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, 1898-1900, 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 Farmer-Labor 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, 1898-1909 (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, Commander-in-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 Foreign-Born” (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, 1917-1923, 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).
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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: 1910-1960 (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, 1937-40.
“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).
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