Clare Boothe Luce
A Register of Her Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Nan Thompson Ernst with the assistance of Joseph K. Brooks, Paul Colton, Patricia Craig, Michael W. Giese, Patrick
Holyfield, Lisa Madison, Margaret Martin, Brian McGuire, Scott McLemee, Susie H. Moody, John Monagle, Andrew M. Passett, Thelma
Queen, Sara Schoo and Robert A. Vietrogoski

Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2003
Contact information:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division,
2003
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003044
Latest revision: 2008 July
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Boothe Family Papers,
1862-1987,
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Luce Family Papers,
1913-1987,
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Subject File,
1903-1988,
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Business Records,
1926-1987
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Texts,
1919-1987,
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Articles, Essays, Reviews, and Commentary,
1928-1986,
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Journals and Notebooks,
ca. 1944-1970,
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Memoirs,
1935-ca. 1960,
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Nonfiction Books, Pamphlets, and Proposals,
1940-1977,
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Novels and Short Stories,
1919-1964,
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Plays,
1919-1980,
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Poetry,
1919-ca. 1950,
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Notes and Fragments,
ca. 1940-1987
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Correspondence,
1942-1947,
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Office File,
1942-1947,
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Subject File,
1943-1946
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Correspondence,
1953-1957,
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Subject File,
1953-1961,
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Office File,
1941-1987,
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Texts,
1932-1987,
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Family and Personal Papers,
1919-1986,
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Correspondence,
1914-1983,
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Secretarial File,
1943-1982
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Literary File,
1930-1977,
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Ambassador to Italy,
1953-1956
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Subject File,
1933-1973,
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Family and Personal Papers,
1914-1966,
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1921-1969,
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Title: Papers of Clare Boothe Luce
Span Dates: 1862-1988
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1930-1987)
ID No.: MSS30759 Creator:
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987
Extent:
460,000 items;
796 containers plus 11 oversize, 1 classified, 1 top secret;
319 linear feet;
41 microfilm reels
Language: Collection material in English
Repository:
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Journalist, playwright, magazine editor, U.S. representative from Connecticut, and U.S. ambassador to Italy. Family papers,
correspondence, literary files, congressional and ambassadorial files, speech files, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting
Luce's personal and public life as a journalist, playwright, politician, member of Congress, ambassador, and government official.
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.
Names: Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 Barrie, Michael--Correspondence Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965--Correspondence Benton, William,1900-1973--Correspondence Booth family Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925- --Correspondence Chávez, Carlos, 1899- --Correspondence Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897- --Correspondence Forceville, Clarita de--Correspondence Heard, Gerald, 1889-1971--Correspondence Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Correspondence Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969--Correspondence Kittleman, Marjorie Wolf--Correspondence Lodge, John Davis, 1903-1985--Correspondence Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967 Luce family Martin, Joseph W. (Joseph William), 1884-1968--Correspondence Morton, Ruth--Correspondence Murray, John Courtney--Correspondence Obermer, Nesta--Correspondence Rogers, Elizabeth Cobb Chapman--Correspondence Skouras, Spyros Panagiotes, 1893-1971--Correspondence Sheen, Fulton J. (Fulton John), 1895-1979--Correspondence Streit, Clarence K. (Clarence Kirshman), 1896-1986--Correspondence Sullivan, Mark, 1874-1952--Correspondence Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951--Correspondence Waldeck, R. G. (Rosie Goldschmidt), 1898- --Correspondence Waldo, George C. (George Curtis), 1888-1956--Correspondence Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944 Wrigley, Helen--Correspondence Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902- --Correspondence Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Time, inc. United States Congress. House United States. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Catholic Church Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987. Kiss the boys good-bye (1938) Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987. Margin for error (1939) Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987. The women (1936)
Subjects: Life (Chicago, Ill.) McCall's magazine Vanity fair (New York, N.Y.) Art Authors Conversion Diplomacy Intelligence service--United States International relations Internal security--United States Journalists Military readiness--United States National security--United States Periodical editors Periodicals, Publishing of Playwriting Presidents--United States--Election--1940 Religion Women in public life World War, 1939-1945--Journalists Diplomatic and consular service, American--Italy Connecticut--Politics and government--1865-1950 United States--Intellectual life--20th century United States--Politics and government--20th century
Occupations: Diplomats Dramatists Journalists Representatives, U.S. Congress--Connecticut
Provenance: The papers of Clare Boothe Luce, author, editor, playwright, journalist, member of Congress, and diplomat, were donated to
the Library of Congress beginning in 1956, with additional deposits, gifts, and bequests made by Luce from 1957 to 1989. A
gift of one item was made by Henry Luce III in 2000.
Processing History: Portions of the Clare Boothe Luce Papers spanning the years 1930-1951 have been available for research with the donor's permission
since 1957. Additional material covering the period 1951-1968 was arranged as a separate segment and made available with the
donor's permission in 1958 and again in 1970. The current arrangement of the Luce Papers is a 1992 revision of the previous
segments and includes material received since 1971. Subsequent changes and additions, including the opening of a portion closed
until 1997, were made 1997-2000, and the finding aid as a whole was revised in 2003.
Transfers: Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial divisions of the Library. Some photographs, pen
and ink drawings of political cartoons, and theatrical posters have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division.
Motion picture films and sound and video recordings have been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded
Sound Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the Clare Boothe Luce Papers.
Copyright Status: Copyright in the unpublished writings of Clare Boothe Luce in boxes 1-728 is dedicated to the public. Copyright in the unpublished
material in boxes 729-796 is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.). Consult a reference librarian
in the Manuscript Division for further information.
Restrictions: Restrictions apply governing the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian
in the Manuscript Division for information concerning these restrictions.
Security Classified Documents: Government regulations control the use of security classified items in this collection. Manuscript Division staff can furnish
information concerning access to and use of classified material.
Microfilm: A microfilm edition of part of these papers is available on forty-one reels. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript
Division concerning availability of the microfilm for purchase or interlibrary loan.
Preferred Citation: Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Clare Boothe
Luce Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
| Date |
Event |
| 1903, Mar. 10 |
Born Ann Clare Boothe |
| 1912-1913 |
Understudy to Mary Pickford in
A Good Little Devil
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| 1914 |
Understudy to Joyce Fair in
The Dummy
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| 1915 |
Acted small part in silent short film
The Heart of a Waif
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| 1915-1916 |
Attended Cathedral School of St. Mary's, Garden City, Long Island, N.Y. |
| 1917-1919 |
Attended Castle School, Tarrytown, N.Y. |
| 1923, Aug. 10 |
Married George Tuttle Brokaw (divorced 1929) |
| 1924, Aug. 12 |
Daughter Ann Clare Brokaw born (died Jan. 11, 1944) |
| 1929 |
Caption writer,
Vogue
Junior editor,
Vanity Fair
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| 1930-1932 |
Associate editor,
Vanity Fair
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| 1931 |
Published
Stuffed Shirts. New York: H. Liveright, Inc.
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| 1932-1934 |
Managing editor,
Vanity Fair
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| 1934-1935 |
"Abide with Me" staged at Beechwood Theater, Scarborough, N.Y; Ritz Theater, New York, N.Y. |
| 1935, Nov. 23 |
Married Henry Robinson Luce (died 1967) |
| 1936-1938 |
The Women played 657 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York, N.Y.; published New York: Random House, 1937
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| 1938 |
First of numerous international productions of
The Women, including theaters in London, Vienna, Paris; revivals in New York City in 1973 and in 1986 in London, England
Kiss the Boys Goodbye staged in New York, N.Y.; published New York: Random House, 1939; and released as a motion picture, 1941
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Release of
The Women as a motion picture; remade as a musical film entitled "The Opposite Sex," 1956
Margin for Error staged in New York, N.Y.; published New York: Random House, 1940; and released as a motion picture, 1943
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| 1940 |
Published
Europe in the Spring. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie
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| 1941-1942 |
Toured China, Burma, India, Philippines, North Africa, and Europe as war correspondent for
Life magazine
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| 1942-1946 |
Elected to Congress from the fourth congressional district of Connecticut; member of House Military Affairs Committee, 1943-1946,
and Joint Committee for Control of Atomic Energy, 1945-1946
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| 1944, June 27 |
First woman keynote speaker, Republican National Convention, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1944-1945 |
Toured European battlefront with congressional delegation |
| 1946 |
Converted to Roman Catholicism |
| 1947 |
Published "The Real Reason,"
McCall's magazine
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| 1948-1986 |
Syndicated newspaper columnist |
| 1949 |
Release of motion picture
Come to the Stable
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| 1951 |
Child of the Morning (play) staged in Boston, Mass.
