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Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop

A Register of Their Papers in the Library of Congress

Prepared by Jerry Wallace, Allan Teichroew, Audrey Walker, and Michael McElderry
with the assistance of Margaret Martin and Susie Moody

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Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

2005

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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2008

Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008095

Table of Contents

Collection Summary

Selected Search Terms

Personal Names

Subjects

Locations

Related Names

Occupations

Administrative Information

Provenance:

Processing History:

Transfers:

Copyright Status:

Security Classified Documents

Microfilm:

Preferred Citation:

Biographical Note

Joseph Alsop

Stewart Alsop

Scope and Content Note

Related Material

Organization of the Papers

Description of Series

Container List

Part I: Early Family Papers, 1762-1910

Part I: General Correspondence, 1934-1964

Part I: Special Correspondence, 1946-1963

Part I: Early Office File, 1932-1941

Part I: Article, Book and Speech File, 1937-1963

Part I: Travel File, 1947-1961

Part I: Financial File, 1937-1961

Part I: Miscellany, 1935-1962

Part II: Family Papers, 1699-1968

Part II: General Correspondence, 1964-1967

Part II: Office Files, 1937-1941

Part II: Subject File, 1942-1970

Part II: Speeches and Writings, 1938-1966

Part II: Financial File, 1945-1969

Part III: Family Papers, 1899-1975

Part III: General Correspondence, 1941-1975

Part III: Business Correspondence, 1945-1974

Part III: Subject File, 1938-1975

Part III: Speeches and Writings File, 1947-1975

Part III: Financial File, 1941-1974

Part III: Miscellany, 1928-1974

Part III: Scrapbooks, 1936-1975

Part IV: Family Papers, 1799-1989

Part IV: General Correspondence, 1916-1989

Part IV: Subject File, 1923-1989

Part IV: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1825-1989

Part IV: Miscellany, 1778-1989

Part IV: Classified, 1966-1970

Collection Summary

Title: Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop Papers
Span Dates: 1699-1989
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1937-1989)
ID No.: MSS10561
Creator: Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989
Creator: Alsop, Stewart
Extent: 114,000 items; 324 containers plus 1 classified; 130.5 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Authors and journalists. Correspondence, writings, interviews, notes, subject files, office files, financial papers, family papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Joseph Alsop's family and personal life; acquaintance with prominent politicians, public figures, writers, and scholars; work as a journalist; World War II experiences in China; and research and writing as an art historian. Includes material relating to Joseph and Stewart Alsop's business partnership in the “Matter of Fact” column, Joseph Alsop's memoirs, Stewart Alsop's travels, and the Alsop family.

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.



Personal Names
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971.
Alsop family.
Alsop, John DeKevon
Alsop, Joseph W. (Joseph Wright), 1876-1953.
Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989.
Alsop, Susan Mary.
Aron, Raymond, 1905-1983.
Ball, George W.
Barley, Rex.
Barnet, Sylvan.
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965.
Benton, William, 1900-1973.
Berle, Adolf Augustus, 1895-1971.
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.
Blegen, Carl William, 1887-1971.
Bohlen, Charles E. (Charles Eustis), 1904-
Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986.
Bruce, David Kirkpatrick Este.
Bundy, McGeorge.
Bundy, William P., 1917-
Bunker, Ellsworth, 1894-
Chubb, Corinne Alsop, 1912-1997.
Cole, Corinne Roosevelt.
Corcoran, Thomas G.
Cornish, George Anthony, 1901-
Creel, Herrlee Glessner, 1905-
Dow, Sterling, 1903-
Dulles, Allen Welsh, 1893-1969.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991.
Falconer, Charles.
Feray, Jean.
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949.
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965.
Freeman, Orville L.
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
Goodwin, Richard N.
Grade, Ed.
Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001.
Graham, Philip L., 1915-1963.
Guffey, Joseph F., 1870-1959.
Harrison, George Leslie, 1887-1958.
Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955.
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
Jensen, Arthur Robert.
Johnson, Louis Arthur, 1891-1966.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Johnson, Thor S.
Just, Ward S.
Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961.
Kennedy family.
Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Kintner, Robert E. (Robert Edmonds), 1909-1980.
Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
Kohlberg, Albert.
Krause, Frederick G.
Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980.
Lucas, Margaret E.
Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967.
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
McCone, John A. (John Alex), 1902-1991.
McNamara, Robert S., 1916-
McNary, Charles Linza, 1874-1944.
Moley, Raymond, 1886-
Mommessin, Ruth C.
Morgenthau, Hans J. (Hans Joachim), 1904-1980.
Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967.
Moyers, Bill D.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Papen, Franz von, 1879-1969.
Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969.
Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970.
Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912.
Reston, James, 1909-1995
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Rovere, Richard Halworth, 1915-
Satter, David.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
Shaplen, Robert, 1917-
Sheean, Vincent, 1899-1975.
Silvers, Robert B.
Smith, Willis, 1887-1953.
Sommers, Martin.
Stettinius, Edward R. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949.
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965
Sullivan, William C.
Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953.
Thompson, Homer A.
Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim.
Tugwell, Rexford G. (Rexford Guy), 1891-1979.
Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951.
Vincent, John Carter, 1900-
Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965.
Walt, Lewis W., 1913-
Wechsler, James Arthur, 1915-
Weeks, William.
Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961.
Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975.
Whitehouse, Charles.
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.

Subjects
American newspapers.
Archaeology.
Art--Collectors and collecting.
Art--History.
Communism--United States.
Education--United States.
Internal security--United States.
Journalism.
Korean War, 1950-1953.
Military policy.
New York herald tribune.
Nuclear weapons.
Presidents--United States--Election.
Saturday evening post.
Subversive activities--United States.
Upper class--United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Washington post.
World War, 1939-1945--China.
World War, 1939-1945.

Locations
Africa--Description and travel.
Asia--Description and travel.
China--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949.
Europe--Description and travel.
Middle East--Description and travel.
Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--China.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
United States--Military policy.
United States--Politics and government--20th century.
United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.

Related Names
Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989. I've seen the best of it : memoirs (1992)
Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989. Rare art traditions: the history of art collecting and its linked phenomena wherever these have appeared (1982)
Alsop, Stewart. Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop papers (1699-1989)

Occupations
Authors.
Journalists.

Administrative Information

Provenance:

The papers of Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop, authors and journalists, were received by the Library of Congress in a series of deposits and gifts from the Alsops between 1964 and 1989. In 1990-1992, final gifts were made from the estate of Joseph Alsop as directed by his will, which also bequeathed to the Library all papers formerly on deposit. An additional item was given by Tim Zimmerman in 1994.

Processing History:

The Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop Papers are described in Library of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1990, pp. 13-16. The papers are arranged in four parts: Part I was organized in 1970, Part II in 1975, Part III in 1982, and Part IV in 1992. An item relating to Joseph Alsop's writing, "On China's Descending Spiral," received by the Library in 1994 was added to other material on the article.

Transfers:

Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial divisions of the Library. Audiocassettes and audiotapes have been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Some photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the Joseph Alsopand Stewart Alsop Papers.

Copyright Status:

Copyright in the unpublished writings of Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.

Security Classified Documents

Government regulations control the use of security classified material in this collection. Manuscript Division staff can furnish information concerning access to and use of classified materials.

Microfilm:

A microfilm edition of part of these papers is available on eight reels. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan.

Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Roman numeral designating the Part followed by a colon and container number, Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical Note

Joseph Alsop
Date Event
1910, Oct. 11 Born, Avon, Conn.
1928 Graduated, Groton School, Groton, Mass.
1932 A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1932-1937 Staff writer, New York Herald Tribune
1937-1940 Coauthored with Robert Kintner the syndicated political column, "The Capital Parade," for the North American Newspaper Alliance
1938 Published with Turner Catledge The 168 Days. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company
1939 Published with Robert Kintner Men Around the President. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company
1940 Published with Robert Kintner American White Paper. New York: Simon and Schuster, inc.
1941 Commissioned first lieutenant, United States Navy, and sent to India
Resigned from the navy and joined the American Volunteer Air Force ("Flying Tigers") as an aide to General Claire Lee Chennault
1941-1942 Captured by the Japanese at the fall of Hong Kong and held prisoner at the Stanley Internment Camp until June 1942, when he was released in a prisoner-of-war exchange and returned to the United States
1942 Acting chief, Lend-Lease Mission to China, Chungking, China
1944-1945 Captain, Fourteenth United States Air Force in China, and member of Gen. Claire Lee Chennault's staff
1945-1958 Coauthored with Stewart Alsop the syndicated political column, "Matter of Fact," for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
1950 and 1952 Cited by the Overseas Press Club, along with Stewart Alsop, for the "best interpretation of foreign news"
1954 Published with Stewart Alsop We Accuse! New York: Simon and Schuster, inc.
1958 Dissolved his partnership with Stewart Alsop; continued to write "Matter of Fact" for the Washington Post Co.
Published with Stewart Alsop The Reporter's Trade. New York: Reynal
1961 Married Susan Mary Jay Patten (divorced 1978)
1964 Published From the Silent Earth. New York: Harper & Row
1965 Published Drink, Eat and Be Thin. [New York]: New American Library
1974 Retired from writing his syndicated political column
1982 Published FDR, 1882-1945. New York: Viking Press
Published The Rare Art Traditions. New York: Harper & Row
1989, Aug. 28 Died, Washington, D.C.
1992 Publication posthumously of I've Seen the Best of It. New York: W. W. Norton & Company


