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Jacob Gould Schurman papers, 1867-1942 [1986].

Title: Jacob Gould Schurman papers, 1867-1942 [1986].

The Schurman papers consist of correspondence, addresses, photographs, testimonials, diplomas, certificates, newspaper clippings, printed material, and records of the New York Constitutional Convention (1915). The material listed covers Schurman's career as a teacher, college president, and diplomat; the majority of the papers involve his role in national and foreign affairs. His views on American imperialism are reflected in letters to President McKinley, David Starr Jordan, David J. Hill, and John Hay. Schurman's later correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt, Charles F. Adams, Carl Schurz, Charles W. Eliot, and Sergio Osmena show his interest in the Philippine Islands and their eventual independence. His active interest in politics, the problems of peace and the League of Nations, and his diplomatic activities are discussed in correspondence with William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root, Henry Lane Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Wadsworth, Joseph Foraker, and Frank Kellogg, including comments on Gustav Stresemann, German politics, and the German economy. Includes addresses and other material on Germany, the Far East, and U.S. foreign policy after Schurman's retirement in 1930. Also personal and family correspondence including letters to Professor William John Alexander about his thoughts on religion and his stay at Heidelberg University; letters to his daughters, Helen and Barbara; and transcriptions and photocopies of other letters.

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O'Shaughnessy family papers, 1899-1937, 1910-1930

Title: O'Shaughnessy family papers 1899-1937 1910-1930

Edith O'Shaughnessy (d. 1939) was an American author of fiction and autobiographical narratives concerning her life abroad. She was active in causes related to the Roman Catholic Church. Her husband, Nelson O'Shaughnessy (1876-1932), was a U.S. career diplomat who was stationed in Denmark, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Mexico. After leaving the diplomatic service, he had a career in private industry. Elim O'Shaughnessy (1907-1966), Edith and Nelson O'Shaughnessy's son, joined the diplomatic service and served in France, the Soviet Union, Britain, and Hungary. Collection contains materials relating to Edith, Nelson and Elim O'Shaughnessy. Correspondence of Nelson O'Shaughnessy, 1899-1928, concerns diplomatic matters, his career in business, and personal and family affairs; correspondence of Edith O'Shaughnessy, 1907-1936, relates to her social and diplomatic life, war work in France, political activities, career as author of books and articles, and family matters. Some financial records are included with the correspondence. Her notes and diaries, 1907-1935, are largely social in nature. Writings include annotated typescripts and manuscripts of her published and unpublished works. Also, juvenilia of Elim O'Shaughnessy, family photographs, and printed matter pertaining to the O'Shaughnessy careers, literary subjects, Catholicism, and Latin American politics.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear feet (15 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2280 View

Wilson, Henry Lane, 1857-1932. Henry Lane Wilson papers, 1910-1940.

Title: Henry Lane Wilson papers, 1910-1940.

Correspondence, clippings, publications, photographs from the career of diplomat Henry Lane Wilson (1859-1932), with particular reference to U.S. relations with Mexico, including the "El Chamizal" border dispute.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700518932 View

Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Title: Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Consists of letters and papers of Charles Warren Fairbanks, 1852-1918, U.S. senator from Indiana and vice president (1905-1909), and his son, Warren Charles Fairbanks, 1878-1938, newspaper publisher. The Charles Warren Fairbanks material, which comprises the bulk of the collection, consists of correspondence with prominent political figures, businessmen, bankers, friends, relatives and constituents; manuscript and printed speeches of Fairbanks; law office papers; bills and receipts; miscellaneous papers; newspaper clippings; invitations; calling cards; pictures; slides of Fairbanks's trip around the world, 1909-1910; and miscellaneous printed matter. The Warren Charles Fairbanks papers, 1918-1938, relate to the settlement of the estate of his father, Charles Warren Fairbanks; the Indianapolis News; the Fairbanks Blue ridge farms in Piatt County, Illinois; and the Fairbanks Valley farms in Greene County, Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 150,006 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA1250 View

Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942. Jacob Gould Schurman papers, 1867-1942, [1986].

Title: Jacob Gould Schurman papers, 1867-1942, [1986].

