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Title

  • Calvin Coolidge Papers

Summary

  • Files of the Executive Office of the President from the Calvin Coolidge presidential administration consisting chiefly of incoming correspondence; draft replies; carbon copies of outgoing letters from Coolidge or one of his secretaries, Edward Tracy Clark, Everett Sanders, and C. Bascom Slemp; incoming telegraph messages; appointment books; and volumes containing names and addresses of White House guests. Also includes telegraph messages from the first months of the Herbert Hoover presidential administration as well as personal correspondence and writings. Subjects include economic and social conditions, foreign relations especially with Latin America, political affairs, prohibition, and World War I veterans.
  • Correspondents include Lincoln C. Andrews, James M. Beck, Mark L. Bristol, William Smith Culbertson, Alfred Pearce Dennis, Charles Schuveldt Dewey, Henry Percival Dodge, Milton Stover Eisenhower, John Gilman Foster, Howard M. Gore, Joseph C. Grew, John Hays Hammond, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, William Marion Jardine, Frank B. Kellogg, Charles A. Lindbergh, Nicholas Longworth, David Lynn, Hanford MacNider, George H. Moses, Harry S. New, Peter Norbeck, Robert Edwin Olds, William Joseph O'Toole, William Phillips, Gifford Pinchot, Miles Poindexter, Atlee Pomerene, John Dyneley Prince, Theodore Douglas Robinson, William Worthington Russell, Henry Cantwell Wallace, Ira Kent Wells, Roy Owen West, Frank B. Willis, Garrard Bigelow Winston, and Leonard Wood.

Names

  • Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

Headings

  • -  Andrews, Lincoln C.--(Lincoln Clarke),--1867-1950--Correspondence
  • -  Beck, James M.--(James Montgomery),--1861-1936--Correspondence
  • -  Bristol, Mark L.--(Mark Lambert),--1868-1939--Correspondence
  • -  Clark, Edward Tracy,--1878-1935--Correspondence
  • -  Culbertson, William Smith,--1884-1966--Correspondence
  • -  Dennis, Alfred Pearce,--1869-1931--Correspondence
  • -  Dewey, Charles Schuveldt,--1880-1980--Correspondence
  • -  Dodge, Henry Percival,--1870-1936--Correspondence
  • -  Eisenhower, Milton Stover,--1899-1985--Correspondence
  • -  Foster, John Gilman,--1859-1931--Correspondence
  • -  Gore, Howard M.--Correspondence
  • -  Grew, Joseph C.--(Joseph Clark),--1880-1965--Correspondence
  • -  Hammond, John Hays,--1888-1965--Correspondence
  • -  Hoover, Herbert,--1874-1964
  • -  Hoover, Herbert,--1874-1964--Correspondence
  • -  Hughes, Charles Evans,--1862-1948--Correspondence
  • -  Jardine, William Marion,--1879-1955--Correspondence
  • -  Kellogg, Frank B.--(Frank Billings),--1856-1937--Correspondence
  • -  Lindbergh, Charles A.--(Charles Augustus),--1902-1974--Correspondence
  • -  Longworth, Nicholas,--1869-1931--Correspondence
  • -  Lynn, David,--1873-1961--Correspondence
  • -  MacNider, Hanford,--1889-1968--Correspondence
  • -  Moses, George H.--(George Higgins),--1869-1944--Correspondence
  • -  New, Harry S.--(Harry Stewart),--1858-1937--Correspondence
  • -  Norbeck, Peter,--1870-1936--Correspondence
  • -  Olds, Robert Edwin,--1875-1932--Correspondence
  • -  O'Toole, William Joseph,--1893-1928--Correspondence
  • -  Phillips, William,--1878-1968--Correspondence
  • -  Pinchot, Gifford,--1865-1946--Correspondence
  • -  Poindexter, Miles,--1868-1946--Correspondence
  • -  Pomerene, Atlee,--1863-1937--Correspondence
  • -  Prince, John Dyneley,--1868-1945--Correspondence
  • -  Robinson, Theodore Douglas,--1883-1934--Correspondence
  • -  Russell, William Worthington,--1859---Correspondence
  • -  Sanders, Everett,--1882-1950--Correspondence
  • -  Slemp, C. Bascom--(Campbell Bascom),--1870-1943--Correspondence
  • -  Wallace, Henry Cantwell,--1866-1924--Correspondence
  • -  Wells, Ira Kent,--1871-1934--Correspondence
  • -  West, