews, Newton D. Baker,
Daniel C. Beard, William Beebe, Charles E. Bessey, Frank Buck, John
Burroughs, Andrew Carnegie, Elliot Coues, Raymond L. Ditmars, Theodore
Dreiser, Edith Franz, G. Brown Goode, Madison Grant, Zane Grey, Carl
Hagenbeck, William J. Holland, Charles Evans Hughes, Martin Johnson, Samuel
P. Langley, C. Hart Merriam, Jack Miner, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Maxwell
Perkins, John Phillips, Gifford Pinchot, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt,
Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Thompson Seton, George Shiras III, John
Wanamaker, Henry Ward, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (7 boxes); speeches, articles, books, 1896-1920 (5 boxes);
Campfire Club (1 box); American Bison Society (1 box).
1855+
William Banks Caperton* (1855-1941), Papers of, 1873-1939.
U.S. Naval Academy, 1875; Rear Admiral, commanded Cruiser Squadron,
Atlantic Fleet; commanded the Naval Forces that intervened, 1915-16, at Haiti,
Vera Cruz, and Santo Domingo and, 1918, again Haiti; Admiral, commanded
Pacific Fleet on the east coast of South America throughout World War I.
“Correspondence, largely with William S. Benson, reports, orders to duty, and
newspaper clippings chiefly relating to Caperton's naval career, particularly his
command of the Cruiser Squadron,” 1915-16, at Haiti (1 box).
William Shepherd Benson* (1855-1932), Papers of, 1791-1941, bulk: 1915-28.
U.S. Naval Academy, 1877; Commandant, 1913-15, Philadelphia Naval Yard,
Chief of Naval Operations, 1915-19; naval representative, 1919-120, Paris Peace
Conference; Chair, 1920-21, U.S. Shipping Board.
“Correspondence, memoranda, dispatches, speeches, reports, maps, naval
appointments, family papers, photographs, and printed materials relating
primarily to Benson's service during World War I; also materials concerning the
Naval Conference, 1917, conducted by the Allies, the House Commission
appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to confer with the Allied and Associated
Powers on naval strategy, Allied Naval Council, Allied Naval Armistice
Commission, American Commission to Negotiate Peace, Paris Peace Conference;
also Senate Naval Affairs Committee hearings, 1920, regarding naval operations
in World War I, and postwar naval disarmament; also Benson’s work related to
shipping and the merchant marine, and his involvement in Catholic religious and
fraternal organizations including his presidency, 1921-25, of the National Council
of Catholic Men.
Correspondents include Admirals Philip Andrews, Reginald Rowan Belknap,
William Hannum Grubb Bullard, William Banks Caperton, Harry Shepard Knapp,
Albert P. Niblack, and William Sowden Sims; Generals Tasker Howard Bliss,
Peyton Conway March, John J. Pershing, and Hugh Lenox Scott; and Charles
Francis Adams, Newton D. Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, Montague C. Browning,
Michael Joseph Curley, Josephus Daniels, Norman H. Davis, Duncan Upshaw
Fletcher, James Gibbons, Guy Despard Goff, Joseph C. Grew, Herbert Hoover,
Edward Mandell House, Edward N. Hurley, John La Farge, Jr., Robert Lansing,
Albert Davis Lasker, Samuel McGowan, C. J. Peoples, James D. Phelan, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Joseph Nathan Teal, Benjamin R. Tillman, Henry B. Wilson, and
Woodrow Wilson.”
General letters, 1874-1922 (13 boxes); subject file, 1918-19 (13 boxes).
Frances Carpenter Collection, 1875-1960 (3/9).
Frank George Carpenter* (1855-1924): Journalist; world traveler.
“Primarily scrapbooks relating to Frank G. Carpenter's book, Carp's Washington
(arranged and edited by his daughter, Frances Carpenter*, 1960), including
newspaper articles and columns by Frank G. Carpenter*; clippings about his
lecture tours, his work in Washington, D.C., and his death in China;
correspondence between Frances Carpenter and the Washington Star; reviews of
Carp's Washington; and proposed illustrations for the book.
Includes letters to Frank G. Carpenter from Alexander Graham Bell, Calvin
Coolidge, Frederick Douglass, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, and Booker
T. Washington.
Scrapbooks, 1875-1923 (7 boxes).
William Edmund Curtis* (1855-1908), Papers of, 1885-1908.
Assistant Secretary of Treasury, 1893-97; Aqueduct Commission, 1902-05;
delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1904.
Letters, 1895-1908 (3 v.); scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, 1893-1908 (2 v.).
William F. Fullam* (1855-1926), Papers of, 1877-1919 (7/10).
William Freeland Fullam*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1877, and Superintendent,
1914-15; Rear Admiral, commanded, during World War I, Reserve and Patrol
Forces, Pacific Fleet in the south Atlantic.
“Correspondence, bulletins, biographical data, Navy newssheets, radio dispatches,
reports, orders, commissions, transcripts of Congressional testimony, drafts of
Fullam's writings, photos, clippings, and other records called “historical war
diaries” relating to Fullam's interest in Navy administrative reorganization, the
development of naval aviation, and his service off the coast of Cuba during the
Spanish-American War, and tours of duty in the West Indies and Caribbean
waters aboard the gunboat Marietta,” 1906-07, as well as aboard the new
battleship, U.S.S. Mississippi, 1909-11.
“Correspondents include William Shepherd Benson, William E. Borah, Josephus
Daniels, William "Billy" Mitchell, and Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (5 boxes).
La Follette Family Papers, 1844-1988, bulk: 1910-1953.
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, legal files, office files, campaign
files, legislative files, subject files, financial records, biographical material,
newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers, arranged by family
member and principally documenting their careers. Also contains extensive files
relating to La Follette's Magazine and to its successor, The Progressive.
Also includes: papers, 1925-88, of Mary Josephine La Follette* (1899-1998),
art consultant, social science research analyst, and editor; papers, 1905-65, of
Grace C. Lynch* ca. 1892-1970), secretary to Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and to
Robert M. La Follette, Jr.; material concerning Robert, Jr.’s son, Bronson
Cutting La Follette* (b. 1936), Wisconsin Attorney General, 1965-1969; and
family biographer Sherry Zabriskie.
Topics include: civil rights, women's suffrage and women's rights, railroad
regulation, the Teapot Dome scandal, isolationism and opposition to U.S. entry
into World Wars I and II, the Presidential elections of 1912 and 1924,
immigration, tariffs, conservation, disarmament and outlawry of war, U.S. foreign
relations especially with Latin America and Asia, League of Nations, American
Indian affairs, Wisconsin and national politics, National League of Women
Voters, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Conference for
Progressive Political Action, People's Legislative Service and other progressive
and reform movements, and American handicrafts.
Correspondents include Jane Addams, Peter A. Arntson, Ray Stannard Baker,
Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard, Joseph D. Beck, Emily Montague
Mulkin Bishop, Alice Stone Blackwell, John J. Blaine, W. Wade Boardman,
William Jennings Bryan, Alice Goldmark Brandeis, Louis Dembitz Brandeis,
Austin F. Cansler, Carrie Chapman Catt, James H. Causey, John Rogers
Commons, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Richard Crane, Charles Henry Crownhart,
Bronson M. Cutting, Jo Davidson, Eugene V. Debs, Evelyn Dewey, John Dewey,
Charles M. Dow, Theodore Dreiser, Max Eastman, Herman Lewis Ekern,
Elizabeth Edson Gibson Evans, William Theodore Evjue, John D. Fackler, Lorena
King Fairbank, Felix Frankfurter, Andrew Furuseth, Zona Gale, A. C. Grimm,
Ernest Gruening, Learned Hand, John J. Hannan, Warren G. Harding, Frank A.
Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Walter L. Houser, B. W. Huebsch, Harold L. Ickes,
Ralph M. Immell, Helen Keller, William Kirsch, Walter Jodok Kohler, Irvine
Luther Lenroot, Katharine F. Lenroot, David Eli Lilienthal, Edward G. Little,
Grace C. Lynch, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Joseph McCarthy, Medill
McCormick, Thomas M. McCusker, Nellie Dunn MacKenzie, William McKinley,
Basil Maxwell Manly, Wayne L. Morse, Sylvester W. Muldowny, Richard L.
Neuberger, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Prentice Nye, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot,
William Thomas Rawleigh, Vinnie Ream, R. O. Richards, Glenn D. Roberts,
Gilbert R. Roe, Gwyneth K. Roe, John Ernest Roe, Alfred Thomas Rogers,
Walter S. Rogers, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Morris H. Rubin,
Upton Sinclair, Rudolph Spreckels, Lincoln Steffens, Isaac Stephenson, Bela
Tokaji, Harry S. Truman, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Henry Agard Wallace, Frank P.
Walsh, William Allen White, Woodrow Wilson, Emma Wold, and A. W.
Zeratsky.”
Family letters:
Arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically by correspondent
within each year, and scholastic reports, newspaper clippings (1896-1920,
28 boxes).
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.* (1855-1925), Robert Marion La Follette* Papers,
1844-1925.
University of Wisconsin Law, 1879 and Bar, 1880; practiced Madison and
District Attorney, 1880-84, Dane County WI; U.S. Congress, 1885-91,
Republican, Wisconsin; Wisconsin Governor, 1901-06; U.S. Senate, 190625, Republican, Wisconsin; founded, 1909, La Follette’s Weekly, and
helped found, 1911, the National Progressive Republican League; memoir:
La Follette's Autobiography:
A Personal Narrative of Political
Experiences (1960).
Pocket diaries, 1896-1921 (10 v.); notebooks, including engagements and
addresses, 1896-1922 (2 boxes); letters received, 1894-1920, arranged by
year, alphabetically within (39 boxes); special letters received, 1896-1920
(26 boxes); letters sent, 1896-1920 (11 boxes); Indian affairs, 1902-24,
arranged alphabetically by tribe, and some agency files of Indian Affairs
Office, U.S. Interior Department (13 boxes); subject files, 1896-1920,
arranged chronologically by year, alphabetically within (49 boxes),
including: Lorimer Case, 1910-11 (1 box), tariff, 1913 (2 boxes),
neutrality, 1915 (1 box), Seaman’s Act, 1915 (1 box), railroads, 1919 (1
box), coal hearings--transcripts, 1920 (7 boxes); speeches and writings,
holograph and typed drafts, 1890-1920, and bound speeches in Wisconsin
legislature and U.S. Senate, 1886-1923 (11 boxes); autobiography, drafts
and proofs (6 boxes); financial papers, 1881-1924 (5 boxes); legal case
files (4 boxes); newspaper clippings, 1887-1922 (3 boxes); scrapbook,
1906-21 (1 box); printed matter: La Follette’s Weekly, 1909-14 (3 boxes),
La Follette’s Magazine, 1915-22 ( 2 boxes), Presidential messages, 191322 (1 box), Congressional hearings, 1910-20 (10 boxes), biographical
material (1 box).
Robert M. La Follette* (1855-1925), Papers of, 1879-1910 (161 reels).
Originals held by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison).
“Correspondence, speeches, legislative reports, briefs, bills, and receipts,
consisting chiefly of business and political papers. Occasional personal
letters include a very few from La Follette's immediate family. Most of
the legal papers are for the period prior to 1900. Bulk of the collection
consists of correspondence of the period 1900-10, pertaining to Wisconsin
politics and the progressive movement within the Republican Party.
A separate series of papers consists of correspondence, 1896-1900, with
the Dane County, Wisconsin, Telephone Company.
Correspondents include Joseph W. Babcock, John J. Blaine, Henry A.
Cooper, Andrew Dahl, James O. Davidson, Herman Ekern, John J. Esch,
John Hannan, Samuel A. Harper, William D. Hoard, Irvine L. Lenroot,
Francis McGovern, William McKinley, Gilbert Roe, Alfred Rogers,
Theodore Roosevelt, John C. Spooner, James A. Stone, William H.
Upham, Charles R. Van Hise, William F. Vilas, and Albert G.
Zimmerman.”
Robert M. La Follette, Jr.* (1895-1953), Papers of, 1895-1960.
University of Wisconsin Law, 1917; private secretary to his father, 191925; U.S. Senate, 1925-47, Republican, 1925-34, Progressive, 1935-47,
Wisconsin; author:
Letters, 1910-24 (1 box); clippings, 1918-25 (1 box).
Belle Case La Follette* (1859-1931), Papers, 1879-1931.
Wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Belle Case*: University of Wisconsin Law, 1885; President, 1893-1903,
Emily Bishop League; co-editor, 1909-25, “Home and Education”
column, La Follette’s Magazine; wrote, 1911, “A Thought for Today”
feature for North American Press Syndicate; advocated and lectured,
1912-13, women’s suffrage; co-author, with Fola La Follette: Robert M.
La Follette, June 14, 1855-June 18, 1925 (2 v., 1953).
General letters received, 1905-23, (4 boxes); special letters received,
1901-20 (6 boxes); letters sent, 1898-26 (3 boxes); subject files, 18931931, arranged alphabetically (10 boxes), including:
“Home and
Education” column, 1909-13 (1 box); speeches and writings, 1898-1920 (3
boxes); biography of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., including: typed MSS. (5
boxes), reference notes, interviews, printed matter (5 boxes), other
reference material (5 boxes).
Fola La Follette* (1882-1970), Papers of, 1879-1970.
Daughter of Robert M. and Belle Case La Follette; married, 1911, George
Middleton.
Suffragist; actress, 1902-1915; moved to Paris, 1920.
Personal letters received, 1901-20 (1 box); personal letters sent, 1910-40
(1 box); biographical research files, Robert M. La Follette, Sr.:
chronology notebooks, 1896-1920 (40 boxes), interviews and letters (4
boxes), Theodore Roosevelt (3 boxes), Woodrow Wilson (1 box),
“persons books” (3 boxes), “subject books” (1 box), book notes (1 box),
newspaper notes, 1910-17 (3 boxes); miscellaneous notebooks (11 boxes),
typescript drafts (20 boxes), proofs and miscellaneous notes (11 boxes),
reference card files (4 boxes), clippings, 1905-49 (1 box).
George Middleton* (1880-1967), Papers of, 1894-1967, bulk: 1911-1958.
George C. Middleton*: Playwright, author; copyright specialist, U.S.
Justice Department; memoir: These Things Are Mine (1947).
“Correspondence; literary manuscripts, including books, plays, articles,
speeches, and lectures; and subject file and research material that
document Middleton's career, his marriage to Fola La Follette, his efforts
to protect foreign and domestic playwrights' monetary and literary rights
in the publication and production of their works, and his relationships with
members of the theatrical, literary, and political communities.
Includes material on Robert M. La Follette's 1924 presidential campaign
and on Middleton's collaborations with David Belasco and Guy Bolton,
his association with the Dramatists Guild, Dutch Treat Club, and the
Players, and correspondence of Middleton and his wife with members of
the La Follette and Middleton families.
Other correspondents include J.M. Barrie, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Cecil
B. DeMille, John Dos Passos, Eleanora Duse, Anatole France, Felix
Frankfurter, Hamlin Garland, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, Sinclair
Lewis, David Eli Lilienthal, Percy MacKaye, Don Marquis, John
Masefield, Edgar Lee Masters, H. L. Mencken, Gerald Prentice Nye,
Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, Richard Rodgers, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bernard Shaw, Lincoln Steffens, Booth
Tarkington, P. G. Wodehouse, and Peggy Wood.”
Letters, 1901-67, arranged alphabetically (15 boxes); business letters,
1903-67, arranged by agent and individual play (6 boxes); subject files,
1901-67 (13 boxes); literary MSS., 1901-63 (34 boxes).
Philip Fox La Follette* (1897-1965), Philip La Follette* Papers, 1911-71.
Son of Robert M. and Belle Case La Follette; married Isabel Bacon.
Wisconsin Governor, 1931-33 and 1935-39, Progressive Party; memoir:
Adventure in Politics (1970).
Diary, 1911, and journal, 1914 (1 box); letters, 1911-30 (1 box).
Gilbert E. Roe* (1865-1929), Gilbert Ernstein Roe* Papers, 1887-1961.
Law partner, 1890-1905, advisor, and son-in-law of Robert M. La Follette,
Sr.
University of Wisconsin Law, 1889; moved to and practiced, beginning
1899, New York City; drafted reform legislation, including, 1905,
insurance and railroad regulation; a Vice-President, 1911, Free Speech
League; defended, 1914, editor Max Eastman and cartoonist Arthur
Young, The Masses, against libel suit by the Associated Press and, 1916,
against criminal libel charges; lectured, 1916, with Emma Goldman,
Margaret Sanger, and others in favor of birth-control; counsel, 1918, to
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in his defense against expulsion from U.S.
Senate; author: Our Judicial Oligarchy (1912).
Family letters, 1891-1961 (1 box); general letters received, 1900-29 (2
boxes); special letters received, 1900-20 (2 boxes); letters sent, 1900-29 (2
boxes); legal case files, 1900-20 (3 boxes); article file, 1906-29 (1 box);
speech file, 1898-1928 (1 box); printed matter, 1887-1917), 2 boxes;
clippings, 1899-1925 (1 box); miscellany, 1901-29 (1 box).
Alfred T. Rogers* (1873-1948), Papers of, 1900-28.
Alfred Thomas Rogers*: Law partner of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.;
Executive Clerk, 1901-05, to Governor La Follette, Sr.; member, 1908-12,
Republican National Committee.
General letters, 1900-14, 1928 (1 box).
National Progressive Republican League, Records of, 1911-12.
States file, 1911-12, arranged alphabetically by state, mainly letters
received by Walter Houser* (110 boxes); general office file, 1911-12,
mainly routine staff correspondence; special letters, 1912, arranged
alphabetically by state (2 boxes); financial papers, 1911-12 (4 boxes);
address file and partial index to states file (22 boxes of cards).
Harriot Stanton Blatch* (1856-1940), Papers of, 1907-15 (17/17).
“Suffragist; founder of the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, later the
Women's Political Union.”
“Scrapbooks containing correspondence, questionnaires, annual reports of the
Women's Political Union, other reports, pamphlets, clippings, photographs,
memorabilia, and additional material documenting the struggle for women's
suffrage in New York State, that culminated with the passage of the suffrage
amendment in the state legislature in 1915. Also includes material marking the
centennial celebration of the birth of Blatch's mother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.”
Scrapbooks, chronological, 1908-15 (12 v.).
Washington Irving Chambers* (1856-1954), Papers of, 1871-1943 (40/48).
U.S. Navy, 1872-1913; Captain, 1910: co-founder of and first officer assigned
full-time to naval aviation, arranged a flight by Glenn Curtiss’s airplane from a
special platform on U.S.S. Birmingham; never an admiral because of his open
preference of aircraft carriers over battleships.
“Correspondence, subject files, logbooks, memoranda, blueprints, photographs,
printed matter, and other papers relating to Chambers's service aboard the
Pensacola and the Portsmouth, with the A. W. Greely relief expedition, 1884, to
the Arctic, with the Nicaragua Canal survey expedition, 1884-1885, at the
Newport torpedo station, the New York navy-yard, and in various administrative
offices of the Navy Department. The post-1910 material relates chiefly to
Chambers's assignment, 1910, to report on the development and application of
aviation to naval forces and to dirigibles, helicopters, balloons, parachutes, and
flight science and procedures.
Correspondents include Thomas S. Baldwin, W. Starling Burgess, Glenn
Hammond Curtiss, Theodore Gordon Ellyson, Eugene Ely, Louis Godard, Roy
Knabenshue, Grover Cleveland Loening, Glenn L. Martin, James Means, Holden
Chester Richardson, John Rodgers, and John H. Towers.”
“Letters, 1896-1910 (3 boxes), 1911-19 (18 boxes); subject files, 1884-1917 (12
boxes); aircraft logbooks , 1911-17 (4 boxes).
Miscellaneous Papers in the Sigmund Freud Collection, 1866-1983, bulk: 1908-1957.
Sigmund Freud* (1856-1939): Physician, pioneer in psychology and mental
health; founder of psychoanalysis.
“Correspondence, writings, biographical material, organizational records, printed
material, photograph, and other papers pertaining principally to psychoanalytic
organizations and to writings by various individuals on psychoanalytic theory, the
history of psychoanalysis, and the work of individual psychoanalysts.
Individuals represented include Josef Breuer, Isador H. Coriat, Paul Federn,
Alexander Freud, Harry Freud, Sigmund Freud, Josef Gicklhorn, Otto Gross,
Eduard Hitschmann, René Laforgue, Josine Müller, Emil Oberholzer, Lili E.
Peller, and Oskar Pfister. Organizations represented include the Association des
Psychanalystes de Belgique, Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft,
Psychological Center, Paris, France, and Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung.”
Cooper Curtice* (1856-1939), Papers of, 1822-1953.
Cooper Curtis*: Scientist, 1893-1931, U.S. Department of Agriculture; identified
with others, 1893, parasite that causes Texas cattle fever.
“Correspondence, diary, writings, speeches, notes, Curtice (Curtis) family papers,
biographical and genealogical material, scrapbook, clippings, printed material,
and other papers relating chiefly to Curtice's research into animal diseases. Topics
include babesiosis in cattle, also known as Texas fever; eradication of its carrier,
the cattle tick; and diseases in sheep and turkeys.
Correspondents include Alpheus Hyatt, Veranus Alva Moore, Theobald Smith,
and Charles D. Walcott.”
A. K. Fisher* (1856-1948), Papers of, 1827-1957, bulk: 1867-1948.
Albert Kenrick Fisher*: Columbia University, M.D., 1879, practiced medicine,
Sing Sing NY; founded, 1883, American Ornithologist’s Union; helped establish,
1885, and directed economic studies, 1889-1929, Division of Economic
Ornithology and Mammalogy, which became, 1905, Bureau of Biological Survey,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington DC.
“Correspondence, letter books, diaries, articles and speeches, family papers, field
notes and records, memoranda, reports, drawings, bibliographic cards on birds,
plants, and animals, maps, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and
photographs, relating chiefly to Fisher's activities as an ornithologist and
vertebrate zoologist, including an expedition, 1891, to Death Valley, biological
surveys, 1892-1898, in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and other
western areas, the Harriman expedition to Alaska, 1899, Pinchot South Sea
expedition, 1929, . . . the Washington Biologists' Field Club, and Fisher's fight for
game laws and conservation.
Family papers include those of Fisher's son, Walter Kenrick Fisher* (18781953), naturalist and artist, and his wife, Anne Benson* (b. 1898), author, Live
with a Man and Love It! The Gentle Art of Staying Happily Married (1937), and
others.
Correspondents include Frank Chapman, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Ben V. Lilly,
Edgar A. Mearns, C. Hart Merriam, Gifford Pinchot, Robert Ridgway, Witmer
Stone, and Alexander Wetmore.”
Letters, 1896-1920: family (3 boxes), general (12 boxes); bird notes (5 boxes).
James Hay* (1856-1931), Papers of, 1909-1930, 18 items.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Washington and Lee University Law,
Virginia Bar, and commenced practice, 1877; state offices and legislature, 188387; U.S. Congress, 1897-1916, Democrat, Virginia; Judge, 1916-27, U.S. Court of
Claims.
Letters received from Woodrow Wilson, 1915-16; typescript MS., “Woodrow
Wilson and Preparedness” (26 pp.).
Frederic Eugene Ives and Herbert Eugene Ives, Papers of, 1869-1957.
Frederic Eugene Ives* (1856-1937):
Printer’s apprentice; manager, from 1874, photographic laboratory,
Cornell University; experimented with and patented: method of halftone
photogravure, binocular microscope, and an instrument for separating and
recombining three colors, a step in color reproduction; father of:
Herbert Eugene Ives* (1869-1957):
University of Pennsylvania, 1905, Johns Hopkins University, Ph. D.,
1908; aerial photography, U.S. Army Signal Corps, World War I; Bell
Labs, A.T. & T., from 1919; directed early experimentation with and
subsequent development of: transmission of images, including a short
distance by telephone wire in black and white, 1924, and in color, 1929, as
well as long distance, Washington to New York, 1927; a two-way video
telephone, 1930; and night-vision devices for military use in World War
II.
“Correspondence, journals, speeches, articles, scrapbooks, patents, clippings, and
other papers relating to the inventions of Frederic and Herbert Ives, including
such improved photographic methods and equipment, as aerial and color
photography, telephoto techniques, and other devices and techniques which were
precursors of commercial television.
Correspondents include George Eastman, Albert Einstein, Gen. Courtney H.
Hodges, and Harry S. Truman.”
Diaries, 1870-1930 (1 box); letters (1 box).
George Frederick Kunz* (1856-1932), Papers of, 1783-1928.
Largely self-educated at Cooper Union, recipient of honorary degrees and
citations; parlayed a youthful consuming fascination with minerals and gem
stones found in excavations for New York City’s buildings, bridges, and tunnels
into a career as a dealer and “gem expert” for Tiffany & Co.; traveled the world in
search of specimens to satisfy the collecting interests of the wealthy, most of
whom ultimately donated their valuable caches to museums; author: Gem
Collection of the U.S. National Museum (1886), Gems and Precious Stones of
North America: A Popular Description of Their Occurrence, Value, History,
Archæology, and of the Collections in Which They Exist (1890), and others.
“Correspondence, notes, clippings, typescripts of articles, illuminated Russian
land papers, and other material such as certificates, broadsides, and membership
announcements relating to Kunz's career as a gemologist. Pertains primarily to
his trip to Russia (1892-1893) and is chiefly concerned with mineralogy. Other
items, including ca. 50 letters, concern an article Kunz wrote on the geography,
tunnels, and bridges of the Hudson River.
Correspondents include Robert Grier Cooke, James F. Fielder, McDougall
Hawkes, Henry B. Kummel, William G. McAdoo, Arthur J. O'Keefe, and
William Sulzer.”
James R. Mann* (1856-1922), Papers of, 1887-1922 (34/39).
James Robert Mann*: Illinois University, 1876, Union College Law, Chicago,
and Illinois Bar, 1881; practiced, Chicago; Chicago City Council, 1892-96; U.S.
Congress, 1897-1922, Republican, Illinois.
“Mounted newspaper clippings, correspondence, telegrams, invitations,
memorabilia, and miscellaneous printed matter relating to Mann's career in
Chicago politics and Congress. Subjects covered include Chicago River
improvement, interstate commerce legislation, the Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906,
the Mann act, 1910, wood-pulp investigation, 1908-10, Republican congressional
party leadership, and Mann's successful political campaigns.”
Scrapbooks of clippings, letters, memorabilia, 1896-1920 (34 v.).
Clarence Darrow* (1857-1938), Papers of, 1894-1974, bulk: 1910-1930 (25/36).
Clarence Seward Darrow*: Allegheny College, Meadville PA, University of
Michigan Law; Ohio Bar, 1878; relocated practice to Chicago IL, 1887,
corporation general counsel, 1888-1893, Chicago and Northwestern Railway;
thereafter, mainly labor law: defended Eugene V. Debs, 1894, Bill Haywood and
Western Federation of Miners, 1907, and others; partner, 1903-11, of attorney,
poet Edgar Lee Masters; helped form, 1905, Intercollegiate Socialist Society;
acquitted, 1912, of attempting to bribe a juror during the McNamara brothers trial;
defended: members of the Communist Labor Party, 1920, murderers Nathan
Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb, 1924, and John T. Scopes for teaching evolution,
1925; author of pamphlets, "The Open Shop" (1909) and “Why I Am an
Agnostic” (1932); Crime: Its Cause and Treatment (1922).
“Correspondence; legal papers; drafts, mss., and printed copies of Darrow's
articles and speeches; typescript of his autobiography; notes and correspondence
of Irving Stone concerning his biography of Darrow; and printed material. The
bulk of the papers were collected by Stone and relate primarily to Darrow's
Chicago law practice and to his interest in such topics as prohibition, religion,
capital punishment, evolution, and labor litigation, as well as other professional
interests and activities.
Correspondents include Lillian Gish, Bolton Hall, Frank Harris, John Haynes
Holmes, Nathan Leopold, Richard Loeb, J. B. McNamara, W. Somerset
Maugham, Donald Richberg, Charles Edward Russell, Walter White, and Brand
Whitlock.”
Letters, 1905-20 (1 box); subject files, 1902-34 (3 boxes); speech, article, book
file (7 boxes); clippings (11 boxes); printed matter, Darrow, 1894-1920 (2 boxes).
Francis Dunlap Gamewell* (1857-1950), Papers of, 1900-1937 (1/1).
Missionary, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, Peking, China; Secretary, 1901-08,
Board of Foreign Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, New York City.
“Scrapbook, 1900-1906, 1937, of letters, photos, clippings, and memorabilia
mainly concerning Gamewell's work” in China. (1 v.).
Julius Goebel* (1857-1931), Papers of, 1873-1930 (5/7).
Immigrated, 1881, from Germany; Professor of German Philology and Literature:
Stanford University, 1892-1905, Harvard University, 1905-08, and University of
Illinois, 1908-26; editor, 1909-26, Journal of English and Germanic Philology;
editor, Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblätter (German-American Historical
Review).
Letters, clippings, MSS., 1881-1920 (5 boxes).
Richard Achilles Ballinger* (1858-1922), Papers of, 1907-11, microfilm (13 reels).
Mayor, Seattle WA, 1904-06; Commissioner of U.S. General Land Office, 190709; U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1909-11.
Originals held by University of Washington Library.
“Papers relating chiefly to Ballinger's term as U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Also
includes materials pertaining . . . to the General Land Office and documents
relating to the Ballinger-Gifford Pinchot controversy which resulted in a
congressional investigation of the Interior Department and the Forestry Service in
1910.”
Theo. A. Bingham* (1858-1934), Papers of, 1897-1903 (26/26).
Theodore Alfred Bingham*: Colonel, Engineer Corps, Brig. General, U.S. Army;
assigned duty, 1897-1903: Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds,
Washington DC; genealogist of Bingham family.
Letters, newspaper clippings, MSS. Summaries, announcements, menus, and
other material concerning the White House, 1897-1903: physical construction,
staffing policy, social events, assassination of President William McKinley and
changes introduced by President Theodore Roosevelt (26 boxes).
George William Burton* (1858-1941), Papers of, 1908-30 (2/3).
Banker, LaCrosse WI.
Letters, 1908-20 (140 items), exchanged with William Howard Taft, “programs,
invitations, souvenirs, and other memorabilia, relating to Wisconsin and national
politics, Robert M. La Follette, Taft's visits to Wisconsin, and other matters. Some
of the letters are from Wendell W. Mischler, Taft's secretary” (2 boxes).
Howard Francis Cline* (1915-1971), Papers of, 1608-1972.
Harvard, B.A., Ph. D., History; anthropologist; “Benjamin Orange Flower and the
Arena, 1889-1909,” Journalism Quarterly 17 (June 1940), 139-50.
About 150 letters, 1938-39, mainly replies from persons who knew editor B.O.
Flower*, Benjamin Orange Flower* (1858-1918), in connection with Cline’s
research for his article.
Otherwise, “Material relating chiefly to the study of the Indians of Mexico and
Central America. Includes material concerning the Handbook of Middle
American Indians. Persons represented include John B. Glass.”
Thomas Dunn* (d. 1916), Papers of, 1858-1918 (1/2).
Businessman, Boston MA and Foochow, China.
“Correspondence, business records, and receipts from Olyphant & Company for
duties received from the Superintendent of Customs in Fu-chou shih, Fukien
Province, China (Foochow). Includes letters from S. Wells Williams, U.S.
Legation, Macao and Shanghai, relating to the Treaty of Tientsin (1858), customs,
and the Chinese empire; and letters, documents, real estate papers, and other
business papers, 1909-1918, prepared by John C. Oswald, Dunn's agent,
concerning Dunn's property and the settlement of his estate in Fu-Chou Shih.”
Letters, 1900-18 (1 box).
Worthington Chauncey Ford* (1858-1941), Papers of, n.d.
Edited The Writings of George Washington (14 v., 1889–93) and biographer of
Washington (1899); Chief, 1902-09, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress;
editor, 1909-29, Massachusetts Historical Society; President, 1917, American
Historical Association.
“Consists of notes” and reports, arranged alphabetically by subject “on China,
Cuba, Netherlands East Indies, France, Germany, Greece, Russia, etc. Also index
of items of Jefferson, Hamilton, and others.”
Albert Gleaves* (1858-1937), Papers of, 1803-1946 (13/21).
U.S. Naval Academy, 1877; Cuba, 1898; Rear Admiral, 1915; commander
Destroyer Force, 1916-17, and Cruiser and Transport Force, 1917-18, Atlantic
Fleet; Admiral and commander, 1919-22, Asiatic Fleet; author: James Lawrence:
Captain, United States Navy, Commander of the "Chesapeake" (1904); A History
of the Transport Service (1921); The Admiral: The Memoirs of Albert Gleaves,
USN (1985).
“Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, articles, books, scrapbooks, reports
of the Asiatic Fleet, notebooks, photos, newspaper clippings, biographical
material, poetry file, printed matter, and miscellaneous papers relating to Gleaves'
naval career, torpedo ordnance, his publications, naval history, and his command
of the Asiatic Fleet during which he showed a talent for diplomacy in dealing with
the representatives of the Soviet, Chinese, and Japanese governments. Ships
represented include the Alabama, Cushing, Dolphin, and Mayflower.
Correspondents include H. A. Baldridge, W. E. Beard, William Shepherd Benson,
Edward G. Blakeslee, J. C. Breckinridge, Josephus Daniels, Charles E. Fox,
Hilary P. Jones, Dudley Wright Knox, Frank L. Polk, George Haven Putnam,
Raymond P. Rodgers, David F. Sellers, Joshua Slocum, Clifford H. West, and
Spencer S. Wood.”
Diaries, 1901-20 (3 boxes); letters, 1896-1920 (2 boxes); Asiatic Fleet, 1919-22
(1 box); scrapbooks, 1903-19 (3 boxes).
George W. Goethals* (1858-1928, Papers of, circa 1890-1929 (44/51).
George Washington Goethals*: U.S. Military Academy, 1880 and Instructor,
Civil and Military Engineering; Lieutenant Colonel, 1898, Chief of Engineers,
Volunteer Army; managed inland waterways projects on Tennessee River; Chair
and Chief Engineer, 1907-14, Isthmian Canal Commission, during construction of
Panama Canal; Governor, 1914-17, Panama Canal Zone; during World War I,
1917-18: General Manager, U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation;
Chief, Division of Purchase, Storage, and Traffic, U.S. War Department; formed,
1919, George W. Goethals and Company: Advisor and Consulting Engineer, Port
Authority of New York.
“Diaries, correspondence, 1890-1929, reports, memoranda, photographs,
clippings, and scrapbooks relating chiefly” to his work in Panama and other
professional responsibilities.
Desk diaries, 1918-19 (2 boxes); family letters, 1890-1927 (2 boxes); general
letters, 1904-20 (34 boxes); general letters index, 1907-17 (1 box); subject files,
1908-20 (2 boxes).
Edwin Milton Hood* (1858-1923), Papers of, 1868-1963 (2/2).
