Inventory of the Carter H. Harrison IV Papers, 1637-1953, bulk 1840-1950

The Newberry Library
Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections
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Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Brian Silbernagel, 2003.


Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Creator	Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953
Title	Carter H. Harrison IV Papers
Dates	1637-1953,
Dates	bulk 1840-1950
Extent	11.25 cubic ft. (23 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Abstract	Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV (1860-1953), and his family, particularly his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, and his father, Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III (1825-1893). The collection also includes a number of letters, autographs, and miscellaneous other documents from famous people that were not originally directed to Harrison or his family, but which Harrison kept as collectibles.
Language	Materials are in English.
Repository	Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections
Collection Call Number	Midwest MS Harrison
Collection Stack Location	3a 39 3 and Vault [Series 21]

Administrative Information

Cite as:

Carter H. Harrison IV Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.

Provenance

Gift of Carter H. Harrison IV (1860-1953), 1952; Carter H. Harrison V (1890-), 1959; and Russell MacFall, 1960.

Processed by:

Amy Nyholm, Diana Haskell, Brian Silbernagel, 2003.

Access

The Carter H. Harrison IV Papers are open for research and available to users one box at a time in the Special Collections Reading Room (Priority III); except for Series 21, Collector's Items, which is 5 folders at a time maximum, and items in each folder will be counted before and after delivery to the patron (Priority I).

Ownership and Literary Rights

The Carter H. Harrison IV Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to either the Newberry Library or the applicable author or his or her heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.

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Biography of Carter H. Harrison IV

Carter Henry Harrison IV ("Harrison"), like his father, Carter Henry Harrison III, was a five term Democratic mayor of Chicago. Harrison served his first four terms around the turn of the twentieth century (1897-1905), with his final term running from 1911 until 1915. Harrison was also Collector of Internal Revenue for the Chicago area during the 1930s and early 1940s.

Harrison's father moved to Chicago in 1855 from Kentucky, shortly after his graduation from Transylvania University (now the University of Kentucky) Law School, and marriage to Sophonisba Preston, Harrison's mother. Upon his arrival in Chicago, Harrison's father invested his money in real estate, and then hung out his shingle as a lawyer and real estate agent. Harrison was born a few years later, on April 23, 1860. In 1873, Harrison's mother was advised to travel to Europe for her health, and Harrison and the rest of the family accompanied her and traveled throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland that spring and summer. Harrison's father then returned to Chicago in the fall to tend to his real estate business, but Harrison remained in Germany with his mother and attended school at the Altenberg Gymnasium.

In 1874, Harrison's father was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and despite spending much of 1875 in Europe with his family, he was re-elected to Congress in 1876. During this time, Harrison continued his studies at Altenberg, but after his mother died in the fall of 1876 he returned to Chicago.

Upon his return to Chicago, Harrison entered St. Ignatius College (now Loyola University), which was then located near the family's home on Ashland Avenue between Jackson and Van Buren Streets. Harrison graduated from St. Ignatius in 1881, second in a class of two, and then attended Yale University Law School, from which he received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1883. After law school, Harrison came back to Chicago and practiced law until 1891 when he and his brother, William Preston Harrison, took over the operation of the Chicago Times, which their father had recently purchased.

After completing his second term in Congress, Harrison's father was elected mayor of Chicago and served four consecutive two-year terms, from April 1879 to April 1887. He then took a break from politics, including an eighteen month trip around the world, before being once again elected mayor in 1893. Six months after taking office, however, on the final day of the World Columbian Exposition, Harrison's father was assassinated in his home by Patrick Prendergast on October 28, 1893.

In 1894, Harrison's family sold the Chicago Times, and Harrison focused his energies on his real estate investments until he followed in his father's footsteps and successfully ran for mayor in 1897. Harrison served as mayor from 1897 until 1905, and again from 1911 to 1915. During his first term as mayor Harrison was best known for his bitter, but ultimately victorious, fight against Charles T. Yerkes, the traction railroad baron, who sought a fifty year streetcar concession from the city that Harrison felt was unfair. The traction interests had significant aldermanic support, allegedly obtained through bribery and improper means, and were prepared for Harrison's veto of the proposed ordinance, which they expected to be able to overcome. Harrison, however, went further and took the fight directly to the people, urging them to challenge their aldermen on the issue. Although this move angered some in the Chicago Democratic Party who felt that Harrison had overstepped his bounds, it made Harrison popular with the people, who re-elected him to a second two-year term in 1899.

The Yerkes battle cemented Harrison's reputation as a man of integrity and one who was not afraid to ruffle a few feathers in order to do what he thought was right. Harrison was re-elected again in 1901 and 1903, but declined to run in 1905, when he was succeeded as mayor by Edward F. Dunne, another Democrat. In 1907, the mayoral term was extended from two years to four and Dunne lost his re-election bid to Republican F. A. Busse. Harrison then re-entered the political scene for the 1911 election, in which he defeated Dunne in the Democratic primary, and Republican Charles E. Merriam, a professor at the University of Chicago, in the general election. During what would prove to be his final term as mayor, Harrison was persuaded that the best way to handle prostitution and gambling was to try to eliminate these practices altogether, instead of treating them as necessary evils and attempting to segregate such vices to particular sections of the city where they could be contained and informally regulated by the police, as Chicago had done for many years. This change in tactics led Harrison to a direct confrontation with long-time allies John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin and Michael ("Hinky-Dink") Kenna, the aldermen of Chicago's notorious First Ward, which served as the city's main red-light district. Harrison eventually succeeded in shutting down most of Chicago's houses of prostitution and gambling dens, including the infamous Everleigh Club, but these achievements came at a cost. Without Coughlin and Kenna's political support (which, ironically, had been critical years earlier when he stood up against Charles Yerkes), Harrison lost the Democratic nomination to Robert M. Sweitzer in 1915 and moved to the sidelines of Chicago politics, although he remained active in the Democratic Party at the national level throughout the remainder of his life.

