Papers of James Rives Childs, [manuscript]

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Papers of James Rives Childs, [manuscript]

1969

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Galley and page proofs, and photographs (black and white) for "Foreign Service Farewell," Child's book on his diplomatic career in the Near East. Miscellaneous items include an invitation from Haile Selassie, 1952, and a note on the Childs collection at the University of Virginia by Jamie Cockfield.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Childs, J. Rives (James Rives), 1893-1987

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James Rives Childs was born February 6, 1893 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He attended the Virginia Military Institute before graduating from Randolph-Macon College in 1912, then earned a master of arts from Harvard University in 1915. He served the United States Army during World War I as a cryptoanalyst and radio intelligence liaison in France. After the war he joined the American Relief Administration in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1923 he joined the United States Foreign Service, e...

Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975

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Cockfield, Jamie H.

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