The Schurman papers consist of correspondence, addresses, photographs, testimonials, diplomas, certificates, newspaper clippings, printed material, and records of the New York Constitutional Convention (1915). The material listed covers Schurman's career as a teacher, college president, and diplomat; the majority of the papers involve his role in national and foreign affairs. His views on American imperialism are reflected in letters to President McKinley, David Starr Jordan, David J. Hill, and John Hay. Schurman's later correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt, Charles F. Adams, Carl Schurz, Charles W. Eliot, and Sergio Osmena show his interest in the Philippine Islands and their eventual independence. His active interest in politics, the problems of peace and the League of Nations, and his diplomatic activities are discussed in correspondence with William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root, Henry Lane Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Wadsworth, Joseph Foraker, and Frank Kellogg, including comments on Gustav Stresemann, German politics, and the German economy. Includes addresses and other material on Germany, the Far East, and U.S. foreign policy after Schurman's retirement in 1930. Also personal and family correspondence including letters to Professor William John Alexander about his thoughts on religion and his stay at Heidelberg University; letters to his daughters, Helen and Barbara; and transcriptions and photocopies of other letters. Items about Jacob Gould Schurman Day (February 8, 1986) at the University of Heidelberg include an typescript copy of an address by John R. Silber, President of Boston University. Also, a cassette copy of a recording of Schurman's speech given when he departed as ambassador from Germany. Also included is a notebook of photographs and correspondence concerning Schurman Hall at the University of Heidelberg, dedicated in memory of Jacob Gould Schurman. Silver box presented to Jacob Gould Schurman by the staff of the embassy in China on his appointment as Minister to Germany, donated by Richard W. Kehrt in loving memory of his wife Suzanne D. Schurman, granddaughter of Jacob Gould Schurman.

ArchivalResource: 8.4 cubic ft.; 55 reels microfilm; 1 tape recording; 10 oversize map case folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63939155 View

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. Woodrow Wilson letter, 1913 Aug. 13.

Title: Woodrow Wilson letter, 1913 Aug. 13.

Letter to the Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, details steps to be taken in the "Mexican crisis" and criticizes Henry Lane Wilson, diplomat to Latin America.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262829401 View

Elihu Root Papers, 1863-1937, (bulk 1899-1937)

Title: Elihu Root Papers

United States secretary of state, secretary of war, United States senator from New York, and statesman. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, reports, subject files, financial papers, calendar and appointment books, invitations, and printed materials relating to Root's career as a lawyer and statesman.

ArchivalResource: 66,050 items; 257 containers plus 9 oversize; 87.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011162 View

Arthur Bliss Lane papers, 1904-1957

Title: Arthur Bliss Lane papers 1904-1957

The papers consist of official, personal, and business correspondence, articles, speeches, clippings, recordings, and other papers of Arthur Bliss Lane, career diplomat, public servant, and lecturer. The papers reflect Lane's diplomatic career from the time he entered the service in Rome (1916), until his resignation as Ambassador to Poland (1947), and contain correspondence from international political figures. Also included are materials relating to his work on behalf of Poland, anti-communism, and the Republican Party.

ArchivalResource: 45 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0005 View

Whittemore, Charles W. Charles W. Whittemore letter : Mexico City : DS, typescript, 1913 Mar. 9.

Title: Charles W. Whittemore letter : Mexico City : DS, typescript, 1913 Mar. 9.

Copy of a letter to the writer's mother, dealing principally with the "Decena Trágica," or ten days of conflict in Mexico City that resulted in the overthrow of Madero's regime and his assassination. The writer mentions many prominent Mexican figures and praises the conduct of U.S. officials on the scene, particularly Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 8 p. ; 30 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (8 exposures) : negative (Rich. 416:17) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26150999 View

Elihu Root Papers, 1863-1937, (bulk 1899-1937)

Title: Elihu Root Papers

United States secretary of state, secretary of war, United States senator from New York, and statesman. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, reports, subject files, financial papers, calendar and appointment books, invitations, and printed materials relating to Root's career as a lawyer and statesman.

ArchivalResource: 66,050 items; 257 containers plus 9 oversize; 87.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011162 View

Stephen Bonsal Papers, 1890-1973, (bulk 1900-1947)

Title: Stephen Bonsal Papers 1890-1973 (bulk 1900-1947)

Journalist and foreign correspondent. Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material relating chiefly to Bonsal's career as a journalist and as foreign correspondent for the and New York Herald New York Times.