When America entered World War I, Harrison desperately wanted to participate, but was too old to serve in the military. He lobbied heavily for an appointment to a meaningful position that would allow him to, if not see action, at least be able to "hear the big guns." Eventually, Harrison was made a Captain in the American Red Cross and stationed in Toul, France, a few miles behind the front lines, where he worked to help make life more comfortable for the American troops stationed and recovering at the several field hospitals located there.

Following the war, Harrison spent most of the 1920s traveling. He took multiple trips around the world, along with shorter excursions to Europe and Africa. By the early 1930s, however, reversals in the stock market had diminished his personal fortune and Harrison decided to return to work, even though he was now over seventy years old. Relying on his political connections, Harrison was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Northern District of Illinois by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. It was thought that this would be a relatively short-term position, but Harrison ended up holding the post until the end of 1944, when he finally retired from public service for good at the age of 84.

Harrison was a both an outdoorsman and a scholarly patron of the arts. He loved hunting and fishing, and throughout his life went on numerous expeditions into the wilderness in search of big game or the perfect trout stream, including hunting and fishing trips to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, India, Indochina, and Africa. In 1940, when he was eighty years old, Harrison and his long-time friend Oscar Mayer (the Chicago meat-packer), each bagged a 150 pound buck on their annual hunting trip to northern Michigan. Harrison also had somewhat of a reputation as a trencherman, and favored a "Kentucky Nightcap" of bourbon before retiring for the day. At the same time, however, Harrison was an avid art collector and regular at the Chicago symphony and opera. Before his death, he donated his substantial art collection to the Art Institute of Chicago, including works by Paul Gauguin, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet, and Toulouse-Lautrec. In recognition of his support, the Art Institute ultimately named Harrison a Benefactor and Governing Life-Member of the museum. According to his daughter, Harrison's "light-reading" usually consisted of poetry or the ancient Greek classics, and he read a chapter of the Bible each night throughout his life in fulfillment of a boyhood promise to his mother.

Harrison died on Christmas Day, 1953, at the age of ninety-three. On New Year's Eve of that same year, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution recognizing his accomplishments as mayor, Collector of Internal Revenue, world traveller, and patron of the arts. The resolution stated, in part, that "from such men as Carter H. Harrison, men of integrity, vision, high civic ideals and unswerving zeal, we shall take example." Harrison led a life full of accomplishments and achievements, and appeared to have no regrets. The only disappointment that seemed to stick with him was the failure of his son, Carter H. Harrison V, to have a son that could carry on the family name. Much to Harrison's chagrin, it was his daughter, Edith Harrison Manierre, who bore him two grandsons, while his son gave him four granddaughters.

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Scope and Content of the Collection

The largest part of this collection consists of the correspondence of Carter H. Harrison IV (1860-1953), although there is also a fair amount of correspondence and other documents relating to Harrison's father, Carter H. Harrison III (1825-1893), and Harrison's wife, Edith Ogden Harrison. Harrison's correspondents included some of the leading Democratic political figures of his day, including William Jennings Bryan, James Farley, Harold L. Ickes, and James Hamilton Lewis. The outgoing correspondence of Harrison's father is mainly personal, although some of his incoming correspondence relates to requests for patronage appointments and other political matters.

Besides the foregoing, the collection also contains a significant amount of materials relating to the history of Harrison's family, including letters written by and to his ancestors, and letters sent to Harrison by family members and others recounting the family's genealogy. The writings of Harrison that are part of this collection consist mainly of speeches, articles, and short untitled manuscripts on various topics, together with drafts of, and a large amount of culled material from, Harrison's three books (Stormy Years, Growing Up With Chicago, and With the American Red Cross in France, 1918-1919). In addition, there are a number of photographs (mainly of Harrison, his father, and other individuals), and a series of printed invitations and other souvenirs kept by Harrison as mementos of some of the dinners and other events he attended during and after his tenure as mayor, such as a luncheon honoring Theodore Roosevelt and a ball for Heinrich, Prince of Prussia. Finally, there are some collector's items, including letters and autographs from John Quincy Adams, Washington Irving, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Washington, and Noah Webster.

Harrison clearly kept the items in this collection with an eye that they might one day be saved for posterity. Many items throughout the collection contain handwritten annotations by Harrison in which he explains the document's context or provides his thoughts on the document's subject. Harrison also often refers the reader to specific pages of his books for more information about the person, place, or event in question.

Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.