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| 1952 |
Edited
Saints for Now. New York: Sheed and Ward
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| 1953-1956 |
Ambassador to Italy |
| 1959 |
Confirmed ambassador to Brazil by Senate; resigned before taking office |
| 1973-1977, 1980-1986 |
Member, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board |
| 1987, Oct. 9 |
Died, Washington, D.C. |
The papers of Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) span the years 1862-1988, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period
1930-1987. The collection covers all facets of Luce's career and personal relationships and includes
family and personal papers,
correspondence, and
secretarial,
literary, and
speech files. Public service files contain
congressional and
ambassadorial papers and records of the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
Subject files reflect Luce's involvement in political, civic, social, philanthropic, and religious organizations.
Closed and
restricted material have been placed in separate series.
Scrapbooks are available only in a microfilm edition.
Clare Boothe Luce was a public official and social critic who expressed her views in private correspondence; fiction and plays;
political and social commentary; newspaper, magazine, and editorial work; and on the lecture circuit. She was conscious of
having achieved success in the male-dominated fields of politics and publishing and became an advocate for expanded public
roles for women. International relations was her principal political emphasis. Religion became another concern after her conversion
to Roman Catholicism in 1946.
Luce collected
family and other personal papers with the intention of writing memoirs, a venture she never completed. Her family collection includes three mid-nineteenth
century diaries of her grandfather, John W. T. Boothe, a Baptist minister from Maryland. She survived her parents, brother,
daughter, and husband Henry Luce and saved many of their papers. Henry Luce's papers include correspondence with Clare Boothe
Luce, general and "V.I.P." correspondence, scrapbooks, speeches, Time-Life memoranda, a will, and writings. Other material
in the
Family and Personal Papers series relates to Henry Luce as well. Much of the family correspondence is addressed jointly to both Luces. In addition,
personal and real property was often held in common. The art files, for example, contain business and provenance records which
include correspondence with notable artists such as surrealists Philip Curtis and Frida Kahlo. Henry Luce also collected Asian
antiques. Clare Luce's own amateur works in painting, mosaic, and needlepoint are also documented in the art file. These records
together with appointment books, entertainment files, and financial and property records document the couple's personal interests
and activities.
Although correspondence comprising the bulk of Clare Boothe Luce's papers is found in every series, it is concentrated in
the
Correspondence series containing letters of a general and personal nature. Luce spoke and wrote on controversial topics to a mass audience
and received a great deal of mail in response, especially during presidential campaigns and following her conversion to Roman
Catholicism in 1946. She also corresponded with friends and colleagues on politics, religion, and literary or artistic undertakings.
Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, William Benton (1900-1973), William F. Buckley, Carlos Chávez, May-ling Soong Chiang,
Gerald Heard, John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969), John Davis Lodge, Joseph W. Martin (1884-1968),
John Courtney Murray, Fulton J. Sheen, Spyros Skouras, Clarence K. Streit, Mark Sullivan (1874-1952), Arthur H. Vandenberg,
and Darryl Francis Zanuck.
Luce employed a secretarial staff to assist with her literary and public service endeavors and to make arrangements for travel,
social activities, and household management. Communications between Luce and her secretaries and their communications with
others on Luce's behalf are organized chronologically in the
Secretarial File.
The
Literary File documents Luce's career as a journalist and playwright. She became an editor at
Vanity Fair magazine in 1930 as Clare Boothe Brokaw and corresponded with many leading writers, journalists, artists, and politicians.
Vanity Fair correspondence, suggestions for articles, reports, and staff memoranda are included in the
business records of the Literary File. The business records also include correspondence with agents, editors, publishers, attorneys, accountants,
theatrical directors, and producers about work in progress or proposed work. Production records are available for Luce's plays,
The Women (1936),
Kiss the
Boys Goodbye (1938), and
Margin for Error (1939). There are no working drafts of
The Women, only one scene description and other notes. The acting script for the 1936 Philadelphia tryout of
The Women has been preserved, however, as have scripts for many of the international productions of the play.
