Robbins Battell Anderson journals, 1896-1963 (inclusive).

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Robbins Battell Anderson journals, 1896-1963 (inclusive).

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The collection comprises forty-seven journals begun while Anderson was a freshman at Yale and continuing throughout his life, containing almost daily entries of his activities. More in-depth material includes entries relating to the attack on Pearl Harbor and political commentary of wartime events.

3.75 linear feet (8 boxes)

Yale University Library

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Yale University Library

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Yale College (1887- ). Class of 1949

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Anderson, Robbins Battell.

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Robbins Battell Anderson was born on June 15, 1877, in Matawan, New Jersey. He graduated from Yale in 1899 and from Harvard Law School in 1903. Anderson joined the Honolulu-based law firm of Hatch and Ballou that eventually dissolved and was reorganized under the name of Frear, Prosser, Anderson and Marx. He served as attorney for the Territorial Food Commission of Hawaii until 1918, when he came to Washington, D.C., as legal advisor of the Insular and Foreign Division of the American Red Cross....