Journalist, 1883-1923, Washington DC, Associated Press.
“Business and family correspondence, diary, Hood family history and genealogy,
photographs, clippings, recollections by colleagues, letters of condolence,
obituary notices, and other papers relating to Hood and his career as an
Associated Press correspondent covering the State Department. Includes
correspondence relating to the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919, and the
Zimmermann note, March 1, 1917, concerning foreign policy in Germany prior to
World War I.
Correspondents include James Bryce, John Hay, John D. Long, John Bassett
Moore, Theodore Roosevelt, Melville Stone, and William H. Taft.”
Typescript diary (1896-1920: 13 pp., single-spaced); letters, 1896-1920 (1 box).
Charles Carlton Marsh* (1858-1933), Papers of, 1898-1917 (1/1).
Naval Attache, 1901-05, Tokyo, Japan; in command, 1908, when training ship,
U.S.S. Yankee, during fog ran aground off Westport MA;
“Scrapbook with photographs pertaining to the Spanish-American War and with
clippings and photographs pertaining to World War I.”
George Patrick Ahern* (1859-1942), Papers of, 1911-32, 35 items.
U.S. Military Academy, 1882; Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army; forest
conservationist before Gifford Pinchot; Director, Philippine Bureau of Forestry.
“Primarily letters exchanged between Ngan Han, chief forester of China, and
Ahern, concerning the Philippine Forest School, Los Baños, the establishment of
a forest school in China, and education and military training in China. Includes
article entitled Restoring China's Forests, by Thomas H. Simpson (Review of
Reviews, March l9l6) concerning Ahern's travels in China, his forestry career, and
the reforestation movement.”
Henry Tureman Allen* (1859-1930), Papers of, 1806-1933 (35/73).
U.S. Military Academy, 1882; exploring party, Alaska, 1885-86; organizer and
Chief, Philippine Constabulary, 1901-10; Mexican Punitive Expedition, 1916-17;
commanded 90th Division, U.S Army corps, AEF, France, 1917-19 and U.S.
forces on Rhine in Germany, 1919-23; Major General, U.S. Army.
“Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Tasker Howard Bliss, Ellis Loring
Dresel, James G. Harbord, Myron T. Herrick, James H. Hyde, Arthur MacArthur,
Douglas MacArthur, Peyton Conway March, John J. Pershing, Theodore
Roosevelt, Paul M. Tirard, Hugh G. Wallace, John W. Weeks, and Leonard
Wood.”
Diaries, 1897-98, 1904-06, 1911, 1913-14, 1917-20 (2 boxes); general letters,
1896-1920 (10 boxes); military material: Philippines, Mexican Punitive
Expedition (1 box), World War I (2 boxes), occupation of Germany (1 box); book
MSS, “My Rhineland Journal” (3 boxes); clippings, 1912-30 (2 boxes); reports:
“American Military Government of Occupied Germany, 1918-20” (4 boxes),
“American Representation in Occupied Germany, 1920-21” (3 boxes);
scrapbooks, 1905, 1917-18 (3 boxes); family papers.
Philippe Bunau-Varilla* (1859-1940), Papers of, 1877-1955 (32/41).
Panamanian diplomat; engineer.
“Correspondence, typescripts of speeches, articles, and books, legal papers, and
newspaper clippings concerning Bunau-Varilla's activities in the United States,
1900-1907, his efforts to gain support for completion of the Panama Canal, and
his role in the Panamanian revolution and as minister plenipotentiary for the new
government. Includes documents selected and annotated by Bunau-Varilla,
relating to the revolution and to the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty, and the note sent to
all members of the U.S. Congress in June, 1902, with a postal stamp of the
Republic of Nicaragua witnessing the volcanic activity there. Correspondents
include Manuel Amador Guerrero, John Bigelow, Theodore E. Burton, Gustave
Eiffel, William Crawford Gorgas, Mark Alonzo Hanna, John Hay, J. J. Jusserand,
Ferdinand de Lesseps, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt.”
Letters, 1900-07 (12 boxes); clippings, 1901-14 (15 boxes).
Carrie Chapman Catt* (1859-1947), 1848-1950, bulk: 1890-1920.
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt*: President: National American Woman Suffrage
Association, 1900-04, 1915-20, and International Woman Suffrage Alliance,
1904-23; founder, 1919, National League of Women Voters.
“Correspondence, diaries, drafts of speeches and articles, subject files,
biographical papers, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers,
relating primarily to Catt's efforts on behalf of the women's suffrage movement,
feminism, and international peace. . . .
Correspondents include Grace Abbott, Jane Addams, Viscountess Nancy Witcher
Langhorne Astor, Newton Diehl Baker, Alice Stone Blackwell, Josephus Daniels,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ida Husted Harper, Mary Garrett Hay, Clara Hyde,
Fiorello H. La Guardia, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Rosette Suzanne Manus, Katherine
Dexter McCormick, Maud Wood Park, Mary Gray Peck, Helen Rogers Reid,
Rose Schneiderman, Rosika Schwimmer, Edna Lamprey Stantial, Arthur Hays
Sulzberger, William H. Taft, Joseph P. Tumulty, William Allen White, and
Justina Leavitt Wilson.”
Travel diaries, 1911-12: Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia (2 boxes); letters,
arranged alphabetically, 1890-1947 (6 boxes); biographical papers (2 boxes);
photographs (1 box).
Frank Heino Damrosch* (1859-1937), Papers of, 1856-1969.
Supervisor of Music, 1897-1905, New York City Public Schools; conducted
choral groups in Philadelphia, 1897-1905 and New York, 1897-1905; conductor,
1893-1920, New York Musical Art Society; founder, dean, 1905-33, Institute of
Musical Art; established, conducted (1898- ), Symphony Concerts for Young
People. Brother of Walter Johannes Damrosch (1862-1950).
Music Division:
Letters, arranged alphabetically, 1856-1969 (3 boxes); programs, 1867-1937, (1
box); clippings (1 box); photographs.
Gilbert M. Hitchcock* (1859-1934), Papers of, 1910-1935 (2/3).
Gilbert Monell Hitchcock*: University of Michigan Law, 1881; Nebraska Bar,
1882 and practice, Omaha, 1882-85; published, 1885-1903, Omaha Morning and
Evening World Herald; U.S. Congress, 1903-05, 1907-011, and Senate, 1911-23,
Democrat, Nebraska; newspaper work, 1923-33, Omaha.
“Correspondence, memorandum, reports, and printed material pertaining to
Hitchcock's years in the Senate; papers, 1917-20, shed light on the relations
between President Woodrow Wilson and Congress, especially during the treaty
fight in the Senate, 1919-1920.
Includes Hitchcock's correspondence with the President and with Edith Bolling
Galt Wilson on behalf of her husband. Other correspondents include Newton
Diehl Baker, Robert Lansing, and William H. Taft.”
A.E. Housman* (1859-1936), Papers of, 1906-1939.
Alfred Edward Housman*: Poet: A Shropshire Lad (1896), and others.
“Chiefly notebooks containing manuscript drafts, fair copies, and fragments of
Housman's poetry, in addition to a few letters and miscellaneous items. Also includes
an analysis by John W. Carter of some of Housman’s poems.”
J. Franklin Jameson* (1859-1937), Papers of, 1604-1994, bulk: 1900-1930.
John Franklin Jameson*: Harvard, Amherst, 1879, Johns Hopkins University,
Ph.D., History, 1882; taught history: Johns Hopkins, Brown Universities; Chair,
History Department, 1901-05; University of Chicago; Director, 1905-28,
Department of Historical Research, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC; Chief,
1928-37, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress; author: The History of
Historical Writing in America (1891), The American Revolution Considered as a
Social Movement (1926), and others.
“Correspondence, diaries, MSS. of writings, lecture notes, autobiographical
memoranda, family papers, photographs, printed materials and other papers
relating primarily to historical research and writing,” as well as Jameson’s roles in
the founding and early history of the: American Historical Association and
American Historical Review, the movement for the establishment of the U.S.
National Archives and Records Administration; guides to and copying of material
pertaining to American history in foreign repositories; and the Dictionary of
American Biography. Includes Jameson's files at the Carnegie Institution; papers
pertaining to his activities as a member of the American Council of Learned
Societies; and files kept by Leo F. Stock* for his compilation, Proceedings and
Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America (1924) and his joint
editorship with Elizabeth Donnan* of An Historian's World: Selections from the
Correspondence of John Franklin Jameson (1956).
Correspondents include prominent American and European historians of the
period, librarians, and others: Henry Adams, James Bryce, Abel Doysié, Max
Farrand, Worthington Chauncey Ford, James Gibbons, Daniel Coit Gilman,
Albert Bushnell Hart, Roscoe R. Hill, J. J. Jusserand, Waldo G. Leland, Andrew
C. McLaughlin, Herbert Putnam, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt,
Elihu Root, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Diaries and family letters, 1896-1920 (3 boxes); office files, Carnegie Institution,
arranged alphabetically (120 boxes).
Adelaide Johnson* (1859-1955), Papers of, 1873-1947.
Born Sarah Adeline Johnson*: Studied art, St. Louis MO School of Design,
Chicago IL, Germany, and Rome, Italy; thereafter lived and sculpted at various
times in Rome, Chicago, New York City, and Washington DC; major sculpture:
"The Woman Movement."
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, notes, and other papers concerning
Johnson's life and activities as sculptor and feminist. Documents her work on the
monument to Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, now
located in the crypt of the U.S. Capitol. Also includes records kept of sittings by
Anthony, John Burroughs, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and others of whom she created
portrait busts.”
Includes correspondence between Johnson and her husband, Alexander
Frederick Jenkins*, a businessman from England who upon their marriage,
1896, took her surname, Alexander Frederick Johnson* (divorced 1908); and
other members of the Jenkins and Johnson families.
Other correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Lily Biedler, Arthur Brisbane,
T. Campbell-Copeland, Edith M. Ferris, Helen H. Gardener, Agnes Hall, Gena R.
Harding, Ida Husted Harper, Elizabeth Hale Falkner Murphy, Emmeline
Pankhurst, Alice Paul, Cora L. V. Richmond, May Robson, Henry Rogers, May
Wright Sewall, Helen L. Sumner, Emma Cecilia Thursby, Sara Carr Upton, and
Henry G. Whitney.”
Diaries, 1895-1922 (5 boxes) and loose sheets, 1875-1922 (2 boxes); letters,
1893-1921 (24 boxes); notes on sittings, sculptures (18 boxes); biographical and
financial papers (4 boxes).
John Calvin Leonard* (1859-1937), Papers of, 1887-1920 (1/1).
U.S. Navy, 1882-1914, and 1917-19.
“Twelve diaries relating to Leonard's naval career during the Spanish-American
War and World War I and family matters; testimonial, 1913; and newspaper
clippings, 1898-1899.”
Jacques Loeb* (1859-1924), Papers of, 1889-1924.
Leipzig, Ph. D., Physiology, 1909; Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research,
1910-24; author: Physiology of the Brain (1899), Forced Movements, Tropisms,
and Animal Conduct (1918), Proteins and the Theory of Colloidal Behavior
(1922), Regeneration From a Physico-chemical Viewpoint (1924)
“General and professional correspondence, family correspondence, biographical
data, speeches, awards, photographs, and other material. Loeb's scientific
writings include drafts of his books; laboratory notebooks relating principally to
his research on bryophytes, gelatin, and frogs, which led to his development of the
tropism theory; and scientific articles in English and German on such topics as
colloid chemistry, genetics, osmosis, and proteins.
Correspondents include Svante Arrhenius, Bernhard Berenson, James B. Conant,
Paul De Kruif, Paul Ehrlich, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Julian Huxley, Ivan
Pavlov, and Harlow Shapley.”
Letters, 1890-1924, arranged alphabetically (16 boxes); family letters (5 boxes);
experimental notebooks, arranged alphabetically (6 boxes) and chronologically,
1896-1920 (5 boxes).
1860+
Mabel Thorp Boardman* (1860-1946), Papers of, 1853-1945, bulk: 1894-1929 (9/13).
Recruited nurses, 1898, Spanish-American War; Executive Committee, 1903, and
successor to Clara Barton, 1904, American Red Cross; confidante of William
Howard Taft and active in Republican Party.
“Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, drafts, genealogical material, newspaper
clippings, printed material, and other papers relating chiefly to Boardman's career
in the American National Red Cross, known in its early years as the American
Association of the Red Cross.” The collection “traces the Red Cross's growing
ties to the federal government and its emergence as the leading voluntary
organization providing disaster and war relief and promoting public health and
safety,” and Boardman’s leadership, especially through America’s entry in World
War I.
Also includes material about her personal life, role as a “commissioner of the
District of Columbia,” and interest in “domestic and foreign policy issues of
presidential administrations from William McKinley to Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (7 boxes) including William Howard Taft (2 boxes); diaries,
1882-1902 (1/2 box).
William Jennings Bryan* (1860-1925), papers, 1877-1940, bulk: 1896-1925 (37/66).
Candidate for President, 1896, 1900, 1908, Democratic Party; U.S. Secretary of
State, 1913-15; lecturer, 1897-1925, Chautauqua; founder, 1901, The Commoner.
“Correspondence (1879-1931), military papers and other documents, editorials,
speeches, articles, reports, scrapbooks, photograph album, and other material
chiefly relating to the presidential campaign of 1896 and to Bryan's efforts to
preserve world peace, his career as a lecturer . . . , and his interest in prohibition,
political and monetary reform, and religious issues. Includes an unpublished
biography prepared by his daughter, Grace Bryan Hargreaves.
Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, Johann
Heinrich von Bernstorff, Edward William Bok, Evangeline Cory Booth, William
Edgar Borah, Charles Walter Bryan, Albert Sidney Burleson, Andrew Carnegie,
Calvin Coolidge, Josephus Daniels, Paul Fuller, Martin Henry Glynn, Gilbert M.
Hitchcock, Cordell Hull, Ollie M. Jones, David Starr Jordan, Frank B. Kellogg,
George W. Kirchwey, Claude Kitchin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Robert Lansing,
John Lind, David Lloyd George, Boaz Walton Long, William Gibbs McAdoo,
Vance Criswell McCormick, Aimee Semple McPherson, John Raleigh Mott,
George William Norris, Lee S. Overman, George Foster Peabody, Raymond
Robins, James Brown Scott, Charles Monroe Sheldon, Morris Sheppard, Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice, Billy Sunday, Huston Thompson, William Allen White, and
Woodrow Wilson.”
General letters, 1896-1920 (29 boxes); State Department letters, 1913-15 (1 box);
Bryan-Woodrow Wilson letters, 1913-15 (1 box).
James McKeen Cattell* (1860-1944), Papers of, 1835-1948, bulk: 1896-1948.
Professor of Psychology, 1891-1917, Columbia University; co-founded, 1894,
Psychological Review; founded, 1890, Popular Science Monthly.
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches, lectures, articles, notes, financial papers,
biographical and genealogical material, family papers, clippings, printed matter,
and other papers relating primarily to Cattell's professional affiliations with the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Psychological
Corporation, American Association of University Professors, Century Club, and
Columbia University; and his writings and editorial work for Science, Popular
Science Monthly, School and Society, American Naturalist, Science Press, and
American Men of Science. Correspondents include James R. Angell, Charles E.
Bessey, Franz Boas, Edwin G. Boring, Nicholas Murray Butler, Otis W. Caldwell,
John Dewey, Asaph Hall, William J. Humphreys, Ellsworth Huntington, William
James, Joseph Jastrow, David Starr Jordan, Vernon Kellogg, Burton E.
Livingston, Jacques Loeb, Arthur O. Lovejoy, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Raymond
Pearl, Charles Sanders Peirce, Carl E. Seashore, Edward L. Thorndike, Edward
Titchener, and John B. Watson.”
Letters, arranged alphabetically, 1896-1920 (90 boxes).
George S. Duncan* (1860-1946), Correspondence of, 1891-1943, bulk: 1910-1930 (132
items).
George Stewart Duncan*: Minister; archeologist, Johns Hopkins University;
author: Outline Introduction to the New Testament (1921), Introduction to
Biblical Archeology: A Textbook for School and Home (1928), etc.
“Correspondence, chiefly 1910-1930, relating to requests for Duncan's
monographs, speaking engagements, Biblical archaeology, Egyptian and East
Asian archaeology, and religion.
Correspondents include W. F. Albright, Edgar J. Banks, A. T. Clay, Aaron
Ember, W. Max Müller, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and George Sarton.”
John Lowndes McLaurin* (1860-1934), Scrapbooks of, 1888-1935 (1/3).
Swarthmore College, PA, Carolina Military Institute; Virginia University Law;
South Carolina Bar and practiced from 1883; South Carolina legislature, 1890-91,
and 1914-15; U.S. Congress, 1892-97, and U.S. Senate, 1897-1903, Democrat,
South Carolina; State Warehouse Commissioner, 1914-17.
Biographical material, political campaigns, speeches, and newspaper clippings (4
v.).
Charles C. Marshall* (1860-1938), Papers of, 1886-1968, bulk: 1927-1937.
Charles Clinton Marshall*: Constitutional lawyer, Episcopal layman; author:
“An Open Letter to the Honorable Alfred E. Smith,” Atlantic Monthly (April
1927); Governor Smith's American Catholicism (1928).
“Correspondence, notes, scrapbooks, book MSS., reprints, and newspaper
clippings relating primarily to Marshall's controversy with Alfred E. Smith over
the qualifications of a Roman Catholic for the presidency of the United States.
Other topics include church-state questions and the Calvert controversy in 17th
century Maryland. Correspondence relates to his book on the Catholic Church
and the state, and his controversy with Smith.
Correspondents include E. Boyd Barrett, Frederic R. Coudert, Frank Dodd, James
M. Gillis, C.S.P., Leo Lehmann, Walter Lippmann, Bishop Arthur Lloyd, Wilfrid
Parsons, S.J., and Michael Williams.”
Letters, 1886-1927 (2 boxes).
Robert Lee Bullard* (1861-1947), Papers of, 1899-1955.
U.S. Military Academy, 1885; served: Philippines, 1898-1904, Cuba, 1906-09,
Mexican Border, 1915-16; commanded, 1918-19, AEF, France: First Division,
Third Army Corps and as Lieutenant General, Second Army; retired 1925.
“Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, articles, speeches, scrapbooks, MSS. of
books, photos, printed matter, maps, memorabilia, and legal papers. Diaries, with
some gaps, record the main events in Bullard's military career . . . and his
subsequent activities as president of the National Security League. Includes MSS.
of a published work, Fighting Generals, and of an unpublished Moro language
dictionary and autobiography.
Includes letters of John J. Pershing.
Diaries, 1899-1922 (2 boxes); notebook, 1907-20 (1 box).
Oscar Terry Crosby* (1861-1947), Papers of, 1878-1947, bulk: 1900-1938.
U.S. Military Academy, 1882; resigned, 1887, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army
Engineers; electrical engineer, law degree; superintendent, general manager, and
president, 1890s: local electric railways and utilities; explorer and photographer,
1900s; Director, 1915, Commission for Relief in Belgium; U.S. Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, 1917; president, 1917-19, Inter-Ally Council on War
Purchases and Finance; author, including, The Electric Railway in Theory and
Practice (New York: W.J. Johnston, 1892); Strikes: When to Strike, How to
Strike; a Book of Suggestion for the Buyers and Sellers of Labour (New York:
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910) and International War: Its Causes and Its Cure
(London: Macmillan, 1919).
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, subject files, clippings, printed
material and other papers relating to Crosby's” public service. “Also documents
his travels in Africa, East Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Subjects include
international finance, post-World War I German reparations and Allied debts,
world peace, and the establishment of an international peace tribunal.
Correspondents include Austen Chamberlain, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell
House, John Maynard Keynes, Philander C. Knox, Robert Lansing, Andrew
Bonar Law, Russell C. Leffingwell, William Gibbs McAdoo, Manuel Luis
Quezon, André Tardieu, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (1 box).
Charles B. Elliott* (1861-1937), Papers of, 1910-1912.
Charles Burke Elliott*: University of Iowa Law, 1881; University of Minnesota,
Ph. D., 1888, and lecturer, Head, International Law Department, 1889-1900;
Judge, 1890-1904, Minneapolis Municipal and District Courts; Associate Justice,
1904, Minnesota Supreme Court and 1909, Supreme Court of the Philippines;
Member, Philippine Commission (Secretary of Commerce and Police); President,
American Branch, International Law Association.
“Diaries, letterbooks, newspaper clippings, and English translations of articles in
Spanish and Filipino papers.”
Diaries, 1910-12 (2 boxes); letterbook, 1910-12 (1 v.).
Thomas Watt Gregory* (1861-1933), Papers of, 1914-1933.
Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville TN, 1883; University of
Virginia; University of Texas Law, 1885, and practice in Austin TX, 1885-1913,
Washington DC, 1919-24, and thereafter, Houston TX; supported, 1912, with
fellow Texan Edwin M. House, Woodrow Wilson’s candidacy; U.S. Attorney
General, 1914-1919; Member, 1919-20, Second Industrial Commission.
“Chiefly legal materials and correspondence from the period of Gregory's law
practice in Washington, D.C. Includes several Woodrow Wilson letters among
the small number of papers dated 1914 to 1921. Correspondence reflects
Gregory's interest in the University of Texas, the Wilson administration, and the
presidential campaign of 1932.
Correspondents include Albert S. Burleson, William Hitz, Edward M. House,
Louis McHenry Howe, William G. McAdoo, G. Carroll Todd, and Thomas J.
Walsh.”
General letters, 1914-20 (2 boxes); legal files, 1917-20 (2 boxes).
Louise Imogen Guiney* (1861-1920), Papers of, 1884-1916 (2/5).
Poet, essayist, journalist, and editor, who in Boston MA not only became well
known in the Irish community, but also joined the traditional literary circle of
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
“Chiefly letters from Guiney to Frederick Holland Day* (1864-1933),” a
publisher, 1893-99, and artist-photographer before World War I.”
“Also includes poems, transcripts of letters to Louise Chandler Moulton, and
letters to Guiney from Alice Brown, Lewis Day, Frederick H. Evans, Trois Felice,
Annie Fields, Helena de Kay Gilder, Edmund Gosse, Lionel Johnson, Alice M.
Jordan, F. Eva Lewis, Robert Loveman, Annie Nathan Meyer, Louise Chandler
Moulton, Albert Bigelow Paine, Horace E. Scudder, Dora and Clement Shorter,
John Brisben Walker, and Louise Collier Willcox.”
Letters, 1896-1915, mainly to Day and about her literary work (2 boxes).
Charles S. Hamlin* (1861-1938), Papers of, 1869-1968, bulk: 1880-1938.
Charles Sumner Hamlin*: Harvard, 1883 and Law, 1886; practiced Boston MA,
1886-93 and 1898-1913; U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary, 1893-97; U.S. Special
Commissioner, 1897, Convention of Japan, Russia, and United States to Negotiate
Fur-seal Fishery Controversy and Chair, Seal Conference Among Great Britain,
Canada, and United States; Director, 1901, Boston Merchants Association;
Lecturer on United States government, 1902-03, Harvard University; President,
1903, Massachusetts Reform Club and Member, United States Assay Commission
to Examine United States Mint, Philadelphia PA; delegate, 1904, Democratic
National Convention; Member, 1906, Japanese Famine Relief Commission of
Massachusetts; Member, 1906-15, Committee on Government, Harvard
University; arbiter, 1907-12, in several industrial disputes; actively supported,
1908, William Jennings Bryan’s candidacy and Member, United States
Commission on Limitation of Armaments; Chair of the Assembly, 1911, Boston
Chamber of Commerce; Actively campaigned, 1912, for Woodrow Wilson;
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-14; Governor, 1914-36, Federal
Reserve Board, and Special Counsel, 1936-38, Board of Governors of Federal
Reserve System, Washington DC.
“Correspondence, diaries, MSS. of writings and speeches, biographical notes,
scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers relating
chiefly to Hamlin's government service; Hamlin's civic affairs; and his family's
social life in Washington DC, 1893-1945. Topics include leaders and policies of
the Democratic Party especially during the Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson,
and Franklin D. Roosevelt administrations and Hamlin's law practice.
Includes copies of his wife’s (Huybertie Lansing Pruyn Hamlin, married 1898)
MSS. pertaining to the Hamlin, Pruyn, and Roosevelt families . . .; diaries and
scrapbooks of the Hamlin's daughter, Anna (d. 1925); and genealogical
information concerning the Hamlin family. . . .
Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, John H. Clarke, Frances Folsom
Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, Josephus Daniels, Edith Benham Helm, Herbert
Hoover, Cordell Hull, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Gibbs
McAdoo, William McKinley, Levi P. Morton, Richard Olney, George Foster
Peabody, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and
Woodrow Wilson.”
Bound diaries, 1887-1922, arranged chronologically (5 boxes) and typescript
bound index-digest to diaries, 1886-1936, arranged alphabetically (25 boxes);
scrapbooks, 1893-1921, arranged chronologically (118 boxes) plus indexes:
Woodrow Wilson index, 1912-25 (1 box), 1912-22 (3 boxes), 1912-27 (6 boxes);
personal letters, 1900-21 (8 folders); general letters, 1869-1926 (2 boxes).
Herbert Putnam* (1861-1955), Papers of, 1783-1958, bulk: 1899-1939.
Director, Boston Public Library; Librarian of Congress, 1899-1939
“Family and general correspondence, family diaries and journals, speeches,
articles, scrapbooks, legal papers, genealogical material, autograph collection, and
printed matter. The papers relate largely to Putnam's family and personal life and
include diaries and letters of many members of the Putnam and allied O'Hara,
Pinkey, and Mason families. Also included are papers relating to Putnam's
interests and activities in the field of librarianship, the latter including information
on the Library's purchase of the Vollbehr Collection and the establishment of the
Trust Fund Board.
Family members represented prominently in the papers include his father,
publisher George Palmer Putnam, his sister, historian Ruth Putnam, his daughter,
sculptor Brenda Putnam, and his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth Munroe Putnam.
Correspondents include James T. Adams, Charles W. Eliot, Luther Evans,
Worthington C. Ford, Waldo G. Leland, Archibald MacLeish, Agnes Meyer,
Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt, Ainsworth R.
Spofford, and Egerton Swartwout.”
Herbert Putnam Archives, Records, 1899-1939.
Central Services Division:
Official papers, arranged alphabetically in four series:
general letters;
Congressional file, Senate and House separately; division file, by department; and
government officials file, by agency. Indexes: names, geographical entries, and
cultural institutes.
Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler* (1861-1935), Papers of, 1882-1935 (6/8).
Concertmaster, 1882-1903, Boston Symphony Orchestra; composer and teacher,
1903-35, Boston MA.
Music Division:
Letters received, 1882-1935, from American and foreign composers and
performers relating to his compositions and teaching (6 boxes); sketches and
sketchbooks of his literary and musical works.
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin* (1862-1933), Papers of, 16549-1933, bulk: 1898-1902.
Meteorologist, Arctic explorer.
“Correspondence, reports, journals, scrapbooks, financial records, printed
material, newspaper clippings, and genealogical materials relating primarily to
Baldwin's polar explorations. . . . Other topics relate to Baldwin's interest in
aeronautics, and to genealogical studies of the Alden, Baldwin, Ford, Jefferson,
Lincoln, and Woodruff families.
Correspondents include Archibald A. C. Dickson, Ernest De Koven Leffingwell,
Christopher Thuesson, and Walter Wellman.”
Journals and records of the Wellman Polar Expedition, 1898-99 and scientific
studies made in Franz Josef Land, 1899.
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge* (1862-1927), Papers of, 1890-1927.
U.S. Senate, Republican, Indiana, 1899-1911; Progressive Party, 1912-16; war
correspondent, Germany, 1914-15.
“The papers document Beveridge's career from his early law practice through his
two terms in the senate, his espousal of the Progressive Party, his experience as a
war correspondent in Europe, and his later work as historian and biographer.
Included are addresses and articles, notes, MS. and typed drafts, printed texts,
diary notes, a few pictures, records of interviews with such figures as George
Bernard Shaw, Sir Edward Grey, Sir Gilbert Parker, the Emperor of Germany,
Alfred von Tirpitz, Gabriel Hanotaux, and Henri Bergson, on many of which
appear autograph comments by the subject. The bulk of the collection is
correspondence, which includes substantial groups of correspondence with,
among others, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Perkins, David Graham Phillips,
George H. Lorimer, John C. Shaffer, Albert Shaw, and Gifford Pinchot. Also
includes source material used by Beveridge in writing his biography of Abraham
Lincoln.”
Patronage files, 1900-12 (110 boxes); general correspondence, 1896-1920 (108
boxes); special correspondence (15 boxes); World War I, 1914-15 (9 boxes).
Charles Henry Brent* (1862-1929), Papers of, 1860-1991, bulk: 1901-1929.
Minister, 1891-1901, Boston; missionary/Bishop, 1901-18, Protestant Episcopal
Church, Philippines; attended/led, 1903-04, 1908-09, 1911-12, opium
conferences; Bishop, 1919-29, Western New York; Chief, 1918-19, Chaplain
Service, AEF; Chair, 1920, Geneva meeting to plan the World Conference on
Faith and Order.
“Correspondence, diaries, sermon notes, speeches and articles, reports,
memoranda, family and personal correspondence, obituaries, Bibles, printed
matter, memorabilia, scrapbooks. and photographs. . . . Includes correspondence,
1931-1949, of Brent's sister, Helen C. C. Brent, as well as his correspondence
with her and other family members. Also includes materials gathered by Remsen
B. Ogilby for an unpublished biography of Brent, “The Impatient Crusader.”
Correspondents include Lyman Abbott, James Bryce, Nicholas Murray Butler,
Austen Chamberlain, Calvin Coolidge, Randall Davidson, Samuel S. Drury, W.
Cameron Forbes, Herbert Hoover, Philander Chase Knox, Cosmo Gordon Lang,
J. Pierpont Morgan, John R. Mott, Alfred C. W. H. Northcliffe, Walter Hines
Page, Francis G. Peabody, George Wharton Pepper, John J. Pershing, Whitelaw
Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, Reginald N.
Willcox, and Leonard Wood.”
Diaries, 1901-17 (2 boxes), 1918-19, 1921, 1923-26, 1929 (1 box); letters, 18861900 (1 box), 1901 (1 box), 1902-07 (1 box), 1908 (1 box), 1909-11 (2 boxes),
1912-14 (1 box), 1915-16 (2 boxes), 1917-18 (3 boxes), 1918-25 (1 box); sermon
notes, 1890-1929 plus undated (12 boxes), including: 1890-97, 6 v.(1 box), 189398, 7 v. (1 box), 1896-1909, 34 v. (3 boxes), 1910-17, 4 v. (1 box), 1918-29, plus
undated/unbound (2 boxes); opium conferences, 1909-12 (1 box); scrapbooks,
1896-1901, 2 v. (1 box), 1901-28, 3 v. (1 box); clippings (1 box); printed matter
(2 boxes). Biographer’s papers: holograph Brent letters, 1890-1903 (1 box),
1904-15 (2 boxes), 1916-29 (1 box); draft of unpublished biography (1 box);
biographer’s letters, alphabetical (9 boxes).
George B. Cortelyou* (1862-1940), Papers of, 1871-1948, bulk: 1897-1908.
George Bruce Cortelyou*: Secretary to Presidents William McKinley, 18961901, and Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-03; Secretary of Commerce and Labor,
1903-04; Postmaster General, 1905-07; Secretary of the Treasury, 1907-09.
“Correspondence, letter books, diaries, memoranda, subject files, printed matter,
and miscellany relating to Cortelyou's official duties . . . and his work as Chair of
the Republican National Committee during the election of 1904; other topics
include the Spanish-American War and the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.
Correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, Robert Bacon, Albert J. Beveridge,
Cornelius N. Bliss, Edward Bok, Charles J. Bonaparte, Nicholas M. Butler,
Joseph G. Cannon, Andrew Carnegie, James S. Clarkson, Charles G. Dawes,
William R. Day, Elmer Dover, Charles W. Fairbanks, John H. Finley, Moreton
Frewen, Richard W. Gilder, Mark Hanna, John Hay, Frank H. Hitchcock, Henry
Cabot Lodge, William Loeb, Ida S. McKinley, James C. McReynolds, Victor H.
Metcalf, William H. Moody, Harry S. New, Henry C. Payne, Thomas C. Platt,
Jacob Riis, Elihu Root, Nathan B. Scott, Leslie M. Shaw, John Sherman, Charles
E. Smith, Oscar S. Straus, and William H. Taft.”
Letterbooks, 1899-1903 (3 boxes); general letters, 1899-1909 (20 boxes); political
letters, 1904 (10 boxes); Executive Office files, 1901-09 (4 boxes).
Damrosch-Blaine Family Papers, 1825-1950.
Walter Johannes Damrosch* (1862-1950): Conductor, 1885-1927, New York
Symphony Society and, 1885-98, New York Oratorio Society; husband of
Margaret B. Damrosch*.
Margaret Blaine Damrosch*, daughter of James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893),
U.S. Senator, Republican, Maine.
Music Division:
Letters, mainly received by Walter Damrosch*, 1896-1920 (200 items); Red
Cross, World War I, material; clippings.
Josephus Daniels* (1862-1948), 1806-1948, bulk: 1913-1921.
Founder, editor, Raleigh NC News and Observer; U.S. Navy Secretary, 1913-21;
U.S. Ambassador, Mexico, 1933-41.
“Correspondence, diaries, MSS. of speeches, articles and books, papers of the
Daniels, Bagley, Seabrook, and Worth families, and other material, including
patronage letters, local politics. The bulk of the collection relates to events and
policy decisions during Daniels's service as Navy Secretary . . . as editor . . .
before and after his government service, his work with the Democratic Party, . . .
and his interest in such topics as democracy, prohibition, public health and
welfare, naval aviation, and radio communication.
Correspondents include members of his family and Charles Johnston Badger,
Newton Diehl Baker, George Ernest Barnett, William Shepherd Benson, Victor
Blue, Claude Gernade Bowers, William Jennings Bryan, Albert Sidney Burleson,
Homer S. Cummings, Thomas F. Dixon, Jr., William Edward Dodd, Frank Friday
Fletcher, Albert Gleaves, Cordell Hull, John Archer Lejeune, William Gibbs
McAdoo, Samuel McGowan, Henry T. Mayo, Albert P. Niblack, Hugh Rodman,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Archibald Henderson Scales, William
Sowden Sims, Joseph P. Tumulty, Thomas Washington, Sumner Welles,
Woodrow Wilson, and Albert G. Winterhalter.”
Diaries, 1913-21 (5 boxes); letters, Woodrow Wilson, 1911-23 (3 boxes); letters,
1894-1913 (11 boxes) and 1913-21 (285 boxes); subject files, 1913-21 (77
boxes); autograph letter collection that includes: Captain Robert E. Lee, U.S.
Army; Captain Douglas McArthur, U.S. Army; Madame Ernestine SchumannHeink, and others.