Luce published numerous
articles and editorials in various magazines and newspapers. She wrote extensively in the late 1940s and early 1950s on religious themes. Her conversion
is detailed in a 1947
McCall's magazine series, "The Real Reason." She also compiled and edited a book of essays by famous Roman Catholics,
Saints for Now (New York and London, 1952). She experimented with LSD under the tutelage of Gerald Heard and Sidney Cohen (1910- ) and scuba-diving,
which she described as the "Heaven Below" in a series of
Sports Illustrated articles.
Luce gave speeches and appeared at campaign rallies for Republican presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie in New York and
Connecticut. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms, serving from 1943 until 1947. Her
congressional files consist largely of
correspondence relating to speeches and statements related to World War II, economic and labor issues, the administration of price controls,
and the Equal Rights Amendment. Material concerning her battlefront tours with the House Committee on Military Affairs is
located in the
Office File subseries. Her 1945 correspondence concerns issues related to the end of World War II, such as the problems of demobilization
and proposals for peacetime conscription or universal military service. By volume, the greatest issue in the 1946 correspondence
is the shortage of women's stockings. William Hager, vice president of Hager & Brothers of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, directed
interested citizens to contact Congresswoman Luce. Letters came to her office from across the country stating that the stocking
situation was desperate and asking that the government reinstate orders compelling the producers of rayon yarn to sell to
hosiery manufacturers. In 1945-1946, Luce employed the services of public relations consultant Edward L. Bernays, who advised
her on sensitive issues such as the controversy that arose when the Daughters of the American Revolution, of which Luce was
a member, refused to admit African Americans to Constitution Hall.
Luce declined to run for a third congressional term. Though she never held elective office again, she was appointed to several
public service positions by Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan. Luce served as
ambassador to Italy from 1953 to 1956. Papers from this period include
correspondence, much of it in Italian, from political leaders, dignitaries, and Italian citizens; briefing and press reports; records relating
to missions, investigations, and projects undertaken by the embassy; interoffice memoranda and other State Department documents;
and entertainment and other files concerning the operation of Villa Taverna, the official residence of the American ambassador
in Rome. Papers concerning the Trieste crisis include narrative accounts and reports. Eisenhower nominated Luce as
ambassador to Brazil in 1959, but she withdrew before taking office when her public remarks about Senator Wayne Morse during her confirmation
hearings aroused considerable controversy. The nomination is documented in reports, memoranda, and political cartoons. Later
files relate to the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during the Nixon and Reagan administrations.
The
Speech File includes congressional campaign speeches and remarks on legislation and other governmental actions. Luce spoke in behalf
of Republican candidates after joining the party in 1940, gave religious testimony, and opposed communism in the 1950s and
1960s. She wrote most of her own speeches, though at times she solicited advice from policy experts and editorial advice from
her husband.
The
Subject File series also reflects Luce's involvement in politics and public policy, journalism and publishing, philanthropy and religion,
and civic and social interests. Luce's early political activities are documented in folders concerning her involvement in
the New National party movement of 1932 and her 1934 appointment to the National Recovery Administration's Code Authority
for the Motion Picture Industry. Later files document her nomination at the Connecticut Republican convention for the senatorial
race in 1952 and her proposed nomination by the New York Conservative party for the Senate in 1964. Luce's involvement in
public policy institutions, especially during the 1980s, included the American Enterprise Institute, American Security Council,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Committee on the Present Danger, Council of American Ambassadors, Heritage
Foundation, International Rescue Committee, United States Strategic Institute, and the World Strategy Network.
Republican party and presidential campaign records and additional papers concern the presidential administrations of Eisenhower,
Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan. Her work with the board of editors for the
Encyclopedia Britannica and a copy of the 1942 judicial decision in Corcoran vs. Time with reference to her 1931 proposal at
Vanity Fair to create a photographic magazine called
Life document some of her involvements in journalism and publishing. Subject files also relate to her religious conversion and
the founding and operation of a Cistercian-Trappist monastery at Mepkin Plantation in South Carolina on property donated by
the Luces in 1949.
Restricted material is filed in separate series. The larger series,
closed until 1997, contains papers related to every series in the collection organized in a parallel arrangement to the open series. A smaller
series of papers,
restricted until 2013, contains
Family and Personal Papers and
Correspondence.
The collection is arranged in sixteen series:
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Family and Personal Papers, 1862-1988, n.d.
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Correspondence, 1914-1988, n.d.
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Secretarial File, 1933-1988
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Literary File, 1919-1987, n.d.