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Organization

Harrison's papers are organized in the following series:

Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1881-1953 . Box(es) 1
Series 2: Incoming Correspondence, 1867-1953 . Box(es) 2-8
Series 3: Outgoing Correspondence, 1873-1953, . Box(es) 9-10
Series 4: Harrison Family Correspondence and Miscellaneous Documents, 1637-1954, . Box(es) 11
Series 5: Correspondence Pertaining to Carter H. Harrison IV, 1899-1945 . Box(es) 12
Series 6: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1858-1938. Box(es) 12
Series 7: Writings, 1880-1934, . Box(es) 13-15
Series 8: Clippings, 1858-1952, . Box(es) 16
Series 9: Photographs and Prints, 1870-1947 . Box(es) 17
Series 10: Printed Invitations and Souvenirs, 1883-1952. Box(es) 18
Series 11: Harrison Family History, 1868-1952, . Box(es) 18
Series 12: Chicago Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art, 1915-1945, . Box(es) 19
Series 13: The Hill School Matter, 1938-1945 . Box(es) 19
Series 14: Edith Ogden Harrison, Incoming Correspondence, 1884-1949 . Box(es) 19
Series 15: Edith Ogden Harrison, Writings and Outgoing Correspondence, 1916-1949. Box(es) 19
Series 16: Carter H. Harrison III, Incoming Correspondence, 1842-1893, . Box(es) 20
Series 17: Carter H. Harrison III, Outgoing Correspondence, 1838-1892 . Box(es) 21
Series 18: Carter H. Harrison III, Speeches and Other Works, 1876-1893 . Box(es) 21
Series 19: Carter H. Harrison III, Miscellaneous Documents, 1843-1942, . Box(es) 21
Series 20: Miscellaneous, 1754-1951, . Box(es) 22
Series 21: Collector's Items, 1783-1915, . Box(es) 23

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Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.

Names

American Red Cross
Art Institute of Chicago
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925
Chicago (Ill.). Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art
Chicago (Ill.). Office of the Mayor
Democratic Party (Cook County, Ill.) -- History -- Sources
Dunne, Edward F. (Edward Fitzsimons), 1853-1937
Farley, James Aloysius, 1888-
Harrison family
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 -- Portraits
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 -- Art Collections
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 -- Portraits
Harrison, Edith Ogden
Harrison, William Preston, 1870-1940
Horner, Henry, 1878-1940
Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 -- Portraits
Lewis, James Hamilton, 1863-1939
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 -- Portraits
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950
Parker, Lawton, 1868-1954
Rex, Frederick, b. 1880
Sabath, Adolph Joachim, 1866-1952
Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 -- Portraits
United States. Internal Revenue Service. Collection Division.

Subjects

Autographs -- Collections
Chicago (Ill.). History -- Sources
Chicago (Ill.). Politics and Government -- To 1950
Clippings -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1858-1952
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
Mayors -- Illinois -- Chicago
Parent and child -- Correspondence
Patronage, Political -- Illinois -- Chicago
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1900-1915
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- Illinois -- Chicago
Travel literature -- 1921-1928
Travel literature -- Egypt -- 1895

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Container List


Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1881-1953
This series consists of materials pertaining generally to Harrison's life. The series includes several biographical sketches, a collection of negative articles and editorials from the Chicago American (a Republican newspaper) about Harrison and his record as mayor, political pamphlets touting Harrison's accomplishments as mayor, letters of introduction, diplomas, and clippings of newspaper stories about Harrison. This series also includes a number of certificates presented to Harrison in connection with various awards, appointments, and honors. Clippings of newspaper and magazine articles which only mention Harrison, and are not primarily about his life, are arranged in Series 8 (Clippings).
This series is arranged alphabetically by title, subject, or type of materials. Multiple items within a folder are then arranged chronologically

Box	Folder	Contents
1	1	Acronym on the Name "Harrison," n.d.
1	2	Biographical Sketches, n.d.
1	3	Bricklayers Union Card, 1911
1	4	Certificate, American Legion Federal Post No. 437 [in oversize box], July 20, 1937
1	5	Certificate, Chicago Charter Convention Delegate, Sept. 15, 1905
1	6	Certificate, Chrysostomian Society Honorary Membership, May 18, 1881,
1	7	Certificates, Collector of Internal Revenue Appointment, July 27, 1933; Jan. 16, 1934
1	8	Certificate, Connecticut Bar Admission, June 27, 1883
1	9	Certificate, Honorary Degree, Loyola University [in oversize box], June 8, 1949
1	10	Certificate, Illinois Bar Admission [in oversize box], Oct. 4, 1883
1	11	Certificates, Mayoral Elections, 1897-1903
1	12	Certificates, Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, Feb. 10, 1933; June 22, 1936
1	13	Certificate, Philippine Islands Medal of Honor, Second Class, Dec. 1, 1904
1	14	Clippings, Birthday Stories, 1943-1952
1	15	Clippings, Personal Anecdotes, 1940-1951
1	16	Clippings, Wedding Anniversaries, Dec. 15, 1945
1	17	Diploma, Bachelor of Arts Degree, St. Ignatius College [in oversize box], June 27, 1881
1	18	Diploma, Bachelor of Laws, Yale University, June 27, 1888
1	19	Diploma, Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws), St. Ignatius College, June 27, 1900
1	20	Diploma, Honorary Degree (Doctor of Literature), Loyola University [in oversize box], June 8, 1949
1	21	Drain Layers Union Card, 1911
1	22	"Facts and Figures," 1903
1	23	"Hearst on His Own -- Candidate Harrison" (collection of newspaper articles and editorials from the Chicago American), 1907
1	24	Letters of Introduction, 1918-1927
1	25	Loyola University, Citation Conferring Honorary Degree, n.d.
1	26	"Making a Century -- Memorable Feat in the Life of Carter H. Harrison," May, 1938
1	27	Notary Public Certificate, Oct. 25, 1887
1	28	Passport, Dec. 26, 1894
1	29	"The Platform of Carter H. Harrison," ca. 1915
1	30	Political Cartoons, Mar. 14, 1911; n.d.
1	31	"Ein Prominenter Amerikaner," Apr. 23, 1935
1	32	"The Record of Carter H. Harrison as Mayor, 1897-1905," 1911
1	33	Resolution of the Chicago City Council Honoring Harrison Upon His Retirement as Mayor, Apr. 10, 1905
1	34	Tribute by the Chicago City Council, Dec. 31, 1953
1	35	"The Truth About Harrison," March, 1901
1	36	"Truth About Harrison," ca. 1905
1	37	"The Truth About Harrison Up to Date," Mar. 26, 1903
1	38	"Why You Should Vote For Carter H. Harrison," 1915
1	39	Will, Jan. 31, 1910