Walter L. Fisher* (1862-1935), Papers of, 1879-1936, bulk: 1909-1919.
Walter Lowrie Fisher*: Hanover College IN, 1883; admitted, 1888, Bar and
practiced law, Chicago IL; President, 1906, Municipal Voters League, Chicago
IL; President, National Conservation League; Vice-President, 1909, National
Conservation Association; member, 1910-11, U.S. Railroad Securities
Commission; U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1911-13.
“Correspondence, MSS. of speeches and articles, memoranda, receipts,
genealogical tables, memorabilia, including scrapbooks, newspaper clippings,
printed matter, and photographs, chiefly relating to Fisher's interest in Chicago
municipal affairs, 1889-1935, and to his service” in the federal government.
“Includes material relating to conservation, the American National Live Stock
Association, the League to Enforce Peace, Oklahoma Indians, and Sigma Chi
fraternity.”
Correspondents include “Bernard Kate, Louis D. Bandeis, James R. Garfield,
William Kent, Robert Marion La Follette 1855-1925), Franklin K. Lane, Franklin
Mac Veagh, Frank B. Noyes, Gifford Pinchot, Julius Rosenwald, Harry Slattery,
William Howard Taft, Ida M. Tarbell, Henry C. Wallace, George W.
Wickersham, Clinton Rogers Woodruff.”
Charles Evans Hughes* (1862-1948), Papers of, 1836-1950, bulk: 1905-1940.
Columbia Law and New York Bar, 1884; counsel, New York legislative
committees investigating gas companies, 1905, and life insurance companies,
1905-06; Governor, 1907-10, New York; Associate Justice, 1910-16, and Chief
Justice, 1930-41, U.S. Supreme Court; Chair, 1917-18, Draft Appeals Board, New
York City; U.S. Secretary of State, 1921-1925.
“Correspondence, family papers, speeches, autobiographical and biographical
writings, subject files, notes, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, and other
papers relating principally to Hughes's service in Albany NY and Washington
DC, and as a member of various international bodies and commissions. Includes
papers of Hughes's father David Charles Hughes* (1832-1909) and biographers’
material of Merlo John Pusey and Henry C. Beerits.
Topics include New York state politics, his presidential campaign in the election
of 1916, World War I reparations, the Washington Conference on Limitation of
Armament, 1921-1922, International American Conference in Havana, 1928,
Japanese immigration, smuggling of alcohol, relations with Latin America,
dispute between Peru and Chile over the provinces of Tacna and Arica, the
boundary dispute between Honduras and Guatemala, the International Court of
Justice, and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Correspondents include Nicholas Murray Butler, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Gates
Dawes, Felix Frankfurter, Warren G. Harding, George Brinton McClellan Harvey,
Herbert Hoover, Alanson Bigelow Houghton, William E. Jillson, J. J. Jusserand,
Frank B. Kellogg, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Van Antwerp MacMurray, John
Bassett Moore, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt (1887-1944), Elihu
Root, C. Bascom Slemp, Harlan Fiske Stone, William H. Taft, Willis Van
Devanter, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1896-20, (4 boxes); subject files, governorship (2 boxes) and 1910-21 (1
box); scrapbooks, 1905-08 (27 boxes).
Humphrey* (1862-1954), Papers of,
William H. Hunt*, Family papers of, 1870-1924, microfilm (2 reels).
Originals in private hands.
William Henry Hunt* (1823-1883): Confederate Army; Louisiana Attorney
General, 1876; Judge, 1878, U.S. Court of Claims; U.S. Navy Secretary, 1881-82;
U.S. Minister, Russia, 1882-83.
Gaillard Hunt* (1862-1924): editorial work and Chief, Publications Division,
1887-1909, 1917-24, U.S. Department of State; Chief, 1909-17, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress; author and editor: The Life of James Madison
(1902), The Writings of James Madison (9 v., 1900-10), and others.
Some letters and a sketch of Gaillard’s life; Charles M. Andrews’ comment on
Woodrow Wilson; material regarding Gaillard’s daughter’s trip to Russia.
Mannes-Damrosch Families, Papers of, 1872-1964.
Walter Johannes Damrosch* (1862-1950): Conductor, 1885-1927, New York
Symphony Society and 1885-98, New York Oratorio Society; brother of:
Clara Damrosch* (1869-1948): Pianist, Co-Director from 1916, David Mannes
School of Music, New York City; wife of:
David Mannes* (1866-1959): Violinist, conductor; Concertmaster, 1898-1912,
New York Symphony Orchestra; founder, 1904, Symphony Club of New York;
Head, 1902-09, Walter Johannes Damroschiolin Department and Director, 191015, Music School Settlement, New York City; founder, 1912, Music School
Settlement for Colored People; founder and Co-Director with Clara Mannes*
from 1916, Mannes School of Music, New York City.
Music Division:
Letters sent by various family members, clippings, programs, photographs, artists’
drawings, paintings, sketchbooks.
Theodore Marburg* (1862-1946), Papers of, 1859-1940, bulk: 1893-1940 (7/9).
Baltimore mercantile family; Vice-President, 1899-1901, American Economic
Association; U.S. Minister, 1912-14, Belgium; President, 1915-16, American
Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes; an organizer, League to
Enforce Peace; author: League of Nations, I. A Chapter in the History of the
Movement (1917), II. Its Principles Examined (1918).
“Scrapbooks of correspondence relating to Marburg's civic activities in Baltimore
MD, his belief in internationalism and advocacy for peace before and after World
War I, and his role as U.S. Minister to Belgium. Organizations represented
include the American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes,
International Federation of League of Nations Societies, League to Enforce Peace,
and Maryland Peace Society.
Correspondents include Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Theodore Roosevelt,
William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters received, 1896-1920 (7 boxes).
Frederick William Ashley* (1863-1942), Papers of, 1822-1941, bulk: 1913-1926.
Research material, dated June 1939, for a history of the Library of Congress.
“Diary and scrapbook containing handwritten entries, chronologies, clippings,
obituaries, and memorabilia relating to Ashley's career at the Library of Congress
and to his personal life.”
Unpublished narrative (4 boxes); essays, arranged by subject (3 boxes).
Diary of Charles D. Brower, 1886-1937.
Charles D. Brower* (1863-1945): Trader, whaler, postmaster of Point Barrow,
Alaska; published author who studied, from 1884 onward, the culture and
environment of native Alaskans.
Transcript of diary (parts handwritten and typewritten), 1 v., 64 pp.
Typescript entries, 1899-1919 (23 pages).
Albert Sidney Burleson* (1863-1937), Papers of, 1845-1943 (30/37).
U.S. Congress, 1899-1913, Democrat, Texas; U.S. Postmaster General, 1913-21.
“Correspondence, memoranda, printed matter, scrapbooks, and articles. Includes
ca. 300 letters written by Woodrow Wilson, and about 100 letters addressed to
him (1912-1920). Some family letters in this group help to clarify the President's
condition at the time of his illness in 1919. Also memoranda written or typed by
Wilson. Other papers concern Burleson's activity in political campaigns from
1894 to 1936, his part in placing the country's telegraph and telephone systems
under federal control during World War I, and his close association with
congressmen, especially during the peace treaty debates in 1919.
Correspondents include Newton D. Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Henry
Breckinridge, William Jennings Bryan, Newcomb Carlton, George Creel,
Josephus Daniels, Thomas W. Gregory, Herbert Hoover, Edward M. House,
Cordell Hull, William V. Judson, Robert Lansing, William G. McAdoo, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, and Theodore N. Vail.”
General letters, 1896-1920 (25 boxes); newspaper clippings, 1898-1917 (2 boxes).
Harry Augustus Garfield* (1863-1942), Papers of, 1888-1934 (68/213).
Son of President James A. Garfield.
Williams College, 1881, and President, 1907-32; Columbia Law, 1888 and
established practice, Cleveland OH, with brother James Rudolph Garfield;
Professor of Politics, 1903-07, Princeton University; U.S. Fuel Administrator,
1917-19.
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches, family papers, legal case files, subject files,
articles, the MS. of Garfield's autobiography, Lost Visions (1944), scrapbooks,
clippings, financial matter, and other papers relating to his career” . . . in higher
education, “the Institute of Politics at Williams College, family matters, municipal
reform in Cleveland OH,” his federal service during World War I, and his
“interest in world peace, consular reform, and international relations.
Includes speeches, articles, and other papers, 1926-1932, of the Institute of
Politics and papers collected by Lucretia Garfield Comer for use in her biography,
Harry Garfield's First Forty Years: Man of Action in a Troubled World (1965).
Correspondents include Newton D. Baker, William Jennings Bryan, Calvin
Coolidge, John Hay, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, William McKinley,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow
Wilson.”
Letterbooks, 1896-1911 (13 boxes); family papers, 1896-1920 (18 boxes); general
letters, 1896-1920 (16 boxes); special letters, 1896-1920 (6 boxes); Fuel
Administration, World War I (4 boxes).
Asher C. Hinds* (1863-1919), Papers of, 1895-1900 (1/1).
Asher Crosby Hinds*: Colby College, Waterville ME, 1883; newspaper work,
1884-89, Portland ME; clerk to the Speaker, 1889-1891, and clerk at the
Speaker’s table, 1895-1911, U.S. House of Representatives; U.S. Congress, 19111917; editor, Rules, Manual, and Digest of the House of Representatives (1899)
and Hinds’ Precedents of the House of Representatives (1908).
“Diary includes family material, clippings, handwritten speeches of Speaker
Thomas B. Reed, and Hinds' observations on the activities of the House on the
questions of the annexation of Hawaii and war with Spain.”
Hilary Pollard Jones* (1863-1938), Papers of, 1889-1937, bulk: 1920-1930.
Hilary P. Jones*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1884; patrol off Cuba, 1898; commanded
elements, Transport Force, World War I; Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, 192122, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; member, 1922-27, Navy General Board.
“Correspondence, orders to duty, speeches, and other material relating primarily
to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament in Washington, D.C., 19211922, London Naval Conference, Presidential Oil Commission, and Naval Oil
Reserves Commission.
Correspondents include Colby M. Chester, Hugh Gibson, Joseph C. Grew,
George West Holland, Frank B. Kellogg, Dudley Wright Knox, John D.
McDonald, George Otis Smith, Henry L. Stimson, Curtis D. Wilbur, and Harry
Curran Wilbur.”
Letters, arranged alphabetically (2 boxes).
George B. Kleine* (1863-1931), Papers of, 1893-1945.
Founder, 1893, Kleine Optical Company, Chicago IL to sell lantern slides, etc.;
sold motion picture equipment beginning 1896; pioneer in developing film rental
system for theaters in the United States, especially movies produced abroad
before World War I.
Rita Horwitz and Harriet Harrison, The George Kleine Collection of Early Motion
Pictures in the Library of Congress: A Catalog (Washington: Library of
Congress, 1980).
James Hamilton Lewis* (1863-1939), Papers of, ca. 1907-1939 (1/4).
University of Virginia; Georgia Bar, 1882; practiced, 1885, Seattle WA; territorial
legislature, 1887-88; U.S. Congress, 1897-99, Democrat, Washington; Colonel
and Inspector-General, 1898, Puerto Rico; practiced law from 1893, Chicago IL
and city Corporation Counsel, 1905-07; U.S. Senate, 1913-1919 and 1931-39,
Democrat, Illinois.
“Personal and official correspondence, speeches, scrapbook, clippings, printed
matter, and a volume of eulogies delivered in Congress after Lewis' death. The
papers relate to Lewis' career in politics and as a delegate or attaché at various
international conferences and commissions,” as well as his practice of law,
international and domestic.
William Gibbs McAdoo* (1863-1941), Papers of, 1786-1941, bulk: 1880-1941.
Married, 1914, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, daughter of Woodrow Thomas Wilson
and Ellen Louise Axson.
Tennessee University and Bar, 1885; practiced, Chattanooga TN, 1885-1901, and
then New York City; organized and President, 1902-12, Hudson and Manhattan
Railroad Company, New York City; U.S. Treasury Secretary, 1913-19; Director
General of Railroads, 1917; Chair, Federal Reserve Board; moved law practice,
1922, Los Angeles CA; U.S. Senate, 1933-38, Democrat, California.
“Correspondence, memoranda, reports, scrapbooks, drafts and copies of speeches,
articles, and books, bulletins, photos, and printed matter, relating chiefly to
McAdoo's activities in business and public life. Includes family correspondence,
1786-1891, of the Floyd, McAdoo, and Gibbs families.”
Family letters, 1896-1920 (25 boxes); general letters, 1896-1920 (155 boxes);
letterbooks, 1910-20, 35 boxes; Woodrow Wilson-McAdoo letters, 1911-20 (12
boxes); undated subject files (33 boxes); scrapbooks, 1904-20 (12 boxes).
Frances Benjamin Johnston* (1864-1952), 1855-1954, bulk: 1890-1945.
Notre Dame Convent, Govanston MD; studied art, Académie Julian, Paris,
photography with Thomas Smillie, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC;
professional photographer:
national figures and events, 1889-1913 and
Washington society; gardens and estates, 1913-1926; Southern colonial
architecture, 1927-1952, including, 1933-40, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture
of the South.
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial papers, family papers,
clippings, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Johnston's career.
Includes material relating to her work for Ladies' Home Journal, McClure's, and
Town & Country magazines; her participation in international exhibitions in
Chicago, 1893, Paris, 1900, Buffalo, 1901, and St. Louis, 1904; her travels in
Europe; her studios in Washington DC, and New York City, the latter in
partnership” with self-taught architectural photographer Mattie Edwards
Hewitt* (1870?-1956), who worked mainly in the Northeast; and the “emerging
role of women in the profession of photography.
Family members represented include Johnston's aunt, Cornelia Benjamin Hagan,
and her mother, Frances Antoinette Benjamin Johnston, a writer for the Baltimore
Sun.
Correspondents include Henry Adams, Nellie Allen, George Grantham Bain,
Charles I. Berg, Edward Bok, William Lawrence Bottomley, Zelda Branch, H. I.
Brock, Elizabeth Cameron, Edmund S. Campbell, Bliss Carman, Jo Hubbard
Chamberlin, Frances Folsom Cleveland, George Cortelyou, Paul Philippe Cret,
Theodore Dreiser, George Eastman, Hollis B. Frissell, Walter Gay, Phoebe
Apperson Hearst, A. Horsley Hinton, Leicester B. Holland, Joseph C.
Hornblower, B. F. Johnson, Gertrude Käsebier, Frederick P. Keppel, Hans
Kindler, Clara E. Laughlin, Waldo G. Leland, Antoine Lumière, James Rush
Marshall, Charles F. McKim, John C. Merriam, Margaret Mitchell, Charles
Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, Augusta Owen Patterson, Edward Penfield, Ethel
Reed, Eva Watson Schütze, Alfred Stieglitz, Ida M. Tarbell, Mills Thompson,
John Wanamaker, Catharine Weed Barnes Ward, H. Snowden Ward, Thomas T.
Waterman, H. J. Whigham, Waddy B. Wood, and Walter E. Woodbury.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (7 boxes).
Robert Lansing* (1864-1928), Papers of, 1831-1935, bulk: 1914-1920 (60/83).
Husband of Eleanor Foster*: daughter of Secretary of State John W. Foster.
Amherst College, 1886; joined father’s law practice; specialized, beginning 1892,
in international law and arbitration; helped found and editor, 1907-28, American
Journal of International Law; Counselor, U.S. State Department, 1914-15, and
Secretary of State, 1915-20; Paris Peace Conference, 1918-19; author: The Peace
Negotiations: A Personal Narrative (1921), War Memoirs of Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State (1935), and others.
“Correspondence, memoranda, reports, resolutions, desk diaries, book
manuscripts, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, memorabilia,
photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Lansing's years in the State
Department and particularly to American foreign affairs during World War I and
the Peace Conference, and Lansing's relations with President Woodrow Wilson
and with various foreign diplomats and statesmen. Includes material on the
Lusitania affair, the Mexican crisis, the arming of merchant seamen, the Irish
Rebellion, the purchase of the Danish West Indies, relations with Japan, China,
and Latin America and the proposed Pan American Pact.
Personal papers concern Lansing's participation in private legal cases involving
international law and his activity in domestic politics. Includes the draft of
Lansing's war memoirs, later published in part.
Correspondents include Chandler P. Anderson, Frederick M. Boyer, William
Jennings Bryan, Viscount James Bryce, John W. Davis, J. M. Dickinson, Allen
Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Abram I. Elkus, John Watson Foster, Paul
Fuller, James Watson Gerard, John Grier Hibben, Cone Johnson, J. J. Jusserand,
V. K. Wellington Koo, Franklin K. Lane, Henry Cabot Lodge, Wayne MacVeagh,
Thomas R. Marshall, Alexander Meiklejohn, John Bassett Moore, Henry
Morgenthau, William Phillips, Frank L. Polk, Elihu Root, L. S. Rowe, James
Brown Scott, Edward North Smith, William Joel Stone, Seymour Van Santvoord,
Brand Whitlock, Woodrow Wilson, and Lester Hood Woolsey.”
Diaries and desk books, 1896-1920 (4 boxes); letters, 1896-1920 (55 v.);
scrapbooks, 1896-1920 (1 box).
Anita Newcomb McGee* (1864-1940), Papers of, 1688-1932.
Daughter of Simon Newcomb, mathematician and astronomer; wife of W.J.
McGee (1853-1912), geologist and ethnologist.
Newham College, Cambridge, England and University of Geneva, Switzerland;
Columbian University, Washington DC, M.D., 1892; post-graduate studies in
gynecology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore MD;
Acting Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army, Spanish-American War, and pioneer,
1898-1900, in the training of Army and Navy nurses, but opposed and resigned,
1901, a graduate nurse corps; led a volunteer nursing corps to Japan, 1904, RussoJapanese War; lecturer in hygiene, 1911, California University.
“Correspondence, drafts of articles, diaries, notebooks, scientific and medical
notes, news clippings, photos, an ‘Idea book,’ and memorabilia. Much of the
correspondence is with her father and her son, Eric McGee Newcomb (19021930, surname changed), especially regarding his educational and vocational
progress. Includes lectures and articles on hygiene and medical matters; articles
pertaining to her studies of such communal societies in the United States as the
Shakers and the Bethel and Oneida communities; correspondence written while
she was on military duty; and material relating to the formation, 1885, of the
Women's Anthropological Society of America.
Also contains the family correspondence, 1836-46, of Dr. McGee's grandfather,
Charles A. Hassler, U.S. Navy surgeon.
Correspondents include Charles B. Davenport, Edward S. Holder, Aleander
Longley, and Gifford Pinchot.”
Letters, alphabetically arranged (2 boxes); general subject file (2 boxes);
American communal societies (1 box).
Peyton Conway March* (1864-1955), Papers of, 1897-1955 (11/33).
Lafayette College, U.S. Military Academy, 1888; Philippines, 1898-1901, aide to
General Arthur McArthur; member, 1903-07, War Department General Staff;
military observer with Japanese, 1904, Russo-Japanese War; Mexican Border,
1916-17; Brigadier General to General, 1917-21, AEF and U.S. Army Chief of
Staff.
Diaries and notebooks, correspondence, speeches and writings, scrapbooks,
reports, photographs, printed matter, and other items. Includes letters from
Newton Diehl Baker.
Diaries and notebooks, 1904 (1 box); letters, 1904-20 (3 boxes); scrapbooks,
1898-1918 (5 boxes).
1865+
Paul Wayland Bartlett* (1865-1925), Papers of, 1881-1949.
Sculptor.
“Correspondence, lecture notes, speeches, sketches, and blueprints revealing
Bartlett's negotiations, contracts, manner of selecting materials, problems and
methods of work, and discussions with other sculptors, architects, artists, and
craftsmen. Separate files concern Bartlett's statue of Lafayette, the pediment of
the House wing of the Capitol, his figures of Michelangelo and Columbus in the
Library of Congress, and other works.
Correspondents include Chester Beach, Poultney Bigelow, Karl Bitter, John M.
Carrère, Cyrus E. Dallin, and Grover A. Whalen. A small group of letters received
by Bartlett's father, Truman Howe Bartlett, includes letters from Dorothy Canfield
Fisher, Emmanuel Frémiet, Jean Francois Millet, Auguste Rodin, and Olin L.
Warner.”
Family letters, 1903-20 (8 boxes); general letters, 1892-1925 (6 boxes); sculpture
file (5 boxes); Truman H. Bartlett papers (11 boxes); photograph file (31 boxes).
William Edgar Borah* (1865-1940), papers, 1905-1940, bulk: 1912-1940.
U.S. Senate, 1907-40, Republican, Idaho.
“Correspondence, memoranda, reports, subject and legislative files, speeches and
articles, patronage and constituent files, notebooks, newspaper clippings, and
other material relating primarily to Borah's political interests and career in the
U.S. Senate. The papers document the principal issues of politics and foreign and
domestic policy during the period 1912-1940, especially antitrust legislation,
League of Nations and World Court, isolationism, foreign relations with the
Soviet Union, land utilization, New Deal and National Recovery Administration,
Sino-Japanese War, Lausanne treaty settlement, neutrality legislation, and
outlawry of war. . . .
Correspondents include Jane Addams, Edwin Montefiore Borchard, Henry M.
Dawes, Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, Hamilton Fish, Samuel Gompers, Norman
Hapgood, Will H. Hays, John Haynes Holmes, James Weldon Johnson, Frank B.
Kellogg, Frank Knox, Henry Cabot Lodge, Amos Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot,
Raymond Robins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Joseph Walsh, William Allen
White, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1907-09 (4 boxes); political letters, 1914-16 (6 boxes); general letters,
1913-21 (40 boxes); subject file: land, 1907-20 (21 boxes), departmental, 191721 (38 boxes), League of Nations, 1919-20 (3 boxes); speeches and data, 1908-24
(8 boxes); plus microfilm, originals held by University of Idaho Library (11
reels).
Minnie Maddern Fiske* (1865-1932), Papers of, 1884-1932.
Born Maria Augusta Davey*: Youngest performer, 1868, with “Maddern
Family,” child actress, stardom by age sixteen; married, 1890, and temporarily
retired; soon returned to wide acclaim as an interpreter of Ibsen and Shakespeare;
with her husband, leased, 1901, Manhattan Theater, New York City, to offer
productions independent of the “Theatrical Syndicate”; campaigned, 1900-25, for
humane treatment of animals.
Harrison Grey Fiske* (1861-42), journalist; contributor, 1879, editor, and
beginning in 1883, sole owner-publisher of The Dramatic Mirror; theatrical
manager, from 1896,
“Correspondence; prompt books annotated by Fiske; records of box office
receipts and invoices covering scenery, costumes, and lighting for many of the
productions in which Fiske appeared; financial papers reflecting the expenses of
theatrical production; scrapbooks; and drafts of speeches, articles, and books
written by Fiske and also by her husband. Includes material relating to the
continuing controversy between the Fiskes and the theatrical trusts of the period.
Correspondents include Gertrude Atherton, James M. Barrie, David Belasco,
Daniel Chester French, Jack London, John Philip Sousa, Alexander Woollcott,
and Florenz Ziegfeld.”
Letters, 1890-1932, arranged alphabetically: Minnie, general (6 boxes) and to
Harrison (2 boxes); Harrison, general (10 boxes) and to Minnie, 1910-31 (1 box).
Drama file (19 boxes); scrapbooks: Minnie, 1895-1920 (30 boxes) and Harrison,
1896-1919 (6 boxes), other theatrical personalities (8 boxes). Subject file, 190032 (28 boxes), including address-date books (2 boxes), financial papers (3 boxes),
humane treatment of animals (6 boxes), play MSS. (5 boxes); lawsuits (2 boxes).
Henry Delaware Flood* (1865-1921, 1870-1921, bulk: 1901-1921.
Henry De La Warr Flood*, Henry D. Flood*: Washington and Lee University,
Lexington VA; University of Virginia Law; Virginia Bar, 1866; practiced law and
served, 1887-1903, Virginia legislature; prosecuting attorney, 1891, 1895, 1899,
Appomattox County VA; U.S. Congress, 1901-21.
“Correspondence, legislative bills, resolutions, newspaper articles, and other
papers relating chiefly to political affairs in Virginia. Subjects include bills
introduced, army and military matters, campaign materials, diplomatic and
foreign affairs, the establishment of the national fertilizer development center at
Muscle Shoals, Ala., prohibition, revenue and taxes, roads, tariff, War Dept.
matters, and agricultural legislation.
Correspondents include Harry F. Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, John Quinn, Thomas F.
Ryan, Elbert Lee Trinkle, and Robert W. Woolley.”
General letters, 1896-1920 (52 boxes); letters sent, 1899-1903 (5 boxes); subject
files, arranged alphabetically, 1898-1921 (16 boxes).
James Rudolph Garfield* (1865-1950), Papers of, 1879-1950, bulk:
(135/244).
1890-1932
Son of President James A. Garfield.
Wiliiams College, 1885; Columbia Law, 1888 and established practice, Cleveland
OH, with brother Harry A. Garfield; Ohio legislature, 1896-99; confidant of
Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-12; Commissioner, U.S. Civil Service Commission;
Commissioner of Corporations, 1903-07, Commerce and Labor Department; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1907-09; unsuccessful candidate, 1914, Progressive
Party, Ohio Governor.
“Correspondence, diaries, 1880-1948, professional and official records, speeches,
legal case files, articles, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other papers relating to
Garfield's activities as a lawyer, member of the Ohio senate,” appointed federal
government official, and to “municipal and cultural affairs in Cleveland and
Mentor, Ohio. Organizations represented include the Academy of Political
Science, National Conservation Association, Progressive and Republican parties,
and Roosevelt Memorial Association. Includes correspondence and other
material relating to his father, James A. Garfield. . . .
Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Viscount James Bryce, Calvin
Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, Frederic Clemson Howe, Gaillard Hunt, J. J.
Jusserand, Gifford Pinchot, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt,
L. S. Rowe, Woodrow Wilson, and Leonard Wood.”
James Garfield: Diaries, 1895-1921, (9 boxes); family letters: Lucretia (mother),
1894-1918 (8 boxes); Helen (wife), 1894-1911 (11 boxes); other family members,
1894-1921 (9 boxes). General letters, 1894-1921 (28 boxes); special letters,
1880-1936, arranged alphabetically (14 boxes); office files, 1902-09, 1911 (6
boxes); subject file, 1893-1949, (21 boxes); political file, 1892-1920 (9 boxes);
legal case papers, 1898-1920 (12 boxes); scrapbooks, 1891-1909 (5 boxes);
photographs (1 box).
Helen Newell Garfield* (d. 1930): Diaries, 1881-1915 (2 boxes); general letters,
1892-1921 (10 boxes); letters, “French Orphans,” 1916 and 1921 (2 boxes).
Warren G. Harding* (1865-1923), Papers of, 1888-1923, microfilm (263 reels).
Originals held by Ohio Historical Society, Columbus OH.
Warren Gamaliel Harding*: Ohio Central College, Iberia; briefly taught school
and sold insurance; reporter, editor, publisher, and owner, from 1884, Marion OH
Star; Ohio legislature, 1899-1903 and Lieutenant Governor, 1903-05; U.S.
Senate, 1915-21, Republican, Ohio; U.S. President, 1921-23.
“Business, personal, and political papers from Harding's early years; . . . U.S.
Senatorial correspondence, 1915-1921; pre-election and campaign papers, 19191921, relating to his nomination and campaign for the Presidency; official and
personal Presidential papers, 1921-1923; material on his Alaska trip, 1923;
speeches and appointment books; documents relating to Harding's death and the
disposition of his estate; genealogical data; correspondence and clippings relating
to Harding's Presidency collected by his wife, Florence Kling DeWolfe; records,
1923-1931, of the Harding Memorial Association relating to the construction of
Harding Memorial.
Includes papers of George B. Christian, Sr., and George B. Christian, Jr.; and
papers of Kathleen Lawler, including her unpublished biography of the Hardings
and material about Albert B. Fall. Also includes papers of Cyril Clemens, Hoke
Donithen, Charles E. Hard, Ray B. Harris, Malcolm Jennings, Charles E. Sawyer,
and Frank E. Scobey.”
Warren G. Harding* (1865-1923), Papers of, 1908-1923.
“285 items, 4 containers. Restrictions apply (in part).”
Rudyard Kipling Collection,
Rudyard Kipling* (1865-1936): Born in Bombay, India, son of English civil
servant; educated in England, 1871-81; returned to India, worked for English
language newspapers, published poetry, became a traveling correspondent;
obtained copyrights in the United States, 1891; married sister of his American
publisher, owned lot and built house in Brattleboro VT, 1892-1902, but lived in
England after 1896; visited South Africa, 1899-1900, wrote about Boer War;
Nobel Prize, Literature, 1907; lost son, John Kipling, at front, 1915; wrote articles
through 1923 about aspects of World War I; co-author: Barrack-Room Ballads
and other Verses (1892); author: The Jungle Book (1894), and others; memoir:
Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown (1937).
Manuscript Division:
Papers, ca. 1897-1936 (9 items).
“In part, photocopy and typewritten transcript.”
Rare Book Division:
Letters, 1882-1919, concerning publication of his works in America and some
comments on American politics (1896-1919, 2 v.).
George B. McClellan* (1865-1940), Papers of, 1838-1922 (10/17).
Includes letters, 1838-1907, of his parents, General and Mrs. George B.
McClellan, Sr. (1826-1885).
George Brinton McClellan*: Princeton, 1886, and LL. D., 1905; newspaper
reporter and editor; New York Bar, 1892; Treasurer, 1889-93, New York and
Brooklyn Bridge; U.S. Congress, 1895-1903, Democrat, New York; Mayor,
1904-09, New York City; Professor of Economic History, from 1912, Princeton;
Major to Lieutenant Colonel, 1917-19, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army; author:
The Oligarchy of Venice (1904), Venice and Bonaparte (1931), and others.
“Correspondence; college scrapbooks; diary of military experiences in World War
I; subject file relating mainly to McClellan's political activities; articles, lectures,
and other MSS., printed materials, photographs, and memorabilia.
Correspondents include Nicholas Murray Butler, Grover Cleveland, Jean J.
Jusserand, Robert Lansing, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge, J. Pierpont
Morgan, Alfred E. Smith, William H. Taft, Henry Van Dyke, and Woodrow
Wilson.”
Diary, 1917-18 (1 box); letters, 1896-1920 (4 boxes); subject files, 1896-20 (2
boxes).
Chandler Parsons Anderson* (1866-1936), Papers of, 1896-1935 (38/64).
“Specialist in international law,” legal advisor, 1905-10, 1914-15 and counselor,
1910-13, U.S. State Department; counselor for other countries, 1918-21.
“Correspondence, diary notes, informal records and notes of negotiations,
typewritten and printed documents, and MS. notes for articles and editorials.
Includes material on boundary disputes, inland and international fisheries
negotiations, claims commissions and disarmament conferences. The collection
consists primarily of correspondence with prominent officials of the U.S. and
other governments, editors of professional journals regarding publication of his
articles, and other matters.
Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Otis T. Cartright, Charles Evans
Hughes, David Starr Jordan, Philander C. Knox, Robert Lansing, Frank Polk,
Elihu Root, James B. Scott, and Charles B. Warren.”
General letters, 1894-1920 (3 boxes); diaries, 1914-22 (2 boxes); office files,
1896-1920 (32 boxes).
John Barrett* (1866-1938), Papers of, 1861-1943, bulk: 1907-33.
Journalist, diplomat; Minister: Siam, 1894-98, Argentina, 1902-03, Panama,
1904, Colombia, 1905-07, U.S. State Department; war correspondent, Philippines,
1898; Director General, Pan American Union, 1907-21.
“Family and general correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, subject files,
writings and speeches, financial papers, reports, biographical materials,
scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers relating principally to Barrett's career as a
journalist in California, Washington, and Oregon; his appointments as U.S.
minister to Argentina, Colombia, Panama, and Thailand; his duties at the Pan
American Union; and his work as a counselor and arbiter in the area of Pan
American commercial relations. Other topics include Barrett's travels in East
Asia, his duties as special adviser to Admiral George Dewey during the Philippine
Insurrection, the Venezuelan boundary dispute, the Panama Canal, and the
general area of relations between the U.S. and Latin America.”
Letters, 1896-1920 (42 boxes); newspapers and clippings, mainly concerning
Latin America, 1896-1920 (9 boxes); maps (2 boxes); letters, 1896-1907 (6
boxes); letters, mainly Pan American Union, 1907-20 (10 boxes). Biographer’s
papers (9 boxes).
Breckinridge Family Papers, 1752-1965
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches and articles, subject files, financial and legal
papers, scrapbooks, and other papers of various Breckinridge family members.
...
Correspondents include Jane Addams, Henry T. Allen, Alben William Barkley,
Braxton Bragg, Carrie Chapman Catt, William Conant Church, Grover Cleveland,
John F. Condon, Harold W. Dodds, Jubal Anderson Early, Antoinette Funk,
Edward Miner Gallaudet, A. W. Greely, Ernest Gruening, James Guthrie, John
Marshall Harlan, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Hilary A. Herbert, Cordell Hull,
Harold L. Ickes, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Loftin Johnson, Alfred M. Landon, H.
W. Lawton, Robert E. Lee, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), William McKinley,
James Madison, John Marshall, Nelson Appleton Miles, Samuel Miller, James
Monroe, John Hunt Morgan, Frances Perkins, Horace Porter, Hjalmar Johna
Fredrik Procopé, Redfield Proctor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, T.
O. Selfridge, Anna Howard Shaw, Isaac Shelby, Jouett Shouse, Ruth Hanna
McCormick Simms, Adlai E. Stevenson (1835-1914), Oscar Straus, Fred M.
Vinson, James Wolcott Wadsworth, William Allen White, Woodrow Wilson, and
Stephen Samuel Wise.”
Letters, 1896-1904 (32 v.); letterbooks, 1896-1903 (29 boxes); woman suffrage
papers, 1896-1903 (25 boxes).
Sophonista Preston Breckinridge* (1866-1948), letters, 1896-1920 (3/3)
Dean, School of Social Service Administration, University of
Chicago; associate of Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago IL;
pioneer in the field of social work and social legislation.
Henry Breckinridge* (1886-1960), Papers of, 1913-1954.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, 1913-16; AEF in Europe;
attorney, New York City.
Diary, 1914-16 (1 box); family and special letters, 1913-45 (5
boxes); general, personal and professional letters, 1913-16 (7
boxes).
Abraham Flexner* (1866-1959), Papers of, 1865-1989, bulk: 1900-1959.
Johns Hopkins University, 1886; public high school teacher, 1886-90, and
founder and head, 1890-1905, preparatory school, Louisville KY; Harvard M.A.,
1906; graduate work, 1907-08, University of Berlin; joined, 1908, Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; “Flexner Report,” 1910: Medical
Education in the United States and Canada; Assistant Secretary and Secretary,
1913-25, and Director, 1925-28, Division of Studies and Medical Education,
General Education Board.