ArchivalResource: 4,500 items; 39 containers; 16.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012117 View

Sharpe, Julia Graydon, ca. 1857-1939. Papers, 1878-1932 (bulk 1894-1898)

Title: Papers, 1878-1932 (bulk 1894-1898)

Correspondence, literary compositions, photographs, sketches, and sketchbooks. Correspondents include James Whitcomb Riley, William Forsyth, Selma N. Steele, Wijnant Johnston, Henry Lane Wilson, George Ade, Albert J. Beveridge; John W. Love; and French soldiers during World War I. Topics include Sharpe's study at the Art Students' League in New York City; T.C. Steele's house in Brown County; and William Merritt Chase as teacher. There are also literary manuscripts, some in dialect style; two of Sharpe's student sketchbooks; and other sketches. Photographs are of Sharpe and her studios and some paintings; classes at the Art Students' League and sketching trips; family members and home; and an Indianapolis Flower Mission ball. There is also Sharpe's studio scrapbook and a poem to her by Roswell Martin Field, and a scrapbook kept by her sister, Anna T. Sharpe.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 2 bound volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36303718 View

Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. Papers, 1799-1923 (bulk 1846-1906).

Title: Papers, 1799-1923 (bulk 1846-1906).

Official and personal correspondence, notebooks, ms. of autobiography, drawings, clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers, relating to Wallace's activities as an army officer during the Mexican and Civil wars, governor of New Mexico territory (1878-1881), U.S. minister to Turkey (1881-1885), and author, and his efforts to obtain arms and men for Mexican rebels fighting the French (1865-1867), lecturing, business interests in Crawfordsville and Indianapolis, Ind., and New Mexico, his involvement in the court-martial of conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison, Ga., and his membership on a committee to oversee counting disputed ballots in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, after the 1876 presidential election. Papers of Wallace's wife, Susan Elston Wallace (1830-1907), include family correspondence, letters (1881-1882) to her son from Europe, Turkey, and Egypt, and correspondence with publishers regarding her own writings. Letter books of Wallace's son and business agent, Henry Lane Wallace (1853-1926), relate to the family's business interests and a lawsuit involving a theatrical production of Ben-Hur. Papers of Wallace's father-in-law, Isaac C. Elston (1798-1867), of Crawfordsville, Ind., chiefly relate to his interests in developing Michigan City, Ind. (1830-1849). Elston family correspondence (chiefly 1864-1866) is from Crawfordsville, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. Correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Billy the Kid, James G. Blaine, Don Carlos Buell, Edward Canby, William Cannon, José M.J. Carvajal, William E. Chandler, Schuyler Colfax, Francis Marion Crawford, George W. Curtis, Caleb Cushing, Henry Winter Davis, Porfirio Díaz, William M. Evarts, Charles W. Fairbanks, Calvin Fletcher, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John C. Frémont, James A. Garfield, Lucretia Garfield, Richard J. Gatling, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry W. Halleck, Murat Halstead, Marcus A. Hanna, Benjamin Harrison, Edward Hatch, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Randolph Hearst, William Hendricks, William R. Holloway, Alvin P. Hovey, José María Iglesias, Edmund Kirby-Smith, Frederick Knefler, Mary H. Krout, Henry S. Lane, Abraham Lincoln, Robert T. Lincoln, Benson J. Lossing, George W. McCrary, John A. Mclernand, Robert H. Milroy, George W. Morgan, Oliver P. Morton, Reuben D. Mussey, Edward F. Noyes, Robert Dale Owen, James B. Pond, Albert G. Porter, John Baptist Purcell, Whitelaw Reid, William S. Rosecrans, Carl Schurz, Winfield Scott, William H. Seward, William F. Shanks, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Edwin M. Stanton, Herman Sturm, John M. Thayer, Maurice Thompson, Will Henry Thompson, Benjamin H. Ticknor, John Tipton, John George Walker, David Wallace, Albert S. White, and Henry Lane Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. and 36 boxes.

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Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Henry Lane Wilson Papers, 1910-40

Title: Henry Lane Wilson Papers, 1910-40

ArchivalResource:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5f59p1tj View

O'Shaughnessy family. O'Shaughnessy family papers, 1899-1937, bulk (1910-1930).

Title: O'Shaughnessy family papers, 1899-1937, bulk (1910-1930).

Collection contains materials relating to Edith, Nelson and Elim O'Shaughnessy.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear feet (15 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122466553 View

Records of the Ferrocarril Noroeste de México 31769787., 1910-1919

Title: Records of the Ferrocarril Noroeste de México 1910-1919

Business records (primarily correspondence) of the Mexico Northwestern Railway Company (Ferrocarril Noroeste de México), including materials about events of the Mexican Revolution and its effects on the operations of the Company, and the Company's relations with the governments of Mexico and the United States.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00020/00020-P.html View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Willard" to "Yorke".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Willard" to "Yorke".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122599292 View