Series 2: Incoming Correspondence, 1867-1953
The majority of this series is personal correspondence sent to Harrison, although there are also a significant number of items that were sent to Harrison in his official capacity as Mayor of Chicago or Collector of Internal Revenue. Several letters have handwritten annotations by Harrison explaining the letter's context or giving his thoughts on the sender or the letter's subject.
Much of Harrison's official incoming correspondence involves patronage job appointments. The rest of Harrison's incoming correspondence covers a wide range of topics, including: (a) his three books (Stormy Years, Growing Up With Chicago, and With the American Red Cross in France, 1918-1919); (b) the political activities of the Democratic Party at both the local and national level, including four letters from Tammany Hall boss Richard Croker; (c) early Chicago history; (d) hunting and fishing trips; (e) efforts to locate the whereabouts of various individuals with whom Harrison was acquainted in the past; and (f) responses from well-known people of Harrison's day from whom he requested autographs as a young man.
Among the correspondence in this series are two interesting letters from then Senator Harry Truman in 1936 in which Truman tells Harrison what he thinks of the French and expresses his displeasure at France's failure to repay the United States for debts incurred during World War I in connection with the purchase of war supplies. There is also a letter from Harrison's brother, William Preston Harrison, giving his eyewitness account of the assassination of Harrison's father in 1893, and a letter from Lawton Parker inviting Harrison to attend a meeting to discuss the formation the Arts Club of Chicago. Finally, this series includes letters relating to Harrison's service with the American Red Cross in France at the end of World War I, and his gifts to the Art Institute of Chicago.
There is a fair amount of correspondence (i.e., over five letters) from the following individuals or entities: American Red Cross; Art Institute of Chicago; Bobbs-Merrill Company; William Jennings Bryan; Charles Collins; Charles G. Dawes; Charles S. Deneen; Edward F. Dunne; E. K. Eckert; James Farley; Alexander Hugh Ferguson; Charles Fitzmorris; Sophonisba Preston Harrison; William Preston Harrison; Henry Horner; Cordell Hull; Harold L. Ickes; James Hamilton Lewis; Frank O. Lowden; Edgar Lee Masters; William Gibbs McAdoo; John T. McCutcheon; F. Millet; Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Battling Nelson; Lawton Parker; Henry T. Rainey; Frederick Rex; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Julius Rosenwald; A. J. Sabath; Adlai E. Stevenson; William Hale Thompson; Henry Emerson Tuttle; and Walter Ufer.
Letters to Harrison specifically about his family's genealogy and history are arranged separately in Series 11 (Harrison Family History). Letters to Harrison about the Chicago Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art are arranged separately in Series 12 (Chicago Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art).
This series is arranged alphabetically by the sender's name. Multiple items within a folder are then arranged chronologically.