Stewart Alsop
Date Event
1914, May 17 Born, Avon, Conn.
1932 Graduated, Groton School, Groton, Mass.
1936 A.B., Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1936-1941 Editor, Doubleday, Doran & Co.
1942-1944 Enlisted, sixtieth regiment, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, British army
1944 Transferred to the United States Army as a parachutist for the Office of Strategic Services
Married Patricia Hankey
1945 Awarded the French Croix de Guerre with palm device
1945-1958 Coauthored with Joseph Alsop the syndicated political column, "Matter of Fact," for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
1946 Published with Thomas Braden Sub Rosa: The O.S.S. and American Espionage. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock
1950 and 1952 Cited by the Overseas Press Club, along with Joseph Alsop, for the "best interpretation of foreign news"
1954 Published with Joseph Alsop We Accuse! New York: Simon and Schuster, inc.
1958 Dissolved his partnership with Joseph Alsop in writing of "Matter of Fact" column
Published with Joseph Alsop The Reporter's Trade. New York: Reynal
1958-1969 National affairs contributing editor and Washington editor, Saturday Evening Post
1960 Published Nixon and Rockefeller. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday
1968 Published The Center. New York: Harper & Row
1969-1974 Columnist, Newsweek
1973 Published Stay of Execution. Philadelphia: Lippincott
1974, May 26 Died, Washington, D.C

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Joseph Wright Alsop (1910-1989) and Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (1914-1974) span the years 1699-1989, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1937-1989. The collection includes correspondence, family papers, office files, speeches and writings, travel files, financial matter, subject files, miscellaneous items, and classified material. The Alsop Papers have been organized into four parts.

Part I

Part I of the Alsop Papers spans the years 1762-1964, with the bulk of the items dating from 1937 to 1964. It consists of correspondence, subject files, speeches, writings, notes and notebooks, memoranda, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, invitations, and Alsop family memorabilia. The files relate mainly or exclusively to Joseph Alsop and are organized in eight series: Early Family Papers; General Correspondence; Special Correspondence; Early Office File; Article, Book, and Speech File; Travel File; Financial File; and Miscellany.

The General Correspondence series covers the years 1934-1964, with material prior to World War II pertaining solely to Joseph Alsop. Some of the prewar correspondence relates to "The Capital Parade" column which he coauthored with Robert Kintner. Other files concern two of his books, The 168 Days and American White Paper, and two articles for the Saturday Evening Post. Letters from the mid-1940s onward include correspondence sent and received by Stewart Alsop, except communications after 1945 relating to the Alsops' "Matter of Fact" column and Saturday Evening Post articles which are in the Special Correspondence series.

Featured in the General Correspondence are letters to and from the Alsops' network of influential friends and sources of information for Joseph Alsop's columns, including politicians, government leaders, prominent social figures, and European as well as American observers of contemporary politics and diplomacy. Topics include the major events and personalities of the postwar era, focusing, for example, on the roles played by generals Claire Lee Chennault and Joseph W. Stilwell in the China theater and the takeover of mainland China by the Communists; the Korean War, especially issues involving Secretary of Defense Louis Arthur Johnson and American military readiness; McCarthyism and the battle the Alsops waged against it, both in print and before the McCarren Committee; the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and the Alsops' growing disillusionment with the Eisenhower administration, particularly the State Department's Middle East policy and the United States' defense posture in the late 1950s; and on the brothers' optimism following the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960.

Also featured in the General Correspondence are the personal lives of the Alsops, especially that of Joseph Alsop. Traced in the series are the developing views of the brothers on political, social, military, and diplomatic issues, together with their opinion of the men and women involved in them. Also noted are the brothers' attitudes toward journalists such as Walter Lippmann, Henry Luce, and Drew Pearson, and their relationship with their parents, their brother, John DeKevon Alsop, and with each other. Correspondence from 1958 pertains to the breakup of their partnership as writers of the "Matter of Fact" column. Other relationships that emerge are those with Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

The Special Correspondence series includes letters, 1946-1956, concerning the "Matter of Fact" column and correspondence, 1946-1953, with editors of the Saturday Evening Post, most particularly with foreign editor Martin Sommers. Letters from readers and publishers deal mainly with reaction to various articles, including comments on the Alsop's opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Correspondence with the Saturday Evening Post generally concerns suggestions for articles and articles in progress, including discussions of the political, social, and diplomatic scene. Stewart Alsop became national affairs contributing editor as well as Washington editor of the Saturday Evening Post in 1958, and thereafter most of the outgoing correspondence is his.

The Early Office File dates from 1932 to 1941 and contains correspondence, research material, reference notes, and miscellaneous items concerning the publication of Joseph Alsop's and Robert Kintner's column, “The Capital Parade.” Much of the outgoing correspondence is signed by Kintner, who handled administrative details and research, while Alsop did the actual writing.

The Article, Book, and Speech File covers the period 1937-1963 and consists primarily of drafts and printed copies of magazine articles and books, together with related correspondence, notes, notebooks, interviews, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and printed matter. A small speech file pertains mostly to talks by Joseph Alsop at Harvard University. Articles on Richard M. Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller are accompanied by notes, memoranda, correspondence, reference material, and drafts, as are manuscripts for The 168 Days and Nixon & Rockefeller. Also included are unpublished drafts of "The Revolution in Warfare" and American White Papers.

The Travel File chiefly concerns trips by Stewart Alsop to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East between 1947 and 1961. The Financial File relates to Joseph Alsop and covers such topics as the attributes of floor waxers, a 1941 Cadillac, rare Chinese screens, and the building and furnishing of his home on Dumbarton Street in the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington. Prominent in the Miscellany are biographical material, notes, memoranda, interviews with Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert S. McNamara, newspaper clippings, invitations, and photographs of the Alsops.

Part II

Part II of the Alsop Papers spans the years 1699-1970, with the bulk of the files concentrated in 1938-1970 and the General Correspondence limited to 1964-1967. This portion of the collection focuses almost completely on Joseph Alsop, although it also encompasses the business records of his partnership with his brother, Stewart, and includes drafts of newspaper columns and other publications which he coauthored with his brother and with Robert Kintner.

Part II further documents Joseph Alsop's family relationships; his acquaintance with prominent writers, scholars, and politicians; and his work as a journalist between the Munich Pact of 1938, the year after he began his nationally syndicated column, "The Capital Parade," and the 1968 Tet offensive of the Vietnam War. Included are six series of files: Family Papers, General Correspondence, Office Files, Subject File, Speeches and Writings, and a Financial File.

Some of the folders absent from the Office Files of Part I are located in the same series of Part II. Drafts of writings from Joseph Alsop's early work in journalism, most of which are partially represented in the first part, can also be found in different versions with related material in Part II. Family papers dating from the eighteenth century in the initial installment, also appear in Part II, documenting not only the Alsops' colonial ancestry but also Joseph Alsop's family relationships, 1959-1968.

The Office Files series, dating from 1937 to 1941 when Alsop collaborated with Kintner on "The Capital Parade," contains correspondence, notes, government memoranda, and reports of interviews related to their syndicated column. Among the political notables who served as sources or as subjects for the column and whose letters appear in the series are Arthur H. Vandenberg, Burton K. Wheeler, and Wendell L. Willkie. Privileged information from members of Franklin D. Roosevelt's inner circle about domestic and diplomatic policies of the United States before World War II can also be found in the Speeches and Writings File, which contains transcripts of private conversations and drafts of the Alsops' writings.

Among these writings are American White Paper, published between the Russian and German attacks on Poland in 1939 and the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and a series on Roosevelt's advisors, written for the Saturday Evening Post in 1938 under the title "We Shall Make America Over" and republished a year later as Men Around the President.

Included in notes taken during meetings with business and government leaders in addition to Roosevelt are transcripts of interviews with Thomas G. Corcoran, Cordell Hull, Louis Arthur Johnson, Raymond Moley, Edward R. Stettinius, Rexford G. Tugwell, and Sumner Welles. Some of Joseph Alsop's sources, such as George L. Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, spoke to him with the understanding they would neither be quoted nor cited. Others, such as Adolf Augustus Berle and Henry Morgenthau (1891-1967), wrote memoranda chronicling diplomatic events and proposing alternative courses of action for American foreign policy.

Particularly well represented in Part II are articles Joseph Alsop wrote on Senator Joseph F. Guffey, Charles L. McNary, and Henry Morgenthau (1891-1967). In 1958, the Alsop brothers published a compendium of their columns in The Reporter's Trade, the drafts of which are among their papers. Other files pertain to "Kato Zakro," a New Yorker magazine piece in which Joseph Alsop discussed recently discovered archeological remains of an ancient Minoan palace at Kato Zakro on Crete. In 1965, Alsop wrote a series of newspaper articles, later published under the title Drink, Eat and Be Thin, which offered the prospect of combining satiety with weight loss. Included in the file on the work is an exchange between Alsop and members of the New York Times editorial staff after a Times writer questioned the medical reliability of the diet.

Vietnam is a prominent subject throughout Part II. In the debate between "hawks" versus "doves," terms coined by Stewart Alsop, Joseph Alsop defended America's involvement in the conflict. The Subject File includes notebooks of his frequent visits to Southeast Asia, United States Army reports, documents provided him by South Vietnamese forces, and troop information captured from the North Vietnamese. The General Correspondence notes the disagreements he had with public figures such as John K. Fairbank, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Goodwin, Hans J. Morgenthau, Arthur M. Schlesinger (1917-2007), and Robert Shaplen. Correspondents more in sympathy with Alsop's point of view include Ward Just, Colonel Frederick G. Krause, who provided battlefield information from Vietnam, and Richard M. Nixon.

Other material in the Subject File range from memorabilia of Joseph Alsop's service in China during World War II, when he was advisor to General Claire Lee Chennault, to folders detailing the acquisition of furnishings for his Washington home. Travel papers contain expense sheets and itineraries as well as background items accumulated during investigative trips abroad. Also in the Subject File are letters showing the Alsops' criticism of James R. Shepley and Clay Blair for their claims in The Hydrogen Bomb that J. Robert Oppenheimer and most of the atomic scientists at Los Alamos had been guilty of ineptitude bordering on disloyalty while developing the H bomb. Although Joseph Alsop destroyed most of the records of his service in China during World War II, files labeled “China” include recollections which he used to defend Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) and John Carter Vincent against accusations that they had abetted the Communists' defeat of the Nationalist forces, and correspondence or references to such prominent individuals as George W. Ball, William Benton, George S. Kaufman, Albert Kohlberg, and Willis Smith also relate to this period.

The General Correspondence in Part II begins in 1964 when the same series ends in Part I. Letters from leaders in journalism, archaeology, and politics provide insights into national and international events of the mid-1960s, the Washington social scene and the Washington Post (with more to be found on these subjects in financial records containing guest lists, dining accounts, and Post expense sheets), his news sources and relationship with White House counselors in Lyndon Johnson's administration, and responses of n,otable individuals to his political commentary. His relationship to Robert F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is reflected in letters discussing political matters and commiserating with the Kennedy family following John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Other correspondents in Part II include Dean Acheson, John Alsop, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Carl William Blegen, Charles Bohlen, Chester Bowles, David K. E. Bruce, McGeorge Bundy, William Bundy, Herrlee Glessner Creel, Sterling Dow, Allen W. Dulles, Orville L. Freeman, Thor S. Johnson, Walter Lippmann, John Alex McCone, Bill Moyers, James Reston, Richard Rovere, Robert B. Silvers, William Sullivan, Lewis W. Walt, James Wechsler, Homer A. Thompson, and Corinne Roosevelt Cole.

Part III

Part III of the Alsop Papers spans 1899-1975, with the bulk of the items dating from 1968 to 1975. This portion focuses on the last years of Joseph Alsop's career as a columnist and complements earlier parts of the collection in type and content of material. There are eight series: Family Papers, General Correspondence, Business Correspondence, Subject File, Speeches and Writings, Financial File, Miscellany, and Scrapbooks. Recurring topics include China as a foreign policy issue and the scene of Joseph's war service, the Vietnam War, and public education.

Among files relating to China are letters to historian Barbara Tuchman describing Alsop's experiences in Asia during World War II. Other files concern the Stilwell-Chennault controversy regarding the air war in China in support of Chiang, Kai-shek's Nationalist forces. Although prior to 1972 Alsop had written about deteriorating Sino-Soviet relations and predicted a nuclear clash, his views changed following a visit to the two countries in 1972. The Speeches and Writings series contains copies of the columns he wrote from China and articles published in the New York Times Magazine and Foreign Policy in the spring of 1973, as well as copies of the columns written about China in 1959 in which he described conditions associated with the commune system in the 1950s.

His assessment of the Vietnam War is evident in exchanges in the General Correspondence with Presidents Johnson and Nixon and with Ellsworth Bunker, Henry Kissinger, Charles Whitehouse, and various military officers. The Subject File offers further documentation on the topic, as does the Miscellany, which contains itineraries and arrangements for Alsop's trips to Southeast Asia.

Part III also includes material related to the state of American education, especially in urban areas and among African Americans. Opposed to busing, Alsop supported the More Effective Schools program, a pilot program conducted by the New York city school system. His article, "No More Nonsense About Ghetto Education," published in the New Republic in 1967, is included in the Speeches and Writings series along with drafts of other articles on education.

The Family Papers series consists almost entirely of correspondence between Joseph Alsop and his family, including nieces and nephews, his brothers, and a sister. The most voluminous exchange is with his brother John, who managed the family's financial interests, particularly after the death of their father in 1953. The Family Papers also include a history of the deKoven branch of the Alsop family entitled "Reminiscences of Helen Beach."

Although the General Correspondence series in Part III begins in 1941, it is most extensive after 1967, the point at which the General Correspondence in Part II ends. Often the letters are social in content, with many relating to the social gatherings at which Joseph Alsop gleaned information for his columns. Prominent issues include urban unrest, opposition to the war in Vietnam, racial disturbances, busing of school children, the plight of minorities, and drug use among Americans. Recurrent topics as well are the political conventions and elections of 1968 and 1972, defense preparedness and the balance of power between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, missile development, the Middle East, and the energy crisis of 1973. Letters from 1957-1958 generally relate to Alsop's residence in Paris.

The Business Correspondence series traces Alsop's relationships with his publishers from 1945 to 1974. It covers the years of his newspaper syndication with the New York Herald Tribune, including his partnership with his brother Stewart, his move to the Washington Post in 1964, and his association with the Los Angeles Times until his retirement. It also includes partnership correspondence with the International Press Alliance which handled syndication of his column abroad. Correspondence between Stewart and Joseph Alsop when the latter was living in Paris provides insight into their working relationship before the dissolution of their partnership in 1958. The Business Correspondence chronicles contract negotiations with newspapers and other publishers.

The Subject File in Part III is primarily a collection of notes, correspondence, and printed matter assembled by the Alsops as source material for their columns and other writings. Although most of the material was generated by Joseph Alsop, files on atomic energy, Joseph McCarthy, and J. Robert Oppenheimer were created during his partnership with his brother. A file on Harvard University reveals his attachment to his alma mater and his support of the Far Eastern Visiting Committee and the Harvard-Kenching Institute. It also documents his opposition to McCarthy in the case involving Harvard professor William Furry. Material related to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology supported the right of universities to make decisions concerning faculty retention without outside interference. A file on education pertains to the question of hereditary versus environmental influences on intellectual achievement as illustrated in a debate over an article by Arthur R. Jensen. Other files focus on archaeology, defense, strategic weapons, the Watergate Affair, political candidates, and members of Congress.

The Speeches and Writings series in Part III includes transcripts of commentary on American affairs by Stewart Alsop for the British Broadcasting Corporation and broadcasts by both Alsops substituting for Raymond Swing and Elmer Davis on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The transcripts are supplemented by correspondence with ABC, Thomas L. Stix and J. G. Gude, media agents, and listeners. The writings include the article "We Accuse!" for Harper's Magazine, a pamphlet of the same title, drafts of The Reporter's Trade, and an article on Russia. Other writings by Stewart Alsop include columns for the Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek and a short story. The remainder of the writings are by Joseph Alsop. China, Vietnam, education, and archaeology are frequent topics. Alsop's interest in changes in artistic taste is indicated in his long article on French furniture and the manuscript of his book, The Altered Apollo, a history of the phenomenon of taste.

The Financial File, among the most voluminous in the collection, covers the years 1941-1974. Relating generally to Joseph Alsop's association with the Los Angeles Times, it also includes material concerning the Washington Post and the News York Herald Tribune as well as miscellaneous files belonging to the brothers' partnership. Joseph Alsop's personal financial files consist of bank records, correspondence with tradespeople, income statements, insurance files, and records of securities and investments.

The Miscellany contains letters of condolence following the death of Stewart Alsop in 1974. Also included are a memorial column by Joseph Alsop and records of his many trips abroad. Scrapbooks filmed by the Library of Congress and returned to the donor consist of columns and magazine articles by the Alsops, 1936-1975.

Correspondents in Part III include John Alsop, Joseph W. Alsop (d. 1953), Susan Mary Alsop, Rex Barley, Sylvan Barnet, Isaiah Berlin, Ellsworth Bunker, Corinne R. Cole, George Cornish, Charles Falconer, Ed Grade, Katherine Graham, Philip Graham, Arthur R. Jensen, Robert Kintner, Margaret E. Lucas, Ruch C. Mommessin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Helen Rogers Reid, Whitelaw Reid, David Satter, Barbara Tuchman, William Weeks, and Charles Whitehouse.

Part IV

Part IV of the Alsop Papers covers the period 1778-1989, with the bulk of the material dated from Stewart Alsop's death in 1974 to his brother Joseph's death in 1989. Although it contains occasional letters to and from Stewart Alsop in the Family Papers, the remainder of the series is composed entirely of Joseph Alsop's papers. Part IV continues many of the same themes noted in the three previous sections, with many of the same correspondents, but it also documents the development of Joseph Alsop's career as a self-taught art historian following retirement from writing his syndicated political column in 1974. This addition includes family and personal papers outlining his role as counselor and trustee to succeeding generations of the extended Alsop family, his concern for maintaining certain customs and traditions, and the primary object of his attention during this period, his research into the history of art. Correspondence, drafts, and research material accumulated during the ten years spent on the preparation of his book, The Rare Art Traditions, constitute the largest set of files in this part of the collection.

