Papers, 1911-1999.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1911-1999.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234368973

The Alger Hiss Papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, documents from Hiss's time working in the State Department, personal records, notebooks, manuscript notes, newspaper clippings and photographs. The bulk of the collection is the personal correspondence between Hiss and his family and friends after he was released from prison.

22 boxes.

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7111769

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

Hiss, Isabel Dowden Johnson, 1908-2000.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ht3dg4 (person)

Model, writer, editor, and widow of Alger Hiss, Isabel (Dowden) Johnson Hiss was born and raised in Montclair, N.J., the only child of Elsie (Ruckelshaus) and Dawson Dowden. She graduated from Montclair High School in 1926 and went to Syracuse University, where she met Malcolm Perry Johnson, a student at St. Lawrence University whom she married in 1931. A well-known model in Paris and New York, she was photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Edward Steichen, and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, and mo...

Zeligs, Meyer Aaron, 1909-1978.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j96xbt (person)

April 1, 1901 Birth of Jay Vivian Chambers. Sept. 26, 1903 Birth of Richard Godfrey Chambers (brother). June 1919 Graduated from South Side High School, Rockville Centre, L.I. 1919 Ran away from home. Used name Charles Adams. ...

Miller, Charles Douglas

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r49pms (person)

Hiss, Tony.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tt5f6h (person)

Lockwood, Agnese Nelms

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b28k9q (person)

Hiss, Priscilla.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cj8qjn (person)

Zeligs, Meyer A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6df79vm (person)

Hiss, Alger

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61z44rt (person)

Alger Hiss (1904-1996) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and educated at Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School. During the new Deal period he worked as an attorney at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, in the Solicitor General's Office at the Justice Department, as Assistant Secretary of State and in other positions in the State Department, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Yalta conference in 1945. He served as Secretary General of the United...