Box	Folder	Contents
2	40	Adams, J. Donald (T.L.S.), Mar. 13, 1937
2	41	Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 (T.L.S.), Nov. 10, 1911
2	42	Ade, George, 1866-1944 (T.L.S.), June 20, 24, 1937
2	43	Adine (T.L.S.) Mar. 28, 1939; July 1, 1939
2	44	Aldis, Graham (T.L.S.), Oct. 30, 1935
2	45	Alger, R. A. (T.L.S.), Mar. 8, 1890
2	46	Allen, H. J. (T.L.S.), May 9, 1921
2	47	Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 (A.L.S.), Apr. 7, 8, 1897
2	48	Ambrose, Thomas (A.L.S.), Jan. 15, 1947
2	49	American Red Cross, (T.L.S., T.D.S., telegrams) 1918-1919
2	50	Anderson, Arthur (T.L.S.), Dec. 17, 1935
2	51	Anderson, Blanche (A.L.S.), Aug. 1, 1940; March, 1941
2	52	Andress, Mary Vail (T.L.S.), June 25, 1940; Jan. 27, 1948
2	53	Andrews, E. Benjamin (A.L.S.) May 30, 1899; June 4, 1898
2	54	Andrews, James H. (T.L.S.), Nov. 27, 1935
2	55	Angle, Paul M. (T.L.S.), Mar. 26, 1949
2	56	Anonymous (A.L.), n.d.
2	57	Arcos, Duke de (A.L.S.), Apr. 14, 1900
2	58-60	Art Institute of Chicago (T.L.S., T.D.S., T.D.), 1923-1952
2	61	Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 (T.L.S.), Dec. 21, 1911
2	62	Babb, James T. (T.L.S.), 1945-1948
2	63	Baker, Newton D. (T.L.S.), 1913-1918
2	64	Barker, Charles E. (A.L.S.), July 13, 1944
2	65	Barnard, Harry (T.L.S.), Apr. 23, 1947; May 29, 1947
2	66	Barney (photo postcard of the correspondent with message), Mar. 4, 1917
2	67	Barry, F. J. (A.L.S.), July 7, 1900
2	68	Bartlett, A. C. (T.L.S.), Dec. 22, 1911
2	69	Bay, J. Christian (T.L.S.), Apr. 18, 1947
2	70	Beale, Harriet (A.L.S.), Feb. 26, 1941
2	71	Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 (A.L.S.), Mar. 28, 1884
2	72	Beech, Sidney (T.L.S.), Dec. 11, 1935
2	73	Beede, A. McG. (T.L.S.), Jan. 22, 1923
2	74	Bell, Lared (A.L.S.), Dec. 21, 1944
2	75	Bentley, Richard (T.L.S.), Aug. 21, 1940
2	76	Benz, John E. (T.L.S.), Oct. 30, 1935
2	77	Biernatzki, Charles S. (T.L.S.), Oct. 12, 1948
2	78	Blaine, Anita McCormick (T.L.S.), Sept. 29, 1936
2	79	Blair, Helen Bowen (Mrs. William McCormick) (T.L.S.), Jan. 1, 1949
2	80	Blum, Jerome (A.L.S.), 1915-1922
2	81	Bobbs-Merrill Company (A.L.S., T.L.S., telegram) (includes some letters addressed to Russell MacFall), 1935-1937
2	82	Bowen, Louise deKoven (T.L.S.), Apr. 1, 1949
2	83	Brantman, William H. (T.L.S.), Oct. 13, 1937
2	84	Breckinridge, Clifton R. (A.L.S.), Mar. 16, 21, 1895
2	85	Brewer, David J. (T.L.S.), Oct. 17, 1903
2	86	Bridges, Horace J. (T.L.), Mar. 9, 1935
2	87	Briere, Francois (T.L.S.), July 2, 10, 1951
2	88	Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 (A.L.S. T.L.S.), 1894-1914
2	89	Bundesen, Herman N. (T.L.S.), Sept. 28, 1933
2	90	Bureux [?], John H. (T.L.S.), Mar. 23, 1923
2	91	Butler, Edward B. (A.L.S.), Jan. 1, 1912; Jan. 2, 1915
2	92	Butler, Joseph J. (T.L.S.), Jan. 4, 1935
2	93	Byrd, Harry F. (T.L.S.), Dec. 12, 1942
2	94	Byrne, Paul R. (T.L.S.), Feb. 22, 1945
2	95	Calhoun, Lucy (A.L.S.), n.d.
2	96	Cameron, George H. (A.L.S.), Aug. 8, 1939
2	97	Campbell, F.G. (T.L.S.), Aug. 31, 1948
2	98	Campbell, N. D. (T.L., T.L.S.), 1936-1940
2	99	Carlile, William B. (A.L.S.), Jan. 31, 1938; n.d.
2	100	Carnegie, Andrew (T.L.S.), Nov. 25, 1911
2	101	Catto, George (T.L.S.), June 3, 1942
2	102	Caverly, John R. (T.L.), Feb. 14, 1939
2	103	Cermak, Anton J. (T.L.S.), Oct. 27, 1926; Jan. 28, 1933
2	104	Cheney, Charles Edward (T.L.S.), Nov. 21, 1911
2	105	Chicago Rapid Transit Company (T.L.), July 8, 1935
2	106	Clark, Champ (T.L., T.L.S.), 1911-1914
2	107	Clark, John. S. (T.L.S.), Apr. 1, 1937
2	108	Clow, W. E. (T.L.S.), June 9, 1942
2	109	Cluverius, W. T. (T.L.S.), Mar. 5, 1935