“Correspondence, research material for Flexner's Medical Education, reports,
notes, family papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers pertaining
chiefly to Flexner's activities in educational reform.”
“Family correspondents include his wife Anne Crawford Flexner, daughters Jean
Atherton Flexner and Eleanor Flexner, Bernard Flexner, Hortense Flexner, and
James Thomas Flexner.
Other correspondents include Louis Bamberger, John D. Barrett, E. Michael
Bluestone, Welles Bosworth, W. R. Boyd, Wallace Buttrick, Huntington Cairns,
Evans Clark, Richard Courant, Thomas Stephen Cullen, Harold W. Dodds, Albert
Einstein, Raymond Blaine Fosdick, Robert J. Getty, Jean Gottmann, Paul H.
Hanus, Caryl Parker Haskins, James Hazen Hyde, William S. Learned, Herbert H.
Lehman, Charles A. Lindbergh, E. A. Lowe, Paul Mantoux, Violet R. Markham,
Thomas H. McKittrick, Paul Mellon, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Allan Nevins, John
D. Rockefeller (1874-1960), Julius Rosenwald, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Dean
Rusk, Ellery Sedgwick, William Henry Welch, Hermann Weyl, Sir E. L.
Woodward, and the Ford Foundation.”
Family letters, 1908-26 (2 boxes); letters concerning medical education, 1909-12
(4 boxes); Carnegie Foundation President Henry S. Pritchett's letters during his
service, 1901-10, on the U.S. Light-House Board (1 box).
William J. Ghent* (1866-1942), Papers of, 1876-1942.
William James Ghent*: Editor, 1897-98, American Fabian; contributor, 1900-13,
The Independent; Secretary, 1906-09, and President, 1909-11, Rand School of
Social Science; Secretary, 1911-12 to Victor L. Berger; editor, 1915-17,
California Outlook; member, 1917-19, Executive Committee, American Alliance
for Labor and Democracy; contributor, 1919-20, Weekly Review; author: Our
Benevolent Feudalism (1902); Mass and Class: A Survey of Social Divisions
(1904); The Reds Bring Reaction (1923).
“Correspondence, memoranda, MSS., notes, reports, subject files, photographs,
clippings, and printed material relating to Ghent's writings on the West and the
Socialist movement in the United States. Includes MSS. of biographical sketches
appearing in the Dictionary of American Biography and articles and book reviews
appearing in trade journals. Also includes diaries of Edward S. Godfrey and
Holmes O. Paulding, participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Correspondents include J. Nelson Barry, Charles Francis Bates, Charles A. Beard,
E. A. Brininstool, P. E. Byrne, Elizabeth Custer (Mrs. George A.), Frederick S.
Dellenbaugh, Stella M. Drumm, Fred Dustin, Grant Foreman, Edward S. Godfrey,
Mrs. Edward S. Godfrey, W. A. Graham, Leroy F. Hafen, Grace Raymond
Hebard, J. Franklin Jameson, Charles Kelly, Lougmans, Green and Company,
Dumas Malone, Gustavus Myers, William W. Neifert, Allan Nevins, Don Russell,
Edwin L. Sabine, Fred A. Sims, Upton Sinclair, John Spargo, Mark Sullivan,
George W. Webb, and Maurice Williams.”
Arranged alphabetically: General letters, 1914-42, mainly after 1920 (7 boxes);
articles, book reviews, 1902-41 (6 boxes); book file, 1902-36 (5 boxes); notes (2
boxes); subject files, 1876-1942 (11 boxes); clippings, arranged by subject (14
boxes).
James G. Harbord* (1866-1947), Papers of, 1886-1938, bulk: 1918-1919 (40/42).
Kansas State Agricultural College, 1886; enlisted private, later commissioned,
1891, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army; after 1898, Cuba occupation and
Philippines; Mexican border with General John J. Pershing, 1916; AEF, France,
1917-19; Brigadier General and Chief, 1917-18, of Pershing’s Staff; commanded,
June-July 1918, a U.S. Marine brigade near Chateau-Thierry, France and the 2nd
(Army) Division in the Soissons offensive; Chief, late July 1918-19, Service of
Supply; Major General and Chief, 1919, of the American Military Mission to
Armenia; Vice-Chief of Staff, 1921-22, U.S. Army, under General Pershing;
President and later, Board Chair, 1922-47, Radio Corporation of America; author:
Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia (1920); The American Army
in France, 1917-1919 (1936).
“Bulk of collection concerns Harbord's service in World War I. . . . Includes
administrative memoranda of General Pershing, records of conversations, a
personal diary, clippings, a portrait, scrapbooks, confidential cables, records of
the 2nd Division, operation maps, barrage charts, sketches, and translations of war
diaries of German units.
Correspondents include Leonard Wood, Newton D. Baker, William H. Taft, John
J. Pershing, and Frank McIntyre.”
Private letters, 1896-1916 (5 v.); personal letters and activities, 1917-19 (6 v.);
AEF records, 1917-19 (14 v.); English translations, German diaries, 1918 (9 v.);
Stars and Stripes, 1918-19 (3 v.).
Alexander Jeffrey McKelway* (1866-1918), Papers of, 1860-1932 (7/9).
Secretary, Southern Office, National Child Labor Committee.
“Correspondence and speeches in regard to the political and social aspects of
child labor in the South; Georgia Historical Society and Hoke Smith; Harper’s
Weekly and Norman Hapgood; and prohibition. The McKelway family papers
contain boyhood letters of Ben McKelway, editor of the Washington Star, and
other papers pertaining to the life of St. Clair McKelway.
Correspondents include Josephus Daniels, Henry F. Keenan, Gifford Pinchot,
Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1898-1920 (3 boxes); addresses, child labor (2 boxes); prohibition (1
box).
Gutzon Borglum* (1867-1941), Papers of, 1895-1960, bulk: 1912-1941.
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum*: Sculptor; campaigner, 1912, for Theodore
Roosevelt and Progressive Party.
“Correspondence, diaries, family papers, subject files, speeches and writings, and
other papers. Relates primarily to Borglum's artistic works, especially the Mount
Rushmore National Memorial and the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial.
Also includes material relating to his involvement in politics; aviation and his
membership in various aeronautics societies and investigation into federal
government contracts with aeronautics industries during World War I; in various
civic affairs including highway planning; in Indian affairs primarily relating to the
Oglala Sioux Indians of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S.D.; and his activities as
a Freemason.
Correspondents include Henry H. Arnold, Newton D. Baker, Calvin Coolidge,
Josephus Daniels, Daniel Chester French, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover,
Harold L. Ickes, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Robert Todd Lincoln, Auguste
Rodin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jacob Schiff, George Bernard
Shaw, William Allen White, Woodrow Wilson, and Frank Lloyd Wright.”
Diaries, 1899-1920 (1 box); family papers, 1895-1947 (1 box); general letters,
alphabetical (47 boxes); subject file, 1895-1960 (80 boxes), including: aircraft
investigation, 1918 (7 boxes), financial papers, 1896-1920 (2 boxes), highways (2
boxes), Indian affairs (2 boxes), International Sporting Club (1 box), politics,
1910-16 (1 box), Progressive Party (2 boxes), art works (35 boxes).
Lyman Judy Carlock* (1867-1903), Papers of, 1899-1905 (1/2).
Attorney; judge, 1901-03, Philippines; died April 20, 1903, Cebu City,
Philippines.
“Correspondence, diary (190l), legal papers, scrapbook, clippings, printed
material, and memorabilia, largely relating to Carlock's service in the Philippines.
Later papers concern his death, estate,” and spouse: Lila Mable Riddle* Carlock.
“Correspondents include Joseph V. Graff and William Howard Taft.”
Letters and documents, some in Spanish (1/2 box).
Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie* (1867-1915), Papers of, ca. 1892-1915 (1/1).
Edwin C. Dinwiddie*: Wittenberg College and Seminary, Springfield OH, 1894,
licensed Evangelical Lutheran minister, and full-time worker in the temperance
movement; State Superintendent, from 1897, Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League;
expert and Legislative Superintendent, 1899-1907 and 1911-20, in Washington
DC, American Anti-Saloon League; President, 1920-21, International Congress
Against Alcoholism.
“Scrapbook, ca. 1892-1905, containing correspondence, tracts, pamphlets,
clippings, and other papers pertaining to temperance; and indexed list, 1913-1915,
of resolutions in the U.S. Congress concerning prohibition.” Includes printed and
mimeographed literature of the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and American Anti-Saloon
Leagues.
Finley Peter Dunne* (1867-1936), Papers of, 1889-1936 (160 items).
Born Peter Finley Dunne*:
Chicago IL journalist, political and social
commentator, humorist, author: Mr. Dooley in Peace and War (1898), etc.
Letters received from “publishers, editors, political figures, labor leaders, and
others relating primarily to the chief character in many of Dunne's books, Mr.
Dooley, and to Mr. Dooley's observations.
Correspondents include H. M. Daugherty and Theodore Roosevelt.”
Frank H. Hitchcock* (1867-1935), Papers of, 1905-1935 (2/4).
Frank Harris Hitchcock*: Recommended appointment, 1892, of naturalist
Edward Alexander Preble (1871-1957) to U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey;
Chair, 1908-09, Republican National Committee; U.S. Postmaster General, 19091913.
“Correspondence, journals, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating
largely to Hitchcock's service in Washington and as a publisher in Arizona.
Correspondents include Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, George B. Cortelyou, and
Theodore Roosevelt.”
Memorabilia and letters, 1905-20, “from distinguished friends” (2 boxes).
John Archer Lejeune* (1867-1942), Papers of, 1815-1950, bulk: 1900-1942 (8/20).
Louisiana State University, B.A. and U.S. Naval Academy, 1888; U.S. Marine
Corps, 1890-1929; U.S.S. Vandalia, 1889, hurricane in Samoa; U.S.S. Cincinnati,
Spanish-American War; Marine operations in Haiti, Panama, and Veracruz Llave,
Mexico; commanded Second Army Division, AEF; Major General and
Commandant, 1920-29, U.S. Marine Corps; Superintendent, 1929-37, Virginia
Military Institute.
“Family and general correspondence, memoranda, speeches and writings, notes,
military papers, and printed materials relating to Lejeune's education, military
career, and tenure at VMI, Lexington VA.
Correspondents include John E. Ausland, Newton D. Baker, George Barnett,
Hugo L. Black, Smedley Butler, John H. Craige, Josephus Daniels, Gordon
Dorrance, James G. Harbord, R. S. Keyser, Charles E. Kilbourne, Rufus H. Lane,
Augustus Lejeune, Charles G. Long, John J. Pershing, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
John H. Russell, Charles P. Summerall, Park Trammell, Hugh H. Trout, Carl
Vinson, and Littleton W. T. Waller.”
Family letters, 1896-1920 (3 boxes); subject file, Marine Corps, 1904-20 (3
boxes).
Henry Justin Allen* (1868-1950), Papers of, 1896-1942, bulk 1919-42 (42/214).
Publisher, Wichita (KS) Beacon, 1907-28; unsuccessful Progressive candidate,
1914, and elected Kansas Governor, Republican, 1919-23; delegate, Republican
National Convention, 1912 and Progressive National Conventions, 1912, 1916;
American Red Cross, France, 1917-18.
“Correspondence, supplemented by speeches, articles, printed matter, clippings,
and miscellaneous papers, chiefly 1919-1942, relating to Allen's public career,
especially his terms as governor and U.S. senator. Includes papers documenting
Allen's business activities and his work on behalf of Near East Relief, Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association, and Save the Children Federation.
Other subjects include the Court of Industrial Relations, the Allen-Gompers
debate, Industrial Workers of the World, National Nonpartisan League, and the
Ku Klux Klan.
Correspondents include Will H. Hays, Harold L. Ickes, Alfred M. Landon, Arthur
Vandenberg, William Allen White, and Leonard Wood.”
Letters, speeches, articles, 1896-1918 (2 boxes); special letters, 1918-23 (1 box);
general letters, 1919-20 (4 boxes); labor relations, 1919-21 (3 boxes); Henry J.
Allen-Samuel Gompers debate, 1920-21 (2 boxes); IWW-Non-Partisan League,
1919-22 (1 box); presidential file, 1920 (1 box); Constitutional amendments,
1919-23 (2 boxes); legislative file, 1920-21 (1 box); 35th Division, U.S. Army
controversy, 1918-19 (2 boxes); Ku Klux Klan.
Emil Amberg* (1868- ), Papers of, 1898-1934 (1/3).
Prominent Detroit MI physician and surgeon; pioneer in medical ethics and
legislation, Wayne County Medical Society, Detroit MI; later, defender of Jews
against attacks by Henry Ford and Father Coughlin.
“Correspondence, documents (including bills and acts), clippings, printed matter,
and scrapbooks relating to the pioneer work of the Wayne County Medical
Society, Detroit, on interstate medical reciprocity and uniform medical legislation
throughout the U.S., the subsequent adoption of its proposal by the American
Medical Association, medical education, ethics, law, and attitudes of the AMA on
various medical and medicopolitical problems, Samuel Hahnemann, and other
medical and scientific topics.”
Letters, 1898-1920 (1 box).
Solon Hannibal Borglum* (1868-1922), papers, 1897-1928.
Sculptor; founder, 1902, School of Art, Silvermine CT; founder, 1918, AEF
School of Fine Arts, France; founder, 1920, American School of Sculpture, New
York City.
“Correspondence, articles, photographs, scrapbook of clippings, biographical
material, and printed materials relating to Borglum's commissioned works and to
his activities as head of the Silvermine, Conn., group of artists, American School
of Sculpture, and American Expeditionary Force School of Fine Art.
Correspondents include Theodore Roosevelt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Booker T.
Washington, and Leonard Wood.”
Letters, 1898-1922, related to his commissioned works, articles, and schools (5
boxes).
Mark L. Bristol* (1868-1939), Papers of, 1882-1939, bulk: 1919-1939.
Mark Lambert Bristol*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1887; served, 1898, U.S.S. Texas,
Battle of Santiago, Cuba; in charge, 1913-16, Naval Aviation; commanded U.S.S.
Oklahoma, 1918-19; High Commissioner to Turkey, 1919-27; Rear Admiral,
commander of Asiatic Fleet, 1927.
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches, reports, memoranda, official dispatches,
appointment sheets, press releases, and scrapbooks, that pertain to Bristol's naval
career.”
Chronological file, 1900-20 (8 boxes); diaries, 1919-20 (3 boxes); subject file,
1919-20 (3 boxes); Turkey, 1919-20 (4 boxes); Naval Historical Collection (1
box).
Kenyon L. Butterfield* (1868-1935), Papers of, 1890-1970.
Kenyon Leech Butterfield*: President, 1903-06, Rhode Island State A & M;
member, 1908, Country life Commission; President, 1906-24, Massachusetts
State College of Agriculture; founded, 1919, American Country Life Association
and, 1920, World agricultural Society.
“Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, studies and surveys, speeches and articles,
MSS. of books, and printed materials” relating to Butterfield's efforts to improve
country life, his work with “foreign Christian missions, and his innovations in the
curricula, services, and administration of agricultural colleges.
Correspondents include Ray Stannard Baker, Calvin Coolidge, H. Paul Douglas,
Charles W. Garfield, William Ernest Hocking, Cyrus H. McCormick, Walter
Hines Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Henry A. Wallace, and
Henry C. Wallace.”
Frederick Dixon* (1868?-1923), Papers of, 1897-1923, bulk: 1914-1922 (2/2).
First editor, 1908-22, Boston Christian Science Monitor.
“Correspondence, memoranda, and printed material relating primarily to Dixon's
work as editor. . . . Correspondence, 1916-1918, between Dixon and Charles D.
Warner, chief of the Monitor's Washington bureau, contains political gossip,
rumors of foreign intrigue and espionage, comments on World War I especially
regarding the use of submarines and the English blockade, the establishment of a
home for Jews in Palestine, and events in Mexico. Other correspondence concerns
Mary Baker Eddy and controversies within the Christian Science Church” after
her death in 1910.
“Correspondents include Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, William
Jennings Bryan, Edward Mandell House, J. J. Jusserand, Robert Lansing, Henry
Cabot Lodge, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, William H. Taft (1857-1930), and Woodrow
Wilson.”
Letters, 1897-1920 (1 box).
Elisabeth Dupuy* (1868-1932), Papers of, 1895-1928 (200 items).
Author, playwright, poet.
Some correspondence, but mainly “literary MSS., newspaper clippings, and
notebooks. . . . The correspondents are Wilson Barrett and Richard and Beatrice
Mansfield.”
John Leonard Hines* (1868-1968), Papers of, 1881-1944.
United States Military Academy, 1891; frontier West, 1891-98; San Juan Hill,
1898, and Cuba, 1899-1900; Philippine Insurrection, 1900-01; served in
Philippines, Japan, and United States, 1901-16; Adjutant, Mexican Punitive
Expedition, 1916-1917; assistant to Adjutant General, London, AEF, 1917;
Brigadier General, Brigade Commander, 1918, and Major General, Corps
Commander, late 1918; commanded training divisions, 1919-20, and Eighth
Corps Area, 1921-22; Deputy, 1922-24 and Chief of Staff, 1924-26, U.S. Army;
commanded, 1926-30, Ninth Corps Area and, 1930-32, the Philippine
Department.
“Correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, and printed matter, relating to Hines'
Army career”
Correspondents include Dwight F. Davis, Merritte W. Ireland, W. Frank James,
John J. Pershing, F. B. Shaw, and Charles P. Summerall.”
Two series of letters, 1891-1929, but mainly 1916-28, arranged alphabetically (36
boxes).
Mercer Green Johnston* (1868-1954), Papers of, 1860-1954.
University of the South and Episcopal clergyman, 1898; Grace Church, 18981900, New York City; chaplain, teacher, Rector, 1900-03, St. John’s Church, San
Antonio TX; Rector, 1903-08, Cathedral Parish of St. Mary and St. John, Manila,
Philippines; Secretary-Treasurer, Diocese of West Texas and business manager,
1909-12, West Texas Military Academy; Rector, 1912-16, Trinity Church,
Newark NJ; member, 1917-19, American Field Service with French Army;
Director, 1920-27, Baltimore MD Open Forum; Chair for Maryland, Committee
of Forty-eight, an organization that attempted to unite, 1920, with the FarmerLabor Party to form a third political party.
“Correspondence, diaries, sermons, notebooks, autobiographical papers, poems,
prayers, financial papers, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, clippings,
scrapbooks, and memorabilia. Correspondence forms the bulk of the collection
and relates to Johnston's career in the United States and the Philippines, worker
for the Young Men's Christian Association during World War I, director of the
People's Legislative Service, director of the National Citizens Committee on
Relations with Latin America, Inc., and assistant to the Rural Electrification
Administrator.
Correspondents include Bishops James Steptoe Johnston and Charles H. Brent,
Senators Burton K. Wheeler and George W. Norris.”
Diaries, 1903, 1905-09, 1913-14, 1916-18, 1920, 1928 (1 box); notebooks, 18981909 (3 boxes); family letters: 1894-98 (2 boxes), 1898-1900 (2 boxes), 1901 (3
boxes), 1901-03 (1 box), 1904-09 (3 boxes), 1909-12 (1 box), 1912-17 (2 boxes),
1917-18 (1 box), 1918-20 (1 box); personal letters, 1916-41 (1 box); general
letters: 1885-1903 (1 box), 1903-08 (2 boxes), 1909-12 (1 box), 1912-16 (3
boxes), 1917-19 (1 box), 1920 (1 box); subject files, 1894-1954 (13 boxes);
autobiographical material, 1869-1954 (2 boxes); letters related to book MSS.,
1917-50 (7 boxes); sermons, 1894-1922 (13 boxes); scrapbooks, 1860-1925.
Charles B. McVay* (1868-1949), Papers of, 1896-1950, bulk: 1927-1930 (1/3).
Charles Butler McVay*: Son of Charles Butler McVay (1845-1923), President,
Pittsburgh PA Trust Company, a financial benefactor of U.S. Naval Academy;
father of Rear Admiral Charles Butler McVay (1898-1968), commander of U.S.S.
Indianapolis, sunk 1945 by Japanese submarine.
U.S. Naval Academy, 1890; Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898; Admiral, Commanderin-Chief, 1929-30, Asiatic Fleet.
Official and general correspondence relating to McVay's career, newspaper
clippings, photos, and printed matter.
Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, William Richards Castle, Edwin
Sheddan Cunningham, Dwight Felley Davis, Lynn Winterdale Franklin, Nelson
Trusler Johnson, and Howard Charles Kelly.
Fields-Garrison Literary Collection, 1869-1906 (800 items).
James Thomas Fields* (1817-1881): Editor, 1861-70, Atlantic Monthly.
Wendall Phillips Garrison* (1840-1907): Editor, 1862-1906, The Nation.
“Literary correspondence and MSS. acquired by Fields and Garrison. Includes an
abstract of James Russell Lowell's “Bigelow Papers,” Harriet Martineau's book,
Lights of the English Lake District, typescript (in French) of August Langel's An
American Diary (1864), and several letters addressed to Edwin Lawrence Godkin
and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.
Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Henry Ward Beecher, Edwin
Thomas Booth, Robert Browning, James Bryce, Jacob Dolson Cox, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, John Fiske, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, George
Lyman Kittredge, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.”
John Foster Carr* (1869-1939), Papers of, 1910-1938, 150 items.
“Educator, lecturer; author, e.g., “What the Library Can Do For Our ForeignBorn” (Read at the last annual meeting of the Massachusetts Library Club, at
Williamstown, Friday, May 23, 1913).
Letters, chiefly from libraries, universities, and patriotic societies, to Carr
concerning his work with the Immigrant Publication Society and its work in the
education of immigrants.”
Letters, 1910-20 (85 items).
Bainbridge Colby* (1869-1950), Papers of, 1888-1950.
Attorney; Member, 1901-02, New York Assembly; left Republican Party, 1912 to
support Theodore Roosevelt and Progressive Party; unsuccessful candidate, 1914,
1916, U.S. Senate, Progressive Party, New York; U.S. Shipping Board, World
War I; U.S. Secretary of State, 1920-21; practiced law, 1921-22 with Woodrow
Wilson’s firm.
“Correspondence, including that with Woodrow Wilson, ca. 150 items, 19171923, relating to foreign policy and personal affairs, photos, and miscellaneous
material, 1912-1916, including drafts of the 1912 convention call of the
Progressive Party, clippings, and speeches, relating to Colby's early political
activity; together with his political speeches, 1914-1936, and scrapbooks
concerning early campaigns of the Progressive Party and a trip to South America.
Correspondents include David Lloyd George, William Randolph Hearst, Gilbert
M. Hitchcock, Cordell Hull, Medill McCormick, Alfred E. Smith, John Spargo,
and André Tardieu.”
Scrapbooks, 1909-16, Progressive Party (4 boxes).
William Edward Dodd* (1869-1940), Papers of, 1900-1940 (18/65).
William E. Dodd*: Professor of History: Randolph Macon College, 1900-08 and
University of Chicago, 1908-33.
“Chiefly correspondence, . . . literary MSS. including The Life of Nathaniel
Bacon, and correspondence of Dodd's wife, Martha.”
Letters, 1900-20, arranged alphabetically by year (16 boxes).
Irvine Luther Lenroot* (1869-1949), Papers of, 1890-1971, bulk: 1900-1944.
Wisconsin Bar, 1898, practiced Superior WI and Washington DC; Wisconsin
legislature, 1901-07; U.S. Congress, 1909-1918, Republican, Wisconsin; U.S.
Senate, 1918-27; Judge, 1929-44, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
“Correspondence, biographical material, legal papers, speeches, articles, political
and subject files, reports, scrapbooks, memoranda, newspaper clippings, printed
matter, and photographs relating primarily to Lenroot's political career. Includes
holograph notebooks concerning his congressional career and a typescript draft
(1948) of his unpublished memoir.
Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, Charles H. Crownhart, William H.
Doughtery, Herman L. Ekern, Guy D. Goff, John J. Hannan, William Hard,
Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Walter J. Kohler, Robert M. La Follette,
Henry Cabot Lodge, Gifford Pinchot, Alfred T. Rodgers, and Mark Sullivan.”
Family letters, 189-1940, arranged alphabetically (4 boxes); speeches, 1900-20 (1
box); scrapbooks, 1904-20 (3 boxes).
Ben B. Lindsey* (1869-1943), Papers of, 1838-1957, bulk: 1890-1943.
Benjamin Barr Lindsey*: Judge, 1899-1927, Juvenile Court, Denver CO;
member, 1915, Henry Ford Peace Expedition and in Europe, 1915-18, War
Orphan Relief; memoir, with Rube Borough: The Dangerous Life (1931).
“Correspondence, MS. of articles, books, speeches, plays, and broadcast scripts,
notebooks, daybooks, journals, yearbooks, appointment books, stenographic
notes, case files, financial and legal papers, legislative files, official and personal
files, Lindsey (Lindsay) family papers, memorabilia, scrapbooks, newspaper
clippings, broadsides, photographs, and other papers primarily concerning
Lindsey's role in the development of the juvenile court systems in Colorado and
California, his tenure as a judge in both states, and his political and literary
activities.
Subjects include child welfare, child labor laws, penal reform, women's suffrage,
birth control, marriage and divorce, sex education and hygiene, and the Women's
Protective League. Documents Lindsey's disbarment in Colorado, the Colorado
mine strike incident, and the investigations of the Whittier State School of
California in 1940-1942.
Correspondents include Jane Addams, Joseph P. Annin, Newton Diehl Baker,
Roger Nash Baldwin, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Edward William Bok, Louis
Dembitz Brandeis, Henry Augustus Buchtel, Luther Burbank, Carrie Chapman
Catt, James H. Causey, John Cavanaugh, Edward Prentiss Costigan, George
Creel, Clarence Darrow, Stephen T. Early, Thomas A. Edison, Havelock Ellis,
Robert Erskine Ely, Wainwright Evans, Harriet Ford, Henry Ford, Louis M.
Howe, Charles Evans Hughes, Harold L. Ickes, Hiram Johnson, Tom Loftin
Johnson, John Harvey Kellogg, Robert M. La Follette, Jesse L. Lasky, Walter
Lippmann, William Gibbs McAdoo, S. S. McClure, Jesse F. McDonald, H. H.
McIntyre, Julian W. Mack, Justin Miller, Henry Morgenthau, Harvey Jerrold
O'Higgins, Culbert Levy Olson, Thomas McDonald Patterson, Drew Pearson,
George W. Perkins, James H. Pershing, Amos Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Donald
R. Richberg, Jacob A. Riis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, Sol A. Rosenblatt, Bertrand Russell, Margaret Sanger, Hannah Kent
Schoff, John F. Shafroth, Morrison Shafroth, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens,
Lyman Beecher Stowe, William Howard Taft, R. D. Thompson, Earl Warren,
James E. West, William Allen White, Brand Whitlock, Woodrow Wilson, and
Stephen S. Wise.”
Indexed letters, 1897-1920 (64 boxes); other letters, 1901-20 (69 boxes);
Colorado legal files, 1891-1927 (20 boxes); scrapbooks, 1896-1920 (22 boxes).
1870+
William Henry Allison* (1870-1941), Papers of, 1868-1940.
Baptist minister, ordained 1896; B.D., Newton Theological Institution, 1902;
University of Halle, 1896-97; pastor, Penacook Church, Concord NH, 1899-1902;
Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1902-05; Professor of Church History: Pacific
Theological Seminary, 1904-05, Franklin (IN) College, 1905-08; Chair, History,
Bryn Mawr College, 1908-10; Dean, Theological Seminary, 1910-15 and
Professor of Church History, 1916-28, Colgate University; “consultant to the
Library of Congress in church history.”
Diaries, 1896-1920 (25 pocket volumes), contain outlines of daily activities and
occasional references to national and world affairs.
Ray Stannard Baker* (1870-1946), Papers of, 1836-1946, bulk: 1907-44.
Journalist, author; editor, McClure’s Syndicate, 1897-1905; American Magazine,
1906-15; U.S. Department of State Special Commissioner to Europe, 1918; Press
Bureau Director, American Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1919.
“Correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, drafts of books and articles, family
papers, scrapbooks, clippings, and printed matter concerning Baker's career in
newspaper and magazine writing especially with the Chicago Record and
McClure's Magazine, his role in the Paris Peace Conference, and his family and
early life. Subjects include progressivism, labor conditions, and development of
industrialism. Includes papers collected by Baker for his biography of Woodrow
Wilson consisting of Wilson's correspondence including letters to Ellen Axson
Wilson, interviews, and other material relating to Wilson and his family. Also
includes a bibliography of Baker's writings, portions of La Follette's
Autobiography, and material relating to Baker's study of African Americans . . .
Following the Color Line (1908).
Correspondents include Jane Addams, Albert A. Boyden, Frank Nelson
Doubleday, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Norman
Hapgood, Ben B. Lindsey, S. S. McClure, George Foster Peabody, John S.
Phillips, Theodore Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. Tarbell,
Booker T. Washington, William Allen White, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson,
Woodrow Wilson, and Leonard Wood.”
Series I. Woodrow Wilson material: letters of Wilson, alphabetical, 1876-1924
(17 boxes); notes on Wilson, chronological day-by-day, 1911-18, but mainly
1916-18 (18 boxes); Baker’s letters, 1925-39, relating to research on Wilson (43
boxes); letters, Mrs. Wilson, 1924-46, (5 boxes). Series II. Ray S. Baker,
personal papers: letters, 1898-1921 (12 boxes); journals, 1892-1920 (5 boxes);
literary MSS., 1895-1920 (14 boxes); scrapbooks, 1895-1920 (5 boxes).
Charles Albert Browne* (1870-1947), Papers of, 1895-1945.
Chemist and historian of chemical profession; Chief, Sugar Laboratory, U.S.
Bureau of Chemistry, 1906-07; chemist in charge, New York Sugar Trade
Laboratory, 1907-23.
“Correspondence, reports, addresses, notes, and MSS. of articles. Includes 8
volumes relating to Browne's laboratory research and his journals and records of
scientific trips and observations in foreign countries. Some of the material relates
to . . . the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists.”
Mainly letters, arranged alphabetically, exchanged with other chemists.
Wilbur J. Carr* (1870-1942), Papers of, 1892-1942 (3/31).
U.S. State Department: Organized and headed, 1902-07, Consular Bureau; Chair,
1907-41, Committee on Business Methods; Director, 1909-24, Consular Service.
“Correspondence; diaries, 1896-1942; speeches, biographical material, articles,
photographs, and other papers concerning official operations and personnel, as
well as his personal and social life.”
W. Cameron Forbes* (1870-1959), Papers of, 1904-1946 (6/11).
William Cameron Forbes*: Grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson and grandson of
John Murray Forbes; became partner, 1899, in Boston mercantile business of his
grandfather Forbes; executive posts, 1904-13, Philippine Government; Receiver,
1914-19, Brazil Railway Company; Overseer, 1914-20, Harvard University.
“Typewritten transcripts of journals documenting Forbes' activities in the civil
government of the Philippines as Secretary of Commerce, Vice-Governor,
Governor General, and member of the U.S. Philippine Commission, and as
receiver of the Brazil Railway Company, member or chairman of presidential
missions to study conditions in Haiti and the Philippines, U.S. Ambassador to
Japan, Chairman of the American Economic Mission to the Far East, and partner
or director in several American business and banking firms. Some correspondence
is transcribed with the daily entries.”
Journals, 1904-20, (6 v.)
Frank L. Greene* (1870-1930), Papers of, 1895-1930.
Frank Lester Greene*: Central Vermont Railway Company, 1883-91; Private to
Captain, Vermont National Guard, 1888-1898, including Spanish-American War;
Colonel, 1899-1900, Governor’s Staff; reporter, then editor, 1891-1912, St.
Albans VT Daily Messenger; President, 1904-1905, Vermont Press Association;
U.S. Congress, 1912-23 and U.S. Senate, 1923-30, Republican, Vermont.
“Includes general correspondence files, . . .subject files, . . . personal papers, and
index.”
General letters, 1895-1920, arranged alphabetically (6 boxes); personal letters (2
boxes); general letters, 1914-30, arranged alphabetically (6 boxes); miscellaneous
letters, 1895-1930 (6 boxes); family letters, 1912-23 (1 box); military subject file,
1914-30, arranged alphabetically (13 boxes); Vermont subject file, 1914-30,
arranged alphabetically (6 boxes); election campaign file, 1900-22 (8 boxes);
“minstrels and monologues,” 1903-08 (1 box); Congressional Committee’s trip to
Europe, 1919 (2 boxes).
Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman* (1870-1967), Papers of, 1857-1982, bulk: 19101960 (6/32).
Wife of J. Borden Harriman (d. 1914).
Florence Jaffray Hurst*: President, 1903-16, Colony Club, New York City;
Member, 1906-1918, Board of Managers of New York State Reformatory for
Women at Bedford, New York City; Member, 1913-16, U.S. Commission on
Industrial Relations; Chair, 1917-19, U.S. National Defense Advisory
Commission's Committee on Women in Industry; U.S. Minister to Norway, 193740.
“Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, writings, biographical material,
autograph album, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, scrapbook, printed material,
memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating to Harriman's government
service. . . . Documents her participation in Woodrow Wilson's 1912 presidential
campaign, the American Red Cross Women's Motor Corps in France during
World War I, peace organizations including the League of Nations, social reform
movements, the Colony Club, and the Woman's National Democratic Club,
Washington DC. Also includes material pertaining to her work on behalf of home
rule for the District of Columbia. . . .
Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Irving Berlin, Albert Einstein, Duke
Ellington, Helen Hayes, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Estes Kefauver, Archibald
MacLeish, George C. Marshall, William Gibbs McAdoo, Claude Pepper, John J.
Pershing, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Oswald
Garrison Villard, Wendell L. Willkie, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, and Woodrow
Wilson.”
Finding aid online: Subject file, 1912-32 (3 boxes); speeches, 1912-32 (1 box);
miscellany, mainly 1906-41, including some letters, scrapbook, 1912-36 (2
boxes).
A. Hildebrandt* (1870-1962), Papers of, 1826-1940, bulk: 1910-30.
Alfred Louis Heinrich Hildebrandt*: German writer for Berliner Lokal Anzeiger,
Scherl Publishing, the newspaper that underwrote in 1909 the Berlin demonstrations
of the Wright Brothers; thus Hildebrandt “was the first European to support the
experiments of the Wright Brothers”; “author on aeronautical subjects, pioneer in
aviation,” e.g., “The Wright Brothers Flying Machine," American Magazine of
Aeronautics (January 1908), 13-16.
“The collection is exceptionally rich in material on German aviation, spanning the
time of balloon experiments to the period of the airplane's development at the time of
World War II. It includes material on aviation sports, inventions, laws, meteorology,
aviation societies, transportation, and other activities in addition to personal papers
and data on subsidiary areas of aeronautics.