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Congressional Papers, 1942-1947, n.d.
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Ambassador to Italy, 1953-1961, n.d.
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Ambassador to Brazil, 1959
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President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 1974-1987, n.d.
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Speech File, 1932-1987, n.d.
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Subject File, 1931-1987, n.d.
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Scrapbooks, 1917-1963
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Formerly Closed, 1914-1986, n.d.
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Restricted, 1914-1969, n.d.
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Classified, 1944-1983, n.d.
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Top Secret, 1953-1954, n.d.
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Oversize, 1937-1983
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Boothe Family Papers,
1862-1987,
n.d.
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Correspondence, death and funeral records, diaries, financial records, photographs, and school records. |
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Arranged alphabetically by name of family member and therein by type of material or subject matter. |
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Luce Family Papers,
1913-1987,
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Correspondence, death and funeral records, financial and legal records, photographs, school files, and other family papers
relating to Clare Boothe and Henry Robinson Luce and other members of the Luce family.
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Arranged alphabetically by name of family member and therein by type of material or subject matter. |
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Subject File,
1903-1988,
n.d.
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Address books, appointment calendars, art files, awards, biographical files, birthday and anniversary lists, Christmas card
and gift lists, diary fragments, entertainment and travel records, guest books, library catalogs, mailing lists, miscellany,
property and real estate records, and school files.
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Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material. An inventory precedes the biographical file. |
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General correspondence concerning Clare Boothe Luce's political, social, and religious beliefs and personal correspondence
with friends and colleagues in politics, the military, and diplomatic, artistic and religious circles.
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Arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically thereunder by name of correspondent. Selected correspondents are noted
within the alphabetical listing.
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Communications between Clare Boothe Luce and her private secretaries. |
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Arranged chronologically. |
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Business Records,
1926-1987
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Contracts, correspondence, financial records, photographs, posters, programs, review clippings, and other production or publication
records.
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Arranged alphabetically according to various categories. |
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Texts,
1919-1987,
n.d.
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Articles, Essays, Reviews, and Commentary,
1928-1986,
n.d.
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Published and unpublished writings including handwritten or typed drafts with notes and research material. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title. |
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Journals and Notebooks,
ca. 1944-1970,
n.d.
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Jottings of ideas for articles, books, and plays with notes on quotations and sources. |
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Arranged chronologically. |
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Memoirs,
1935-ca. 1960,
n.d.
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Manuscript of an incomplete unpublished memoir, a notebook concerning Luce's ambassadorship to Italy, and other notes. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title or type of material and therein chronologically. |
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Nonfiction Books, Pamphlets, and Proposals,
1940-1977,
n.d.
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Clippings, drafts, pageproofs, outlines, notes, and proposals. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title and therein chronologically. |
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Novels and Short Stories,
1919-1964,
n.d.
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Clippings, drafts, outlines, and notes. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title and therein chronologically. |
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Plays,
1919-1980,
n.d.
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Acting scripts, drafts, storylines, synopses, outlines, and notes. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title and therein chronologically. |
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Poetry,
1919-ca. 1950,
n.d.
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Printed copies and drafts. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title or type of material and therein chronologically. |
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Notes and Fragments,
ca. 1940-1987
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Notes and fragments of miscellaneous writings. |
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Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material and therein chronologically. |
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Correspondence,
1942-1947,
n.d.
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Correspondence concerning Luce's work in Congress. |
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Arranged by year and thereunder alphabetically. |
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Office File,
1942-1947,
n.d.
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Campaign and committee records, legislative files, statements and press releases, indexes for various mailing lists, political
cartoons, press reports, and miscellaneous files.
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Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material and therein chronologically. |
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Subject File,
1943-1946
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Briefing reports and notes. |
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Arranged alphabetically and therein chronologically. |
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Correspondence,
1953-1957,
n.d.
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Correspondence from Italian leaders and citizens, often in Italian, and from Americans visiting or planning to visit the American
embassy in Rome.
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Arranged by year and thereunder alphabetically. |
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Subject File,
1953-1961,
n.d.
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Briefing reports, memoranda, records of missions, investigations and embassy projects, personnel records, photographs, press
clippings and press reports, schedules, State Department records, and other files related to chancery operations.
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Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material and therein chronologically. |
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Clippings, correspondence, and subject files. |
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Arranged alphabetically. |
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Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and discussion papers. |
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Arranged chronologically with one additional folder of Paul Seabury cartoons. |
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Office File,
1941-1987,
n.d.
