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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-RELATED COLLECTIONS
This list gives the collection name, date range and number of items in a collection followed by a very brief description of the contents of the collection. All of these collections are related to international relations.
ALBEVILLE MSS.- DATE RANGE: 1653-1690
- ITEM COUNT: 327 items
- Letters to Ignatius White, marquis d'Albeville. The letters relate primarily to the Revolution of 1688 in Great Britain. White performed diplomatic services for the British government and became a royal advisor to James II. In 1687 he went to the Hague as envoy extraordinary. The letters to Albeville are written during his time at the Hague.
- DATE RANGE: 1843-1855
- ITEM COUNT: 26 items
- Letters to Alejandro Jose de Atocha, a Spaniard who moved to New Orleans and later became a citizen of the U.S. Correspondence is mostly concerned with Atocha's personal and business affairs, however, there is political news and he comments on relations of the U.S. and Mexico.
- DATE RANGE: 1925-1971
- ITEM COUNT: 6,381 items
- Papers of diplomat Burton Yost Berry. They consist of correspondence with diplomats, foreign service officers, statesmen, senators and government officials. Reports and correspondence of a diplomatic nature are concerned with African affairs, Near Eastern affairs and other U.S. foreign relations.
- DATE RANGE: 1868-1972
- ITEM COUNT: 18,386 items
- Papers of ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers. They consist of correspondence with diplomats, politicians and government officials, speeches and clippings. Bowers was ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Spain from 1933 to 1939 and ambassador to Chile from 1939 to 1953. Lengthy letters detailing events were written by Bowers throughout his diplomatic carer.
- DATE RANGE: 1940-1967 and 1976
- ITEM COUNT: 153 items
- Papers of Lindley James Burton, professor of mathematics at Lake Forest College, Illinois, concerning various phases of the work of the United World Federalists movement in Illinois.
- DATE RANGE: 1835-1937
- ITEM COUNT: 10,597 items
- Papers of Amos William Butler, zoologist, anthropologist and sociologist. Later in life Butler became deeply involved with social reform and included in his papers is material pertaining to the World Peace Foundation in Boston.
- DATE RANGE: 1812-1849
- ITEM COUNT: 292 items
- Political letters of Henry Clay, congressman, U.S. senator and secretary of state.
- DATE RANGE: 1923-1953
- ITEM COUNT: 88 items
- Manuscripts, mimeographed and printed materials on the peace movement collected by Martin Dubin. The materials were in preparation of Dubin's Ph.D. dissertation in the Dept. of Government, Indiana University. Most of the material was issued by the National Council for the Prevention of War.
- DATE RANGE: 1819-1939
- ITEM COUNT: 150,006 items
- Letters and papers of Charles Warren Fairbanks, U.S. senator and vice-president of the U.S. Consists of correspondence with prominent political figures and speeches. Subjects dealt with include the Spanish American war; the annexation of the Philippine Islands by the U.S.; Puerto Rico; and the U.S. and British joint high commission for the adjustment of Canadian questions.
- DATE RANGE: 1942-1945
- ITEM COUNT: 17 items
- Consists of correspondence urging the U.S. government to place author Emily Hahn's name on the list of American correspondents in Japan and Japanese held territories to be exchanged for Japanese journalists in the U.S. Hahn was in Hong Kong in 1941 when the Japanese took it over and was forced to remain there until 1943 when she was finally repatriated.
- DATE RANGE: 1781-1832
- ITEM COUNT: 143 items
- Letters and papers of John George Jackson, U.S. congressman. The collection contains correspondence with prominent political figures relating to governmental affairs. Of particular interest are a number of letters to Jackson written by President James Madison discussing foreign relations from 1805-1816.
- DATE RANGE: 1572-1939
- Correspondence and papers assembled around General Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette. Consists of a large number of letters from important people in Lafayette's world. Correspondents range from some of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, presidents of the U.S. from George Washington to Martin Van Buren, the rulers of England from Queen Anne to Queen Victoria, the rulers of France from Louis XIV to Louis Philippe, to many of the outstanding figures of the Napoleonic era and the Restoration period. The collection contains a great deal concerning international relations of the period.