2	110	Cockran, William Bourke (A.L.S.), June 18, 1901
2	111	Colby, Bainbridge (T.L.S.), July 28, 1920
2	112	Coleman, John (A.L.S.), n.d.
2	113	Collins, Charles (T.L.S.), 1943-1948
2	114	Conover, Charles W. (A.L.S.), Apr. 13, 1952
2	115	Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 (T.L.S.), Mar. 7, 1929
2	116	Corboy, Edward Dunne (T.L.S.), Feb. 25, 1951
2	117	Coquelin, C. (A.L.S.), Jan. 7, 1904
2	118	Cortelyou, George B. (telegram), Sept. 14, 1901
2	119	Couch, Ira J. (T.L.), Oct. 17, 1939
2	120	Cox, James N. (T.L.S.), July 12, 1920
2	121	Criswell, Grover (A.L.S.), Dec., 1947
2	122	Croker, Richard, 1843-1922 (A.L.S., T.L.S.) 1899-1905
2	123	Crowley, George (T.L.S.), Sept. 12, 1936
2	124	Cullom, S. M. (T.L.S.), Jan. 28, 1908
3	125	Dalies, Arthur J. (T.L.S.), Mar. 20, 1946
3	126	Dallman, V. Y. (T.L.S.), 1943-1944
3	127	Daniels, Josephus (T.L.S.), 1912-1917
3	128	Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 (A.L.S., T.L.S.), 1902-1933
3	129	Daugherty, Charles S. (T.L.S.), Dec. 5, 1939
3	130	David, Henri (A.L.S., T.L.S), 1941-1944
3	131	Dawes, Charles G. (T.L.S.), 1934-1949
3	132	Delano, Frederic A. (T.L.S.), Dec. 30, 1943; Jan. 17, 1944
3	133	Denby, Edwin (T.L.S.), Nov. 27, 1906; June 10, 1921
3	134	Deneen, Charles S. (T.L.S.), 1900-1925
3	135	Dering, Charles (T.L.S.), Apr. 7, 1915
3	136	Devawongse (A.L.S.), Nov. 27, 1887
3	137	Dever, William J. (T.L.S.), 1923-1924
3	138	Dewey, George, 1837-1917 (A.L.S., T.L.S.), 1899-1900
3	139	Dick, Christian R. (T.L.S.), Mar. 5, 1945
3	140	Dickinson, Donald M. (A.L.S.), Jan. 21, 1906
3	141	Dickinson, J. M. (A.L.S., T.L.S.), 1909-1917
3	142	Doremus, Arthur L. (T.L.S.) Sept. 14, 1933
3	143	Doreumus, H. Ogden (A.L.S.), Feb. 3, 1904
3	144	Douglas, D. W. (T.L.S.), 1948
3	145	Douglas, W. A. S. (T.L.S.), Dec. 8, 1937
3	146	Dowie, John Alex (T.L.S.), Mar. 12, 1901
3	147	Downs, R. B. (T.L.S.), Feb. 22, 1945
3	148	Drury, John (T.L.S.), May 19, 1947
3	149	Dunlap, M. F. (T.L.S.), 1908
3	150	Dunn, C. Frank, 1938-1952
3	151	Dunne, Edward F. (Edward Fitzsimons), 1853-1937 (A.L.S., T.L.S.), 1912-1936
3	152	Eckert, E. K. (T.D., T.D.S., T.L.S.), 1933-1938
3	153	Eddy, Arthur J. (T.L.S.), Apr. 5, 1915
3	154	Eightieth Birthday Congratulatory Messages (copies), Apr. 23, 1940
3	155	Eitel, Otto K. (T.L.S.), Apr. 12, 1949
3	156	Elting, Victor (T.L.S.) (with printed map of Thunder Bay, Canada), Nov. 8, 1934
3	157	Ennis, Callistus S. (T.L.S.), June 28, 1928
3	158	Ericson, John (T.L.S.), Oct. 31, 1917; June 6, 1923
3	159	Evans, W. A. (A.L.S.), July 25, 1936; Aug. 9, 1936
3	160	Everman, Barton Warren (T.L.S.), Oct. 5, 1908
3	161	Farley, James Aloysius, 1888- (T.L., T.L.S., telegram), 1933-1950
3	162	Farrand, Louisa (T.L.S.), Feb. 2, 1948
3	163	Farrell, P. J. H. (T.L.S.), 1915-1933
3	164	Farwell, John V. (T.L.S.), Dec. 27, 1911
3	165	Farwell, Mildred (T.L.S.), Nov. 15, 1940
3	166	Fawcett, Edgar (A.L.S.), n.d.
3	167	Fenn, Lincoln J., Apr. 20, 1939
3	168	Ferguson, Alexander Hugh (A.L.S., T.L.S.), 1911
3	169	Finnegan, William (T.L.S.), Mar. 20, 1952
3	170	Fish, Stuyvesant (T.L.S.), Feb. 10, 1901
3	171	Fisher, Harry M. (T.L.S.), Dec. 8, 1938
3	172	Fitzmorris, Charles (A.L.S., T.L.S.), 1915-1938
3	173	Fitzsimmons, M. J. (T.L.S.), May 12, 1914
3	174	Fitzsimmons, Robert (T.L.S.), Mar. 13, 1901
3	175	Fleming, Joseph B. (T.L.S.), June 5, 1914
3	176	Fleming, Philip B. (T.L.S.), Nov. 16, 1933
3	177	Francis, David R. (T.L.S.), Apr. 23, 1904
3	178	Frank Schoonmaker and Company, Feb. 24, 1939
3	179	"A Friend" (T.L.) (copy), Feb. 19, 1915
3	180	Friesek (A.L.S.), Apr. 29, 1927
3	181	Fuller, Mrs. Frank R. (A.L.S.), n.d.