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Lecture bureau and agency records, appointment records, itineraries, lists of invitations declined and accepted, programs,
audience questions, requests, and partial indexes of audiences addressed and states in which lectures were delivered.
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Arranged alphabetically and therein chronologically. |
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Texts,
1932-1987,
n.d.
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Drafts, final texts, and an occasional printed version of speeches and remarks written by Luce or by her consultants or assistants.
Some include editorial remarks by Henry Robinson Luce and others.
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Arranged chronologically. |
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Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, reports, and other material concerning Luce's political, philanthropic, civic, religious,
and social activities and her association with various organizations, institutions, and individuals.
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Arranged alphabetically by topic or organization and therein chronologically. |
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BOX 725-728 REEL 1-41
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Correspondence, certificates, school memoriablia, photographs, play programs and promotional material, and cartoon sketches
removed from scrapbooks after filming.
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Arranged to conform to other series in the collection. |
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A microfilm version reproduces the entire scrapbooks in chronological order. Microfilm shelf no. 20,873. |
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BOX 729-790 not filmed
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| BOX 729-753
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Family and Personal Papers,
1919-1986,
n.d.
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Correspondence with Clare Boothe Luce and/or Henry Robinson Luce and papers pertaining to other Boothe and Luce family members.
Subject files include address books, appointment calendars, art and biographical files, birthday and Christmas files, diaries
and journals, entertainment and travel records, financial and legal records, miscellany, and property and real estate records.
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Arranged alphabetically. |
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| BOX 753-772
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Correspondence,
1914-1983,
n.d.
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Correspondence with friends and colleagues. |
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Arranged chronologically by year and thereunder alphabetically. |
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| BOX 772-773
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Secretarial File,
1943-1982
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Correspondence, memoranda, and notes to and from Luce's private secretaries. |
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Arranged chronologically. |
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| BOX 773-786
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Literary File,
1930-1977,
n.d.
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Business records and texts of articles, journals, nonfiction pamphlets, novels and short stories, plays, and poetry. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title. |
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| BOX 787-789
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Ambassador to Italy,
1953-1956
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Correspondence arranged chronologically and subject files arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material and therein
chronologically.
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| BOX 789-790
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Subject File,
1933-1973,
n.d.
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Correspondence and other records of activities. |
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Arranged alphabetically by topic and therein chronologically. |
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| BOX 791-796
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| BOX 791-794
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Family and Personal Papers,
1914-1966,
n.d.
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Boothe and Luce family correspondence with Clare Boothe Luce, records pertaining to other family members, and Luce's diaries,
journals, personal writings, and passport.
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Arranged alphabetically and therein chronologically. |
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| BOX 795-796
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Correspondence,
1921-1969,
n.d.
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Personal correspondence. |
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Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent and therein chronologically. |
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| BOX CL 1
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Material containing security classified information. |
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Organized and described according to the series, container, and folder from which the items were removed. |
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| BOX TS 1
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Material containing top secret information. |
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Organized and described according to the series, container, and folder from which the items were removed. |
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| BOX OV 1-OV 11
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Certificates, photographs, political cartoons, sketches, and scrapbooks. |
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Organized according to the series and containers from which the items were removed. |
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| BOX 1-87
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Family and Personal Papers,
1862-1988,
n.d.
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| BOX 1-13
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Boothe Family Papers,
1862-1987,
n.d.
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Correspondence, death and funeral records, diaries, financial records, photographs, and school records. |
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Arranged alphabetically by name of family member and therein by type of material or subject matter. |
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| BOX 1
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Correspondence with CBL |
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Austin, Albert E., 1938-1942 |
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Austin, Alice, 1942-1948, 1982 |
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Austin, Anna Snyder Boothe, 1935 |
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Boothe, Charles B., 1944-1949 |
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Boothe, David F., 1934-1948 |
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(7 folders)
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Boothe, Edwin M. (born Edward), 1938-1941 |
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Boothe, Nora Dawes, 1939-1950 |
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Boothe family, 1941-1962, 1984-1987 |
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Brokaw, Ann Clare, 1933-1942 |
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(2 folders)
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Keebles, Ida Boothe, 1944-1959 |
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Papers Pertaining to Other Family Members |
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