Correspondents include Patrick Alexander, Ernst Damm, Hans Ravenstein, Graf
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Karl Scheimpflug, Octave Chanute, Gilbert Feldhaus, and
Albert, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg.”
Subject and letter file, arranged alphabetically (99 boxes), including: airships (6
boxes); aircraft industry (3 boxes); balloons (4 boxes); history of flight (1 box);
humor (1 box); international relations and flight (2 boxes); inventions, patents (1
box); World /War I (2 boxes); clippings, 1905-13 (2 boxes); business letters (4
boxes); personal letters, 1910-20 (2 boxes).
Richmond Pearson Hobson* (1870-1937), Papers of, 1889-1966, bulk: 1890-1937.
U.S. Naval Academy, 1889 and French National School of Naval Design, Paris,
1893; naval architect, United States Navy, 1885-1903; U.S. Congress, 1907-15;
moved Los Angeles CA, then New York City; organized, 1921, and General
Secretary, American Alcohol Education Association; organized and President,
1923, International Narcotic Education Association; organized, 1926, Secretary
General and Chair, Board of Governors, World Conference on Narcotic
Education; founder, 1927, World Narcotic Defense Association; author, lecturer:
An Adequate Navy and the Open-door Policy (1915); Alcohol and the Human
Race (1919), and others.
“Correspondence, analyses, articles, lectures, memoranda, notes, orders, reports,
speeches, press clippings, photographs, and other papers. Hobson's naval career
is documented by material on operations in Cuba and the Philippines during the
Spanish-American War; descriptions of his visits to Chinese, Japanese, and
British colonial navy-yards; and correspondence and lecture notes relating to the
first course on ship construction taught by Hobson at the United States Naval
Academy. The Congressional file documents Hobson's efforts on behalf of the
prohibition amendment and the enlargement of the U.S. Navy. Other topics
include . . . his predictions of global conflict prior to both world wars, women's
suffrage, and the sinking of the Lusitania. . . .
Organizations represented include the Alcohol Education Society of America,
Anti-saloon League of America, and Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Correspondents include his wife, Grizelda Hull Hobson, and other family
members, and Theodore Roosevelt.”
Personal letters, 1905-25, 1933 (12 boxes); letters, 1889-1933 (3 boxes), letters,
1909-19 (5 boxes); published MSS. (10 boxes); letters, miscellany, 1908-31 (3
boxes); scrapbooks, Cuba, 1898 (2 boxes).
Louis Anthony Kaiser* (1870-1939), Diary of, 1899-1901.
Ensign, 1898, U.S.S. Concord in Admiral Dewey’s Squadron, Manila Bay, and
Lieutenant, J.G, 1900, on patrol off Philippines in support of U.S. Army forces;
Lieutenant Commander and contributor: Manual of Wireless Telegraphy for the
Use of Naval Electricians (1906).
“Diary (1 v.) kept by while serving aboard the U.S.S. Concord. Includes his
observations on the Philippine Insurrection.”
Helen Culver Kerr* (1870- ), Papers of, 1918-1919 (2/2).
Daughter of Brooklyn attorney and developer, Andrew Roger Culver, and wife of
John Clapperton Kerr, stockbroker, New York City.
Civic activist, member of such organizations as the Women's Municipal League,
the Consumers' League, and the Patriotic Women of America; “with Red Cross,
combated the 1918 influenza epidemic and provided medical services to military
camps, munitions plants, and shipyards.”
Letters, 1918-19 (2 v.) from service organizations and military units, mainly
requests and acknowledgments “relating to Kerr's volunteer work in furnishing
musical instruments to the U.S. Army and Navy during World War I.”
Samuel McGowan* (1870-1934), Papers of, 1883-1943, bulk: 1900-1920.
U.S. Navy: Assistant Paymaster, 1870-1914; Rear Admiral, 1914-20, Paymaster
General and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
“General correspondence, orders to duty, subject file, newspaper clippings, and
miscellaneous material relating primarily to McGowan's official duties and to his
interest in changing naval regulations he regarded as discriminatory.
Correspondents include Philip Andrews, Bernard M. Baruch, Charles J.
Bonaparte, Thomas J. Cowie, Josephus Daniels, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benjamin
R. Tillman, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1883-1943, arranged alphabetically (4 boxes); subject file, 1895-1920 (3
boxes).
Newton Diehl Baker* (1871-1937), Papers of, 1898-1962, and Letterbooks of, 1903-15.
Cleveland: City Solicitor, 1901-12 and Mayor, 1912-16; U.S. Secretary of War,
1916-21; author, attorney.
“Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, speeches and articles, newspaper
articles, and printed materials relating primarily to Baker's post-World War I
activities as the head of several business firms and of a number of organizations
devoted to education, law and jurisprudence, and philanthropy, relief, and other
types of human services. . . . Includes material relating to Baker's post as U.S.
secretary of war in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet during World War I.
Correspondents include John H. Clarke, Josephus Daniels, Norman H. Davis,
Thomas G. Frothingham, Norman Hapgood, Ralph Hayes, Institute of Pacific
Relations, Thomas W. Lamont, Esther Everett Lape, Walter Lippmann, Charles
A. Mooney, George Foster Peabody, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Louis B. Selzer,
James T. Shotwell, Samuel Ungerleider, George W. Wickersham, Edith Bolling
Wilson, and Howell Wright.”
Letters, alphabetical by year, 1916-21 (16 boxes); plus microfilm, “copies of
letters written by or signed, 1903-15, by Baker during his terms as City Solicitor
and Mayor,” chronological (18 reels).
Reginald Rowan Belknap* (1871-1959), Papers of, 1784-1929, bulk: 1900-29.
U.S. Naval Academy, 1891; Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; son of Rear Admiral
George Eugene Belknap*, whose papers are also held by the Manuscript Division.
“Correspondence, financial and legal records, photos, newspaper clippings, and
printed matter. Primarily correspondence on personal and social matters between
Belknap and his family.”
Family and personal correspondence, 1900-20 (16 boxes).
John P. Frey* (1871-1957), Papers of, 1891-1951 (7/33).
John Philip Frey*: Leader, International Molders’ Union; editor, 1908-27,
Molders Journal; from 1927, Metal Trades Department, A.F. of L.
“Correspondence, diary, December 1936, articles, speeches, memoranda,
notebooks, research notes, financial data, labor agreements, legal briefs, minutes,
reports, pamphlets, periodicals, clippings, posters, and photographs. Includes a
name and subject index to the International Molders Journal for the period of
Frey's editorship, and five scrapbooks of clippings dealing with his activities in
the American Federation of Labor.”
Letters and other papers, 1903-51, arranged alphabetically by subject.
Irwin Hood Hoover* (1871-1933), Papers of, 1909-1933 (3/7).
Ike Hoover*: Chief Usher at the White House, 1891-1933; memoir: Forty-Two
Years at the White House (1934).
“Mainly diaries and diary notes kept concerning Presidents and life in the White
House. Includes a few pieces of correspondence and a number of notes addressed
to Hoover, many of which are from Woodrow Wilson, some relating to his
wedding to Edith Bolling; an initialed "delivery copy" of Wilson's message to
Congress, August 27, 1913; and a series of letters from Hoover to his family
written during his trip to France with Wilson, 1918-1919.”
Cordell Hull* (1871-1955), Papers of, 1908-1956, bulk: 1933-1944.
Cumberland University Law, Lebanon TN, and Tennessee Bar, 1891; practiced
Celina TN; Tennessee legislature, 1893-97; Captain, U.S. Army, 1898; Judge,
1903-07, Circuit Court; U.S. Congress, 1907-21 and 1923-31, and U.S. Senate,
1931-33, Democrat, Tennessee; Chair, 1921-24, Democratic National Executive
Committee; U.S. Secretary of State, 1933-1944; Nobel Peace Prize, 1945; The
Memoirs of Cordell Hull (2 v., 1948), and others.
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, MS., speeches and statements, scrapbooks,
and printed matter relating to Hull's career, chiefly in the Franklin D. Roosevelt
administration. . . . Correspondents include Frederick H. Allen, Newton D.
Baker, Emily Newell Blair, Bainbridge Colby, James M. Cox, Josephus Daniels,
Norman H. Davis, Joseph F. Guffey, Charles Hamlin, Frank B. Kellogg, Robert
Lansing, George Fort Milton, Gifford Pinchot, Key Pittman, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letters, 1910-20 (2 boxes); newspaper clippings, 1908-24 (1 box).
William Dawson Johnston* (1871-1928), Papers of, 1900-1927 (12/13).
Brown, 1893, University of Chicago, Harvard, MA, 1898; taught history, 18941900, University of Michigan and Brown; librarian, 1900-28: Library of
Congress, 1900-1907, 1926-1928; U.S. Bureau of Education, 1907-09; Columbia
University, 1909-1914; Saint Paul MN Public Library, 1914-1921; bibliographer:
An International Catalogue of the Current Literature of the Social Sciences
(1907); author: The Earliest Free Public Library Movement in Washington DC,
1849-1874 (1906), and others.
“Correspondence, memoranda, reports, lists, notes, reprints of articles and papers
read, notes for a projected second volume of Johnston's History of the Library of
Congress, 1800-1860 (1904) and for his projected "College and University
Libraries"; a clipping file and photographs. Includes material on libraries, their
subject fields, services, statistics, and history;” and on Johnston's seminal role in
the systematic organization of library collections.
Correspondents include Melvil Dewey, Herbert Putnam, and many other
prominent librarians.”
Letters, 1900-20 (2 boxes); subject files, libraries, 1900-20 (3 boxes); MSS. file,
library history (1 box); newspaper clippings, 1900-20 (6 boxes).
Hendrik Christian Andersen* (1872-1940), Papers of, 1844-1940, bulk: 1890-1920.
“Author and sculptor residing in Rome, Italy.”
“Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, articles, books, poetry, lectures, Andersen
(Anderson) family papers, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating
primarily to Andersen's interest in the arts and in the creation of a world capital.
Also includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, and writings of his sister-inlaw, Olivia Cushing Andersen.
Correspondents include Mary Berenson, Cass Gilbert, Ernest Hébrard, Hamilton
Holt, Herbert Hoover, Henry James, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, David Starr Jordan,
Franklin K. Lane, Herbert Putnam, Sun Yat-Sen, and William H. Taft. (In part,
typewritten transcripts.)”
Letters and other papers, 1896-1920 (9 boxes).
Diary of George Louis, 1918-19 (1/1).
George Louis Beer* (1872-1920): Historian, economic aspects and development
of British colonial policy in America; one of several experts, American staff, Paris
Peace Conference.
Details of Beer’s activities in Paris.
Herbert Corey* (1872-1954), Papers of, 1847-1954 (10/24).
Journalist: Cincinnati Inquirer, 1900; Europe, 1914-18, World War I; Associated
Newspapers, 1912-30.
“Correspondence, diaries, datebooks, literary MSS., notebooks, family Bible,
clippings, printed material, and photographs, relating chiefly to Corey's activities
as a writer and as a journalist in Europe during World War I. Correspondents
include Simon Lake.”
Diaries, letters, 1896-1920 (3 boxes); scrapbooks, notebooks, clippings, 1914-19
(5 boxes).
James Couzens* (1872-1936), Papers of, 1903-1940.
Clerk, 1897-1903, coal business; executive, 1903-19, Ford Motor Co.; president,
Detroit and Highland Park State Bank; director, Detroit Trust Co.; director, U.S.
Chamber of Commerce; member, National Civic Association; Detroit MI:
commissioner of street railways 1913-15, police commissioner, 1916-18,
campaign for and Mayor, 1918-22; U.S. Senate, 1922-36, Republican, Michigan.
“Correspondence, articles, speeches, subject files, and scrapbooks, and other
papers relating to Couzen's” commercial and industrial interests, public service,
and “farm near Pontiac MI.
Correspondents include James Francis Byrnes, Arthur Capper, John J. Carson,
Roy D. Chapin, Charles E. Coughlin, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Joseph Edward
Davies, Horace E. Dodge, John F. Dodge, Henry Ford, William Green, Edgar A.
Guest, Herbert Hoover, Cordell Hull, Jesse H. Jones, Charles Horace Mayo,
Frank Murphy, Herbert Bayard Swope, Arthur H. Vandenberg, and William H.
Woodin.”
General letters, arranged chronologically, 1905-20 (9 boxes); Detroit charities,
parolees, 1915-19 (1 box); Detroit Trust Co., 1919-20 (1 box); mayoral election,
1918 (3 boxes); scrapbooks, 1911-20 (35 boxes).
Lloyd Carpenter Griscom* (1872-1959), Papers of, 1898-1951 (2/4).
Lloyd C. Griscom*: U.S. Army, 1898; diplomatic posts: Constantinople, 18991901; Persia (Iran), 1901-1902; Japan, 1902-1906; Brazil, 1906-07; and Italy,
1907-1909; delegate with Elihu Root, Republican National Convention, 1912;
practiced law, New York, 1911-20; member, 1918-19, General John J. Pershing’s
Staff, AEF.
“Diaries, 1901-1921; family and general letters, 1900-1951; memoranda, 19071940; . . . biographical materials, newspaper clippings, and broadsides, mainly
related to Griscom's diplomatic career after 1900.
Correspondents include Mabel T. Boardman, Arthur Meeker, John J. Pershing,
Elihu Root, Francis Lynde Stetson, Wesley W. Stout, and William Howard Taft.”
Learned Hand* (1872-1961), Papers of, 1909-1924 (5/7).
Billings Learned Hand*: Harvard, B.A., M.A., philosophy, 1894 and Law, 1896;
practiced Albany NY and New York City; Judge, Southern District of New York,
1909-24, and, 1924-51, senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
“Concise summaries of trials in civil, criminal, and admiralty courts presided over
by Hand” through 1924 in U.S. District Court.
Robert Hall Campbell Kelton* (1872-1922), Papers of, 1888-1923 (63 items).
Son of Union Army Brigadier General John Cunningham Kelton (1828-1893),
and Adjutant General, U.S. Army, Washington DC.
Electrical engineer, 1895-98; U.S. Army, Coast Artillery Corps, 1898-1922,
including AEF, 1917-18: Colonel, Chief-of-Staff, Third Division.
Letters, reports, orders to duty, biographical sketch (1 box).
Judson King* (1872-1958), Papers of, 1900-1958.
Battle Creek MI College, University of Michigan; founder, editor, 1902-05,
Dennison TX Morning Sun and editor, 1905-06, Toledo OH Independent Voter;
Secretary, 1906-08, Toledo University; Field Secretary, 1908-10, Ohio Direct
Legislation League; lecture circuit, 1910-13; founder and Director, 1913-58,
National popular League; Consultant, 1935-44, U.S. Rural Electrification
Administration; author: The Conservation Fight, from Theodore Roosevelt to the
Tennessee Valley Authority (1959).
“Correspondence, memoranda, writings, reports, press releases, scrapbooks,
newspaper clippings, printed material, charts, maps, photographs, and other
papers relating primarily to the development of public power policy in the United
States.”
“Correspondents include George D. Aiken, John M. Carmody, Lister Hill, David
Eli Lilienthal, George Fort Milton, George W. Norris, Gifford Pinchot, Louis F.
Post family, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Slattery, Frank P. Walsh, and William
Allen White.
Letters, 1912-32 (2 boxes); National Popular Government League Bulletins,
1913-21, (1 box); initiative, referendum, and recall, arranged by state, 1900-20 (3
boxes); scrapbooks, 1907-20 (2 boxes).
John McCrae* (1872-1918), Papers of, 1910-1938 (11 items).
Lieutenant Colonel and physician, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-18; poet:
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919); co-author: A Textbook of Pathology
for Students of Medicine (1912).
Letters, 1910-15, concerning literary matters.
Robert McNutt McElroy* (1872-1959), Papers of, ca. 1909-1924, bulk: 1913-1924
(9/29).
Professor and Chair, 1898-1925, History and Politics Department, Princeton
University; first faculty exchange, 1916-17, China; Educational Director and
Chair, 1917-19, Committee on Organized Education, National Security League;
author: Grover Cleveland, The Man and the Statesman: An Authorized
Biography ( 2 v., 1923), and others.
“Correspondence; MS. and notes for the book, a list of sources, and copies of
Cleveland letters; lecture notes, speeches, memoranda, printed matter, and
scrapbook of clippings relating chiefly to McElroy's career, the issue of loyalty
during World War I, active support of General Leonard Wood for the Republican
nomination for the Presidency in 1920, and later of Warren G. Harding; and
especially to his work as the official biographer of Cleveland. Correspondence of
1922-1924 relates to the 90 collections of Cleveland letters that McElroy
assembled and later presented to the Library of Congress.
Correspondents include James Gibbons, Warren G. Harding, Arthur W. Page,
Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr. (formerly Mrs. Cleveland), George Haven Putnam,
and Leonard Wood.”
Letters, 1913-20 (6 boxes); notes, National Security League (1 box); election,
1920 (1 box).
Lewis Nathaniel Chase* (1873-1937), Papers of, 1892-1941.
Lewis N.Chase*: Shakespearean actor, 1895-96; Professor of English: Columbia
University, 1899-1902, Indiana University, 1903-07, Louisville University, 190708, Bordeaux, France, 1909-10, Wisconsin University, 1916-17,Rochester
University, 1917-19, Aligarh, India, Muslim University, 1919-22; literary critic:
Poe and His Poetry, English Heroic Play, etc.
“Diary, travel notes, and photographs, and miscellaneous papers of his wife,
Emma Lester*, including copies of her poetry.”
Letters, arranged alphabetically: poets, 1900-40 (14 boxes), authors, 1892-1940
(19 boxes); family letters: received, 1895-1928 (4 boxes), sent, 1893-1929 (5
boxes); other family letters (11 boxes); general file, arranged alphabetically,
1895-1941:
general letters, lecture notes, brochures, student papers,
examinations, reports (17 boxes); miscellany: biographical material, lecture
notes, clippings, printed matter (17 boxes).
Pearl Adele Chase*, Papers of, 1910-25.
Author.
Diary material, letters, scrapbooks, book MSS., photos (7 boxes)
William W. Coblentz* (1873-1962), Papers of, 1884-1960 5/9.
William Weber Coblentz*: physicist, National Bureau of Standards, Washington
DC; pioneer who worked in the fields of infrared spectroscopy and the application
of radiometry to astronomical problems; author.
“Correspondence, 1893-1960, . . . biographical material, memorabilia, financial
records, 1884-1905, scientific notebooks concerning stellar and planetary
radiation, 1914-1926, and psychic phenomena, 1910-1915, photos, and printed
copies of his articles and books, frequently annotated. . . .
Correspondents include Cleveland Abbe, Charles G. Abbot, George E. Hale,
Dayton C. Miller, August H. Pfund, and Willis Rodney Whitney.”
Letters received, 1896-1920 (1 box).
Lee De Forest* (1873-1961), Papers of, 1884-1955.
Ph. D., 1899, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale; his dissertation, “Reflection of
Hertzian Waves from the Ends of Parallel Wires,” examined the basic physics
that culminated in the development of radio; researched the use of and improved
the vacuum tube to detect radio waves, amplify telephone long distance calls, and
transmit radio signals; invented, 1906, the Audion tube; involved in many patent
and commercial disputes. An opera lover, De Forest broadcast live, 1910, Enrico
Caruso and the Metropolitan Opera to a few reporters in order to demonstrate the
possible use of wireless communication to disseminate entertainment,
information, and religious services within major cities.
“Correspondence, diaries, technical notes, MSS. of essays and poetry,
biographical sketches, clippings, printed material, memorabilia, schematics,
sketches, and photographs relating to De Forest's inventions in radio and
electronics and their effect on sound recording and transmission, efforts to exploit
his discoveries through various business ventures, and his competition with
Guglielmo Marconi in the field of wireless communication. Also includes
material concerning his activities as a student in preparatory school and at Yale
University.”
Diaries, 1891-1949 (23 v.).
Henry Prather Fletcher* (1873-1959), Papers of, 1898-1958 (9/29).
Rough Riders, 1898; U.S. Army, 1899-1901; U.S. diplomat, 1902-29: Havana,
1902-03; Peking, 1903-05; Lisbon, 1905-07; Santiago, Chile, 1909-16; Mexico
City, 1916-20, Brussels, and Rome; U.S. Under Secretary of State, 1921-1922;
attended fifth, 1923, and sixth, 1928, Pan-American Conferences.
“Correspondence; diaries, 1915, 1925-1926; letter book, 1898-1899; speeches and
articles, scrapbook, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers. . . .
Later correspondence “deals chiefly with the Republican Party.
Correspondents include Fletcher's wife, Beatrice Bend Fletcher, as well as
William Jennings Bryan, Calvin Coolidge, Joseph C. Grew, Herbert Hoover,
Edward M. House, Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg, Frank Knox, Alfred
M. Landon, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Bassett Moore, Benito
Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Willard Straight, Robert A. Taft, and William
Howard Taft.”
Letters, 1898-1920 (7 boxes).
Rudolph Forster* (1873-1943), Papers of, 1898-1943.
Executive Clerk and Secretary, 1897-1943, to Presidents, White House.
“Correspondence, memoranda, notes, invitations, clippings, telegrams, and other
papers accumulated by Forster,” particularly, “the Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow
Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt administrations. Includes handwritten notes
and memoranda from most of the presidents, a few drafts and signed printed
copies of presidential proclamations, and social notes.”
Ellen Newbold La Motte Collection on Opium Traffic, 1919-1933.
Ellen Newbold La Motte* (1873-1961): Nurse; Superintendent, Tuberculosis
Division, Baltimore MD Health Department; nurse with French Army in World
War I; traveler and observer on conditions in the Far East; author: The Backwash
of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield As Witnessed By an American
Hospital Nurse (1916), and others.
“Mimeographed and printed papers originating mainly in the agenda and from the
proceedings of the Advisory Committee of the League of Nations on the Traffic
in Drugs, in committee reports to the Assembly of the League, and in the minutes
of the Council of the League and the reports of League members.”
Literary Society of Washington, Washington DC, Records of, 1873-1987 (3/17).
“Correspondence, minutes of meetings, papers presented, poems, financial
records, clippings, and printed matter, arranged according to the type of record
and relating to the development and business of the organization, which included
among its members many leading cultural and literary figures of Washington.
Members represented include Albert W. Atwood, Alexander Graham Bell,
Clifford K. Berryman, George F. Bowerman, Katherine Garrison Chapin, Tyler
Dennett, Edward Miner Gallaudet, Frederick R. Goff, Gilbert H. Grosvenor,
David Jayne Hill, Margaret Landon, Waldo G. Leland, Julia Ten Eyck McBlair,
David C. Mearns, John C. Merriam, Charles Moore, Helen Nicolay, Theodore W.
Noyes, Robert Lincoln O'Brien, William E. Safford, Ainsworth Rand Spofford,
Florence P. Spofford, Henry White, Robert S. Woodward, and Robert Sterling
Yard.”
William Surrey Hart* (1874-1946), Papers of, 1914-55 (3/6).
(now held by Los angeles natural history museum, seaves center?)
Edith Benham Helm* (1874-1962), Papers of, 1918-1953 (6/32).
Edith Benham*: Social secretary to Edith Bolling Wilson, Eleanor Roosevelt,
and Bess Truman during their years in the White House; memoir: The Captains
and the Kings (1954).
“Letters, notes, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia; scrapbooks comprise
the bulk of the collection.”
Original notes and letters from Wilson’s trips to Paris and Peace Conference,
1918-19 (1 box) and typed transcripts (1 box); photos, 1918-19 (2 boxes);
resignation, 1920, of Secretary of State Lansing (1 box).
Harry Houdini Collection.
Harry Houdini*, born Ehrich Weiss* (1874-1926): Magician and collector of
materials relating to the history of magician’s performances and spiritualism:
Miracle mongers and their methods; author: A Complete Exposé of the Modus
Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile
Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, etc., by Houdini . . .
(1920), and others.
Rare Books and Special Collections:
Letters received from those interested in magic and spiritualism; newspapers and
periodicals, e.g., Chicago, later, Kansas City Sphinx, 1902-19; London Magic
Circular, 1906-24; and New York Mahatma, 1895, 1898-1906; posters, programs,
catalogs, and other ephemera dealing with magic and spiritualism.
Harold L. Ickes* (1874-1952), Papers of, 1815-1969, bulk: 1933-1951.
Harold LeClair Ickes*: University of Chicago, B.A., 1897, Ll.D., 1907; practiced
Chicago IL; Republican who campaigned, 1912, for Theodore Roosevelt,
Progressive Party, and, 1932, for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46; columnist, New Republic (1946-52); The
Autobiography of a Curmudgeon (1943), and Secret Diary (3 v., 1953-54).
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, family papers, legal and
financial records, subject files, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Ickes's
service in the Interior Department, Progressive Party politics, presidential election
campaigns, 1916-1948, the Franklin D. Roosevelt cabinet, Illinois state politics,
municipal reform, Ickes's law practice, conservation, Indian affairs, JapaneseAmericans during World War II, Puerto Rico, oil policy, and the ArabianAmerican Oil Company.
Individuals represented include Oscar L. Chapman, James M. Cox, Paul Howard
Douglas, James Aloysius Farley, James Rudolph Garfield, Will H. Hays, Charles
Evans Hughes, Samuel Insull, Hiram Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Frank Knox,
Henry Morgenthau, Gifford Pinchot, Donald R. Richberg, Raymond Robins,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Karl D. Vittum,
Henry Agard Wallace, and William Allen White.”
Letterbooks, 1905-12 (1 box); Chicago files, 1906-20 (5 boxes); financial papers,
1907-20 (1 box); legal files, Chicago, 1899-1920 (7 boxes).
Jesse H. Jones* (1874-1956), Papers of, 1916-1960, bulk: 1926-1945.
Jesse Holman Jones*: Family lumber business: manager, Dallas, and general
manager, Houston TX, 1895-1905; established, 1904, Jesse H. Jones Lumber
Company; developed and built in central Houston, 1910-30, major office
buildings; purchased and published, Houston Chronicle; president, National Bank
of Commerce and Bankers Mortgage Company; financed a new convention center
and helped obtain for Houston the Democratic National Convention, 1928;
Director, 1932-45, Reconstruction Finance Corporation; U.S. Commerce
Secretary, 1940-45.
“Correspondence, MSS. of speeches, reports, Congressional releases, subject file,
newspaper clippings including bound volumes documenting all phases of Jones'
career, and other printed material. Correspondence relates chiefly to his
government service. Correspondents include Presidents Wilson, Hoover, Franklyn
D. Roosevelt, and members of their cabinets.”
Subject file and clippings, 1916-20 (1 box).
Frank Knox* (1874-1944), Papers of, 1898-1954 (3/19).
William Franklin Knox*: Alma MI College; U.S. Army: Private, 1st Volunteer
Cavalry (Rough Riders), Cuba, 1898, and Major, Calvary, AEF, 1917-19;
reporter, editor, 1898-1900, Grand Rapids MI Herald; publisher, 1901-12, Sault
Ste Marie MI Weekly News; publisher, 1912-13, Manchester NH Leader;
supported Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive Party, 1912; publisher, 1913-44,
Manchester NH Union and Leader; General Manager, 1928-31, Hearst Papers;
publisher, 1931-44, Chicago Daily News.
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, newspaper clippings,
scrapbooks, and miscellany” relating to Knox's early military service, his
publishing career, Progressive and Republican politics, and his work as U.S. Navy
Secretary during World War II.
“Includes Papers, 1934-1954, of Knox's wife, Annie Reid* (1876-1958).
Correspondents include Chiang Kai-shek, Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford, James
Forrestal, Felix Frankfurter, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Walter Lippmann,
George Marshall, John Adam Muehling, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, Arthur Vandenberg, William Allen White, and Wendell Willkie.”
Frank Ross McCoy* (1874-1954), 1847-1957, bulk: 1892-1954.
Son of Brevet Brigadeer General Thomas Franklin McCoy.
U.S. Military Academy, 1897; Wounded, Cuba, San Juan Hill with 10th Calvary
(Negro); Aide-de-Camp to Major General Leonard Wood; protégé of Wood and
aide to Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft; AEF, temporary Major
General and commanded 63rd Infantry Brigade; Philippines, 1921; later, several
diplomatic posts and President, 1939, Foreign Policy Association.
“General and family correspondence, diaries, military and subject files,
notebooks, dispatch books, speeches and writings, financial papers, scrapbooks,
and miscellaneous material pertaining to Philippine affairs, the Isthmian Canal
route, 1912-13, the American Relief Mission, earthquake, 1923, Tokyo, Japan; the
Lytton Commission, League of Nations, 1931-32 (investigation of Japanese
invasion of Manchuria); and the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association.
Correspondents include W. Cameron Forbes, James G. Harbord, George C.
Marshall, Matthew B. Ridgway, Theodore Roosevelt, Hugh L. Scott, Henry L.
Stimson, and Leonard Wood.”
Notebooks and dispatch books, 1903-05 (1 box); family letters, 1896-1920 (4
boxes); general letters, 1896-1920 (8 boxes); subject files: AEF (2 boxes),
Philippines (2 boxes).
1875+
George Sabin Gibbs* (1875-1947), Papers of, 1896-1947.
Iowa State University, 1897 and M.S., Engineering, 1901; Private, Iowa
Volunteers, 1898, Sergeant, First Lieutenant, and Signal Officer: Philippines,
1898-1900; American occupation of Cuba, 1907-09; Hawaii, 1913-15; Assistant
Chief Signal Officer, AEF, 1917-19; War Department General Staff, 1920-21;
Major General and Chief, 1928-31, of Signal Corps; Vice President, International
Telephone and Telegraph Company; President, Postal Telegraph Cable Company;
Director, Vice Chair of the Board, Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation.
“Correspondence, field notebook, 1898-1899, telegrams, reports, memoranda,
military records, clippings, printed material, and other papers chiefly concerning
Gibbs's military career,” and his later work as an executive in the communications
industry.
Correspondents include Sosthenes Behn, Dwight Filley Davis, Adolphus W.
Greely, William Mitchell, Edgar Russel, and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright.”
William D. Leahy* (1875-1959), Papers of, 1897-1959.
William Daniel Leahy*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1897, and Instructor, 1907-09,
Physics and Chemistry; Santiago, Cuba, 1898; Philippines and Boxer Rebellion,
China, 1899-1902; Nicaragua, 1912; Turkey and Greece, 1921; Rear Admiral and
Chief, 1927-1931, Ordnance Bureau; Commander, 1931-33, Destroyer Scouting
Force; Chief, 1933-35, Navigation Bureau; memoir: I Was There: The Personal
Story of the Chief of Staff to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, Based on His
Notes and Diaries Made at the Time (1950).
Diaries, 1897-1956, correspondence, scrapbooks, 1936-1959, documents,
photographs, and other papers relating to Leahy's personal life and to his naval
career. Includes correspondence, 1948-1950, and production materials relating to
the publication of Leahy's book.
Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, François Darlan, Joseph C. Grew,
Cordell Hull, George C. Marshall, Philippe Pétain, Franklin D. and Eleanor
Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Sumner Welles.”
Diary, 1897-1931 (1 v.).
Raymond G. Carroll* (1876?-1943), Papers of, 1905-1935 (3/22).
Journalist; foreign correspondent for several American newspapers: 1915,
Mexico; 1916, South America; 1917-18, AEF; 1919, Paris; in London, 1918-20,
for Philadelphia Public Ledger.
“Chiefly scrapbooks of clippings, mostly of Carroll's articles. Includes some
correspondence, 1905-34, and other items.”
George Creel* (1876-1953), Papers of, 1857-1953, bulk: 1896-1953.
Editor, 1899-1909, Kansas City Independent; editorial writer, 1909-13, Denver
Post and Rocky Mountain News; columnist, Collier's; Denver police
commissioner who appointed, 1912, Josephine Aspinwall Roche, policewoman
and probation officer, to combat prostitution; commissioner, Golden Gate
International Exposition; lecturer, author.
“Scrapbooks and bound volumes of writings by and about Creel form the bulk of
the collection. Includes correspondence, notes, speeches, lectures, book reviews,
an unpublished MS., ‘Liberty Bells.’ . . . A series,” 1917-19, (3 boxes) “on
Woodrow Wilson and the U.S. Committee on Public Information contains
correspondence with Wilson as well as his corrections of drafts of Creel's cables,
letters, speeches, and other writings relating to the Wilson administration during
World War I and subsequent peace negotiations. Includes a manuscript of
Wilson's Fourteen Points, speech of Jan. 8, 1918, bearing corrections and
revisions in the president's hand.
Subjects include Russia and the Russian revolution, African Americans during
World War I, air power and aircraft production, the teaching of the German
language in American schools, Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference, the
Versailles Treaty, world peace and the League of Nations, friction between Creel
and the U.S. Department. of State, America's postwar problems, national politics,
. . . and women's rights. Also documents . . . his activities as an amateur athlete in
Kansas City and Denver and his marriage to Blanche Bates.
Correspondents or individuals discussed include Bernard M. Baruch, Randolph
Bolling, Harry Flood Byrd, Josephus Daniels, Joseph Edward Davies, George
Dewey, Robert Donner, James Aloysius Farley, Garet Garrett, Carter Glass, Jr.,
Samuel Gompers, Henry Hazlitt, Herbert Hoover, Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Robert H. Kelley, William F. Knowland, Arthur Bliss Lane, Robert Lansing,
Breckinridge Long, William Gibbs McAdoo, Joseph McCarthy, Raymond Moley,
Thomas J. Mooney, Felix M. Morley, Karl E. Mundt, Richard M. Nixon,
Kathleen Thompson Norris, Walter Hines Page, J. Westbrook Pegler, Donald R.
Richberg, Robert A. Taft, Lowell Thomas, Albert C. Wedemeyer, Burton K.
Wheeler, and Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.”
Joseph Edward Davies* (1876-1958), Papers of, 1850-1957, bulk: 1936-1955.
Wisconsin States Attorney, 1902-06; chair, 1912, Western Headquarters,
Democratic Party; U.S. Commissioner of Corporations, 1913-15; Chair, 1915-16,
Federal Trade Commission; economic advisor, 1919, Paris Peace Conference.
“Family papers, diaries, journals, correspondence, memoranda, subject files,
newspaper diaries, and mss. of articles, books, and speeches relating chiefly to
foreign affairs” after 1935.
“Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Lord Beaverbrook(Max Aitken),
James Francis Byrnes, Sir Winston Churchill, Homer S. Cummings, Josephus
Daniels, Stephen T. Early, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Felix Frankfurter, Joseph C.
Grew, Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, the Earl of Halifax (Edward Frederick
Lindley Wood), Loy W. Henderson, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, Cordell Hull, Arthur
Krock, Oskar Lange, George C. Marshall, Marvin Hunter McIntyre, Vyacheslav
Mikhaylovich Molotov, Henry Morgenthau, N. V. Novikov, Key Pittman,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Irving Rosenman, Edward R. Stettinius, Harry S.
Truman, Millard E. Tydings, Fred M. Vinson, Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky,
Sumner Welles, and Harry Morris Warner.”
