Aleta Geddes Haskell papers, 1913-1959.

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Aleta Geddes Haskell papers, 1913-1959.

Unpublished memoirs recorded in story, journal, and letter form re the twenty-five years of her life spent abroad as the wife of American consular official Lewis Wardlaw Haskell in Mexico, England, Yugoslavia, Algeria, and Switzerland; and her later life in retirement as a widow in Hendersonville in the mountains of western North Carolina. Haskell's notebooks and typescripts discuss her thoughts and experiences on such topics as: race relations; World War II; her love for animals, especially dogs; an article on the Smythe family of South Carolina; also includes several news clippings and photographs.

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The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by an act of July 27, 1789 (1 Stat. 28) and redesignated the Department of State by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was the agency of the United States created by law to assist the President in the formulation and execution of the Nation's foreign policy, and in the conduct of foreign affairs and of certain domestic affairs. The Department made plans for peace and security among all nations, participated in the United Nations and o...

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Haskell, Aleta Geddes, 1886-1968.

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Native of Spartanburg, S.C.; in 1906, Aleta Geddes married lawyer, politician and diplomat Lewis Wardlaw Haskell (b. 1868), a native of Arkansas, and son of Langdon Cheves Haskell and Ella Coulter Wardlaw Haskell, both natives of S.C.; L.W. Haskell served in the S.C. House of Representatives, 1902-1906, and as U.S. Consul in: Salina Cruz (Mexico), 1910-1912; Hull (England), 1912-1913; Belgrade (Yugoslavia), 1913-1915; Geneva (Switzerland), 1915-1924; Algiers (Algeria), 1926; and as U.S. Consul G...

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