Francis B. Biddle papers, 1912-1968 (bulk 1940-1966).

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Francis B. Biddle papers, 1912-1968 (bulk 1940-1966).

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This collection, which is part 2 of the Biddle family papers, consists of the personal papers of former U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle. Of notable interest are the lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. Attorney General (1941); and member-judge of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (1945-46). Notable correspondents include Dean Acheson, Conrad Aiken, Thurman Arnold, Bernard Berenson, Henry Beston, Norman Birkett, Alain Bosquet, Van Wyck Brooks, Stimson Bullitt, Roy Basler, William Rose Benet, Richard Crowder, Agnes de Mille, Gertrude Ely, T.S. Eliot, Abe Fortas, Felix Frankfurter, Learned Hand, Oscar Hammerstein, August Heckscher, J. Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull, R, Sturgis Ingersoll, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Emmet Lavery, Frieda Lawrence, Robert Lowell, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry McCarter, Archibald MacLeish, Jacques Maritain, Gian Carlo Menotti, Marion Merrell, Nancy Mitford, Henry Morgenthau, Lewis Mumford, L. Quincy Mumford, Charlton Ogburn, Boies Penrose, Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, A.L. Rowse, Karl Shapiro, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Lisa Sergio, Edward R. Stettinius, Adlai Stevenson, Harry L. Stimson, Leopold and Olga Stokowski, Allen Tate, Virgil Thomson, Lionel Trilling, Harry S. Truman, Robert Wagner, Henry A. Wallace, Herbert Wechsler, Owen Wister, and Mark Van Doren. Also included are correspondence and manuscripts relating to Biddle's major works, including his two-volume autobiography, A casual past (1961), and In brief authority, (1962); two works on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. Justice Holmes (1942), and Justice Holmes, natural law and the Supreme Court (1961); The world's best hope (1949); and The fear of freedom (1952). There are also typescripts and reprints of many articles by Biddle, as well as correspondence and manuscripts relating to a play about William Penn (1644-1718), written by Biddle and adapted for the stage by Richard Waters.

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Georgetown University, Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library

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Georgetown University, Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library

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