3	182	Fuller, Melville W. (A.L.S.), Oct. 27, 1893
3	183	Fulton, William (T.L.S.), Dec. 14, 1935
4	184	Gage, Lyman J. (T.L.S.), Feb. 4, 1899
4	185	Gallagher, Thomas (T.L.S.), 1938-1939
4	186	Garland, Hamlin (A.L.S.), n.d.
4	187	Garoucher (postcard), n.d.
4	188	Garrison, Lindley M. (T.L.S.), Jan. 8, 1914
4	189	Gaston, Herbert E. (T.L.S.), Dec. 15, 1944
4	190	Gaynor, W. J. (T.L.S.), 1912
4	191	George, Henry (A.L.S.), n.d.
4	192	Getz, George F. (T.L.S.), Nov. 7, 1928
4	193	Gipson, Charles D. (T.L.S.), July 3, 1943
4	194	Girard, Frank (T.L.S.), Dec. 4, 1935
4	195	Gleason, James (T.L.S.), Feb. 22, 1915
4	196	Goodson, Orr (T.L.S.), Sept. 14, 1944; Oct. 18, 1944
4	197	G. P. Putnam's Sons (T.L.S.), Nov. 13, 1920
4	198	Graff, Einar (A.L.S.), Dec. 18, 1935
4	199	Grant, F. D. (T.L.S.), Mar. 12, 1904
4	200	Grant, G. G. (T.L.S.), Dec. 28, 1944; Apr. 16, 1945
4	201	Grant, Joseph B. (T.L.S.), May 14, 1936
4	202	Greene, Lenore (T.L.S.), Oct. 2, 1936
4	203	Gresham, Otto (A.L.S.), Apr. 15, 1939
4	204	Gresham, W. Q. (T.L.S.), Apr. 27, 1895
4	205	Griffin, William V. (T.L.S.), July 8, 1935
4	206	Grosscup, Peter S. (T.L.S.), 1900, 1904
4	207	Guck, Homer (T.L.S.), 1935-1945
4	208	Gunther, C. F. (A.L.S.) (enclosing Lettre-Journal de Paris, No. 24, Jan. 7, 1871), Mar. 10, 1904
4	209	Haley, Margaret A. (A.L.S.), Jan. 28, 1916
4	210	Hammond, Charles S. (A.L.S.), Nov. 24, 1935
4	211	Hammond, John Hays (T.L.S.), Dec. 22, 1914
4	212	Hancock, Winfield Scott (A.L.S.), Apr. 13, 1884
4	213	Hannahan, James G. (T.L.S.), Mar. 28, 1911
4	214	Harper & Brothers Publishers (T.L.S.), Aug. 13, 1920
4	215	Harper, William Rainey (T.L.S.), June 3, 1898
4	216	Harris, A. W. (T.L.S.), Mar. 5, 1912
4	217	Harris, Will (T.L.S.), Nov. 13, 1933
4	218	Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 (T.L.S.), July 10, 1888
4	219	Harrison, Caroline Russell (A.L.S.), n.d.
4	220	Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1890- (A.L.S.), n.d.
4	221	Harrison, F. (A.L.S.), n.d.
4	222	Harrison, Francis Burton (A.L.S.), Feb. 6, 1905; Dec. 9, 1905
4	223	Harrison, Randolph (A.L.S.), May 22, 1899
4	224	Harrison, Sophonisba Preston (A.L.S.), ca. 1867, 1875
4	225-227	Harrison, William Preston, 1870-1940 (A.L.S.), 1895-1936
4	228	Hattermann, Mrs. C. (A.L.S.), June 14, 1938
4	229	Hatton, Jospeh (A.L.S.), Oct. 3, 1892; Apr. 19, 1893
4	230	Hawthorne, Charles Webster (A.L.S.), Oct. 10, 1911
4	231	Hay, John (T.L.S.), Mar. 16, 1904
4	232	Hayden, F. V. (A.L.S.), Jan. 10, 1877
4	233	Hayes, Harold V. (A.L.S.), 1936-1938
4	234	Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893 (A.L.S.), Mar. 25, 1881
4	235	Hearn, Lafcadio (A.L.S.), Jan. 24, 1892
4	236	Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951, Apr. 12, 1911; July 5, 1912
4	237	Heberd, Frederick V. (T.L.S.), Oct. 22, 1948
4	238	Hedrick, W.O. (T.L.S.), Oct. 29, 1936
4	239	Helvering, Guy T. (T.L., T.L.S.), 1933-1935
4	240	Henderson, Mrs. William (A.L.S.), Feb. 3, 1942
4	241	Herbert, Hilary A. (T.L.S.), Mar. 24, 1893
4	242	Herman, Raymond E. (T.L., T.L.S.), 1934-1939
4	243	Herrick, Robert (T.L.S.), Nov. 23, 1934; Dec. 5, 1934
4	244	Herron, C. D. (T.L.S.), July 6, 1937
4	245	Hicks, Frderick C. (T.L.S.), Dec. 27, 1935; Apr. 23, 1936
4	246	Hitchcock, Frank H. (T.L.S.), June 7, 1912
4	247	"Hod" (A.L.S.), n.d.
4	248	Hodges, Wetmore (telegram), Apr. 23, 1950
4	249	Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 (A.L.S.), Apr. 21, 1881; Apr. 29, 1884
4	250	Hopkins, Harry L. (T.L.S.), June 15, 1936
4	251	Horner, Henry, 1878-1940 (T.L.S.), 1928-1938
4	252	Hough, Emerson (A.L.S.), Oct. 30, 1893
