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Franklin MacVeagh Papers, 1799-1934, (bulk 1909-1913)

Title: Franklin MacVeagh Papers 1799-1934 (bulk 1909-1913)

Lawyer, businessman and U.S. secretary of the treasury. Correspondence, family papers, subject files, business, legal, and financial papers, speeches and writings, and miscellaneous material relating primarily to MacVeagh's service in the cabinet of William H. Taft and to the MacVeagh (McVey) and Eames families, Chicago social and civic affairs, the Franklin MacVeagh & Company wholesale grocery business, and other personal and business matters.

ArchivalResource: 19,000 items; 49 containers; 19.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013114 View

Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Books, pamphlets, periodicals, 18-- - <ongoing>

Title: Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Books, pamphlets, periodicals, 18-- - <ongoing>

Publications are primarily contained in the Roosevelt class, a classified sequence of books, pamphlets, contemporary periodical and later scholarly journal articles (clippings or offprints), theses and dissertations, broadsides, newsclippings, and other formats as noted below. Some ms. items. Works by Theodore Roosevelt: Collected sets, individual editions and reprints, reviews, translations. Collected and individual letters, diaries, speeches (including extracts and commentaries), proclamations, and official messages. Contributions (including prefaces, introductions, and forewords) in works by others, to magazines and society publications, book reviews, works of joint authorship, editorials. Anthologies. Editions for the blind. Works about Theodore Roosevelt: Bibliographies. Biographies and other general works. Anecdotes, reminiscences of contemporaries, and other works with TR references. TR as a religious man, naturalist, man of letters (also books belonging to TR, largely Harvard texts, and to other family), outdoorsman. Works dedicated to TR. Ancestry, family, works by family members, homes. Career by special periods and events, each segment including all formats, campaign literature, honorary degrees and citations received. Memorials: addresses, resolutions, anniversaries, sites, organizations. Pictures and cartoons (see: Theodore Roosevelt Collection : visual materials (008177700); Theodore Roosevelt Collection : political cartoons (008177701)). Satirical and comic works. Poetry, drama, fiction, juvenile biographies. Biographies and writings of contemporaries. General U.S. history, local history, political parties (including Progressive periodicals; see also special periods). Files of contemporary periodicals, newspapers; newspaper indexes, biographies of journalists. General newsclippings: mounted and unmounted series, scrapbooks (see: Theodore Roosevelt Collection: ephemera (000602382)) For further details see: Guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, available onsite, under: Roosevelt class.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 12,000 volumes

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990081776990203941/catalog View

Hilles, Charles Dewey, 1867-1949. Charles Dewey Hilles papers, 1823-1955 (inclusive).

Title: Charles Dewey Hilles papers, 1823-1955 (inclusive).

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, press releases, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia documenting Hilles' activities as secretary to President Taft (1911-1913), as chairman and committeeman to the Republican National Committee (1912-1937) and as assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1911).

ArchivalResource: 63.50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154071 View

Cooper, Duncan Brown. Duncan Brown Cooper family papers, 1838-1965.

Title: Duncan Brown Cooper family papers, 1838-1965.

Papers of the family of Duncan Brown Cooper, including accounts, correspondence, clippings, some genealogical data, legal papers, photographs, speeches, and writings. Approximately one third of the 1,400 letters in the collection were written in sympathy and support for Duncan Brown Cooper and his son, Robin, after the shooting of Edward Ward Carmack by Robin on Nov. 9, 1908. Many letters comment on the trial of Cooper and his son, including criticism of Judge W.T. Hart and the Tennessee Supreme Court decision to uphold Cooper's conviction for murder. Other letters praise Cooper's pardon by Governor Malcolm Rice Patterson in 1910. About 200 letters received by Duncan Brown Cooper are of a political nature. Some 350 letters deal with the automobile business in Texas, 1909-1910. Other letters are of a family or personal nature, including those to Cooper's daughter, Sarah Cooper Burch, from her son and his family in Memphis, Tenn. and County Leitrim, Ireland, ca. 1940-ca. 1960. Prominent correspondents include George Bancroft, Isham G. Harris, Grover Cleveland, Malcolm Rice Patterson, Joseph Jefferson, Jacob McGavock Dickinson, Austin Peay, and Carrie Chapman Catt. Other correspondents include John B. Bond, W.I. Cherry, Edmund Cooper, Hugh P. Dunlap, James M. Head, F.B. Hemphill, John C. Houk, Sarah Polk Jones, Harvey Marion LaFollette, Katharine LaFollette, C.W. Maier, J.M. Mayes, W.F. Milner, Katrina Williamson, and E. Bright Wilson. Some genealogical notes on the Brown, Donelson, Burch, and Jones families are included in the papers. The writings include a short account of the death of Meriwether Lewis by Cooper Frierson.

ArchivalResource: 4, 000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35309781 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Frazer, Sadie Warner, 1885-1974. Papers, 1894-1974.

Title: Papers, 1894-1974.

Consists of materials relating to Sadie Warner Frazer, Nashville, Tennessee area historian and genealogist, and her husband, Colonel George A. Frazer and their four children, Percy Warner Frazer (b. 1906), George Preston Frazer (b. 1908), Margaret Lindsley Frazer Rose (b. 1911), and Mary Washington Frazer (1914-1974). Included are accounts, booklets, cards, certificates, clippings, correspondence, diaries, genealogical data, journals, legal documents, maps, military records, notebooks, obituaries, photographs, reminiscences, school records, writings, and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8, 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28176286 View

Dickinson, J. M. (Jacob McGavock), 1851-1928. Papers : addition, 1842.

Title: Papers : addition, 1842.

Consists of a deed for land in Choctaw and Winston counties, Mississippi. The seller is Dyer Pearl of Davidson County, Tenn., and the buyer is Thomas Parkes of Williamson County, Tenn. The document includes affidavits by Jacob McGavock and Judge Morgan W. Brown.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28691529 View

Charles Dewey Hilles papers, 1823-1955

Title: Charles Dewey Hilles papers 1823-1955

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, press releases, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia documenting Hilles' activities as secretary to President Taft (1911-1913), as chairman and committeeman to the Republican National Committee (1912-1937) and as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1911). His correspondence as Taft's secretary is of special importance as being originally part of the President's office files. His work as administrator of the Ohio Industrial School (1892-1902) and the New York Juvenile Asylum (1902-1909) is also documented in the correspondence. Family correspondence is particularly rich for the fall of 1911 when Hilles was touring the country with President Taft, and for 1912 just before his appointment as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Correspondents of note include Charles Francis Adams, William Jennings Bryan, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew Carnegie, Josephus Daniels, Charles G. Dawes, Theodore Dreiser, Henry W. Farnam, Irving Fisher, Arthur T. Hadley, Warren G. Harding, Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg, Henry Cabot Lodge, Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Henry L. Stimson, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Booker T. Washington and George Westinghouse.

ArchivalResource: 63.5 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0281 View

Robert Lansing Papers, 1831-1935, (bulk 1914-1920)

Title: Robert Lansing Papers 1831-1935 (bulk 1914-1920)

Lawyer, diplomat, secretary of state during the Wilson administration, and member of the American mission to negotiate a peace treaty following World War I. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, resolutions, desk diaries, book manuscripts, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Lansing's years (1914-1920) as counsel to the Department of State and as secretary of state and particularly to American foreign relations during World War I, the Paris Peace Conference, and Lansing's relations with President Woodrow Wilson and with various foreign diplomats and statesmen.

ArchivalResource: 6,000 items; 77 containers plus 6 oversize; 17 linear feet; 3 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010227 View