The Family Papers of Part IV contain files related to Alsop's collegiate years, his early career as a reporter and columnist with the New York Herald Tribune, and his experiences in World War II, which he referred to as "the single greatest adventure of my life." Beginning with his matriculation at Groton School, during his years at Harvard University, and continued throughout the war years, Alsop regularly exchanged letters with his parents.

Since Alsop filed many of his letters, regardless of content, in the General Correspondence series, this series in Part IV complements files listed in the Subject File and the Speech, Article, and Book File. Letters in the General Correspondence reflect the redirection of Alsop's energies during this period from writing a syndicated newspaper column of political opinion to art history. He continued to correspond with many of the same correspondents in the fields of diplomacy, journalism, and politics identified in previous parts of these papers but expanded his circle of friends and colleagues to include art historians and archaeologists. His correspondence also chronicles the social engagements attended by the national and international public figures who frequented his home. Other topics include clothing, food and wine, housekeeping arrangements, and travel plans.

The Subject File in Part IV documents many subjects also noted in preceding parts of the collection, including the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Dumbarton Oaks; financial and legal records, real estate documents, health care records, and various order forms and correspondence detailing his transactions with tradespeople; social files containing notes and records of club and society memberships, dinner invitations, and travel arrangements; and papers relating to antique and fine art collecting, which not only attest to Alsop's personal collecting interests, but also bear witness to the disposition of several Alsop family-owned items. Evidence of Alsop's continuing affection for the extended family of John F. Kennedy can be found in the Subject File and in letters addressed to and from Kennedy family members in the General Correspondence.

The Subject File also contains notes and notebooks kept by Alsop during his trip to China in 1972 and material relating to his service with the "Flying Tigers," including a short narrative entitled "Two Days on the Burma Road." Notebooks maintained during Alsop's visits to Vietnam in 1971 and 1972 complement similar material identified in other parts of the collection. A 1979 letter to Joan Baez indicates Alsop's continuing interest in the debate on America's involvement in Vietnam.

Material related to Alsop's literary agents and publishers is in the Subject File. Manuscripts and other records of Alsop's speeches and writings are located in the Speech, Article, and Book File. His articles, both published and unpublished, concern art history, China, foreign policy, and Vietnam. The Speech, Article, and Book File also contains correspondence, drafts, and research material assembled by Alsop for his book on collecting art. Files gathered for an unpublished article on French furniture in 1967 includes correspondence exchanged with French researcher Jean Feray who provided information used for the book published fifteen years later. Alsop's drafts of the book bore different titles, including "The History of Taste," "The Altered Apollo," and "The Rare Art Traditions." Since he disassembled earlier drafts to include in later ones, identification of complete manuscripts, other than the final one, is uncertain. Material gathered for the book to produce a number of articles and lectures, including lectures given in 1975 as part of the Yaseen lecture series at the State University of New York at Purchase and in 1978 as part of the Mellon lecture series at the National Gallery of Art is also filed in the Speech, Article, and Book File.

Alsop drafted portions of his memoirs, I've Seen the Best of It, which were published posthumously in 1992, and dictated others. The Speech, Article, and Book File contains both typescript drafts and transcripts of tapes.

Related Material

Audiocassette tapes containing Alsop's dictations are available in the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Organization of the Papers

The collection is composed of twenty-eight series arranged in four parts:

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Description of Series

Container Series
BOX 1

Part I: Early Family Papers, 1762-1910

Correspondence, certificates, diplomas, notebooks, passports, rosters, invitations, and memorabilia.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 2-21

Part I: General Correspondence, 1934-1964

Correspondence with attached and related newspaper clippings, pamphlets, notes, and memoranda.
Organized in Joseph or Stewart Alsop sections and arranged chronologically therein.
BOX 22-31

Part I: Special Correspondence, 1946-1963

Letters concerning the "Matter of Fact" newspaper column and the Saturday Evening Post. "Matter of Fact" correspondence is separated into correspondence with publishers and correspondence with readers and therein alphabetically by name of person or organization.
Saturday Evening Post correspondence is arranged chronologically.
BOX 32-34

Part I: Early Office File, 1932-1941

Correspondence, notes, notebooks, memoranda, reports, statements, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or by subject.
BOX 35-56

Part I: Article, Book and Speech File, 1937-1963

Drafts, galley proofs, and related material concerning articles, books, and speeches by the Alsops, including correspondence, notes, notebooks, transcripts of interviews, and newspaper clippings.
Arranged alphabetically by type of writing and therein by author, title, and type of material or name of magazine in which the writing appeared.
BOX 57-58

Part I: Travel File, 1947-1961

Travel files of Stewart Alsop, including notes, notebooks, itineraries, telegrams, letters sent and received, lists, and bills and receipts.
Arranged chronologically by year and thereunder by destination.
BOX 59-63

Part I: Financial File, 1937-1961

Financial records of Joseph Alsop, including letters sent and received, checkbook stubs and canceled checks, leases, construction plans for a house, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material and therein by year or group of years.
BOX 64-67

Part I: Miscellany, 1935-1962

Biographical material, interviews, notes, newspaper clippings, printed matter, invitations, photographs, and pictorial material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
BOX 68

Part II: Family Papers, 1699-1968

Correspondence, legal papers, miscellaneous financial and property records, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, topic, or type of material and chronologically therein.
BOX 69-77

Part II: General Correspondence, 1964-1967

Letters and telegrams sent and received by Joseph Alsop with miscellaneous attached and related matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent and in reverse chronological order therein.
BOX 78

Part II: Office Files, 1937-1941

Correspondence, notes, transcripts of conversations, fragments of drafts of writings, clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by topic, type of material, or name of person.
BOX 79-89

Part II: Subject File, 1942-1970

Correspondence, notes, notebooks, clippings, transcripts of oral history interviews, reports, memoranda, government documents, captured documents from Vietnam, servicemen's papers, printed matter, legal papers, lists, itineraries, receipts and vouchers, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or name of person.
BOX 90-98

Part II: Speeches and Writings, 1938-1966

Drafts of articles and books, with related correspondence, notes, reports, clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically according to type of writing, with magazine articles organized alphabetically by the name of the publication in which they appeared and chronologically by year therein. Books are arranged chronologically according to date of publication.
BOX 99-127

Part II: Financial File, 1945-1969

Bank statements, check stubs, paid invoices, travel advances, expense statements, tax returns, insurance forms, verification of income, correspondence, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged under the name of the Alsop to whom the papers belonged and then alphabetically according to type of material, with the content in the folders organized in the sequence established by the Alsops, usually in reverse chronological order.
BOX 128-129

Part III: Family Papers, 1899-1975

Correspondence, financial and estate records, writings, and lists.
Arranged by name of family member or by topic.
BOX 129-143

Part III: General Correspondence, 1941-1975

Letters received and copies of letters sent with attachments and enclosures.
Arranged chronologically, with files after 1967 organized by year and arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent therein.
BOX 143-146

Part III: Business Correspondence, 1945-1974

Correspondence with attachments, contracts, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of newspaper, publisher, or agent, with some files in reverse chronological order therein.
BOX 147-163

Part III: Subject File, 1938-1975

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 163-185

Part III: Speeches and Writings File, 1947-1975

Drafts and copies of speeches and articles, book manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper columns, notes, short stories, research material, transcripts of broadcasts and interviews, and related matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of writing and therein by author, title, and subject or type of material.
BOX 185-216

Part III: Financial File, 1941-1974

Accounts, bank books and statements, checks, correspondence, reports, insurance files, investment portfolios, invoices, tax returns, and vouchers.
Arranged alphabetically within files organized according to name of Alsop and therein by type of material.
BOX 216-221

Part III: Miscellany, 1928-1974

Cards, certificates, correspondence, itineraries, notes, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material or subject.
REEL 1-8

Part III: Scrapbooks, 1936-1975

Scrapbooks of columns and magazine articles. Available only on microfilm. Shelf no. 18,441
Filmed in the sequences provided by the donor. Vols. 1-42, 1936-1975, and vols. 43-54, 1946-1971, arranged chronologically.
BOX 222-227

Part IV: Family Papers, 1799-1989

Letters received and copies of letters sent by Joseph Alsop, including letters exchanged by family members with correspondents other than Alsop, postcards, estate papers, financial and legal records, printed matter, and miscellaneous items and enclosures.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member and therein chronologically.
BOX 228-253

Part IV: General Correspondence, 1916-1989

Letters received and copies of letters sent by Joseph Alsop, memoranda, postcards, and miscellaneous enclosures.
Arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically therein by name of correspondent.
BOX 253-272

Part IV: Subject File, 1923-1989

Correspondence, memoranda, financial and legal records, reports, notes and notebooks, cards, invitations, royalty statements, assessment and appraisal records, blueprints and maps, printed matter, and miscellaneous items and enclosures.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material and chronologically therein.
BOX 273-319

Part IV: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1825-1989

Correspondence, drafts, research material, outlines, notes and notebooks, contracts, royalty statements, printed matter, and miscellaneous items and enclosures relating to Joseph Alsop's published and unpublished articles, books, editorials, research projects, and speeches.
Arranged by type of material in three groups: articles and other writings, books, and speeches and lectures. Published articles are arranged chronologically by publication date; unpublished articles are arranged by the date of the draft; books are arranged alphabetically by title; and speeches and lectures are arranged chronologically by date of presentation.
BOX 319-324

Part IV: Miscellany, 1778-1989

Correspondence, address books, appointment books and calendars, notes and notebooks, cards, passports, school records, printed matter, and other miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX CL 1

Part IV: Classified, 1966-1970

Intelligence reports, notes, memoranda, telegrams, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.