4	253	House, Henry B. (A.L.S.), July 8, 1936
4	254	Howells, William Dean (A.L.S.), Feb. 22, 1902
4	255	Howland, H. H. (T.L.S.), Mar. 8, 1921
4	256	Hoyne, Thomas Temple (T.L.S.), Nov. 10, 1935
4	257	Hughes, H. J. (T.L.), Nov. 10, 1947
4	258	Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 (T.L.S.), 1933-1944
4	259	Humphrey, Wolcott J. (T.L.S.), Apr. 6, 17, 1945
4	260	Hurley, Murtha (A.L.S.), Jan. 7, 1948; Feb. 15, 1948
4	261	Hurley, Walter J. (T.L.S.), Dec. 12, 1935
4	262	Hussey, James T. (T.L.S., telegram), May 16, 31, 1949
5	263-264	Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 (T.L.S., telegrams), 1933-1942
5	265	Igoe, Michael L. (T.L.S.), Apr. 18, 1938
5	266	Irving, Henry (A.L.S.), Oct. 29, 1893
5	267	James, Edmund J. (T.L.S.), May 29, 1915
5	268	Jones, Horace N., Jr. (A.L.S.), Mar. 22, 1941
5	269	Jones, James K. (A.L.S.), Oct. 20, 1904
5	270	Jones, Samuel M. (T.L.S.), June 4, 1904
5	271	Jordon, David Starr (T.L.S.), Sept. 1, 5, 1908
5	272	Jourie [?], Judith (postcards), n.d.
5	273	Judson, Harry Pratt (A.L.S., T.L.S.), 1911-1913
5	274	Jusserand, Jean Jules (T.L.S.), 1919-1924
5	275	Kaindl, Edward J. (T.L.S.), Sept. 19, 1933
5	276	Kane, William S. (A.L.S., T.L.S.), July 15, 1932; Feb. 17, 1945
5	277	Keech, Mabel Louise (T.L.S.), Jan. 5, 1952
5	278	Keller, Helen (T.L.S.), 1880-1968 Nov. 9, 1942; Dec. 23, 1942
5	279	Kelly, Edward J. (T.L.S.), 1935, 1947
5	280	Kelly, Florence Finch (T.L.S.), July 8, 1936; Aug. 13, 1936
5	281	Kennedy, Thomas F. (A.L.S.), Mar. 27, 1911
5	282	Kennelly, Martin H. (T.L.S.), Mar. 14, 1947; Feb. 3, 1949
5	283	Kent, William (A.L.S., T.L.S.), 189-- - 1912
5	284	Keuly, W. L. (T.L.S.), June 22, 1918
5	285	Kletzky, Harry Barnard (T.L.S.), Jan. 8, 27, 1938
5	286	Knox, Frank (T.L.S.), June 3, 1941
5	287	Knox, Philander Chase (T.L.S.), July 31, 1912
5	288	Koepert, Otto (A.L.S.), 1935, n.d.
5	289	Kohlsaat, Hermann Henry (A.L.S., T.L.), Apr. 21, 1911; Nov. 4, 1911
5	290	Kroch, A. (T.L.), Oct. 16, 18, 1935
5	291	La Follette, Robert M. (T.L.S.), June 4, 1934
5	292	La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947 (T.L.S.), Oct. 28, 1942
5	293	Lamont, Daniel S. (T.L.S.), Mar. 21, 1893
5	294	Lanier, Clifford (A.L.S.), Mar. 31, 1885
5	295	Lawrence, A.M. (T.L.S.), June 19, 1912; May 15, 1914
5	296	Lawrence, Charlie (T.L.S.), 1926-1941
5	297	Lawson, Victor (T.L.S.), May 20, 1912
5	298	Lee, Fitzhugh (A.L.S.), May 13, 1889
5	299	Leigh, Clarence W. (A.L.S.) May 28, 1912
5	200	Leonard, William (T.L.S.), Nov. 17, 1952
5	301	Lewis, Alfred H. (T.L.S.), Oct. 11, 1895
5	302-305	Lewis, James Hamilton, 1863-1939 (A.L.S., T.L.S., telegrams), 1911-1919
5	306	Linck, Louis A. (T.L.S.), July 30, 1951
5	307	Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 (T.L.S.), May 9, 1900; Nov. 8, 1900
5	308	Lipton, Thomas (T.L.S.), Mar. 15, 1904
5	309	Lockett, Virginia (T.L.S.), Jan. 18, 1939
5	310	Logan, Frank (T.L.S.), Dec. 2, 1935
5	311	Lohmann, Carl (T.L.S.) , 1947
5	312	Lorimer, William (T.L.S.), Oct. 24, 1933
5	313	Love, Thomas B. (telegram), May 24, 1918
5	314	Lowden, Frank O. (T.L.S.), 1916-1941
5	315	Lowell, James Russell (A.L.S.), July 15, 1885
5	316	Lower, Elton (T.L.S.), Apr. 15, 1915
5	317	Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 (T.L.S.), May 20, 1909
5	318	Lyman, J. Frank (T.L.S.), 1937
6	319	MacFall, Russell P. (T.L.S.), Apr. 23, 1950
6	320	Macmillan Company (T.L.S.), June 28, 1920
6	321	MacVeagh, Franklin (T.L.S.), 1894, 1911
6	322	Magruder, M. H. (T.L.S.), May 16, 1940
6	323	Mahon, W.D. (A.L.S., T.L.S.), 1903-1915
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