Family and personal file, 1860-1941 (2 boxes); speeches and articles, some 19151917 (2 boxes).
B. W. Huebsch* (1876-1964), Papers of, 1893-1964.
Benjamin W. Huebsch*: publisher, 1900-24; member, 1915-16, Ford Peace Plan
Commission; publisher, 1920-24, Freeman; combined his press with Viking,
1924, and became vice-president and general editor; author: Busman's Holiday:
"What, Exactly, Do Publishers Do?"
Chiefly correspondence reflecting Huebsch's thoughts on literature and to his
career as a publisher under his own imprint, B.W. Huebsch, and after its merger
with Viking Press, at that publishing house until 1964. Also documents his
publication of the liberal weekly Freeman and his connection with such
organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association
of Book Publishers. Also includes a diary, 1926-1961, articles and speeches by
Huebsch, literary MSS., notebooks, 1893-1940, containing advertisements for the
B.W. Huebsch publishing house, the autograph collection of musical personalities
belonging to Sam Franko* and other papers.
Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Van Wyck Brooks, Theodore
Dreiser, Irwin Edman, Lion Feuchtwanger, Sam Franko, Rumer Godden, Daniel
A. Huebsch, Harold Joseph Laski, D. H. Lawrence, William Ellery Leonard,
Roger Martin du Gard, Francis Neilson, Albert Jay Nock, Walter Pach, Bertrand
Russell, Siegfried Sassoon, Upton Sinclair, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Franz
Werfel, Patrick White, and Stefan Zweig.”
Letters, 1893-1964, arranged alphabetically (32 boxes); notebooks, 1893-1921, 6
boxes.
John Adams Kingsbury*(1876-1956), Papers of, 1841-1966, bulk: 1906-1939 (83/165).
Teacher, Principal, 1897-1901, and Superintendent, 1901-04, Prosser WA;
Principal, 1904-07, Seattle WA; University of Washington, Columbia University
Teachers College, 1908; Assistant Secretary, 1907-11, New York State Charities
Aid Association; General Director, 1911-14, New York Association for
Improving the Condition of the Poor; Commissioner of Public Charities of New
York City, 1914-18, administration of Mayor John Purroy Mitchel; Assistant
Director of General Relief, American Red Cross, France, 1918-19; active and an
official, 1921-35, private humanitarian organizations; author: Red Medicine:
Socialized Health in Soviet Russia (1933), Health in Handcuffs (1939).
“Correspondence, journals and diaries, family papers, autobiographical material,
travel notes, MSS. of and other material relating to Kingsbury's books, speeches
and articles, news releases, legal and financial papers, newspaper clippings, and
memorabilia. Kingsbury's professional papers, 1907-1939, including
correspondence, financial papers, reports, and other business records” relate
almost entirely to his work through 1919.
“Topics include agriculture, American-Soviet and American-Yugoslav relations,
astronomy, Chinese life and culture, Eastern European relief efforts, group health
insurance, multiple sclerosis, mushrooms, public health in America and the Soviet
Union, socialist societies, socialized medicine, travel, tuberculosis,
unemployment, venereal disease, war relief, welfare, and world peace.
Correspondents include Jane Addams, Alexander Graham Bell, Louis Dembitz
Brandeis, Charles C. Burlingham, Bailey B. Burritt, Mary E. Dreier, Paul De
Kruif, Albert Einstein, Homer Folks, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, Elbert Hubbard,
Charles Evans Hughes, Harold L. Ickes, Walter Lippmann, Jack London, Henry
Morgenthau, Sir Arthur Newsholme, Frances Perkins, Gifford Pinchot, Jacob A.
Riis, Raymond Robins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and William
Henry Welch.”
Finding Aid Online, files arranged alphabetically and chronologically within
folders: professional general letters, mainly 1907-17, (18 boxes); personal letters,
including financial matters and student letters, mainly 1895-1918, (16 boxes);
writings file, 1904-17 (3 boxes); miscellany, 1908-17, including diary, 1908 (3
boxes); professional files: American Red Cross, 1917-19 (11 boxes), Milbank
Memorial Fund, 1918-35 (5 boxes), America-Yugoslav Society, 1920-30 (4
boxes); autobiographical material (4 boxes); personal financial papers, 1904-60 (6
boxes); family letters, including financial, legal papers, mainly 1909-35 (7 boxes);
general letters, friends, mainly 1909-35 (3 boxes); professional subject file: New
York charities, 1909-17 (2 boxes), Progressive Party, 1912-15 (1 box).
Anthropology: MSS, 1948 (2 items).
A. L. Kroeber* (1876-1960), Alfred Lewis Kroeber*: Professor, Curator, 190125, Anthropological Museum, University of California; expeditions: New
Mexico, 1899-1901, and Mexico, 1915-20; author: Arapaho Dialects (1916);
Indians of Yosemite: Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), and others.
Notes and MSS. drafts of books (3 boxes).
Alessandro Fabbri* (1877-1922), Papers of, 1917-1922 (3/3).
Yachtsman and owner of an amateur radio station who, because of his knowledge,
experience, and his comparatively advanced equipment, joined, together with his
yacht and shore facilities, the Naval Reserve in order to pursue research in
wireless communication.
“Correspondence, biographical material, memorabilia, and photographs. Letters
relate to Fabbri's service as officer in charge of the radio station at Otter Cliffs,
Bar Harbor ME, during World War I, and hence contributes to the early history of
transatlantic radio communication. One item is described as the original wireless
message from the German Government received at Otter Cliffs, Nov. 10, 1918
,the day before the Armistice, asking for mitigation of conditions imposed by the
Allies. Includes correspondence of Samuel C. Hooper.”
Samuel Guy Inman* (1877-1965), 1901-1965, bulk: 1920-1965.
Add-Ran Christian University (later, Texas Christian University), Kentucky
University (later, Transylvania College), Columbia University, B.A., 1904 and
M.A., 1923; assistant pastor, 1901, New York City, and pastor, 1904, Fort Worth
TX, Disciples of Christ; began, 1905, missionary endeavors in Latin America;
helped found, 1908, El Instituto del Puebla in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico
and, 1913, Mexican Christian Institute (later, Inman Christian Center); helped
found schools throughout Latin America and coordinate often divergent
Protestant Christian missionary efforts; helped found and Executive Secretary,
1915-39, Committee on Cooperation with Latin America and, from 1920, edited
its monthly, La Nueva Democracia; delegate, 1923, Fifth Pan American
Conference, Santiago, and subsequent Conferences; Professor, 1937-42,
University of Pennsylvania and lecturer, Yale University, among others; member,
Church Peace Union; author: Intervention in Mexico (1919), A History of Latin
America for Schools (1945), The Rise and Fall of the Good Neighbor Policy
(1957), and others.
“Correspondence, diaries, MSS. of books and articles, subject files, notebooks,
scrapbooks, clippings, memorabilia, and photographs relating primarily to Latin
America. Topics include clericalism, education, inter-American relations,
international law, labor, literature, and politics and government.
Correspondents include Dean G. Acheson, Willard F. Barber, William E. Borah,
Nicholas Murray Butler, Manuel Avila Camacho, Cordell Hull, Edward G. Miller,
Jr., Palmer E. Pierce, Dean Rusk, Ellery Sedgwick, Harry S. Truman, and Sumner
Welles.”
Diaries, 1905-28, (1 box); notebooks (5 boxes); letters, 1901-20 (3 boxes); subject
files, arranged alphabetically (29 boxes); clippings, mainly New York, 1900-04 (1
box).
Dudley Wright Knox* (1877-1960), ca. 1864-1950, bulk: 1921-1946.
U.S. Naval Academy, 1896; blockade of Cuba, 1898; Philippines and Boxer
Rebellion, China, 1899-1901; “White Fleet,” 1907-09; Naval Intelligence, 191416; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1916-17; naval staff, historian, and Captain, London,
England, 1917-19; Director, 1921-46, U.S. Office of Naval Records and Library;
Secretary, 1926-46, Naval Historical Foundation; author: The Eclipse of
American Sea Power (1922); A History of the United States Navy (1936), and
others.
Correspondence, subject files, speeches, articles, book file, printed matter,
newspaper clippings, and other material relating to Knox's activities at the U.S.
Office of Naval Records and Library and Naval Historical Foundation, and as an
author of books and articles on naval affairs.
The papers document Knox's views on international naval limitation conferences,
naval aviation, the revival of a strong merchant marine, naval readiness, relations
with East Asia, foreign trade, and national defense. Includes typescripts and
letters, reviews, and clippings relating to Knox's History. Also includes
photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, and other documents pertaining to
efforts by Knox and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to publish naval records
concerning American wars.
Chief correspondent is Thomas Goddard Frothingham,” author of A Guide to the
Military History of the World War, 1914-1918 (1920), The Naval History of the
World War (3 v., 1924-26); and others.
“Other correspondents include J. H. Adams, John V. Babcock, Earle Henry Balch,
Harry Alexander Baldridge, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, James Phinney Baxter,
Charles Bittinger, Wilson Brown, Howard G. Brownson, Willard H. Brownson,
Raymond Leslie Buell, Charles Perry Burt, Kenneth G. Castleman, Bennett Cerf,
William Bell Clark, Wat Tyler Cluverius, George P. Colvocoresses, Albert
Lyman Cox, Leonard M. Cox, Thomas T. Craven, Josephus Daniels, Ralph E.
Davis, Harvey A. DeWeerd, Philip Robert Dillon, Ralph Earle, Edwin A. Falk,
Guy Stanton Ford, George Edmund Foss, Julius Augustus Furer, William Howard
Gardiner, Charles E. Gilpin, Harpur Allen Gosnell, Edwin E. Grabhorn, Fitzhugh
Green, Kent Roberts Greenfield, F. Griffith, John George Hartwig, Jan
Hasbrouck, N. A. Helmer, Roy Hoffman, James J. Hogan, Franklin Henry
Hooper, Alfred G. Howe, Hiram Johnson, Ira Rich Kent, John Knox, Warren B.
Koehler, William Chauncey Langdon, Robert J. LaPorte, Henry Cabot Lodge,
Stanford E. Moses, Orson D. Mumm, R. E. Pope, Charles N. Robinson, William
Sowden Simms, Edward E. Spafford, J. D. Springer, Harold R. Stark, and Lewis
L. Strauss.”
Lee Lawrie* (1877-1963), Papers of, 1908-1990, bulk: 1920-1963 (4/67).
Lee Oskar Lawrie*: Sculptor.
“General and family correspondence, sculpture commission files, biographical
file, and other papers that document Lawrie's career and his works, which became
an integral part of public buildings, monuments, and churches throughout the
United States.”
Family letters, 1916-21 (1 box); general letters, 1920-63, arranged alphabetically
(13 boxes).
Paul Hedrick Clark* (1878-1946), Papers of, 1918-1922 (2/2).
U.S. Military Academy, 1905; Colonel, Liaison Officer, 1918, to French GHQ.
“Copies of confidential reports and dispatches sent to General Pershing and other
officers of the high command of the American Expeditionary Forces, in pursuance
of Clark's duties as American liaison officer to the French General Headquarters,
beginning early in 1918 and continuing until after the Armistice. A detailed,
almost daily, account of the French officers' activities, attitudes, and plans, insofar
as they affected the American forces.
Names of officers appearing frequently include Carl Boyd, Fox Conner, James G.
Harbord, Ferdinand Foch, Henri P. Pétain, and comte Louis Charles de
Chambrun. Includes a list of the letters to Pershing, and Pershing's statement
concerning Clark's services.”
Norman H. Davis* (1878-1944), Papers of, 1915-1960.
Norman Hezekiah Davis*: Businessman, 1902-17 in Cuba; advisor, Assistant
Secretary, 1917-20, U.S. Treasury Department; Undersecretary of State, 1920-21.
“Correspondence, diaries, journals, minutes, scrapbooks, memoranda, clippings
and other printed matter, copies of statements and speeches, and photographs.
Most of the papers relate to Davis's services as financial and economic consultant
and participant in international conferences and commissions on peace,
disarmament, and monetary matters. . . .
Correspondents are Frank A. Vanderlip, Herbert Hoover, Lord Robert Cecil, and
Thomas W. Lamont.”
Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (4 boxes); Supreme Economic Council, 1919 (6
boxes).
Henry and Nina Webster Dumont, Papers of, 1905-1943, bulk: 1930-1936.
Henry Dumont* (1878-1942): Business career, 1897-1930, San Francisco,
Chicago, New York: advertising, marketing, Assistant Sales Manager, Pacific
Coast Borax Company; poet, novelist, biographer of his mentor, poet George
Sterling: Faun on Olympus (1936); member, Business Men's Art Clubs: San
Francisco, Chicago, New York.
Nina Webster Dumont* (1887-1953): Married, 1930, Henry Dumont; statistician:
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, state and federal agencies.
“Henry Dumont's papers consist of correspondence, much of it with George
Sterling, 1905-26, printed matter, scrapbooks, clippings, business papers, and
several drafts” of the biography.
“Includes Dumont's correspondence about Sterling with Albert M. Bender,
Theodore Dreiser, Arnold Genthe, Charmian London, Virgil Markham, William
McDevitt, H. L. Mencken, George Steele Seymour, Upton Sinclair, and Sterling's
daughters, Alice Chrystal Sterling Gregory and Mary Isabelle Sterling
Routhwaite. Also includes poems by Sterling, many of them autographed.” Also
includes “such material . . . as advertising prospectuses and information on the
Pacific Coast Borax Company 1922-35.”
“The Nina Dumont* Papers, 1924-39, relate primarily to her work as statistician
and conductor of surveys . . . on such topics as air pollution, consumer purchases,
cost of living, health, medical care costs, and occupational morbidity and
mortality.”
Rudulph Evans* (1878-1960). Papers of, 1900-1959, bulk: 1932-1957.
Sculptor.
“Correspondence, photographs, drawings, financial and legal records, awards and
citations, printed material, and other papers relating to the creation of Evans's
sculptures, in particular the commission and execution of the statue for the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.”
Letters and poems received from Wilbur Underwood (d. 1935), 1900-37 (1 box);
letters, sketches, photographs, 1896-1920, concerning sculptures (2 boxes).
Ernest Joseph King* (1878-1956), 1908-1966, bulk: 1936-1952 (1/39).
U.S. Naval Academy, 1901; Admiral Henry Mayo’s staff, 1915-18; Rear
Admiral, 1933, and Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; commanded aircraft
carriers of Battle Fleet; Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet, 1941; Fleet Admiral and
Chief of Naval Operations, 1942-45.
“Official and general correspondence, orders to duty, speech, article, and book
file, memoranda, notes, photographs, printed matter, and miscellany, relating
primarily to King's activities during World War II.
Correspondents include Henry H. Arnold, Clement R. Attlee, Bernard M. Baruch,
Omar N. Bradley, Mark Clark, Charles Edison, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas
Southall Freeman, William F. Halsey, Cordell Hull, Frank Knox, Paul W.
Litchfield, Oliver Lyttleton, George Marshall, Louis Mountbatten, Chester W.
Nimitz, Charles F. A. Portal, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dorothy Thompson, Harry S.
Truman, and Orville Wright.”
Letters, orders to duty, 1908-20 (1 box).
R. C. Leffingwell* (1878-1960), Papers of, 1917-1920 (46/46).
Senior Partner, J.P. Morgan and Company; Russell Cornell Leffingwell*: U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1917-20.
“Official letters (46 v.), that relate to war debts and loans, postwar financing, and
bond drives, signed by Leffingwell and by other Treasury officials.
Includes letters to Gordon Auchincloss, Newton D. Baker, Bernard Baruch,
Edouard de Billy, John Burke, Count Vincenzo Macchi di Cellere, Bainbridge
Colby, Oscar Crosby, Josephus Daniels, Thomas W. Gregory, William P. G.
Harding, Herbert Hoover, Robert Lansing, Alexander Legge, Sir Hardman Lever,
Breckinridge Long, William G. McAdoo, A. Mitchell Palmer, Frank L. Polk,
Benjamin Strong, Jr., André Tardieu, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Leonard Porter Ayres* (1879-1946), Papers of, 1902-46 (14/27).
Statistician: Puerto Rico, 1902-08 and Russell Sage Foundation, 1908-20; U.S.
Army, 1918-20; educator, author.
“Family and general correspondence, journals, notes, reports, subject files,
statistical tables and graphs, printed material, and clippings, relating primarily to
Ayres' work during World War I as chief statistical officer for the War Dept., his
service to the Dawes Commission, and his work during World War II as statistical
coordinator for the War Dept., and as consultant to the War Manpower
Commission. Also includes a file of correspondence between Christian Herter and
Alan Goldsmith relating to the Dawes Commission and material relating to
education, especially education in Puerto Rico, the Russell Sage Foundation, and
Ayres' travels in Europe.”
Statistical reports, World War I; some letters, 1902-20.
Benjamin Delahauf Foulois* (1879-1967), Papers of, 1898-1966, bulk: 1908-1935.
Enlisted, 1898, U.S. Army Engineer Corps; Puerto Rico, 1898, during the
Spanish-American War; infantryman and, 1902, commissioned officer,
Philippines during and after the insurrection, 1899-1905; Signal Corps, 1906;
taught to fly, 1910, by Wright Brothers; aerial operations during the Mexican
Punitive Expedition, 1916-17; Chief, American Expeditionary Forces Air Service
in World War I; Military Observer and Attaché in Berlin, Germany, 1920-1924;
Major General, 1931, Chief of Army Air Corps.
“Correspondence, diaries, reports, flight records, personnel records, scrapbooks,
newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Foulois's military
career and the development of air power in the U.S. military. . . . Includes
Foulois's logbook for Aeroplane No. 1 and notebooks, 1910, kept while he
learned to fly and maintain the Army's only airplane.”
Diaries, 1898-1920 (1 box); personal letters, 1898-1920 (2 boxes); subject files:
AEF, 1917-18 (5 boxes); aviation, 1909-17 (5 boxes); Mexico, 1916-17 (1 box).
John Philip Hill* (1879-1941), Scrapbooks of, 1906-38 (15/134)
John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill*: Johns Hopkins University, 1900, Harvard
Law and Massachusetts Bar, 1903; practiced Boston, 1903-04, Baltimore 1904-10
and 1927-37; U.S. District Attorney, Maryland 1910-1915; Judge Advocate, U.S.
Army, 1916, Mexican border; Major and Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, 191819; U.S. Congress, 1921-26, Republican, Maryland.
“Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and other papers,” mainly biographical,
“compiled by Hill. Subjects include Maryland and national politics, World War I,
and prohibition.”
John Haynes Holmes*(1879-1964), Papers of, 1899-1983, bulk: 1935-1964.
Grandson of John Haynes, Treasurer, Theodore Parker’s 28th Congregational
Society, who financed publication of Parker’s Works, and helped pay his
namesake’s tuition at Harvard.
Harvard, 1902 and Divinity, 1904; installed, 1904, Unitarian minister; pastor,
1907-1949, Church of the Messiah (Holmes and congregation left Unitarian
Fellowship, 1919, thereafter: Community Church of New York); helped found
and President, 1908-11, Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice; Vice-President,
1908-19, Middle States Unitarian Conference; Vice-President, 1909-64, National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People; President, 1914-19, Free
Religious Association; denounced all wars, 1915, in sermon, "Is War Ever
Justified?" and thereafter made anti-war speeches; Chair, 1915-17, General
Unitarian Conference; President, 1917-18, Unitarian Temperance Society;
Director, 1917-64, American Civil Liberties Union; also associated with: War
Resisters' League, American Friends Service Committee, Council Against
Intolerance in America, League for Industrial Democracy, and Foster Parents'
Plan for War Children; author: The Revolutionary Function of the Modern Church
(1912), and others, including many hymns.
“Correspondence, published and unpublished writings, printed material, and other
papers reflecting all facets of Holmes's public career and the libertarian
movements of the 20th century. Correspondence concerns Holmes's personal
life,” his ministerial activities, and his involvement with organizations dedicated
to civil liberties, civil rights, pacifism, and social service. “The writings file
includes Holmes's articles, hymns, sermons, and MSS. of his books including I
Speak for Myself: The Autobiography of John Haynes Holmes (1959) and My
Ghandi (1953).
Correspondents include Roger Baldwin, Henry Beckett, Arthur E. Calder, Carl
Colodne, Ethelwyn Doolittle, Donald Harrington, Arthur Garfield Hays, Arthur
Heller, Benjamin W. Huebsch, Fiorello La Guardia, Corliss Lamont, Lillian Laub,
S. O. Levinson, Minnie Loewenthal, Louis Mayer, George E. Moesel, Francis
Neilson, Carl Nelson, Edith Lovejoy Pierce, Henriette Posner, Ralph C. Roper,
Norman Thomas, Carl Hermann Voss, Blanche G. Watson, and Walter White.”
General letters, 1906, 1914-35 (1 box); writings file, 1907-64 (17 boxes);
miscellany, 1907-64 (5 boxes).
William Marion Jardine* (1879-1955), Papers of, 1908-1955, bulk: 1925-34.
William M. Jardine*: Utah State College of Agriculture, B.A. 1904, Illinois
University, 1906; taught agronomy, 1906-08, Utah State; lecturer, 1912, Graduate
School of Agriculture, Michigan State; Dean of Agriculture, 1913-18, and
President, 1918-25; Kansas State; assistant U.S. cerealist, 1907-10, for dry land
investigations, and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29; U.S. Minister to
Egypt, 1930-34; President, Wichita University, 1934-1949.
“Correspondence, articles, speeches, lectures, notes, and scrapbooks of clippings
concerned mainly with the economic aspects of agriculture and rural life” as well
as Jarine’s government service.
Correspondents include Milton Stover Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Alfred M.
Landon, Andrew W. Mellon, Henry Lewis Stimson, and Harry Hines Woodring.”
Speeches and articles, 1908-44 (1 box); scrapbooks, 1918-23 (1 box).
Scudder Klyce* (1879-1933), Papers of, 1911-1933.
Naval officer and philosopher, logician, semanticist; author: Universe (1921),
Sins of Science (1925); Dewey's Suppressed Psychology . . . (1928).
“Correspondence, drafts of published and unpublished articles, and a typescript of
Klyce's Universe, that relate to his ideas on logic, philosophy, religion,
mathematics, and psychology” as well as the relationships between them.
“Correspondents include Robert Daniel Carmichael, James McKeen Cattell,
Clarence Day, John Dewey, Waldo Frank, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, David Starr
Jordan, Robert Andrews Taylor, Theodore William Richards, William Emerson
Ritter, and Upton Sinclair.
Letters, 1911-33, arranged alphabetically, concerning American philosophy and
philosophers, following the line of John Dewey, Alfred Korzybski, and Ludwig
Wittgenstein.
Emory Scott Land* (1879-1971), Papers of, 1901-1972
U.S. Naval Academy, 1902; naval architect, specialist in undersea warfare; ViceAdmiral, U.S. Naval Headquarters, 1919-21, London, England, World War I;
Rear Admiral and Chief of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair,
1932-1937; civilian, Chair, 1938-46, U.S. Maritime Commission.
“Correspondence, diary notes, speeches, copies of orders, photos, scrapbooks,
clippings, and other papers chiefly relating to Land's forty-eight years of
government service, particularly in the 1930s and during World War II; VicePresident and Treasurer, 1926, Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of
Aeronautics, Inc.; and his role as advisor, 1927-28, during the tours of his cousin,
Charles A. Lindbergh, and Land's testimony, 1938, in the Lindbergh kidnapping
case.
Correspondents include William E. Boeing, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, James F.
Byrnes, Homer L. Ferguson, James V. Forrestal, Julius A. Furer, Jerome C.
Hunsaker, Edgar E. Kaiser, Joseph P. Kennedy, Admiral William A. Moffett,
Admiral William V. Pratt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Admiral William S. Sims,
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Henry L. Stimson, Admiral David Watson Taylor and
Fred M. Vinson.”
Waldo Gifford Leland* (1879-1966), Papers of, 1844-1966, bulk: 1915-1928 and
1948-1966.
Brown, 1900; Harvard, M.A., 1901; staff member, 1903-32, Department of
Historical Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington DC, including activities
in Paris, France 1907-14, 1922-27; Secretary, 1909-20, American Historical
Association; organizing Secretary, 1919, and administrator, 1927-46, American
Council of Learned Societies; co-author: Guide to the Archives of the
Government of the United States in Washington (1904, 1907), and others.
“Correspondence, diaries, articles, reports, memoranda, notes, and miscellaneous
papers, including unpublished drafts, relating to Leland's ongoing Guide to
Materials for American History in the Libraries and Archives of Paris (2 v., 1932,
1943), the American Philosophical Society, Brown University, Cosmos Club in
Washington DC, and the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of
the League of Nations.
Correspondents include Julian P. Boyd, Solon J. Buck, Abel Doysié, J. Franklin
Jameson, Halvdan Koht, Henri Pirenne, and Walter M. Whitehill.”
Family letters, 1896-1920 (4 boxes); general letters, 1890-1966, arranged
alphabetically (15 boxes).
1880+
Arthur P. Schmidt Company, Records of the, 1880-194- (210/340).
Music publishers, Boston.
Music Division:
Series I. letters: general, 1897-1904 (3 v.), American, 1904-16 (5 v.), Henry
Litolff Press, 1895-1934 (6 v.), copyright renewals, 1917-40 (4 v.), composers,
1908-20 (9 boxes); Series II. royalties (3 v.); Series III. catalogue (19 v.); Series
IV. organ music (2 v.); Series V. financial records, 1880-1903 (33 v.); Series VI.
scores, alphabetical by composer, of published works (122 boxes).
Joseph Warren Beach* (1880-1957), Papers of, 1891-1955 (5/48).
Graduate student, Harvard University, 1902-07; Professor of English, University
of Minnesota, 1907-23; literary critic.
“Correspondence, diaries, MSS. of published works, poems, scholarly and critical
notes, essays, and lectures relating to Beach's career, literary subjects, and family
matters.
Correspondents include his sons Warren and Northrop, his wife Dagmar
Doneghy, Stephen Early, James Thomas Farrell, Robert Frost, George Lyman
Kittredge, Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard
Wilbur.”
Diaries, 1898-1920 (2 boxes); letters, 1900-20 (2 boxes).
Ernest Bloch* (1880-1959), Papers of, 1888-1940 (20/26).
Composer, conductor, teacher; professor, 1911-15, Geneva Conservatory;
emigrated, 1916, from Switzerland to United States; teacher, 1917, Mannes
School of Music, New York City; Dierctor, 1920-25, Institute of Musical Art,
Cleveland OH.
Music Division:
Family letters, 1902-23; scrapbooks: Europe, 1896-1910 (1 v.), 1910-15 (1 v.),
America, 1916-17 (1 v.), Cleveland, 1920-25, (1 v.); subject file, Cleveland
Institute of Music; music scores, published and unpublished.
Julius Augustus Furer* (1880-1963), Papers of, 1910-1962, bulk: 1915-1961.
U.S. Naval Academy, Secretary of Class, 1901; M.S., 1905, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; applied, 1911, principles of “scientific management,” to
administration of Philadelphia Navy Yard; outfitted and set up, 1914-15, technical
facilities at the Navy’s new base at Pearl Harbor; commanded, 1915 through
World War I, Supply Division, Bureau of Construction and Repair, Washington
DC; technical staff advisor, 1919-22, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet; Rear
Admiral, 1941-45, Coordinator of Naval Research and Development.
“Correspondence; diary, 1941-1945; subject file; speech, article, and book file,
including numerous articles on naval and maritime subjects, published in the
Encyclopedia Americana; and miscellaneous material, chiefly 1915-1961, relating
to Furer's activities as director” of the successful and innovative effort to salvage
the submarine F-4 (SS 23), Pearl Harbor, 1915, and other assignments. . . .
“Correspondents include Arleigh Burke, Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton, John
Foster Dulles, Ernest M. Eller, Albert Furer, Kurt Fürer, William F. Halsey, John
B. Heffernan, Jerome C. Hunsaker, Dudley W. Knox, Charles Little, Samuel E.
Morison, and Clifton Toal.”
Letter and subject files, 1910-62; arranged alphabetically (8 boxes).
Arnold Gesell* (1880-1961), Papers of, 1870-1971, bulk: 1910-1950.
Arnold Lucius Gesell*: Clark University, Ph. D., 1906 and Yale, M.D., 1915;
Professor of Psychology, 1908-10, Los Angeles CA State Normal School, early
predecessor of U.C.L.A; founder and director, 1911-48, Yale Juvenile
Psychological Clinic; Social Psychologist, 1915-19, Connecticut State Board of
Education; author: The Normal Child and Primary Education (1912); with Julia
Wade Abbot, The Kindergarten and Health (1923), and others.
“Correspondence, memoranda, reports, drafts and published writings, addresses
and lectures, articles, book reviews, clinical and medical records, broadcast and
film scripts, financial and legal papers, appointment books, personnel records,
contracts, biographical and genealogical material, abstracts, announcements,
bulletins, certificates, charts, diplomas, manuals, press releases, tests, scrapbooks,
clippings, illustrations, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to
Gesell's years as director of the Yale Clinic of Child Development, his studies of
the mental and physical development of infants and children, and his role in the
debate on the developmental influences of environment and heredity (nature and
nurture).
Includes material on Gesell's own childhood and education, his membership on
the Connecticut Commission on Child Welfare, his work as a research consultant
with the Gesell Institute of Child Development, and his relations with colleagues
Catherine Amatruda, Louise Bates Ames, Burton Menaugh Castner, Frances
Lillian Ilg, and Helen Thompson. Also includes material relating to German
immigration and assimilation in the United States, ca. 1870-1910, the character of
J. Willard Gibbs (1839-1903), the childhood development of Abraham Lincoln,
and the use of motion pictures as educational and scientific research tools, 19201950.
Correspondents include James Rowland Angell, Roswell Parker Angier, Charlotte
Malachowski Buhler, Glenna E. Bullis, Leonard Carmichael, Beatrice Chandler
Gesell, Henry Herbert Goddard, G. Stanley Hall, Walter R. Miles, Grover Francis
Powers, Edgar James Swift, Lewis Madison Terman, T. Wingate Todd, Frederick
Jackson Turner, and Robert Mearns Yerkes.”
Arranged alphabetically: family letters, 1870-1960 (16 boxes); general letters,
1884-1957 (28 boxes); subject files, 1910-59 (90 boxes).
Frederick Joseph Horne* (1880-1959), Papers of, 1893-1967, bulk: 1900-1945.
U.S. Navy, 1895-1947; U.S. Naval Attaché, Tokyo, Japan, during World War I;
Vice Chief of Naval Operations, World War II.
“General correspondence, 1919-1965, speeches and articles, 1922-1946,
Congressional material, 1943-1959, flight logbooks, 1931, 1933-1937, minutes
and reports, 1945-1946, and other papers documenting Horne's naval career. Also
includes material on the coronation of Crown Prince Yoshihito as Taish¯o,
Emperor of Japan, 1915, Congressional hearings on naval appropriations, naval
aviation, the navy and national defense, and Horne's studies at the Naval
Academy.
Correspondents include William Augustus Ayres, Clarence Darrow, Chester W.
Nimitz, and Richard M. Nixon.”
Newspaper clippings, 1915-17 from Japan Times; memorabilia, Japan, 1908,
1916 (1 box).
Clarence Edwin Carter* (1881-1961), Papers of, 1763-1956 (3/37).
Professor of History: Illinois College, 1908-10; Miami (Ohio) University, 191038.
“Correspondence, reports, financial papers, book reviews, photos, printed matter,
and legal papers. Bulk of the collection is comprised of copies of the
correspondence, 1763-1775, of the British general, Sir Thomas Gage, assembled
by Carter for publication. Other papers concern Carter's work at the National
Archives in editing The Territorial Papers of the United States, and in editing with
Clarence W. Alvord several works on early Illinois history. . . . Carter's personal
papers mainly concern academic appointments and tenure at several universities,
and historical society matters. . . .
Correspondents include his mother, Anna Rogers Carter, his brother, Fred
Armstrong Carter, and Frederick Jackson Turner.”
Letters and other material, 1896-1920 (3 boxes).
Barry Faulkner* (1881-1966), Papers of, 1861-1966, bulk: 1900-1966 (1/2).
American artist.
“Chiefly correspondence, 1900-1966, with family associates” some about his
training and early work. “Also typescripts of articles and speeches, and
photographs of Faulkner's murals.
Correspondents include Witter Bynner, Eric Gugler, Leon Kroll, James Johnson
Sweeney, and Lawrence Grant White.”
Irving Langmuir* (1881-1957), Papers of, 1871-1957.
Columbia School of Mines, 1903; Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany,
Ph. D., 1906; chemistry instructor, 1906-09, Stevens Institute, Hoboken NJ;
physical chemist, 1909-50, Research Laboratory, General Electric Company;
author: Laws of Heat Transmission in Electrical Machinery (1913), and others.
“Correspondence, diaries, experimental notebooks, speeches, writings, card
reference file, clippings, printed material, awards, photographs, and other papers.
The notebooks, 1894-1957, contain data that led to the development of the gasfilled incandescent lamp, the high vacuum power tube, atomic hydrogen welding,
screening smoke generators for the Armed Forces, and weather control.
Includes subject files on such research topics as cloud seeding experiments,
smoked bathythermograph records, and charts of Lake George NY. Also includes
material pertaining to Langmuir's years, 1903-1906, as a graduate student in
Germany.
Correspondents include Niels Henrik David Bohr, Vannevar Bush, Leopold
Stokowski, and Willis Rodney Whitney.”
Diaries, 1897, 1900, 1902 (1 box); letters, 1895-1927 (2 boxes); subject files,
1910-57, (36 boxes); lab notebooks, 1894-1921 (3 boxes).
Breckinridge Long* (1881-1958), Papers of, 1486-1948, bulk: 1910-1948 (89/259).
Princeton University, 1904 and M.A. 1909; St. Louis Law, Washington
University, 1905-06, and Missouri Bar; Secretary, 1914, Missouri Code
Commission on Revision of Judicial Procedure; Third Assistant U.S. Secretary of
State, 1917-1920, Chair, 1925-29, Democratic Party’s National Jefferson
Centennial Commission; Ambassador, 1933-1936, Italy; Ambassador on Special
Mission, 1938, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay; Assistant Secretary of State,
supervised Immigrant Visa Section, 1940-1944.
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, 1916-1946, writings, reports, notes,
speeches, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers
relating primarily to Long's career in government and politics, 1908-44. Also
documents Long's work as Trustee, 1937-41, Princeton University, and includes
papers, 1740-1945, of the Blair, Breckinridge, Long, and Preston families as well
as an autograph collection, 1486-1923.
Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernard M.
Baruch, Desha Breckinridge, Jefferson Caffery, Wilbur J. Carr, Bainbridge Colby,
Homer S. Cummings, Josephus Daniels, J. Lionberger Davis, James Aloysius
Farley, Carter Glass, Harry Bartow Hawes, W. R. Hollister, Edward Mandell
House, Andrieus Aristieus Jones, Michael Kinney, Robert Lansing, William
Gibbs McAdoo, Vance Criswell McCormick, Wilbur W. Marsh, George S.