Container List

Container Contents
BOX 1

Part I: Early Family Papers, 1762-1910

Correspondence, certificates, diplomas, notebooks, passports, rosters, invitations, and memorabilia.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 1 Correspondence, 1803-1910, n.d.
(3 folders)
Notebooks, certificates, rosters, indentures, bills of sale, passports, invitations, and memorabilia, 1762-1906
(3 folders)
BOX 2-21

Part I: General Correspondence, 1934-1964

Correspondence with attached and related newspaper clippings, pamphlets, notes, and memoranda.
Organized in Joseph or Stewart Alsop sections and arranged chronologically therein.
BOX 2 Alsop, Joseph
1934, Apr.-1947, Apr.
(9 folders)
BOX 3 1947, May-1948, Sept.
(7 folders)
BOX 4 1948, Oct.-1949, July
(8 folders)
BOX 5 1949, Aug.-1950, Oct.
(8 folders)
BOX 6 1950, Nov.-1951, Sept.
(8 folders)
BOX 7 1951, Oct.-1952, May
(7 folders)
BOX 8 1952, June-1953, Mar.
(9 folders)
BOX 9 1953, Apr.-1954, Jan.
(8 folders)
BOX 10 1954, Feb.-Aug.
(6 folders)
BOX 11 1954, Sept.-1955, Oct. 17
(8 folders)
BOX 12 1955, Oct. 18-1956, June
(8 folders)
BOX 13 1956, July-1958, Mar.
(9 folders)
BOX 14 1958, Apr.-1959, Jan.
(9 folders)
BOX 15 1959, Feb.-Dec.
(11 folders)
BOX 16 1960, Jan.-Oct.
(7 folders)
BOX 17 1960, Nov.-1962, Feb.
(11 folders)
BOX 18 1962, Mar.-1963, Mar.
(8 folders)
BOX 19 1963, Apr.-1964
(10 folders)
BOX 20 Alsop, Stewart
1946-1955, May
(8 folders)
BOX 21 1955, June-1959
(10 folders)
BOX 22-31

Part I: Special Correspondence, 1946-1963

Letters concerning the "Matter of Fact" newspaper column and the Saturday Evening Post. "Matter of Fact" correspondence is separated into correspondence with publishers and correspondence with readers and therein alphabetically by name of person or organization.
Saturday Evening Post correspondence is arranged chronologically.
BOX 22 "Matter of Fact" column, 1946-1956
Publishers
A-H
(5 folders)
BOX 23 I-Y
(5 folders)
BOX 24 Readers
A-K
(7 folders)
BOX 25 L-Y
(7 folders)
BOX 26 Saturday Evening Post
1946, Apr.-1949, May
(8 folders)
BOX 27 1949, June-1952, Dec.
(6 folders)
BOX 28 1953, Jan.-1957, Apr.
(6 folders)
BOX 29 1957, May-1959, Sept.
(6 folders)
BOX 30 1959, Nov.-1961, Dec.
(7 folders)
BOX 31 1962, Jan.-1963, Dec.
(6 folders)
BOX 32-34

Part I: Early Office File, 1932-1941

Correspondence, notes, notebooks, memoranda, reports, statements, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or by subject.
BOX 32 "B" miscellaneous, 1937-1941
Defense, 1939-1941
Downey, Sheridan, 1939 See also Container 37, same title
"D-E" miscellaneous, 1938-1948
(2 folders)
Farley, James A., 1938 See also Container 35, "Farley and the Future"
Farm policy, 1936-1938
Frankfurter, Felix, 1932, 1938-1940, 1945
"F" miscellaneous, 1939-1940
General memoranda, 1940-1941
(3 folders)
Glavis v. Time, 1936-1941
"G" miscelllaneous, 1938-1940
BOX 33 "H-I" miscellaneous, 1936-1941
(2 folders)
James True Associates, 1938
"J-K" miscellaneous, 1938-1941
(2 folders)
Life, 1938-1940
"L" miscellaneous, 1938-1941
Monopoly investigation, 1939
"M" miscellaneous, 1938-1941
New York Herald Tribune, 1940-1941
(2 folders)
"N-O" miscellaneous, 1938-1940
(2 folders)
Profiles
BOX 34 Saturday Evening Post, 1938-1941
(4 folders)
Securities and Exchange Commission
Simon and Schuster, 1940
Social Security, 1939
Social Security for staff, 1936-1941
“Splending” program of the Works Financing Act, 1939
"S" miscellaneous, 1938-1940
Taxes, 1933-1939
"V" miscellaneous, 1939
"Z" miscellaneous, 1938
BOX 35-56

Part I: Article, Book and Speech File, 1937-1963

Drafts, galley proofs, and related material concerning articles, books, and speeches by the Alsops, including correspondence, notes, notebooks, transcripts of interviews, and newspaper clippings.
Arranged alphabetically by type of writing and therein by author, title, and type of material or name of magazine in which the writing appeared.
BOX 35 Articles
Published
Atlantic Monthly
1941, "Wanted: A Faith to Fight for"
1947, "Last Chance"
1952, "Strange Case of Louis Budenz"
1953, "Academic Freedom"
Collier's, "How to Make Peace at the Pentagon," 1956
(2 folders)
Coronet, "Decline and Fall of the United States," 1948
Horizon, "The Future of American Foreign Policy," 1947
Ladies Home Journal, Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1959
Life
1938
"Farley and the Future"
BOX 36 "Ickes, A Man of Wrath"
1939, "Nature's Senator"
1940, "The Speaker's Lot Is Not a Happy One"
1946
Taft, Robert A., and Arthur H. Vandenberg
"Tragedy of American Liberalism"
Literaturnaya Gazeta, "Peaceful Co-Existence," 1956
Mondral Presse, a Communist bureaucrat, ca. 1957
New Republic, "The Liberals and Russia, 1946
New Yorker, "Evening Among Ruins," 1948
News of the World, various short articles, 1947
Reader's Digest
1954, "Why I Stopped Smoking"
1958, "Richard Nixon: The Mystery and the Man"
Saturday Evening Post
1937, "Our Biggest Business, Relief"
BOX 37 1938
Byrnes, James
New Deal
(2 folders)
Stock Exchange
"Washington Over Wall Street"
(2 folders)
1939
Arnold, Thurman
Downey, Sheridan
BOX 38 Guffey, Joseph F.
(2 folders)
1940, "Third Term"
1946
"Stassen"
"Why We Changed Policy in Germany"
"Your Flesh Should Creep"
1947
"Are We Ready for a Push Button War?"
"If Russia Grabs Europe"
"We Must Import to Live"
"Will the CIO Shake the Communists Loose?"
BOX 39 1948
"The Europeans You Never Read About"
"If War Comes"
"Must America Save the World?"
"What Kind of President Will Dewey Make?"
1949
"Candidate Truman"
"How Our Foreign Policy Is Made"
1950
"Are We Ready for a Push Button War?" See Container 38, same title
"I'm Guilty! I Built a Modern House"
"The Lessons of Korea"
"We Are Losing Asia Fast"
"We Must Learn Guerilla Warfare"
"Why Has Washington Gone Crazy?"
BOX 40 "Why We Lost China"
1951
"Can the New A-Bomb Stop Troops in the Field?”
"The Grim Truth About Civil Defense"
"Our Trouble with the British"
"Stalin's Plans for the U.S.A."
“What's Wrong with the Army?"
(2 folders)
1952
"He'd Rather Not Be President"
BOX 41 "Inside Story of Our First H-Bomb"
"Must We Surrender the Mid-East?"
"That's Politics for You"
"What Must the GOP Do to Win?"
1953
"Can We Defend Against Russia's A-Bomb?"
"The Man Ike Trusts with Cash"
"Is This Our Last Chance for Peace?"
1954
"Can FDR Jr. Get His Father's Job?"
China and the Korean War
"Strange Death of Louis Slotin"
BOX 42 "Will China Stay Red?"
1955
"The Dreadful Dilemma of the Democrats"
"He Sparked a Revolution"
"That Washington Security Curtain"
"The Tiger Who Looks Like a Banker"
"What We Must Do To Stay Free"
BOX 43 1956
"Barnum of the GOP"
"My Adventures in Eating"
"The Race We Are Losing to Russia"
"The Red's New Gimmick"
"The Soviet Union Will Never Recover"
BOX 44 "Those Smug, Smug Russians"
"Why Do I Keep the Damned Place?"
"Why Israel Will Survive"
1957
"America's Oldest Spectacular"
(2 folders)
BOX 45 "The GOP Must Reform"
"How Can We Catch Up?"
"How the King Foiled the Plotters"
"How They Meet Payrolls in Russia"
"I Discover the American People"
"I Found Out What Supersonic Means"
BOX 46 "Just What Is Modern Republicanism?"
"Khrushchev Has His Troubles, Too" See also same container, 1958, "Behind Khrushchev's Smile"
(3 folders)
"Lament for a Long Gone Past"
"The Paradox of Gentleman Joe"
1958
"Behind Khrushchev's Smile" See also same container, 1957, "Khrushchev Has His Troubles, Too"
BOX 47 Harriman-Rockefeller race for governor of New York
"Richard Nixon: The Mystery and the Man," including interviews and a copy of Nixon's 1934 Whittier College, Whittier, Calif., yearbook
(7 folders)
"Time Is Running Out on Us"
BOX 48 1959
Democratic candidates
Rockefeller, Nelson A.
(4 folders)
1962
"What's Wrong with the State Department?"
"Will Communist China Explode?"
1963, "Nixon and Goldwater in 1964"
U.S. News and World Report, J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1954 (also published in Harper's)
(3 folders)
BOX 49 Vision, "Fin Del Hombre?" 1953
Unpublished
1937
"How It Feels to Look Like Everybody Else"
"New Parties"
1940, "First Soldier" (George C. Marshall)
1947
"The Coming Constitutional Crisis"
"This Is the Way the World Ends"
1948, relationship between businessmen and government under "President" Thomas E. Dewey
1953, Far East
1953-1954, "How Many Bombs Have the Russians Got?"
BOX 50 Books
Alsop, Joseph
The 168 Days, with Turner Catledge, 1938
Drafts
(5 folders)
BOX 51 (4 folders)
BOX 52 (4 folders)
BOX 53 Drafts and notes
(4 folders)
American White Paper, with Robert Kintner, drafts, 1940
(2 folders)
BOX 54 (1 folder)
"The Revolution in Warfare," with Ralph Lapp, 1953
Drafts
(3 folders)
BOX 55 Drafts and outlines
(6 folders)
BOX 56 Reference material and notations
(2 folders)
Alsop, Stewart, Nixon & Rockefeller: A Double Portrait, 1960
Speeches by Joseph Alsop
1948
"American Policy in China"
"Struggle for Civilization," Nieman Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1954, "Thinking Ahead, Business and Government," Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Mass.
1955, "Conservatism," National Business Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
BOX 57-58

