Letters, 1931-1945
Scope and Contents
C. Webster Abbott (additions), Cyrus Adler, Walter G. Andrews, Thurman Arnold, Warren R. Austin, Frank Aydelotte, Iwao F. Ayusawa. Roger Baldwin, Bernard M. Baruch, Sir Percy Bates, Elliott V. Bell, Francis Biddle, Edwin Borchard, W. Bostrow, Thomas F. Branson, D.W. Brogan, Herbert Brownell, Jr., Edward Bruce, Edward R. Burke, Harold H. Burton, Harold Butler, Nicholas Murray Butler. James M. Cain, Clarence Cannon, Arthur Capper, W. Gibson Carey, Jr., O.C. Carmichael, William R. Castle, René de Chambrun, Edouard Chapuisat, Raymond Clapper, Brooke Claxton, Ralph W. Close, Griffith Bailey Coale (additions), Howard Comfort (additions), James B. Conant, John J. Corson. Joe N. Dalton, Elmer Davis, Norman H. Davis, Edmund E. Day, John Dickinson, Dennis Conan Doyle, Thomas E. Drake (see Gann), John Foster Dulles. Charles E. Eliot, Thomas W. Elkinton (additions), Mehmet Münir Ertegün. James A. Farley, Edward A. Filene, Louis Finkelstein, Raymond D. Fosdick, Constantin Fotich, Dixon Ryan Fox, James E. Freeman. Dally Curtis (Mrs. Edward Everett) Gann, Walter F. George, Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Henry F. Grady, Joseph C. Green, Theodore Francis Green, John Chandler "Chan" Gurney. C.J. Hambro, Edward Hawkes (additions), G. Henry-Haye, Herbert Hoover, Stanley K. Hornbeck, Shih Hu, Manley O. Hudson, Cordell Hull, Robert M. Hutchins. Radu Irimescu. Hugh S. Johnson, Lindley Johnson, Jr. (additions), Louis Johnson, N.T. Johnson. K.K. Kawakami, Joe Kennedy, Frank Kent, William H. King. Alf M. Landon, David Lawrence, Paul Leverkuehn, David J. Lewis, John L. Lewis, Charles A. Lindbergh, Earnest K. Lindley, Marquess of Lothian. Archibald MacLeish, John Putnam Marble, Edward Martin, Paul V. McNutt, H.L. Mencken, E. LeRoy Mercer, Pierrepont Moffatt, Raymond Moley, Henry Morgenthau, Christopher Morley, Frank V. Morley, Roland D. Morris. D. Naoumoff, Albert Jay Nock, Philip Noel-Baker, Gerald P. Nye. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, J.F.T. O'Connor, R.B. Ogilby, Otto of Austria. Frank Pace, Jr., Westbrook Pegler, John Pelenyi, George Wharton Pepper, Francis Perkins, W. Frank Persons, J. Howard Pew, William Lyon Phelps, H.W. Prentis, Jr., Hjalmar J. Procopé. Edgar Monsanto Quincy. George L. Radcliffe, S.K. Ratcliffs, Robert R. Reynolds, Lindsay Rogers, Daniel C. Roper, Louis Rougier, L.S. Rowe. William Franklin Sands, Francis B. Sayre, Ralph J. Schoettle (additions), Patrick F. Scanlan (additions), James A. Shanley, M.S. Sherman, Henry Knox Sherrill, F.J. Sissio, Harlan F. Stone, John F. Stone, Leland Stowe, Wolfgang Stressemann, John Studebaker, Mark Sullivan, Raymond Gram Swing, Sao-Ke Alfred Sze. Robert A. Taft, Elbert D. Thomas, Norman Thomas, R.E. Thomason, George Holden Tinkham. Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Oswald Garrison Villard, John M. Vorys. Robert F. Wagner, W. Nelson L. West (additions), Burton K. Wheeler, Thomas Raeburn White, William Allen White, George W. Wickersham, George A. Wilson, Edith Balling (Mrs. Woodrow) Wilson, Caleb Winslow (additions), Quincy Wright, Robert W. Wood, Mary E. Woolley.
Dates
- Creation: 1931-1945
Conditions Governing Access
Permission for all access must be obtained from the College Archivist
Extent
9 folders (Letters from prominent national and international figures to Morley and kept by him as an autograph collection. The letters were written during Morley's editorship of the Washington Post (many congratulating him on the Pulitzer Prize award in 1836 and expressing condolences on his father's death) and during his Haverford presidency (many replying to invitations to speak at the College). Writers include Bernard M. Baruch, John Foster Dulles, Herbert Hoover, Cordell Hull, Alfred Landon, Charles A. Lindbergh, Archibald MacLeish, H. L. Mencken, Frances Perkins, Harlan Fiske Stone, Norman Thomas. (For complete list see Scope and Content Note))
Custodial History
Autograph letters were transferred to the library by Morley at different times from 1944 to 1945. See Morley Collection file for transfer letters.
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