Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Henry Robinson Luce papers,

Title

• Henry Robinson Luce papers,

Summary

• Correspondence; manuscripts of speeches, writings, and unpublished book; legal and financial records; subject files; honorary degrees, awards, invitations, and citations; and other material relating primarily to Luce's advisory and philanthropic activities and, to a lesser degree, his career, households, finances, and travels. Major topics include the social, cultural, and political history of China, U.S. social and political history, ecology, education, Christianity, philanthropy, civil rights, and international law and are reflected in Luce's association with such organizations as China Institute in America, Council on Foreign Relations, Fifty Million Fund, Institute of Pacific Relations, Laymen's Movement for a Christian World, National Presbyterian Church, National Urban League, Rockefeller Brothers' Fund, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, United China Relief, United Service to China, Yale-In-China Association, and the Luce Professorship of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School.
• Correspondents include Raymond E. Baldwin, Lord Beaverbrook, Chester Bowles, Brendan Bracken, Pearl S. Buck, William C. Bullitt, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Walter H. Judd, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Henry Kissinger, Archibald MacLeish, Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Nelson A. Rockefeller, David O. Selznick, Spyros Panagiotes Skouras, Herbert Bayard Swope, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Thornton Wilder, and Wendell L. Willkie.

Names

• Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967

Headings

• -  Baldwin, Raymond E.--(Raymond Earl),--1893-1986--Correspondence
• -  Beaverbrook, Max Aitken,--Baron,--1879-1964--Correspondence
• -  Bowles, Chester,--1901-1986--Correspondence
• -  Bracken, Brendan,--1901-1958--Correspondence
• -  Buck, Pearl S.--(Pearl Sydenstricker),--1892-1973--Correspondence
• -  Bullitt, William C.--(William Christian),--1891-1967--Correspondence
• -  Dulles, John Foster,--1888-1959--Correspondence
• -  Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969--Correspondence
• -  Johnson, Lyndon B.--(Lyndon Baines),--1908-1973--Correspondence
• -  Judd, Walter H.,--1898-1994--Correspondence
• -  Lodge, Henry Cabot,--Jr.,--1902-1985--Correspondence
• -  Kissinger, Henry,--1923-2023--Correspondence
• -  MacLeish, Archibald,--1892-1982--Correspondence
• -  Menzies, Robert,--1894-1978--Correspondence
• -  Rockefeller, Nelson A.--(Nelson Aldrich),--1908-1979--Correspondence
• -  Selznick, David O.,--1902-1965--Correspondence
• -  Skouras, Spyros Panagiotes,--1893-1971--Correspondence
• -  Swope, Herbert Bayard,--1882-1958--Correspondence
• -  Vandenberg, Arthur H.--(Arthur Hendrick),--1884-1951--Correspondence
• -  Wilder, Thornton,--1897-1975--Correspondence
• -  Willkie, Wendell L.--(Wendell Lewis),--1892-1944--Correspondence
• -  China Institute in America
• -  Council on Foreign Relations
• -  Institute of Pacific Relations
• -  National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)
• -  National Urban League
• -  Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• -  United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
• -  United China Relief (U.S.)
• -  United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Fifty Million Fund
• -  Yale-in-China Association
• -  Yale Law School
• -  Christianity
• -  Civil rights
• -  Ecology
• -  Education
• -  Endowments
• -  International law
• -  Journalism
• -  Presbyterian Church--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Social history
• -  Social problems
• -  China--Cultural policy
• -  China--Politics and government
• -  China--Social conditions
• -  United Service to China

Notes

• -  Arranged in eight series. Series 1: Special Correspondence, 1935-1967; Series 2: Business and Social Correspondence, 1933-1967; Series 3: Subject File, 1933-1967; Series 4: Speeches and Writings File, 1928-1967; Series 5: Financial Papers, 1917-1967; Series 6: Miscellany, 1920-1967; Series 7: Addition, 1941; and Series 8: Oversize, 1945-1960.
• -  Gift, Clare Boothe Luce, 1971-1972.
• -  Gift, Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1980.
• -  Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
• -  Sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
• -  Editor, publisher, and philanthropist.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003045

Medium

• 35,000 items.
• 108 containers plus 2 oversize.
• 45 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm75030767

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm75030767

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record