Part I: Travel File, 1947-1961

Travel files of Stewart Alsop, including notes, notebooks, itineraries, telegrams, letters sent and received, lists, and bills and receipts.
Arranged chronologically by year and thereunder by destination.
BOX 57 1947, Middle East
1948, Europe and Great Britain
1949, Far East
1953, England, France, Germany, and Gibraltar
1955, Austria, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the USSR, and Yugoslavia
(3 folders)
1959, Eastern Europe
1960, Africa
(2 folders)
BOX 58 (2 folders)
1961, Eastern Europe, Great Britain, and the USSR
(3 folders)
BOX 59-63

Part I: Financial File, 1937-1961

Financial records of Joseph Alsop, including letters sent and received, checkbook stubs and canceled checks, leases, construction plans for a house, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material and therein by year or group of years.
BOX 59 Bank statements
1937-1939
BOX 60 1940
Car file, Cadillac, 1949-1950
Checkbook stubs, 1938-1940
BOX 61 Correspondence with tradespeople
Set I, 1945-1953
(3 folders)
Set II, 1954-1956
(2 folders)
BOX 62 Set III, 1956-1961
(3 folders)
House, 2720 Dumbarton Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
Original construction, 1948-1949
(2 folders)
BOX 63 (2 folders)
Proposed home on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., 1959
BOX 64-67

Part I: Miscellany, 1935-1962

Biographical material, interviews, notes, newspaper clippings, printed matter, invitations, photographs, and pictorial material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
BOX 64 Biographical material, 1959, n.d.
Connecticut Emergency Relief Commission, 1935
Interviews
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1957
McNamara, Robert S., 1962
McCarran, Pat, Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security, hearings on China policy, 1951
(6 folders)
BOX 65 Newspaper clippings, 1937-1953, n.d.
(2 folders)
Notes
ca. 1937, Henry Douglas Cruger and Harriet Douglas Cruger
1949-1951, ca.1953, Federal Power Commission
1951, U.S. policy toward China during World War II
ca.1951-ca. 1953, Civil Aeronautics Board
1957, Middle East
BOX 66 Invitations, 1937-1941, n.d.
(9 folders)
BOX 67 Miscellaneous papers, 1950-1961, n.d.
(2 folders)
Photographs and pictorial matter, n.d.
Printed matter, 1937-1956
(3 folders)
BOX 68

Part II: Family Papers, 1699-1968

Correspondence, legal papers, miscellaneous financial and property records, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, topic, or type of material and chronologically therein.
BOX 68 Alsop genealogy and miscellaneous printed matter, 1950, n.d.
Correspondence, 1959-1968
(5 folders)
DeKoven, John, will, 1948
Middletown, Conn., home, 1811-1953
Summons, receipts, and miscellaneous property papers, 1699-1790
BOX 69-77

Part II: General Correspondence, 1964-1967

Letters and telegrams sent and received by Joseph Alsop with miscellaneous attached and related matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent and in reverse chronological order therein.
BOX 69 1964
A-J
(10 folders)
BOX 70 K-Z
(12 folders)
BOX 71 1965
A-J
(10 folders)
BOX 72 K-R
(7 folders)
BOX 73 S-Z and unidentified
(6 folders)
1966
A-C
(3 folders)
BOX 74 D-M
(10 folders)
BOX 75 N-Z and unidentified
(11 folders)
BOX 76 1967
A-K
(11 folders)
BOX 77 L-Z and unidentified
(14 folders)
Undated and unidentified
BOX 78

Part II: Office Files, 1937-1941

Correspondence, notes, transcripts of conversations, fragments of drafts of writings, clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by topic, type of material, or name of person.
BOX 78 American Civil Liberties Union, 1938
Cards, n.d.
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1937-1939
"C" miscellaneous, 1938-1941
List of newspapers publishing "The Capital Parade," 1938
"P" miscellaneous, 1938-1941
Radio, 1938-1940
Refugee children, 1940
"R" miscellaneous, 1938-1940
Securities and Exchange Commission, 1940
Surgeon General, Thomas Parran, 1939
Titles of "The Capital Parade" columns, 1937-1941
"T" miscellaneous, 1938-1941
Vandenberg, Arthur H., 1941
Veterans, 1939
War legislation, 1938
Wheeler, Burton K., 1938
Willkie, Wendell L., 1939
Winship, Larry L., 1938-1941
"W" miscellaneous, 1938-1940
BOX 79-89

Part II: Subject File, 1942-1970

Correspondence, notes, notebooks, clippings, transcripts of oral history interviews, reports, memoranda, government documents, captured documents from Vietnam, servicemen's papers, printed matter, legal papers, lists, itineraries, receipts and vouchers, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or name of person.
BOX 79 Anderson & Shepard, Ltd., 1959-1970
Archaeological Institute of America, 1965-1966
Ayers-Williams, proposal for air conditioning, 1963
Blackwell's, Oxford, England, 1958-1967
(2 folders)
Britain's sterling program, 1966
Chamomile plant patent, 1964-1966
BOX 80 China
Kohlberg, Albert, 1946-1951
McCarran sub-committee hearings, 1943-1945, 1951-1952
(5 folders)
Trade goods (Robert E. Curtis), 1965
Christmas gift lists, 1949-1963
BOX 81 Clayton, Therese Margaret, 1964-1966
Cole, Corinne Robinson Alsop, Franklin D. Roosevelt Papers, 1964-1965
Communist infiltration in Germany
Correspondence with tradespeople, 1962-1967
(3 folders)
Crouch, Paul, libel suit, 1954-1956
Cuba, 1967
Curtis, Robert E., 1964-1966
Devaluation of the pound, 1967
Dulles, John Foster, oral history project, 1966-1967
Diet controversy, 1965
Edward Garratt, Inc., 1965
Gardens
1953-1962
BOX 82 1963-1965
Gerald Klein, Ltd., 1963-1967
Home, 1718 H Street, Washington, D.C., 1947-1955
Hydrogen Bomb, by Shepley and Blair, 1954
Inauguration Day dinner, 1965, Jan. 20
Interview, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Mass., 1964
Iwao Setsi, laquer, 1965-1966
Johnson, Lyndon B., program, 1965
Julie Hicks Fund, 1965-1966
Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1965
Komor, Mathias, 1965-1967
Lil and Sue, Ltd., 1959-1968
Morgenthau, Hans J., 1965
Morguleu, Sara, Amerex International, Ltd., 1965-1968
BOX 83 Museum of the City of New York, New York, N.Y., 1966-1967
Nike X missile system, 1965
Paragon Book Gallery, 1964-1966
Politics, 1969
Polling, 1964 campaigns
Rodell, Marie, 1963-1965
Samuel Shapiro & Co. and customs, 1958-1965
Scuola Stella Matutina, Macao, 1959-1967
(2 folders)
Starobin, Joseph, 1954
Theodore Roosevelt Association, 1966-1967
BOX 84 Travel
1951, Europe
1956, Middle East and London, England
1964, Europe and Asia
1965
Apr.-May, trip around the world
Aug.-Oct., Greece and Far East
1966
Mar., Vietnam (Republic)
May, Vietnam (Republic)
Summer, Italy, Turkey, and Far East
1967
Feb.-Apr., Far East
July-Oct., London, England, Germany, and Far East
Aug.-Oct., Europe, Middle East, and Asia
1968
Mar.-Apr., Vietnam
Summer, England and Germany
Nov.-Dec., Vietnam
Tsuruki, Y., 1963-1967
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., 1967
Vietnam
Printed matter and correspondence, 1965
BOX 85 Trips
1967
Spring
Captured documents, 1966-1967, n.d. See also Classified
Notes, 1965-1967, n.d. See also Classified
(3 folders)
Fall, notes, 1967, n.d. See also Classified
(1 folder)
BOX 86 (1 folder)
1968
Miscellany, 1967-1968, n.d.
Research material
Army morale, 1968, n.d. See also Classified
Battlefield statistics, n.d. See also Classified
Huế, Vietnam, 1968, n.d. See also Classified
Vietnam (Democratic Republic), 1968, n.d. See also Classified
1969
Notes, 1969
(2 folders)
BOX 87 (4 folders)
BOX 88 (1 folder)
Research material, 1968-1969, n.d. See also Classified
(2 folders)
1970
Notes, 1970
(3 folders)
BOX 89 Research material, 1969-1970, n.d. See also Classified
(3 folders)
War claims, 1942, 1952-1955
World War II, 1942-1949
Zimmerman, Warren, proposed membership in Metropolitan Club, Washington, D.C., 1966-1967
BOX 90-98