Messersmith, George Fort Milton, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Alexander Mitchell
Palmer, William Phillips, Key Pittman, Frank L. Polk, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Daniel C. Roper, Selden P. Spencer, William Stanley, Herbert Bayard Swope,
Frank Abner Thompson, Guy Atwood Thompson, Joseph P. Tumulty, and
Woodrow Wilson.”
Diaries, 1916-21 (2 boxes); general letters, 1903-20 (55 boxes); general subject
files, 1904-20 (8 boxes); State Department, 1917-20 (9 boxes); scrapbooks, 191620 (2 boxes).
Clinton Joseph Davisson* (1882-1958), Papers of, 1916-1957, bulk: 1917-1946.
University of Chicago, 1908, Princeton, Ph. D., 1911; instructor, 1911-17,
Carnegie Institute of Technology; physicist, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 191746; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1937.
“Primarily scientific papers pertaining to Davisson's major research areas while
he was employed by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., and Western Electric
Company. Includes MSS. of articles accompanied by research notes and statistics;
MSS. relating to his study of the secondary emission of electrons; materials
relating to electron optics, the construction of instruments for election focusing,
and crystal physics used to develop quartz crystal plates as circuit elements;
lecture notes at the University of Virginia, 1947-1948; and correspondence
concerning Davisson's confirmation of the wave properties of electrons. Includes
some personal correspondence.”
Geraldine Farrar* (1882-1967), Papers of, 1895-1965 (30/90).
American soprano: Monte Carlo Opera, 1903-06; Metropolitan Opera, 1906-22;
motion picture actress, 1915-19.
Music Division:
Letters, 1897-1920 (200 items); photos, programs, lecture material, music (MS.
And printed), books, posters, early phonograph records of her voice; scrapbooks
relating to her career.
Felix Frankfurter* (1882-1965), Papers of, 1846-1966, bulk: 1907-1966.
City College of New York, 1902; Harvard Law, New York Bar, 1905; Assistant
U.S. Attorney, New York City, 1906-10; Law Officer, 1911-14; Bureau of Insular
Affairs, U.S. War Department; faculty member, 1914-1939, Harvard Law School;
War Department and President’s Mediation Commission, 1917-18; Chair, War
Labor Policies Board, 1918-19; Paris Peace Conference, 1919-1920; Associate
Justice, 1939-62, U.S. Supreme Court; member, Zionist Commission; helped
found The New Republic and the American Civil Liberties Union.
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, oral history interviews, writings, speeches,
notes, legal file, newspaper clippings, printed material, photographs, and other
papers reflecting Frankfurter's involvement with significant political and social
movements and events and his acquaintance with leaders in many segments of
society. . . .
Subjects include the judicial process, law, development of legal and social
institutions, the personalities and legal philosophies of members of the Supreme
Court, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and the relation between law and social action.
Other topics include banking structure, a survey of crime and criminal justice in
Boston conducted by Harvard Law School, foreign affairs, independent regulatory
commissions, industrial relations, labor injunctions, . . . national politics in the
United States and Great Britain, public utilities, railroad reorganization, and
unemployment. Also includes material pertaining to various organizations
including the American Civil Liberties Union, American Law Institute, Cleveland
Foundation, National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (U.S.
Wickersham Commission), National Consumers' League, Social Science
Research Council, and U.S. War Labor Policies Board.
Includes some papers, 1906-1910, of William Henry Moody and files containing
materials by or about Oliver Wendell Holmes, including correspondence, 19291935, of his law clerks. Also includes Frank W. Buxton's memoir, Chum Felix
Frankfurter: A Retired Journalist's Account of a Genius In His Off-duty Hours
(1970).
Family correspondents include Frankfurter's wife, Marion Denman Frankfurter,
and his sisters, Estelle S. Frankfurter and Ella Rogers.
Other correspondents include Dean Acheson, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Emory R.
Buckner, Charles C. Burlingham, Frank W. Buxton, Loring Christie, Alfred E.
Cohn, Herbert David Croly, Albert Einstein, Herbert Feis, Jerome Frank, Albert
M. Friedenberg, Henry J. Friendly, Francis Hackett, Learned Hand, Julian
Huxley, Harold Joseph Laski, W. S. Lewis, Max Lowenthal, Archibald MacLeish,
Reinhold Niebuhr, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Henry Lewis
Stimson.”
Letters, 1878-1965, and subject files, 1911-65, arranged alphabetically.
Percy Aldridge Granger* (1882-1961), Papers of, 1899-1961 (15/84).
Pianist, composer; emigrated, 1914, Australia to United States; taught, 1919-31,
summer sessions, Chicago Musical College.
Music Division:
Papers, 1899-1920 (15 boxes).
Hermann Hagedorn* (1882-1964), Papers of, 1912-1933.
Harvard, and Instructor, 1909-11; poet: The Silver Blade, a Play in Verse (1907),
Poems and Ballads (1912), and others; helped found, 1917, The Vigilantes in
opposition to Kaiser Wilhelm, and edited, 1917, a patriotic collection, Fifes and
Drums; biographer of a general, That Human Being, Leonard Wood (1920), a
banker, The Magnate: William Boyce Thompson and His Time, 1869-1930
(1935), a president, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill (1954), and others;
editor, The Works of Theodore Roosevelt (1923-26); Executive Director,
Theodore Roosevelt Association.
“Correspondence, subject files, research materials, and miscellany relating
primarily to Hagedorn's research on and biographies of Wood and Thompson.
Includes original materials relating to Thompson's role in relief work in Russia
following the Revolution and in securing diplomatic recognition for the Soviets.
Also includes material on Hagedorn's activities relating to World War I loyalty
questions, especially the problems of his fellow German Americans and The
Vigilantes, a militant group of patriotic writers.
Correspondents include Charles F. Ayer, Newton D. Baker, Bernard Baruch,
Albert R. Brunker, Grenville Clark, George B. Cortelyou, Harvey Cushing,
Johnson Hagood, James G. Harbord, Harry S. Howland, Cornelius Kelleher,
Frank Ross McCoy, Arthur W. Page, Raymond Robins, Elihu Root, Frank
Steinhart, Henry L. Stimson, Samuel M. Williams, and Louisa Wood.”
Biographical papers: Thompson (10 boxes), Wood (21 boxes); GermanAmericans and Vigilantes (4 boxes).
American Federation of Labor*, Records of, 1883-1925 (259/354).
AFL*: “Letterpress books containing correspondence of the presidents of the
American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, and William Green, and letters
by other officials, James Duncan, Gabriel Edmonston, Frank K. Foster, and John
McBride. Topics include the formation of local unions, conduct of meetings,
charters, by-laws, ethics, publicity, arbitration, the political principles of the AFL,
communism, socialism, anthracite coal strikes of 1897 and 1902, fund raising,
boycotts, American Railway Union, International Association of Machinists,
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Mine Workers of America, and
The American Federationist, magazine of the AFL.
Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Grover Cleveland, William Hugh
Johnston, John Llewellyn Lewis, L. J. McGruder, Peter J. McGuire, John
Mitchell, John Morrison, Herman Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Daniel Joseph
Tobin, Henry White, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letterpress copybooks of Samuel Gompers*, 1850-1924, and William Green*,
1896-1920 (1896-1920, 259 v.). Each volume has a name index.
Albert Morris Cohen * (1883-1959), Papers of, 1904-1955.
Naval officer.
“Family and general correspondence, journals, reports, circulars, photographs,
and scrapbooks relating to Cohen's service with the U.S. Naval Aviation Corps
during World War I and to his duties aboard the U.S. transport ship George
Washington and the U.S. battleship Louisiana.
Family correspondents include Cohen's father, Charles J. Cohen, his mother,
Clotilda Florance Cohen, his brother, Henry Barnet Cohen, and his sister, Eleanor
C. Hillman.”
Jo Davidson* (1883-1952), Papers of, 1906-1952 (3/18).
Joseph Davidson*: Sculptor.
“Correspondence, notes, speeches, articles, clippings, other papers, and photos.
Includes material relating to Davidson's career as a sculptor. . . . Family
correspondents include his first wife Yvonne, his second wife Florence, and his
sons Jean and Jacques. Other correspondents include Helen Keller, Lincoln
Steffens, and Frank Swinnerton. Includes individual files on many of Davidson's
sculptures.
Letters, 1906-20 (1 box).
Dennett Family Papers, 1913-1925 (1/1).
Tyler Dennett* (1883-1949) letters.
“Correspondence, receipts, notes, a certificate, and printed material of various
members of the Dennett and Fenner families, though consisting chiefly of letters
between” Baptist minister “Rev. Wilbur E. Dennett* of Providence RI, and his
second wife, Philena (i.e., Lena) Sweet (Fenner) Dennett, relating to personal and
family affairs” and letters exchanged with his son, Tyler Wilbur Dennett*.
Tyler Dennett* (1883-1949), Papers of, 1861-1933 (3/8).
Tyler Wilbur Dennett*: Williams College, 1904, and succeeded Harry A.
Garfield as President, 1934-37; Union Theological Seminary, 1908;
Congregational minister briefly and journalist; lecturer, 1923-24 and Ph. D. in
history, 1925, Johns Hopkins University; Chief, 1924-29, Division of Publications
and advisor in history, 1929-31, U.S. Department of State; Princeton, 1931-34;
author: Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War: A Critical Study of American
Policy in Eastern Asia, 1902-05 (1925) and John Hay: From Poetry to Politics
(1933), for which Dennett received the Pulitzer Prize in Biography.
“Correspondence, research notes and material, galley proofs, photos, and printed
matter relating to Dennett's biography of John Hay and to his planned edition of
the John Hay* letters. Includes original correspondence of Hay with Theodore
Roosevelt and James Abram Garfield and copies of Hay's letters
Correspondents include Allan Nevins and Dodd, Mead & Company.”
Hay’s letters, 1897-1905 (3 boxes).
Carl Engel* (1883-1944), Papers of, 1896-1944 (4/5).
Editor, advisor, 1909-21, Boston Music Company.
Music Division:
Letters, mainly received, 1905-09 (1 box).
E. A. Goldenweiser* (1883-1953), Papers of, 1919-1952, bulk: 1930-1945 (1/9).
Emanuel Alexandrovich Goldenweiser*: Born Russia; economist; Director,
1930-45, Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board; President,
1946, American Economic Association; author of studies for U.S. Government:
Chinese and Japanese in the United States (1914); A Study of the Tenant Systems
of Farming in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (1916); A Survey of the Fertilizer
Industry (1919); with Leon E. Truesdell, Farm Tenancy in the United States
(Census Monograph No. IV, 1924).
“A subject file contains memoranda, reports, notes, speeches, Congressional
testimony, etc., relating almost wholly to financial and economic affairs, with
major emphasis on Federal Reserve Board matters.
Includes correspondence with Dean G. Acheson, Louis D. Brandeis, Paul H.
Douglas, Marriner S. Eccles, Ralph A. Young, Carter Glass, John Maynard
Keynes, Charles Rist, Fred M. Vinson, and others.”
Letters, 1919-20 (1 box).
Grand Army of the Republic, Records of the, 1883-1928 (7 items).
“Proceedings of the 1st-11th annual encampments of the Grand Army of the
Republic, Department of Florida, 1884-1894, and of the 7th, 8th, and 10th annual
encampments of the Department of Nebraska, 1883-1886; and Memorial Record
of the Department of the Potomac, Burnside Post 8, Washington DC, presented to
the Post by George Truesdell in 1889. Department of Florida proceedings contain
printed general orders and printed reports of the 8th, 10th, and 11th meetings.
The Burnside Post record consists of a bound volume of printed forms filled in
with biographical information and war records of the post's members, preceded by
a foreword, June 25, 1928, by F. J. Young giving a brief history of the post” and
includes a summation of each veteran’s activities from 1865 to his death, 18891919 (1 v.).
Leland Harrison* (1883-1951), Papers of, 1915-1947, bulk: 1918-1921 (70/125).
Diplomatic posts: Japan, 1907-08; Peking, 1909; London, 1910; Columbia, 1912;
Diplomatic Secretary, 1918-19, American Commission to Negotiate Peace;
Sweden, 1927-29; Uruguay, 1929-30; Switzerland, 1937-47.
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, minutes and resolutions of conferences,
treaty documents, reports, notes, bulletins, clippings, maps, and memorabilia
relating primarily to the Paris Peace Conference.
Correspondents include Dean G. Acheson, William F. Clayton, Joseph C. Grew,
Warren G. Harding, Manley O. Hudson, Cordell Hull, Alexander Kirk, Robert
Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, Frank R. McCoy, George S. Messersmith, Robert
D. Murphy, William Phillips, Frank L. Polk, Eliot Wadsworth, Sumner Welles,
and John G. Winant.”
Letters, 1911-20 (2 boxes); Paris Peace Conference, 1918-19 (67 boxes).
Charles F. Heartman* (1883-1953), Papers of, 1901-1910.
Charles Frederick Heartman*: Emigrated from Germany, and from 1913, an
antiquarian book dealer successively in New York City, Vermont, New Jersey,
Mississippi, Texas, and New Orleans; known for his catalogues, bibliographies of
rare Americana; also collected material related to African and African-American
history; Memoir: Twenty-five Years in the Auction Business and What Now?
(1938).
“Manuscripts of articles, stories and poems, including his unpublished "Roman
Fragment," written before Heartman came to America in 1910.”
W. L. McAtee* (1883-1962), Papers of, 1803-1963, bulk: 1900-1960.
Waldo Lee McAtee*: Indiana University, A.B., and Museum, 1901-04, Curator
of Birds, and A.M, 1906; biologist, ornithologist, and editor, 1904-47, U.S.
Biological Survey and its successor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Curator of
Hemiptera, Smithsonian Institution; founding editor, 1935-47, Wildlife Review
and 1937-42, Journal of Wildlife Management; author: A Sketch of the Natural
History of the District of Columbia (1918), and others.
“Correspondence, research and writings, field notes and notebooks, poetry, prose,
reviews, and other avocational writings, calendars, diaries, memorabilia,
scrapbook, wills, and printed matter chiefly documenting McAtee's scientific
career. Includes material relating to his research on the food habits of birds; his
observations of wildlife, insects, and flora for his book; his opposition to Darwin's
theories of evolution and natural selection; his biographical files on prominent
scientists; and his collection of handwriting samples of botanists, entomologists,
mammologists, ornithologists, and others.
Correspondents include Arthur M. Banta, F. E. L. Beal, Donald Beaty Bloch, Lee
L. Buchanan, Frank M. Chapman, Josiah Henry Combs, A. K. Fisher, Ira Noel
Gabrielson, Ernest G. Holt, J. Douglas Hood, Alfred C. Kinsey, Hoyes Lloyd,
Harry Malleis, John Russell Malloch, H. L. Mencken, Edward Alexander Preble,
Henry W. Shoemaker, Herbert L. Stoddard, John K. Terres, Joseph Sanford
Wade, Florence Warnick, and Casey A. Wood.
Family correspondents include his wife, Fannie E. McAtee, his brother, Morris
McAtee, and his son, Robert B. McAtee.”
Letters, 1900-29, arranged alphabetically (14 boxes); “evolution notes” (5 boxes).
Frederick Vallette McNair* (1882-1962), Papers of, 1916-1922 (5/5).
Son of Rear Admiral Frederick Vallette McNair (1839-1900).
U.S. Naval Academy, 1903; Lieutenant and Medal of Honor, 1914, commanded
ground forces at Vera Cruz, Mexico; retired, Captain.
“Naval signals regarding the sighting of enemy submarines or floating mines and
their positions and printed materials concerning submarines, torpedoes, mines,
and zeppelins, a type of airship. Relates chiefly to McNair's service on the U.S.S.
Winslow” (DD-53) which patrolled, 1917-19, in British and French waters during
World War I.
Florence Ellinwood Allen* (1884-1966), Papers of, 1907-65 (3/11).
Western Reserve University for Women, 1904, Political Science degree, 1908;
studied music, Berlin; music critic, 1906-09, Cleveland Plain Dealer; studied law,
University of Chicago and New York University; Ohio Bar, 1914; Assistant
Prosecutor, 1919, Cuyahoga County OH; Judge, 1920-21, Court of Common
Pleas; Associate Justice, Ohio Supreme Court, 1922-34; U.S. Court of Appeals,
Sixth Circuit, 1934-59; feminist, author, lecturer.
“Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, honors and citations, clippings, photos,
and other papers, relating to Judge Allen's career. . . and her activities in behalf of
women's rights and peace through international law.
Correspondents include Nancy Witcher Langhorne (Viscountess Astor), Eleanor
Roosevelt, Margaret Chase Smith, and members of the International Federation of
Women Lawyers.”
Woman suffrage cartoons, pamphlets, and clippings, and some letters, 1915-20 (3
boxes).
American Historical Association*, Records of the, 1884-1985.
“Correspondence, notes, minutes of meetings, financial records, MSS. of
published and unpublished articles, reports, membership cards and lists,
resolutions, legal briefs, and printed materials reflecting the association's history
and its development of programs stimulating scholarly historical research and
activities. Includes subject files, files of the secretary and executive secretary,
various committees, the Executive Council, the Historical Service Board, and the
treasurer, and editorial files of the American Historical Review.
Subjects include the role of the association in the establishment of the Public
Archives Commission, relations with various professional associations (American
Council of Learned Societies, American Economic Association, American
Political Science Association, Social Science Research Council, and Society of
American Archivists), establishment of the American Historical Review and its
relations with Macmillan Company, encouragement of various writing projects.
Persons represented include Thomas P. Abernathy, Herbert Baxter Adams,
Charles M. Andrews, Paul M. Angle, Thomas A. Baily, Frederic Bancroft,
George Bancroft, Charles and Mary Beard, Carl Becker, Samuel Flagg Bemis,
Herbert P. Bolton, Solon J. Buck, A. L. Burt, Avery Craven, Merle Curti, William
A. Dunning, John Fairbank, Sidney Fay, Guy Stanton Ford, Worthington C. Ford,
Dixon Ryan Fox, Leo Gershoy, Louis Gottschalk, Albert Bushnell Hart, Carlton J.
H. Hayes, J. Franklin Jameson, Waldo G. Leland, Arthur Link, Donald McCoy,
Dumas Malone, Ernest May, Frederick Merk, Samuel Eliot Morison, Richard B.
Morris, William A. Morris, Dana G. Munro, Frank Owsley, John Parry, Frederick
L. Paxson, Louis Pelzer, Dexter Perkins, U. B. Phillips, Julius W. Pratt, Charles
W. Ramsdell, James G. Randall, James Harvey Robinson, Arthur M. Schlesinger,
Sr., Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Schuyler, Charles Seymour, Boyd Shafer,
H. Morse Stephens, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Arthur Whitaker.”
“Secretary File,” 1890-1920:
letter books, 1890-1908 (1 box), letters,
alphabetical within each year, 1896-1920 (41 boxes).
William Smith Culbertson* (1884-1966), Papers of, 1897-1965.
Member, Vice-Chair, 1917-25, U.S. Tariff Commission; Professor of Law, 191956, Georgetown University.
“Correspondence, diaries, public documents, lecture notes; manuscripts of
Culbertson's books, articles, speeches, and his unpublished memoirs, "Ventures in
Time and Space"; and scrapbooks and memoranda relating to all phases of his
career: U.S. Tariff Commission and diplomat, 1925-1933. Includes records of
his law practice, lecture notes at Georgetown University, and manuscripts relating
to his church activities and work in helping to establish a national Presbyterian
church center in Washington DC.
Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, Henry C. Emery, John H. Finley,
Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull,
Edward N. Hurley, Charles F. Kent, Robert M. La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt,
H. G. Wells, and William Allen White.”
Diaries, 1897-1924 (4 boxes); letters, 1897-1924 (6 boxes) and 1915-20 (2 v.).
Casimir Funk* (1884-1967), Papers of, 1944-1963.
Born Warsaw, Poland; studied biochemistry, Berne Switzerland; pioneer research,
in vitamin deficiency as a cause of disease.
“Correspondence (1954-63), clipping, photograph, and typescript of
autobiography, ‘Life of C. F.: A Retrospect at the Age of Sixty,’" an unpublished
account, 1884-1944, of his professional education in Europe, early experiments
with vitamins, and his emigration and work, 1915-23, in the United States: 18961920 (100 pp.).
Stanford Caldwell Hooper* (1884-1955), Papers of, 1899-1955.
U.S. Naval Academy, 1905 and instructor, 1910-11: electricity, physics,
chemistry; Fleet Radio Officer, 1912-14, 1923-25; commanded, World War I, a
destroyer, U.S.S. Fairfax; Chief, 1914-28, Radio Division, Bureau of Engineering,
Navy Department; Rear Admiral and Director of Naval Communications, 192843; delegate, 1920s and 1930s, to national and international radio conferences.
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, transcripts of tape recordings,
research notes, notebooks, financial and legal papers, bibliographical file, and
newspaper clippings relating to Hooper's part in the planning and growth of radio
communications in government service, his work in building the shore-detection
radio finder system for the Navy, his design and construction of many of the
Navy's high-power radio stations, and his role in persuading the U.S. government
to help establish the Radio Corporation of America. Other subjects include longlife receiving and transmitting tubes, high-power vacuum-tubes, simultaneous
multi-wave communications systems, remote control radio operational
techniques, depth finders, sound-oscillated radio systems, the application of long
distance radio techniques to aircraft, submarine sound detection systems, and
radio-controlled target practice experiments.
Correspondents include William S. Benson, Mark L. Bristol, Richard E. Byrd, Jr.,
Royal S. Copeland, Josephus Daniels, John Hays Hammond, Jr., James G.
Harbord, Hiram W. Johnson, Emory S. Land, Thomas A. Marshall, Elihu Root,
Daniel C. Roper, David Sarnoff, and Owen D. Young.”
Letters, 1899-21 (3 boxes); tape recordings of an oral history of naval radio,
undated notes: typescript text of tapes (1 box).
John McCormack* (1884-1945), Papers of, 1914-40 (86 items).
Music Division:
Opera and song programs; Irish songs; recordings; letters, 1914-20, exchanged
between McCormack, his manager, and his accompanist (30 items).
1885+
George Nathan Caylor* (1885- ), Papers of.
“Born George Nathan Cohen*: businessman, labor arbitrator, and Socialist, of
New York City.”
“Typescript of an unpublished autobiography entitled "If My Memory Serves Me
Right," and eight short sketches or stories. Includes references to and discussions
of persons and activities connected with the Socialist Party.”
His autobiography (1896-1920, 275 pp.) also includes descriptions of the author’s
attempt to escape his Russian-Jewish heritage.
Bronson M. Cutting* (1885-1935), Papers of, 1899-1950, bulk: 1910-1935 (10/116).
Bronson Murray Cutting*: Harvard, 1910; newspaper publisher, 1910-35, Santa
Fe, New Mexico; appointed, 1917, Captain, U.S. Army; Assistant Military
Attache, 1917-18, American Embassy, London; U.S. Senate, 1927-1935,
Republican, New Mexico.
Correspondence, essays, articles, speeches, detective reports, biographical
information, legal papers, clippings, scrapbooks, printed material, and
photographs. . . . His files as a publisher relate to political affairs in New Mexico
and his investigations into political corruption in the state. . . .
Correspondents include Harold L. Ickes, Ezra Pound, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Letters, 1899-1920 (5 boxes); subject files, New Mexico, 1910-20 (5 boxes).
Everett Strait Hughes* (1885-1957), Papers of, 1903-1975, bulk: 1903-1929 and 19421945.
U.S. Military Academy, 1908; ordnance officer from 1911; Major General and
Chief of Ordnance Department, 1946-49, U.S. Army.
“Correspondence, diaries, and orders concerning Hughes's army career in
ordnance and general staff work.” Documents the training and many aspects of
cadet life at West Point NY and “his service during the Mexican Punitive
Expedition, World War I including time with the AEF in France, and in World
War II.
Correspondents include Levin Hicks Campbell, Mark W. Clark, Jack W. Coffee,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Curtis Franklin, Charles Barry Goodspeed, C. Ralph
Huebner, Bob P. Hughes, Bob W. Hughes, William F. Hughes, Geoffrey Keyes,
H. R. Kutz, Robert McGowan Littlejohn, John Porter Lucas, Frank McCullough,
George Van Horn Mosely, Beatrice Banning Ayer Patton, George S. Patton,
Virgil L. Peterson, George Rogers, Woodrow Wilson Storey, and the Hughes
family.”
Diaries, 1904, 1906, 1918-19 (1 box); letters, 1903-20, (2 boxes).
Douglas Southall Freeman* (1886-1953), Papers of, 1900-1954, bulk:
(8/245).
1934-1954
Editor, 1915-49, Richmond VA News Leader; Pulitzer Prizes, Biography, 1935
and 1958: R. E. Lee: A Biography (1934-1935); and George Washington: A
Biography (1948-1957).
“Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts and proofs of books and other works,
articles, speeches, notebooks, source materials largely relating to the American
Revolution and Civil War, bibliographical material, clippings, printed material,
memorabilia, maps, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Freeman's
biographical and historical research and writing; complete or partial manuscripts
and proofs of Freeman's works. . . .
Correspondents include Frederic W. Boatwright, Harry F. Byrd, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Dumas Malone, George C. Marshall, Allan Nevins, and A. Willis
Robertson.”
General letters, 1900-26, arranged alphabetically (5 boxes).
Henry Harley Arnold* (1886-1950), Papers of, 1903-1989, bulk: 1940-1946.
Hap Arnold*: U.S. Army-Air Force, 1907-46: learned (1911) to fly with Orville
Wright; Army Air Force, 1916-20; five-star General, U.S. Air Force (1947).
“Correspondence, memoranda, journals, notebooks, drafts and proofs of Arnold's
memoirs, Global Mission (1949), articles, speeches, reports, orders, printed
material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the development of
military aeronautics in the United States and to aeronautical policies and events of
World War II. . . . Also documents Arnold's early career as an aviator including
his training by the Wright brothers aviation company; his role in the development
of commercial aeronautics including his air mail charter from the U.S. postmaster
general and organization of Pan American Airways together with Carl Spaatz,
Jack Jouett, and John J. Montgomery.
Correspondents include Hans Christian Adamson, Frank Maxwell Andrews,
Bernard M. Baruch, Eugene H. Beebe, Lawrence Dale Bell, Follet Bradley, Malin
Craig, James Harold Doolittle, Donald W. Douglas, Ira Eaker, Robert L.
Eichelberger, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Joseph E. Elliott, Barney McKinney Giles,
Millard Fillmore Harmon, Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Charles (Portal) Hungerford,
James Howard Kindelberger, Ernest Joseph King, Laurence Sherman Kuter,
Charles A. Lindbergh, Robert A. Lovett, James M. Magee, George C. Marshall,
Glenn L. Martin, Louis Marx, Robert Andrews Millikan, John Knudsen Northrop,
Edwin Pederson, Eddie Rickenbacker, Horace Weeks Shelmire, Carl Spaatz,
Edward R. Stettinius, Guy W. Vaughn, Theodore von Kármán, Jack Warner,
Burdette S. Wright, Orville Wright, and Wilbur Wright.”
Letters, 1907-38 (1 box); “Air Service,” 1918 (1 box); photographs, early
aviation, 1908-19 (1 box).
John Lansing Callan* (1886-1958), Papers of, 1907-1956.
Graduate, 1911, Curtiss Flying School; Curtiss Aeroplane Company: Instructor,
1911-14 and 1916-17, representative, 1914-16, in Italy and England;
commissioned, 1917, Lieutenant, U.S. Naval Reserve Flying Corps; constructed
and later headed, as Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Naval Air Stations in France
and negotiations for the training of U.S. Naval aviators in Italy; awarded, as
Commander, Navy Cross "for distinguished and heroic service as Pilot of
Seaplanes engaged in patrolling the waters of the war zone, in escorting and
protecting troops, cargo ships, operating against enemy submarines and bombing
the enemy coast. . . .”
“Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, orders to duty, subject file, awards,
biographical file, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, and printed matter,
relating to Callan's personal and business interests in aviation, service with the
Navy in World War I in France and Italy. . . .
Correspondents include Nicholas Alexeyef, Richard E. Byrd, Jr., Benedict
Crowell, James Doolittle, Beckwith Havens, J. C. Hunsaker, Rudolph E.
Schoenfelt, Clara Studer, Juan Trippe, Peter Paul Vucetic, and Jay White.”
Diaries and letters, 1909-20 (4 boxes).
Abel Doysie* (1886-1973), 1910-1967, bulk: 1920-1962.
Abel Doysié*: Researcher, translator from French to English: Carnegie
Institution, 1907-08, 1910-13 and Library of Congress, 1913, 1919-36.
“Correspondence, research notes, printed matter, and miscellaneous family
material. Primarily letters received from scholars and others at universities,
libraries, and institutions for whom Doysié did historical and genealogical
research in various French archives in the years following 1936.
Includes many letters from Waldo G. Leland reflecting Doysié's life and work.
Other correspondents include James Truslow Adams, Henry P. Beers, Whitfield J.
Bell, Jr., Samuel F. Bemis, Julian P. Boyd, William L. Clements, Worthington C.
Ford, J. Franklin Jameson, Charles Coleman Sellers, Lothrop Stoddard, James B.
Wilbur, Carter G. Woodson, the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, the Illinois
Historical Survey of the University of Illinois, the New York Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and the Universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania.”
Alphabetically arranged by correspondent and subject.
Alcott Farrar Elwell Collection, 1908 (75 items).
Alcott Farrar Elwell (* (1886-1962): Harvard undergraduate and camp cook,
summer 1908, U.S. Geodetic Survey; Harvard, 1910, M.A. 1921; Ph. D.,
Education, 1925; U.S. Army instructional officer, World Wars I & II; longtime
teacher, Director: Mowglis School-of-the-Open, Hebron NH, a summer program
for boys founded 1903.
“Typewritten copy of a journal,” July 2 – October 21, 1908, “kept by Elwell while
serving as camp cook for the . . . Theodore Roosevelt Lignite (Coal) Conservation
Study in Wyoming, with a map, photographs, and pages from a holograph
notebook of recipes. Includes the October 1966 issue of Annals of Wyoming,
containing excerpts from the journal.” The diary provides details about outdoor
life in the Badlands.
Evalyn Walsh McLean* (1886-1947), Papers of, 1874-1948.
Daughter of Thomas F. Walsh; married and divorced Edward Beale “Ned”
McLean.
Studied, Paris, France, “music French, and other parlor tricks of ladies” (her
words); social leader, ca. 1910-47, of Washington DC; memoir: Father Struck It
Rich (1936).
“Correspondence that reflects McLean's role in society; business, family,
political, and legal papers and memoranda. The business papers relate mainly to
the Colorado mining interests of the Walsh family and publishing interests of the
McLean family, especially the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Washington Post.
While the family correspondence spans the years 1887-1947, many letters are
undated. Legal papers include divorce proceedings, probates, and libel suits.
Other papers relate to her ownership, from 1911, of the Hope diamond, the Teapot
Dome scandal, involvement in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, and the MS. of her
book.”
Family letters, 1887-1923 (1 box); special letters, alphabetically arranged (4
boxes); general letters, 1874-1903 (1 box) and, 1904-20 (14 boxes); business
letters, 1887-1903 (1 box) and 1904-21 (9 boxes), including ownership of mines,
real estate, and newspapers; subject file, alphabetically arranged (9 boxes);
financial-legal papers, 1894-1924 (3 boxes); scrapbooks (4 boxes); photographs
(1 box).
Fred A. Carlson* (1887-1952), Papers of, 1918-1952 (1/2).
Stenographic reporter; U.S. Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1919-20, Paris Peace
Conference and postwar treaty with Germany.
“Shorthand notebooks, stenographic reports, notes, bulletins, analytical tables,
copy of armistice terms, biographical information on conference delegates, maps,
and other materials pertaining primarily to Carlson's service at Paris. Includes
Carlson's obituary and some materials relating to his career as a court and
congressional reporter.”
Mimeographed transcriptions of Conference sessions, 1919.
Raoul Heilbronner, *, Papers of, 1887-1914 (9/9).
“German-born antique dealer, of Paris, France, who specialized in Gothic and
Renaissance art, furniture, tapestries, and statues, and supplied many 19th and
early 20th century American collectors;” he hastily returned to Germany, 1914.
His inventory was confiscated by the French, sold to Antoine W. M.
Mensingmuch, and in part was auctioned, 1921-24: Catalogue des Objets D'Art
et de Haute CuriositŽ du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance: Faiences… Terres
Emaillees des Robbia. Emaux Champleves et Peints de Limoges… Tapisseries
Gothiques Composant les Collections de M. Raoul Helibronner. Sale June 22-23,
1921 (Paris: Georges Petit Imprimerie, 1921), at Hotel Drouot, 1922 and 1923,
and Séquestre Raoul Heilbronner, Monuments, Sculptures, Grilles; Paris 8
October 1924.
“Correspondence, letter books, business records (invoices, inventories, notebooks,
address book, records of purchases and sales, deposits, consignments, and some
historical notes and clippings relating to particular objects.
Individuals represented in the collection include George Grey Barnard, Samuel R.
Bertron, Mrs. Chauncey J. Blair, Edson Bradley, Charles T. Crocker, Mrs.
Edward H. Harriman, William Randolph Hearst, Mrs. William H. Klapp, Mrs.
Potter Palmer, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, and
Henry Walters.”
Nelson T. Johnson* (1887-1954), Papers of, 1916-1950.
Nelson Trusler Johnson*: U.S. Consular Service, 1907-18, China; Far East
Affairs, U.S. State Department, 1918-21; U.S. Minister, 1929-35, China.
“Primarily personal correspondence, 1916-1937. Also includes memoranda of
conversations and twelve engagement books, 1927-1935, articles, speeches, and
other material relating to the State Department and the Far East, 1920-1930,” and
thereafter.
Correspondents include Stanley Hornbeck, Owen Lattimore, and Henry
Morgenthau, Jr.”
Letters, 1916-20 (1 box).
Holmes CHECK ALPHABETICAL FILE FOR EACH
Benjamin Clarke Marsh* (1887-1952), Papers of, 1910-1950 (1/5).
Grinnell College IA, Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania; advocated Henry
George’s single tax; Secretary, until 1907, Pennsylvania Society to Protect
Children from Cruelty; Secretary, 1907-11, New York City Committee on
Congestion; activist in New York, 1917, National Emergency Peace Committee;
Manager-Director, 1918-25, Farmers National Council and Executive Secretary,
Peoples Lobby; author: An Introduction to City Planning: Democracy's
Challenge to the American City (1909), Taxation of Land Values in American
Cities: The Next Step in Exterminating Poverty (1911); memoir: Lobbyist for the
People: A Record of Fifty Years.
“Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, articles, extracts, legislative documents,
press releases, reports, speeches, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and clippings primarily
concerning Marsh's service with the People's Lobby. Legislative issues of interest
to the lobby included agriculture, cartels, commerce, conservation of natural
resources, disarmament, housing, postwar planning and reconstruction, railroads,
taxation, and unemployment.
Correspondents include John Dewey, James Couzens, Harold L. Ickes, and Henry
Cantwell Wallace.”
Letters and clippings, 1910-20 (1 box).
Holmes CHECK ALPHABETICAL FILE FOR EACH
Heywood Broun* (1888-1939), papers, 1912-38, 12 items.
Journalist.
Six letters, 1912, regarding his trip to the Orient; one autobiographical, typed
manuscript, with corrections.
Lyman Bryson* (1888-1959), Papers of, 1893-1977, bulk: 1917-1959.
Lyman Lloyd Bryson*: Publicist, 1917-18, American Red Cross; Director, 192022, Junior Division, American Red Cross; author, educator, radio and TV
broadcaster.
“Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, articles, lectures, writings, transcripts of
broadcasts, subject files, business and financial records, biographical material,
appointment books, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Bryson's
public relations work for the American National Red Cross and the League of Red
Cross Societies following World War I; subsequent work in adult education
through his association with Columbia University; and his role in developing
educational radio and television programs for the Columbia Broadcasting System.
. . . Includes an account of Bryson's interview with H. G. Wells in 1920; drafts of
novels, short stories, books, plays, and poems; and material relating to public
communication, philosophy, and his travels in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Correspondents include Bower Aly, Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner, George T.
Bye, Morse A. Cartwright, James Mitchell Clarke, Mary L. Ely, Louis
Finkelstein, Claude E. Hill, Anne E. M. Jackson, Robert E. Olds, William S.
Paley, and David Riesman.
Letters and other material, 1908-20 (4 boxes)
Stuart Chase* (1888-1985), Papers of, 1907-1978, bulk: 1931-1955.
Economist, author; Federal Trade Commission, 1917-22, while investigating the
meat and packing industry.
“Correspondence, drafts and MSS. of books and writings, notes, reports, book
reviews, contracts, subject files, printed material, and other papers pertaining
primarily to Chase's contributions to economics and social policy. . . . Also
includes correspondence relating to Chase's books and his relationship with
Sinclair Lewis.
Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Ernest Angell, Roger Nash Baldwin,
William Benton, Hugo LaFayette Black, Chester Bowles, Hadley Cantril,
Malcolm Cowley, Jonathan Daniels, Theodore Dreiser, Marriner S. Eccles, Albert
Einstein, Clifton Fadiman, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gunther, William D.
Hassett, Leon Henderson, Harold L. Ickes, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Helen
Keller, Philip Fox La Follette, David E. Lilienthal, John P. Marquand, Lewis
Mumford, Milo Perkins, Nathan Marsh Pusey, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Elmo Roper, Upton Sinclair, Harlan Fiske
Stone, Harry S. Truman, Henry Wallace, and Charles Yost.”
Sundry papers, 1911-20 (1 box).
John Hays Hammond* (1888-1965), Papers of, 1908-1965, bulk: 1912-1953 (15/20).
Son of John Hays Hammond, Sr. (1855-1936), a San Francisco mining engineer
who studied at Yale; managed, before 1900, diamond mines in Africa; and later
developed gold mining and other business interests in the United States.
John Hays Hammond, Jr* or Jack Hammond*: Mentored by Thomas A. Edison
and Alexander Graham Bell; clerk, U.S. Patent Office; Sheffield Scientific
School, Yale University, 1910; founded, 1911, Hammond Radio Research
Laboratory; experimented with radio-controlled remote guidance, including,
1914, a ship on a 120 mile voyage with no crew; developed, by 1918, radiocontrolled torpedo for U.S. Navy; eventually awarded more than 400 patents.
“Correspondence, notebooks, sketches, technical papers, legal briefs, printed
matter, chronologies, and annotated photos, chiefly 1912-1953. Subjects include
Hammond's basic experiments in radio control, intermediate frequency, frequency
modulation, the triode electron tube, and the Elmer A. Sperry dispute on inertial
guidance patents.
Correspondents include Ernst F. W. Alexanderson, Alexander Graham Bell, Lee
De Forest, Irving Langmuir, and Nikola Tesla.”
Technical notebooks, 1912-18 (4 boxes); subject files and related correspondence,
1908-59 (16 boxes).
Dorsey William Hyde* (1888-1955), Papers of, 1905-1955.
Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr.*: Sorbonne, 1910-13; President, 1920-22, Special Libraries
Association; Secretary-Treasurer, 1926-28, Washington DC Statistical Society;
Director, 1934-42, Archival Service, National Archives, Washington DC; author,
“Reorganizing the Library Personnel of the Federal Government,” Public
Libraries (June 1923), The National Archives of the United States (1935).
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, articles and speeches, genealogical and
biographical material, miscellaneous typed and holograph MSS., and photographs
relating primarily to the National Archives, with a smaller group of papers dating
from his college years. Includes MSS. of Hyde's unpublished poetry written
under the pseudonym Edward Ramos*, and about 400 pieces of correspondence
and about 600 MSS. of unpublished poetry” of Curtis Hidden Page* (18701948): poet and translator; Professor of French and English in Harvard,
Dartmouth, and Columbia Universities; President, Poetry Society of America.
Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr.: Diaries and journals, 1909-35 (1 box); family letters, 190555 (4 boxes); general letters, 1910-55 (13 boxes); college notes, France (3
boxes); poetry (4 boxes).
Library of Congress Archives, Records, 1888-1963.
Book orders, 1901-30 (137 v.); receipts for valuable acquisitions, 1903-42 (1 v.);
letters, re: book orders, 1898-1920 (22 v and 767 boxes); Chief Clerk’s
memoranda, 1898-1907 (18 boxes); Periodical Division letters, 1911-24 (45
boxes); Annual Reports, 1914-57; “Instructions to Librarian,” 1899-1910 (1 box);
financial records, 1888-1900; building construction, 1894-97; ledgers:
Smithsonian letters (1 v.); Chief Clerk letters, book acquisitions, 1903-09 (1v.);
copyright books received, 1915-21 (3 v.); accessions (13 v.); photo-duplication
orders, 1911-30 (17 v.); miscellaneous letters (12 v.); vouchers, 1906-36 (11 v.);
monthly service reports, 1913-40 (180 v.); Secretary’s letters sent, 1900-19 (234
v.); memoranda, 1899-40 (17 v.); letters to Librarian of Congress during his
absence, 1899-1940 (6 v.); “Instructions of Librarian,” 1911-16 (2 v.);
memoranda from Secretary, 1901-40 (5 v.); service slips, 1907-40 (9 v.);
memoranda, 1902 (3 v.); circulation letters, 1912-17 (17 v.); inter-library loan
letters, 1906-35 (67 v.); general letters, 1916-30 (26 v.); memorand a and letters,
1912-40 (42 v.).
Grover Cleveland Loening* (1888-1976), Papers of, 1900-1975, bulk: 1913-1962.
Columbia University, M.A., Aeronautical Engineering, 1910; Queen Aeroplane
Company, New York City, 1911-12; Chief Engineer, 1913-1914, Wright
Aeronautical Corporation, Dayton OH; Aviation Section, 1914-15, U.S. Army
Signal Corps; Sturtevant Aeroplane Company, Boston MA, 1916-17; established
and President, 1917-28, Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation, New
York City; author: Military Aeroplanes (1915).
Correspondence; MSS. for books, articles, and speeches; subject files, newspaper
clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, drawings, blueprints, and printed material
documenting Loening's career in aviation. Other papers relate to his extensive
activities as an aviation consultant to the federal government and to private
industry. . . .
Correspondents include Winthrop W. Aldrich, Vincent Astor, Richard Evelyn
Byrd, Ira Eaker, Harry Hopkins, Joseph P. Kennedy, Andrew W. Mellon, William
Mitchell, Eddie Rickenbacker, Winthrop Rockefeller, Igor Ivan Sikorsky, Harold
S. Vanderbilt, Orville and Wilbur Wright.”
Letters, 1900-20 (4 boxes); subject file, 1910-42 (6 boxes); clippings, 1910-42,
arranged alphabetically (14 boxes).
Samuel Whittemore Boggs* (1889-1954), Papers of, 1912-54.
Geographer; editor, 1916-24, American Book Co.; executive, 1914-1919,
International Committee of YMCA.
Subject file, alphabetical, 1914-54 (15 boxes).
1890+
Harry Frank Guggenheim* (1890-1971), Papers of, 1900-1972, bulk: 1937-1972.
Grandson of Meyer Guggenheim (1828-1905) and son of Daniel Guggenheim
(1856-1930), who was President of American Smelting and Refining Company.
Scheffield Scientific School, Yale University; American Smelting and Refining
Company in Mexico, 1907-10; Pembroke College, Cambridge, England, B.A.
1913 and M.A., 1918; Lieutenant, U.S. Navy and aviator, 1917-18 in France,
England, and Italy; Anglo-American Naval Conference, 1918; member, 1916-23,
Guggenheim Brothers; President, 1926-1930, Daniel Guggenheim Fund for
Aeronautics; U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1929-1933; founded, 1940, Long Island
NY Newsday.
“Correspondence, 1916-1970, and subject files documenting Guggenheim's career
in business and publishing, philanthropic and civic activities, and special interests
in aviation. . . .
Correspondents include Joseph Albright, Victor C. Barringer, Bernard M. Baruch,
Harry F. Byrd, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Thomas B. Byrd, James H. Doolittle, Thomas
B. Dorsey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mark F. Ethridge, Horace R. Graham,
Leonard W. Hall, Herbert Hoover, Croil Hunter, Jacob K. Javits, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Peter O. Lawson-Johnston, Ernest Levy, Charles A.
Lindbergh, Milton Lomask, Robert Moses, Bill D. Moyers, Richard M. Nixon,
George Oppenheimer, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Samuel I. Rosenman, John
Steinbeck, J. Albert Woods, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Manuel Ycaza.”
Marquis James* (1891-1955), Papers of, 1914-1955, bulk: 1930-1949 (3/48).
Bessie R. James* (b. 1895): newspaper reporter, New York City, editor, author:
For God, For Country, for Home, the National League for Woman's Service . . .
(1920), and biographies for juveniles; co-author with her husband:
Marquis James: Oklahoma Christian (later, Phillips) University; newspaper
reporter, 1909-17: Oklahoma, Kansas City, Chicago, New Orleans, and New
York City, and author of pulp fiction, mainly detective; Captain, U.S. Army,
AEF, France; national publicity director, 1919-23, American Legion; author, A
History of the American Legion (1923), and with his first wife, Bessie Rowland*
(b. 1895): The Story of Bank of America: Biography of a Bank (1954),
and others; biographer, Pulitzer Prizes: 1930, The Raven: A Biography of Sam
Houston, and 1938, Andrew Jackson (2 v.).
“Correspondence, literary and biographical articles, radio scripts and plays, legal
and financial papers, clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers
including articles for the American Legion Monthly, the New Yorker, and Scoop;
MSS. prepared for the Writers' War Board; memoirs of Bernard Baruch and
related correspondence; and material on John Nance Garner, William R. Grace,
Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, the Cherokee Outlet (Cherokee Strip) in
Oklahoma and Kansas, and Texas and Oklahoma history.
Correspondents include Cynthia James and Harold Wallace Ross.”
Newspaper clippings, 1915-17, Chicago Ledger (1 box); miscellaneous, undated
(2 boxes).
Karl G. Karsten* (1891-1968), Papers of, 1909-1966.
Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University; economist, statistician, and businessman;
pacifist, World War I; Business Reading Service, New York City, 1920-24;
Author: Charts and Graphs: An Introduction to Graphic Methods in the Control
and Analysis of Statistics (textbook, 1923); “The Theory of Quadrature in
Economics” (1924) and “The Harvard Business Indexes: A New Interpretation,”
(1926), Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Letters, “anti-militarism,” 1915-16 (1 box); printed matter, notes prior to 1920,
“pacifism” (2 boxes); Oxford University notebooks (1 box); printed matter prior
to 1920 (1 box); letters, 1915 “Ford Peace ship” (1 box); printed matter, peace
movement, 1915 (2 boxes).
John B. Lynch* (b. 1891), Letters of, 1917-1919, microfilm (43 items).
U.S. Army, AEF, 1917-19.
“Typewritten copies of letters from Lynch to Edward L. Lowman and others” that
convey impressions of France and Americans in combat during World War I.
Helen Taft Manning* (1891-1987), Papers of, 1908-1956, bulk: 1917-1929.
Daughter of William Howard Taft (1857-1930); married, 1920, Frederick
Johnson Manning (1894-1956).
Helen Taft*: Yale, Ph. D. History; Dean and History Professor, 1916-56, Bryn
Mawr College; President, 1903-04, Board of Lady Managers, Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, St. Louis MO; author: British Colonial Government after the
American Revolution, 1782-1820 (1933), and others.
“Correspondence, chiefly letters, 1917-1929, from her father concerning family
matters, events in Washington, politics, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Also
included are a few letters from her mother, Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943), and
her brother, Robert A. Taft (1889-1953), and a photocopy of a letter from John F.
Kennedy.”
Letters, 1889-1921 (1 v.); Receipts, 1905-07, for Final Report, Board of Lady
Managers (2 v.).
Raymond Clapper* (1892-1944), Papers of, 1908-1960, bulk: 1913-1944 (15/256).
University of Kansas, journalism; Kansas City Star, 1916; United Press
Association, 1916-33; beginning 1923, Washington DC Bureau; columnist,
beginning 1934.
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, manuscripts of articles and
books, notebooks, dispatches, releases, radio scripts, reports, reference files,
pamphlets, promotional material, scrapbooks, clippings, memorabilia, and
photographs. Chiefly reference material pertaining to the Franklin D. Roosevelt
administration and World War II. Subjects include Clapper's book, Racketeering
in Washington (1933), censorship, Clapper family, defense, elections, Germany,
Great Britain, Gridiron Club, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, inaugurations,
Japan, journalism, labor, Alfred M. Landon, U.S. National Recovery
Administration, neutrality, politics, prohibition, U.S. Supreme Court, taxes,
Tennessee Valley Authority, foreign policy and affairs, Washington, D.C., and
Wendell Willkie.
Correspondents include Edward W. Barrett, Arthur Capper, George A. Carlin,
Herbert David Croly, Charles H. Getts, Roy Wilson Howard, Alfred M. Landon,
H. L. Mencken, William Allen White, and Wendell L. Willkie.”
Diaries, 1913-20 (6 boxes); letters, 1913-23 (4 boxes).
Carrington-McDowell Family Papers, 1780-1897 (1/3).
James McDowell* (1795-1851): Princeton, 1817; Governor, 1843-46, Virginia;
U.S. Congress, 1846-1851, Democrat, Virginia. Grandfather of:
James McDowell Carrington* (d. 1923): U.S. Consul, 1894-1900, China.
“Correspondence, maps, printed speeches, newspaper clippings, etc., of the
Carrington and McDowell families.”
Papers, 1894-97 (1 v.)
Bess Furman* (1894-1969), Papers of, 1728-1967, bulk: 1900-1966.
Worked from age ten on father’s newspaper, Danbury NE News; Kearney NE
State Teacher's College, 1918; reporter, 1919-28, Omaha NE Daily Bee-News;
Associated Press, 1928, Washington DC and White House correspondent, 193236, covering Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Correspondence, diaries, 1924-1962, family papers, subject files, speeches and
writings, financial records, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating to Furman's
personal and professional life including her work for Omaha Bee-News,
Associated Press, and New York Times; her work with the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare; her and her sister Lucile's work with Furman Features for
organizations including American Association of University Women, Children's
Bureau, Democratic National Committee's Women's Division, and League of
Women Voters; and her research and writings on such topics as education, health,
political and social history of Washington, D.C., the White House, and women in
public life. Also includes early papers of the Winslow family of New Hampshire
and papers of Furman's husband,” photographer and reporter “Robert B.
Armstrong, her sister, Lucile, and other family members.
Correspondents include Bess Streeter Aldrich, Ella Auerbach, Elisabeth Shirley
Enochs, Edith Helm, Genevieve Forbes Herrick, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Murtle
Mason, Dorothy McAllister, Mary Margaret McBride, Iantha McCloskey,
Anthony Netboy, Herbert and Mae Rogers, Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Malvina Thompson, and Bess Wallace Truman.”
1895+
Arthur Crew Inman* (1895-1963), Papers of, 1909-1943, microfilm (8 reels).
Originals in private hands.
Grandson of Samuel Martin Inman: cotton magnate, philanthropist, part owner,
Atlanta Constitution.
Haverford College PA; moved to Boston MA; unpublished poet; married, 1923,
Evelyn Yates*; Inman, a recluse, interviewed visiting strangers about their lives
and many, along with Evelyn, appeared in his holograph diary, 155 v.; committed
suicide, 1963; Daniel Aaron, ed., [Selections from] The Inman Diary: A Public
and Private Confession ( 2 v., 1985).
“Diaries, 1918-41, recording daily events and opinions relating to current events
such as the Depression, the stock market, Franklin D. Roosevelt's pre-war
relations with Japan, the rise of Hitler, and World War II. Also includes
correspondence, musical scores, plays, poetry, and an autobiography.”
An introduction to the diaries covers the years 1894-1918, especially his early life
in Atlanta GA.
Brooklyn Republican Club, Brooklyn NY, Records of the, 1896-1903 (1/1).
“Handwritten minutes of the club with typewritten and printed material inserted
into the volume.” Entries mainly concern internal affairs of the organization.
Minute book, January 30,1896-February 25, 1903 (1 item).
Cuban Educational Association of the United States of America, Records of the,
1897-1954, bulk: 1898-1901.
“Educational association founded in 1898 to assist” students” from Cuba* and
Puerto Rico* in securing “an education in the United States and dissolved in
1903.”
“Correspondence, application forms, rosters, scrapbooks, financial records,
photographs of students, and other records pertaining to the work of the
association and to the students aided by the association. Correspondence is
primarily that of Gilbert K. Harroun, secretary-treasurer, and following his death
in 1901, that of his assistant, Laura D. Conger.
Harroun corresponded with representatives of schools, colleges, and universities
throughout the country, e.g., Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, with
individuals including John Jacob Astor, Nicholas Murray Butler, Seth Low,
Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Shaw, Joseph Wheeler, and Leonard Wood, and with
students seeking assistance.”
Letters, 1898-1915 (3 boxes).
Philip C. Jessup* (1897-1986), 1574-1983, bulk 1925-1983.
Philip Caryl Jessup*: Hamilton College, Clinton NY, A.B. 1919; Yale, LLB.,
1924; Assistant Solicitor, 1924-25, U.S. State Department; Lecturer and
Professor, International Law, 1926-61, Columbia University; author: Elihu Root
(2 v., 1938).
“Family and general correspondence, reports and memoranda, speeches and
writings, subject files, legal papers, newspaper clippings and other papers
pertaining chiefly to Jessup's work with the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, Institute of Pacific Relations, U.S. Department of State . . .”
Includes research for Jessup’s biography of Elihu Root* (1845-1937), a fellow
alumnus of Hamilton College and whom Jessup assisted in 1929 at the
Conference of Jurists on the Permanent Court of International Justice, Geneva,
Switzerland.
“Includes material relating to his World War I service in Spartanburg, S.C., and in
France; teaching at Columbia University; . . . the Democratic Party and national
politics; and to diplomacy, foreign affairs, human rights, and international law in
general.
Includes papers of his wife, Lois Walcott Kellogg*, relating to her work for the
American Friends Service Committee, U.S. Children's Bureau, and United
Nations, her travels to Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, and to her
writings.
Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Richard Baxter, Jonathan B. Bingham,
William W. Bishop, Edwin Montefiore Borchard, Chester Bowles, Jasper Yeates
Brinton, William P. Bundy, Nicholas Murray Butler, Everett Needham Case,
Frede Castberg, Chirakaikaran Joseph Chacko, Andrew W. Cordier, Frederic
René Coudert, Alan MacGregor Cranston, Francis Deák, Hardy Cross Dillard,
Allen Welsh Dulles, Robert H. Estabrook, George Augustus Finch, Sir Gerald
Fitzmaurice, Wolfgang Gaston Friedman, Richard N. Gardner, André Gros, Leo
Gross, Paul Guggenheim, Green Haywood Hackworth, Edvard Isak Hambro, W.
Averell Harriman, Edwin C. Hoyt, Manley Ottmer Hudson, James Nevins Hyde,
George Frost Kennan, Sir Muhammed Zafrulla Khan, Eelco Nicholaas van
Kleffens, Warren F. Kuehl, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Carl Milton Marcy, Sir Louis Mbanefo, Lord Arnold Duncan McNair, John
Bassett Moore, Louis H. Pollak, Charles S. Rhyne, Elliot L. Richardson, Lindsay
Rogers, Elihu Root, Dean Rusk, Stephen M. Schwebel, James T. Shotwell, Blaine
Sloane, Frederic C. Smedley, Harry S. Truman, Earl Warren, Bethuel Matthew
Webster, Henry Merritt Wriston, and Charles Woodruff Yost.”
Finding aid online: Elihu Root Material, mainly 1899-1937 (34 boxes).
Indians and Negroes, 1899-
1900+
Journal of Sarah J. Churchill, 1900 (1/1).
Sarah J. Churchill*.
“Journal, March 28, 1900-November 21, 1900, kept during Churchill's travels
through Japan and China during the Boxer Rebellion,” an attempted purge China
of all foreigners, especially Christians like Sarah J.Churchill*.
Holograph narrative, cards, photographs (1 box).
American Association of Landscape Architects, Records of the, 1900-60 (5/32).
“Correspondence, letterbooks, subject files, reports from chapters and
committees, printed material, and other records.”
General letters, 1906-20 (1 box); subject file, alphabetical, 1909-60 (19 boxes);
books, 1909-21 (2 boxes); letter books, 1900-06, 1907-08, 1908-09 (1 box).
T. Emerson Collection, 1900
T. Emerson*: Newspaperman?
“A compilation of biographical references concerning various westerners
involved in the siege of Peking, 1900, during the Boxer uprising in China,
gathered by Emerson.”
Typescript verbatim excerpts from several sources, arranged alphabetically by
surname (6 v.).
Richard H. Griffiths*, Papers of, 1902-1910 (1/1).
U.S. Army officer, Philippine Constabulary, 1901-10.
Letters, orders, circulars, payroll records, 1902-10, relating to the Constabulary,
including steps taken to quell insurrections.
Petition by the Citizens of Nome, Alaska to the U.S. Senate, 1903, 20 pp.
Describes the needs, according to its citizens, of Nome, Alaska.
1905+
Religious Manuscript of Wilhelm Hansen, 1905 (1 item).
Wilhelm Hansen*: Pastor, 1875-1885, Zion (First) Reformed Church, Detroit MI,
which had been founded in 1849 to serve the growing German population and,
after 1893, was called Evangelish Reformirten Bethania Gemeinde; organized,
1879, the Zoar Society to care for German orphans, which became, years later, the
Evangelical Homes of Michigan for the elderly.
MS. copy in German of: “Upon the Pioneer Days of the Evangelical Reformed
Church in the Northwestern United States and Canada” (144 pp.).
Elmer Gertz* (1906-2000), Papers of, 1789-1997, bulk: 1926-1988.
University of Chicago, Ph. B., 1928 and Law, 1930; practiced to 1973, Chicago
IL; author: with A. I. Tobin, Frank Harris: A Study in Black and White (1931);
an autobiography, To Life: The Story of a Chicago Lawyer (1974); editor, The
Short Stories of Frank Harris: A Selection; Odyssey of a Barbarian: The
Biography of George Sylvester Viereck (1979); and others.
“Personal, family, and professional correspondence; memoranda, opinions,
orders, briefs, writs, motions, petitions, exhibits, transcripts, and other legal
papers; speeches, writings, and research material; and subject files, family papers,
printed matter, and MSS. collected by Gertz. Most relates to Gertz's career as a
lawyer in cases involving censorship, housing, libel, obscenity, capital
punishment, copyright issues, and the death penalty,” his books, and “Gertz's
interest in such literary and historical figures as James Baldwin, Clarence Darrow,
Frank Harris, John F. Kennedy, Henry Miller, Carl Sandburg, Bernard Shaw, and
Harry S. Truman.”
“Gertz corresponded with both Frank Harris (1856-1931) and George Sylvester
Viereck (1884-1962).” Viereck edited, beginning 1914, the American Monthly
(The Fatherland Corp., etc., 1914-33). Gertz “accumulated a large amount of
research material pertaining to each author, including some of their original
manuscripts, numerous autograph letters, and notes from prominent literary
figures.” Besides papers relating to German-Americans during World War I, the
“Viereck research material includes one reel of microfilm of original material that
is not in the collection; it contains letters and messages of Sigmund Freud to
Viereck.”
“Correspondents include Louis Adamic, George Anastaplo, Allen Crandall, Paul
Crump, Richard J. Daley, Richard M. Daley, Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, Paul
Howard Douglas, Albert Einstein, Otto Eisenschiml, Eli E. Fink, Sigmund Freud,
Theodore G. Gertz, Wayne B. Giampietro, Arthur J. Goldberg, Frank Harris,
Margery A. Hechtman, Samuel G. Herman, John F. Kennedy, Nathan Freudenthal
Leopold, Gene Lovitz, Carey McWilliams, Russ Meyer, Henry Miller, Hesketh
Pearson, Muriel Peters, Peter Pollack, Leo Calvin Rosten, Jack Ruby, William F.
Ryan, Carl Sandburg, Edward P. Schwartz, Upton Sinclair, Kate Stephens, A. I.
Tobin, George Sylvester Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, and William W.
Witherspoon.”
1910+
Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Records of the, 1911-1918 (4/4).
Ida Husted Harper* (1851-1931): Ida Husted* married and divorced Thomas
W. Harper, Indiana attorney and friend of socialist Eugene Debs.
Helped organize, 1887, Indiana’s woman suffrage organization; attended, 189397, Stanford University and thereafter active at the national level; Chair, 1916-18,
Department of Editorial Correspondence, Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education,
National American Woman Suffrage Association; columnist and editor
specializing in women’s issues: Terre Haute IN Saturday Evening Mail,
Locomotive Fireman’s Magazine, New York Sunday Sun, and Harper’s Bazaar;
official biographer: Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (3 v., 1898 and 1908); coauthor: History of Woman Suffrage (v. 5-6, 1922).
“Correspondence, typewritten copies of circular letters, press releases, articles,
and reports written by Harper. The bulk consists of copies of letters sent, 191618,” that presented arguments in favor of women’s suffrage for “Letters to the
Editor” columns of newspapers.
Maurice F. Lyons*, Papers of, 1911-1944 (1/1).
Harlem Shorthand School; Georgetown University, LL.B, 1916; secretary, 190405, to an American correspondent during Japanese-Russo War; freelance reporter,
1906-11; secretary, 1911-12, to W.F. McCombs at Woodrow Wilson
Headquarters; author: William F. McCombs: The President Maker (1922).
Mainly “correspondence, notes, telegrams, a card, and printed material,” relating
to the activities of Woodrow Wilson, William G. McAdoo, Josephus Daniels, and
other Democrats as described in his account of the presidential election campaign,
as well as letters exchanged with Wilson’s biographers.
Harmon Foundation, Inc., 1913-1967, Records of, bulk: 1925-1933 (1/121).
William Elmer Harmon* (1862-1928): From 1887, partnered with relatives in
real estate development, especially subdivisions; formed Wood, Harmon & Co.,
with offices in New York City and thirty other U.S. cities; founded, 1921,
Harmon Foundation for Philanthropic Purposes, with the intent of providing,
especially through playgrounds and athletic fields, “inspirational and tangible help
for the young”; was revealed, upon his death, to be “Jedediah Tingle*,” the name
“under which for many years a mysterious philanthropist played the role of fairy
godmother to struggling writers and obscure poets, unsung heroes and good
children” (obituary). After the Harmon Foundation, Inc. ceased operations, 1967,
part of “The Harmon Collection of Negro Art” was first transferred to Fisk
University, Nashville TN, and later, as the “Aaron Douglas Collection,” to the
Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans LA.
“Correspondence, biographical notes, catalogs, scrapbooks, and other material
divided into six series: general office files including material on the founder,
William Elmer Harmon, and early history of the foundation; records of the
foundation's award programs; biographical notes on African American artists;
biographical notes on African artists; correspondence between the foundation and
African art centers; and miscellaneous material.
Correspondents include Harmon, Will Winton Alexander, Caroline Alston, Ulli
Beier, Blanche Byerley, Katherine Gardner, George E. Haynes, Walter G.
Holmes, A. W. Mitchum, C. C. Spaulding, Laura Warine, and Hale Woodruff,”
and George E. Haynes.
Letters, 1911-20, to and from Survey Associates (1 box).
House Democratic Caucus, Records of the, 1913-1999, bulk: 1969-1994.
“Organization of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives.”
“Correspondence, minutes of meetings, transcripts of meetings, caucus and House
rules, reports, office files, handbooks, printed material, and other records
pertaining to the proceedings of the caucus from the 67th through the 106th
Congresses. Records relate primarily to such caucus business as the selection of
the speaker of the House, committee chairmen, and members of House
committees.”
Lewis Automatic Arms Company, Records of, 1913-1939 (1/1).
“Correspondence, transcriptions of testimony concerning the history of five years
of litigation in behalf of American citizens, large shareholders in the Armes
Automatiques Lewis, against Great Britain, resulting from the taking over of the
Lewis Gun Works during World War I, the promise to pay compensation therefor,
and the subsequent seizure of that compensation in the guise of war taxes.
Correspondents include Henry L. Stimson, Herbert Hoover, Robert L. Owen, and
J. P. Cotton. Also includes transcription of testimony of Colonel Isaac Newton
Lewis, inventor of the Lewis gun, at the trial of the Petition of Right in 1921.”
1915+
American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps, Records of the, 1915-18, microfilm (1
reel).
Originals held by Harvard College Library.
Descriptions by members of their experiences in France* (18 items).
Ford Peace Plan, 1915-1918, Papers relating to (14/14).
“Correspondence, conference proceedings, bulletins, reports, clippings, news
summaries, lists, speeches, biographical sketches, memoranda, and other items
relating to the Henry Ford Peace Expedition, the Neutral Conference for
Continuous Mediation, and the short-lived Ford International Commission.
Correspondents include Jane Addams, William Jennings Bryan, David Starr
Jordan, Ben B. Lindsey, and Samuel S. McClure.”
General letters, 1915-17 (7 boxes); subject files (7 boxes); Military Intelligence
investigation, 1918, of a member of the Peace Expedition (2 folders).
French Orphans of World War I, 1916-1927, Records of
Eugene Tyler Chamberlain* (1856-1929): Head, Bureau of Navigation, U.S.
Commerce and Labor Department; philanthropist.
“Files on thirty-eight French families,” arranged alphabetically by surname, who
were “aided by Eugene T. Chamberlain* and other philanthropic Americans.
Chiefly correspondence concerning rehabilitation of the families and the
education and placement of the children in productive employment. Files contain
photographs and memorandum providing family background” in France.
Curtiss Aeroplane Co., Records of, 1917 (2 items).
Photostat of first schedule of aerial fares and optimistic letter of transmittal from
company president.
Diary of Ralph M. Brown, 1917-19, 1 item.
Ralph M. Brown*: Chief Librarian and Archivist, U.S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey; enlisted May 13, 1917, Private, U.S. Army; served on the western front
for fourteen months, with only two weeks away from the battle lines.
Typescript copy of “Diary of the Great War, December 26, 1917-April 23, 1919”
Brown kept while serving in France (164 pages).
Liberty Loan, 1917-19.
Letters, documents, newspaper clippings, and leaflets in nine volumes that detail
propaganda in behalf of the five Liberty Loans and evidently collected and bound
by the U.S. Treasury Department.
Charles Oscar Maas*, Papers of, 1917-1925.
Lieutenant Commander, Assistant Naval Attache, 1917-19, American Embassy,
Paris, France.
“Correspondence, including letters, 1917-1919, from Maas to his wife and diaries,
ca. 1917-1919, concerning his duties in Paris. Among his papers are reports on
Josephus Daniels, Roald Amundsen, Bainbridge Colby, and Franklin D.
Roosevelt and an account of the arrival of President Woodrow Wilson in Paris in
1918.”
John F. Callahan*, Papers of, 1918-1919.
Corporal, U.S. Army, AEF, 1918-19.
Chatty “letters (25 items) to Clara Morehouse describing his experiences in the
American Expeditionary Forces” that mainly describe life in the Third Division in
France and the reactions of one American enlisted man to the people of France
and Germany.
Henry Brown Dillard*, Papers of, 1918-1947, bulk: 1918-19 (1/1).
“Miscellaneous papers,” including personal letters, “of Lieutenant H. B. Dillard*,
platoon commander, 105th Combat Engineers, 30th Division, U.S. Army, with the
Second British Army in Flanders and the fourth British Army in France during the
battles of Ypres (Ieper) and the Somme. Includes correspondence, certificates,
special and general orders, rosters, field messages, citations, poems, extracts from
the letters of soldiers, photographs, and clippings.”
American Council of Learned Societies, Records of the, 1919-89.
“Correspondence, reports, general office files, files from the offices of the
president, the vice president, and the executive associate, financial papers, records
of the Dictionary of American Biography, unpublished and published MSS. of
writings, many from the council's translation programs, and other records
containing extensive material on programs of international intellectual
cooperation, especially with Latin America and the Far East, and material relating
to Slavic and East European studies, scholarship programs in the humanities
funded by the council, and the activities of the Union Académique Internationale.
Includes personal papers of Waldo G. Leland, one of the founders of the council,
who served as permanent secretary, 1927-1946.”
Formative period, 1919-20 (3 boxes).
Ko´sciuszko Air Squadron, Records of the, 1919-1921 (1/1).
A volunteer unit of American pilots, that took their name from Thaddeus
Kosciuszko*: Polish engineer, who in 1776 helped design and oversaw the
building of American defenses at Saratoga and West Point NY.
“Logbooks, Oct 16, 1919-May 11, 1921 (2 v.), of the Ko´sciuszko Air Squadron
describe the formation of this unit, its service with Polish armed forces, its
training and practice flights, and combat sorties against Bolshevik forces.”
League of Women Voters of the United States, Papers of, 1918-1974, microfilm (98
reels).
“Advisory editor: Susan Ware.
Part 1. Meetings of the board of directors and the executive committees, 19181974 (14 reels); Part 2, Series A. Transcripts & records of national conventions,
1919-44 and of general councils, 1927-43 (20 reels); Part 2, Series B. Transcripts
and records of national conventions, 1946-74 and of general councils, 1945-73
(30 reels); Part 3, Series A. National office subject files, 1920-32 (34 reels).”
1920+
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Records of the, 1920-33.
“Chiefly printed material (pamphlets and clippings), together with a copy of the
group's certificate of foundation, bibliographical material, and a mailing list”
relating to prohibition.
Pamphlets and clippings, 1920.