- These manuscripts are grouped by country, each grouping holding material which pertains to foreign relations, primarily with Spain and Portugal. Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1924-1980
- ITEM COUNT: 9,401 items
- Papers of Indiana University professor Walter Herman Carl Laves. During World War II and later, Laves had a career in public service. He served in the Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and from 1943 to 1947, in the Bureau of the Budget as consultant in international affairs. He was present at the founding conferences of the United Nations and UNESCO and served in an advisory capacity to the American delegation at the initial session of the United Nations in London. From 1947 to 1950 Laves was the Deputy Director General of UNESCO in Paris. Subsequently, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UNESCO general conference and chairman of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Included in the collection is a great deal of material pertaining to UNESCO.
- DATE RANGE: 1924-1970
- ITEM COUNT: 89 items
- Letters to editor Lawrence Levenberg from ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers. The letters are of a personal nature and relate to politics and foreign relations.
- DATE RANGE: 1898-1948
- ITEM COUNT: 8,355 items
- Papers of Louis Leon Ludlow, journalist and congressman. They consist of correspondence, petitions, scrapbooks and newspaper clippings. There is a substantial amount of material concerning Ludlow's Peace Amendment which proposed to amend the Constitution of the U.S. to provide for a referendum vote on war and to take the profit out of war.
- DATE RANGE: 1899-1955
- ITEM COUNT: 31,922 items
- Papers of Paul Vories McNutt, lawyer, governor of Indiana and federal official. Includes selected papers from his service in the Philippine Islands as U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, 1937-1939 and 1945-1946, and as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Philippines, 1946- 1947.
- DATE RANGE: 1952-1960
- ITEM COUNT: 344 items
- Papers of Marion Etcheverry McVitty, United Nations observer. The papers pertain to McVitty's work in the United World Federalist Movement and as a UN observer.
- DATE RANGE: 1799-1843
- ITEM COUNT: 42 items
- Papers of Sir Robert Ker Porter, artist and diplomat. In 1826 Porter was appointed British consul in Venezuela. From 1828-1840 Porter kept an autograph book which contains about 120 autographed draft letters to monarchs, diplomats and statesmen. These drafts constitute a remarkable commentary on the political, economic, and social development of Venezuela in the years following the revolution.
- This collection consists of various documents which relate to American history. Of particular interest is: a May 13, 1797 letter from Thomas Jefferson which discusses foreign relations and American isolation. A May 2, 1819 letter from John Quincy Adams to Richard Rush in London. In this letter Adams discusses diplomats and treaties.
- A 1828-1830 journal written by Edward Thornton Tayloe while secretary to the U.S. Legation in Colombia under William Henry Harrison.
- From U.S. president John Tyler dated June 7, 1843, a commission of George Proffit as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the U.S.A. to the Emperor of Brazil.
- A May 19, 1852 letter from J. Heard of Canton, China to George Heard of Massachusetts in which the U.S. preparations to visit Japan are discussed and that Commodore Perry will relieve Commodore Aulick.
- Apr. 4, 1884-Apr. 27, 1992. Copies of letters and documents written by Woodrow Wilson including a draft of the 14 Points address before a joint session of Congress dated Jan. 8, 1918; an early draft of the Covenant of League of Nations dated August 1918.
- Oct. 20, 1919 letter from U.S. senator James Eli Watson opposing signing the League of Nations treaty. Written by statesman John Jay, an undated document consisting of 29 numbered questions concerning the subject of neutrality with specific reference to the US and France.
- DATE RANGE: 20th century
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 334,851 items
- The inactive archives of the United World Federalists. This organization's primary purpose is (1) to achieve permanent peace through universal disarmament enforced by law; (2) to release for human needs the resources that at present are used in preparation for war; (3) to promote human freedom and to mobilize support for free institutions among all peoples; (4) to secure to all peoples the right to develop according to their own customs and traditions.
- DATE RANGE: 1776-1879
- ITEM COUNT: 3,181 items
- Correspondence, log books, legal documents, diaries, speeches dating from around the time of the War of 1812. Many items document the foreign relations between the U.S., England and France during this period of conflict. The documents are arranged chronologically, contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1942-1945
- ITEM COUNT: 67 items
- Letters and documents of Hugh Evander Willis, professor of law at Indiana University. These papers deal with Professor Willis' plan for achieving lasting peace through a federation of the world and with his proposals for the constitution of the United Nations.
- DATE RANGE: 1934-1945
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 500,000 items
- Papers of Wendell Lewis Willkie, Republican nominee for president in 1940. In 1942 President Roosevelt sent Willkie on a mission around the world. In Willkie's papers there is material pertaining to the world trip. There is also material relating to Willkie's 1943 book, One World which espouses a unified world living in cooperation and coexistence.