Part II: Speeches and Writings, 1938-1966

Drafts of articles and books, with related correspondence, notes, reports, clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically according to type of writing, with magazine articles organized alphabetically by the name of the publication in which they appeared and chronologically by year therein. Books are arranged chronologically according to date of publication.
BOX 90 Articles
Journal of Hellenic Studies
(3 folders)
Life
1939
Politics
"President's Family Album"
1940, Taft, Robert A. and Martha
McCall's, dieting, 1965
New Yorker
1965, Later Roman Empire, review of
1965-1966, "Kato Zakro"
(1 folder)
BOX 91 (7 folders)
BOX 92 (3 folders)
1966
"Charting Terra Incognita"
Lorenz, Konrad, On Aggression, review of
Saturday Evening Post
1938
Guffey, Joseph F.
(4 folders)
BOX 93 (1 folder)
Lodge, Henry Cabot (1902-1985)
"We Shall Make America Over"
(6 folders)
1939
Arnold, Thurman Wesley
Downey, Sheridan
Morgenthau, Henry (1891-1967)
(4 folders)
BOX 94 (1 folder)
1940, McNary, Charles L.
1964, "John F. Kennedy"
1966, "Why We Can Win in Vietnam"
(7 folders)
This Week Magazine, "First Soldier," n.d.
Venture, "Healing Springs," 1964-1965
BOX 95 Miscellaneous
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1965-1966
"The Decline and Fall of America," 1948
"Eat, Drink, and Be Thin," 1965
Frank R. Kent Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1966
"A Small World," n.d.
"Third Term," n.d.
"This Business of Relief," n.d.
"Washington Over Wall Street," 1938
Books
1939, Men Around the President
(1 folder)
BOX 96 (3 folders)
1940, American White Paper
(6 folders)
BOX 97 (9 folders)
1958, The Reporter's Trade
(3 folders)
BOX 98 (8 folders)
1965, Drink, Eat and Be Thin
BOX 99-127

Part II: Financial File, 1945-1969

Bank statements, check stubs, paid invoices, travel advances, expense statements, tax returns, insurance forms, verification of income, correspondence, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged under the name of the Alsop to whom the papers belonged and then alphabetically according to type of material, with the content in the folders organized in the sequence established by the Alsops, usually in reverse chronological order.
BOX 99 Alsop, Joseph
Analysis of business expenses, 1964-1965
Bank account no. 3, 1964
Bank statements, 1945
Check stubs, 1956-1966
(14 vols.)
BOX 100 Group hospitalization, 1964-1969
Income information, 1967-1968
Investments, correspondence with André Istel, 1961-1968
Kuhn, Loeb and Co., 1964-1968
(3 folders)
BOX 101 Medical bills, 1947
Monthly financial reports sent to Melvin Ott, 1967-1968
Paid invoices
1946-1947, June
(3 folders)
BOX 102 1947, July-1950
(4 folders)
BOX 103 1950-1951
(3 folders)
BOX 104 1952-1953
(3 folders)
BOX 105 1953-1954
(3 folders)
BOX 106 1955-1956, June
(3 folders)
BOX 107 1956, July-1958
(5 folders)
BOX 108 1959-1964
(5 folders)
BOX 109 1965-1966
(6 folders)
BOX 110 1967-1968
(4 folders)
BOX 111 Taxes
American, 1945-1964
(4 folders)
French, 1958-1959
Legal papers, 1956-1960
BOX 112 Washington Post
Business entertainment, 1964-1968
Business expenses, 1964-1968
Business trips, 1964-1968
Correspondence with Robert P. Thome, 1964-1968
(2 folders)
Local transportation, 1964-1968
BOX 113 Petty cash, 1964-1968
West Farm, Middletown, Conn., 1964-1967
Wood, Struthers & Winthrop, 1962-1968
(2 folders)
Alsop, Joseph and Stewart (partnership)
Bank reconciliations
General account
1945-1955
(3 folders)
BOX 114 1956-1960
Special account, 1948-1958
(3 folders)
Special travel account, 1947-1949
BOX 115 Business expenses
Alsop, Joseph, 1945-1958
(2 folders)
Alsop, Stewart, 1945-1958
(2 folders)
BOX 116 Check stubs
1946-1955
(6 vols.)
BOX 117 1955-1959
(4 vols.)
Curtis Publishing Co., verification of income, 1946-1958
Income and expense statements, 1947-1958
BOX 118 Insurance
J. Blaise de Sibour & Co., 1947-1958
Lloyd's of London, 1948-1957
McGraw-Hill, verification of income, 1948-1949
Miscellany, 1945-1946
New York Herald Tribune, syndicated column, 1954-1961
Paid invoices
1947-1948
(2 folders)
BOX 119 1949-1951
(5 folders)
BOX 120 1952-1954, June
(5 folders)
BOX 121 1954, July-1956, June
(4 folders)
BOX 122 1956, July-1958, Mar.
(4 folders)
BOX 123 Petty cash
1946-1948
(3 folders)
BOX 124 1948-1951
(4 folders)
BOX 125 1952-1956
(3 folders)
BOX 126 1957-1958
Tax returns, 1945-1959
Taxes, District of Columbia, Social Security, unemployment, and withholding, 1947-1958
Thomas L. Stix and J. G. Gude, verification of income, 1947-1950
Travel advances
Alsop, Joseph, 1956
BOX 127 Alsop, Stewart, 1955-1958
Trips abroad, hotel and travel expenses, 1947-1951
Verification of income, miscellaneous, 1947-1959
Working papers, 1947-1948
Alsop, Stewart, trusts, Hartford, Conn., Trust Co. and National Savings & Trust Co., 1946-1947
BOX 128-129

Part III: Family Papers, 1899-1975

Correspondence, financial and estate records, writings, and lists.
Arranged by name of family member or by topic.
BOX 128 Alsop, Ian and Jill, 1968-1973
Alsop, John deKoven (nephew), 1951-1968
Alsop, John deKoven (brother) and Gussie, 1971-1975
(2 folders)
Alsop, Joseph W. (father), 1945-1953
Alsop, Joseph W. II (nephew) and Candy, 1965-1974
(2 folders)
Alsop, Perky, 1974, n.d.
Alsop, Stewart (brother) and Patricia, 1957-1974
Alsop, Susan Mary (wife), 1967-1974
(2 folders)
BOX 129 Alsop family ball, 1956-1961
Alsop family history, n.d.
Chubb, Caldecott (nephew), 1971-1973
Chubb, Corinne Alsop (sister) (Mrs. Percy Chubb), 1957-1971
Chubb, Joseph (nephew), 1957-1974
Cole, Corinne Robinson Alsop (mother), 1955-1971
Cowles, W. Sheffield (cousin) and Barbara, 1968-1973
Crile, George and Ann, 1968-1974
Patten, William S. and Kate, 1970-1974
(2 folders)
Other family members, 1899-1974
BOX 129-143

Part III: General Correspondence, 1941-1975

Letters received and copies of letters sent with attachments and enclosures.
Arranged chronologically, with files after 1967 organized by year and arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent therein.
BOX 129 Alsop, Joseph
1941, 1952-1957, Mar.
1957, Apr.-Dec.
BOX 130 1958-1959
1960-1966
1967-1968
A-K
(9 folders)
BOX 131 L-Z
(10 folders)
BOX 132 A-N
(10 folders)
BOX 133 1969, O-Z
(7 folders)
1970
A-F
(4 folders)
BOX 134 G-V
(10 folders)
BOX 135 W-Z
(2 folders)
1971
A-K
(8 folders)
BOX 136 L-Z
(8 folders)
1972
A-B
(2 folders)
BOX 137 C-S
(10 folders)
BOX 138 T-Z
(2 folders)
1973
A-H
(7 folders)
BOX 139 I-R
(7 folders)
BOX 140 S-Z
(3 folders)
1974
A-C
(3 folders)
BOX 141 D-K
(7 folders)
BOX 142 L-V
(7 folders)
BOX 143 W-Z
(2 folders)
1975
Undated
Alsop, Stewart, 1957-1960
BOX 143-146

