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Collection SummaryTitle: Hanson Weightman Baldwin PapersSpan Dates: 1920-1978 ID No.: MSS61729 Creator: Baldwin, Hanson Weightman, 1903-1991 Extent: 1,500 items; 8 containers; 3 linear feet Language: Collection material in English Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Abstract: Author and editor. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, notes, typescripts, press releases, printed matter, and other papers pertaining primarily to Baldwin's naval career and his early years as a general assignment newspaper reporter. Selected Search TermsThe 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 Baldwin, Hanson Weightman, 1903- Organizations Naval War College (U.S.) U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association. United States Naval Academy. United States. Naval Reserve--Officers. United States. Navy--Officers. Subjects American newspapers. New York Times. Reporters and reporting--Maryland--Baltimore. Reporters and reporting--New York (State)--New York. Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837) Occupations Authors. Newspaper editors. Administrative InformationProvenance:The papers of Hanson Weightman Baldwin, author and editor, were deposited in the Library of Congress by the Naval Historical Foundation in 1984 and converted to a gift in 1998. Processing History:The papers of Hanson Weightman Baldwin were arranged and described in 1987. The collection was revised in 2002 and the finding aid further revised in 2008. Copyright Status:The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Hanson Weightman Baldwin is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.). Preferred Citation:Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Hanson Weightman Baldwin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Biographical Note
Scope and Content NoteThe papers of Hanson Weightman Baldwin (1903-1991) date from 1920 to 1978 and most prominently document his student years at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, along with his subsequent tour of active duty in the navy, his early years as a general assignment newspaper reporter, and his participation as an active member of both the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association and the Naval War College, Washington, D.C. The papers are organized into the following series: Correspondence, Subject File, Speeches and Writings File, and Miscellany. The Correspondence series contains letters exchanged between Baldwin and his parents which provide details of Baldwin's years at the United States Naval Academy and describe the atmosphere of academy life in the period immediately following World War I. A file containing report cards and other school records from his student days is located in the Subject File, while the Miscellany series includes several personal notebooks kept by Baldwin at the academy. Following his graduation from the Naval Academy, Baldwin served as an officer aboard the battleship Texas and the destroyer Breck. In 1928 he began his career as a newspaper reporter after having resigned from active naval duty the previous year. Baldwin's letters to his parents in the Correspondence series provide information on his life as a young naval officer and also on his early years as a general assignment reporter, first with the Baltimore Sun in 1928 and a year later with the New York Times, the paper with which he would be associated for the remainder of his career. Although the Correspondence also contains letters to and from friends and former shipmates which further document this period of Baldwin's life, there are few letters in the series which illuminate his newspaper career after his appointment in 1937 by the Times as the first full-time military correspondent, and later military editor, on an American newspaper. Baldwin's service as a commissioned officer in the navy, both on active duty and in the Naval Reserve, is also documented in the Subject File. Records in this file concerning his resignation in 1933 give evidence to the conflict which arose between Baldwin's position as a Naval Academy graduate and naval officer, whose code required conduct loyal to the service, and his role as a newspaper reporter, whose commitment to objective and unprejudiced reporting demanded freedom of expression, when an article written by Baldwin contained information that was deemed sensitive by naval authorities. Explaining his position in a memorandum to the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation dated 1 March 1933, Baldwin wrote, "Loyalty cannot be interpreted from my viewpoint as preventing me the free and unabridged statement of fact or expression of opinion." The Subject File also contains records relating to Baldwin's appointment as president of the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association and to his membership on the board of advisors of the Naval War College. Baldwin's literary manuscripts, few of which are included in the collection, are filed in the Speeches and Writings File. Related MaterialsThe principal collection of the Hanson Weightman Baldwin Papers is located in the Beinecke Library at Yale University, while a smaller collection of papers exists at the George C. Marshall Research Foundation Library, Lexington, Virginia. Arrangement of the PapersThis collection is arranged in four series:
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