President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960. Personal Files, 1945 - 1953

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President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960. Personal Files, 1945 - 1953

1945-1953

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/602209

The Personal Files consist of cables, correspondence, handwritten notes, memorabilia, memorandums, newspaper clippings, press releases, printed materials, and reports. Included in this series is Harry S. Truman's correspondence with personal friends and with such prominent persons as Eleanor Roosevelt. Other materials in the series pertain to club memberships, Battery D, the Inauguration of the President, the 35th Division Association, Bess and Margaret Truman, Queen Elizabeth, personal expenses, gifts, Hitler stationery, Independence Square, John Ingalls, Louis Johnson, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Arthur Krock, James Garfield, the Masons, Pope Pius XII, the Potsdam Conference, Dred Scott, and the Truman home on Delaware Street in Independence.

8 linear feet, 9 linear inches

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