Part III: Business Correspondence, 1945-1974

Correspondence with attachments, contracts, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of newspaper, publisher, or agent, with some files in reverse chronological order therein.
BOX 143 Atlantic Monthly, 1946-1969
Correspondence
With secretaries, 1957-1958
With Stewart Alsop, 1957-1958
Encounter, 1958
Harper & Row, 1964-1968
International Press Alliance, 1946-1950
L'Express, 1957-1958
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
1968-1969
(2 folders)
BOX 144 1970-1974
(2 folders)
McMahan, Page, application for secretarial position, 1972
New Republic, 1968
New York Herald Tribune
1945-1951
(6 folders)
BOX 145 1952-1964
(8 folders)
BOX 146 Contracts, 1945-1961
Promotional material, 1947-1960, n.d.
New Yorker, 1960-1972
The Observer, 1957
Partnership agreement, 1945
Reader's Digest, 1967-1973
Rodell, Marie, 1965-1974
(2 folders)
Washington Post, 1962-1970
BOX 147-163

Part III: Subject File, 1938-1975

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 147 Adams, Henry, "Key to Democracy," n.d.
Agriculture, 1973
Aiken/Kennedy notes, n.d.
American Horticulture Society, 1974
American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 1969-1972
Archaeology, 1966-1972
Armstrong, J. Lee, 1970-1972
Atomic energy, 1939-1955, n.d.
(3 folders)
BOX 148 (1 folder)
Bets, 1972 election, 1972
Bieber, Margarete, 1971-1972
Black experience at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1969-1973
Cambodia, 1973
Castillon, Maria, 1961-1962
Central Intelligence Agency, William Colby, 1962, n.d.
China
Correspondence, 1969-1970
Directories of Chinese scholars in the U.S., 1961-1962
(2 folders)
BOX 149 Miscellany, 1944-1973, n.d.
(2 folders)
Stilwell-Chennault record, 1938-1951, n.d.
Dacey, Norman, libel case, 1972
Daily Express, London, England, lawsuit against, 1969, n.d.
Defense, 1969-1972, n.d.
(1 folder)
BOX 150 (1 folder)
Delaney, Denis W., 1968, n.d.
Democratic National Committee, 1972
Dent, Harry, n.d.
Doar Committee, 1974
Drugs, 1968-1972, n.d.
Dumbarton Oaks Garden Advisory Committee, 1968-1974
Economic notes, 1970-1971, n.d.
Education
Busing of school children, 1971-1972, n.d.
BOX 151 Correspondence
General, 1967-1973
(3 folders)
Jensen, Arthur R., 1969-1970
(2 folders)
Debate on heredity versus environment and intelligence, 1969-1973
BOX 152 More Effective Schools Program, 1966-1972
(3 folders)
Ehrlichman, John, n.d.
Energy crisis, 1972-1974
(1 folder)
BOX 153 (2 folders)
Freeman, John, party for, 1970-1971
Fulbright, J. William, 1969-1972
Galbraith, John Kenneth, n.d.
Harriman, W. Averell, quote, 1971
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Board of Overseers, 1951-1958
Correspondence
A-M
(3 folders)
BOX 154 N-W
(2 folders)
Miscellany
Far Eastern Visiting Committee, 1957-1961
(2 folders)
Miscellany, 1957-1971
BOX 155 Hospitals, financial management, 1969-1970
Impounding of funds, 1971
India-Pakistan, 1971
Israel, 1969-1971
Jackson, Henry M./Richard Perle Papers, 1969-1971
Jenkins, Stephen L., 1972
Jury duty summons, 1972
Kalmbach, Herbert W., 1974
Kissinger, Henry, 1973-1974
Kleindienst, Richard, hearings, 1972
Labor, 1969-1970
Lasers, 1971-1972
Life insurance for local law enforcement officers, 1967-1971
Lippmann, Walter, n.d.
McCarthy, Eugene, 1971-1972
BOX 156 McCarthy, Joseph, 1950-1954, n.d.
McGill, Homer, 1971
McGovern, George, 1972, n.d.
McNamara, Robert S., 1967-1968
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., 1969-1970
(2 folders)
BOX 157 (3 folders)
Michigan, elections, 1972
Middle East, 1967-1973
Mills, Wilbur, n.d.
"Missile Gap," pamphlet of columns by Joseph Alsop, 1960
BOX 158 Missiles
MIRV, 1971-1974
Moorhead notes, 1971
Muskie, Edmund, 1971
Nitze, Paul H., n.d.
Nixon, Richard M., 1968-1974
O'Brien, Lawrence, 1970-1973
Oil, 1974
Oil money, 1974
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1954
(3 folders)
BOX 159 Pentagon Papers, 1963-1971
Perl, Diel, and Dorothy Fosdick, notes, n.d.
Polls
George Gallup, 1969
Louis Harris, 1963-1971
Rhode Island, n.d.
Rabin, Yitzhak, 1974
Republican National convention, 1959-1960, 1972
Rizzo, Frank, 1971
Rostow, Eugene V., 1974
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 1970-1972
(2 folders)
Schlesinger, James R., 1974, n.d.
Sejna interviews, 1970
BOX 160 Sino-Soviet relations, 1973
Stone, Jeremy, 1971
Strategic Air Command, 1968-1971, n.d.
(2 folders)
Strategic forces file, 1960-1974, n.d.
(1 folder)
BOX 161 (1 folder)
Taxes, 1964-1974
Thera (Santorin), excavations, 1966-1969
United States budget, 1968-1973
United States Congress, n.d.
Urban crises, 1964-1970, n.d.
BOX 162 USSR, 1971-1973
Vietnam
Correspondence, 1968-1970
Miscellany, 1969-1973, n.d.
Pike, Douglas, 1971-1973
Wallace, George C., 1968-1972
War Powers Act, 1972-1973
Watergate Affair, 1973-1974
BOX 163 William Samuel Patten Scholarship Fund, 1960-1965
Zeira, Eliahu, 1974-1975
Zumwalt, Elmo R., 1970
BOX 163-185

Part III: Speeches and Writings File, 1947-1975

Drafts and copies of speeches and articles, book manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper columns, notes, short stories, research material, transcripts of broadcasts and interviews, and related matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of writing and therein by author, title, and subject or type of material.
BOX 163 Articles
Alsop, Joseph
Archaeological trends, 1964-1966, n.d.
Business and government, prepared for Fortune, 1948
Catal Huyuk, 1965-1967, n.d.
(2 folders)
"Chinaman's Chance," with David Satter, 1966-1971, n.d.
Correspondence
BOX 164 Drafts
(3 folders)
Notes
Research material
(2 folders)
BOX 165 Education, drafts with notes, 1968, n.d.
Fanon, Frantz, biography, 1969, n.d.
Correspondence
Drafts
(2 folders)
"French Furniture," prepared for the New Yorker
Correspondence, 1965-1967
Drafts, 1965, n.d.
(3 folders)
BOX 166 (6 folders)
BOX 167 Galley proofs, 1967
Index, n.d.
Master copies, n.d.
(2 folders)
Notes, n.d.
(1 folder)
BOX 168 (2 folders)
Notes and research material, 1927-1965, n.d.
(2 folders)
BOX 169 Revision, Eighteenth Century French Furniture, n.d.
(3 folders)
"Has China Changed?" Foreign Policy, 1973
"Letter to an English Friend," 1974
"A Man in a Mirror," New Yorker, 1955
Missile gap, prepared for Foreign Policy, n.d.
Mycenaean Greek invasion of Minoan Crete, 1965, n.d.
BOX 170 Moran, Thomas, n.d.
"The New Balance of Power," Encounter, 1958
"No More Nonsense about Ghetto Education," New Republic
Correspondence, 1967-1968
Draft, 1967
Rebuttal to reply, 1967
Reply, "Fake Panaceas for Ghetto Education," 1967
"Profiles-[Konrad Lorenz]" New Yorker
Correspondence, 1967-1969
Drafts, n.d.
(2 folders)
BOX 171 Galley proofs, 1969
Notes, n.d.
(2 folders)
Research material, 1964-1967, n.d.
Review of Origins of Statecraft in China, by H. G. Creel, in New Yorker, 1970-1971
BOX 172 "Thoughts Out of China," New York Times Magazine, 1973
Twenty-second Congress, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Drafts, n.d.
Notes and research material, 1953-1962, n.d.
(3 folders)
BOX 173 (1 folder)
"West Coast Primary," 1948
Youthful experience with French family, 1948
Alsop, Joseph and Stewart
"We Accuse," Harper's Magazine, 1954
Correspondence
Draft
Reviews
(2 folders)
"Why Russia Is Strong," Encounter, 1956
Alsop, Stewart
"American Foreign Policy in the Doldrums," The Listener, 1949
Impact of "Sputnik" on American policies and the world situation, L'Express, 1957
Short story, untitled, 1949
BOX 174 Alsop, Joseph
"The Altered Apollo," 1972-1974, n.d.
Part I
Chapters 1-10
(3 folders)
Various revisions
Chapters 1-3
(2 folders)
BOX 175 (1 folder)
Chapters 1-4
(4 folders)
BOX 176 Chapters 4-7
(6 folders)
BOX 177 Chapters 6-9
(5 folders)
BOX 178 Chapters 9-12 and footnotes
(4 folders)
BOX 179 Part II
Chapters 1-3
(6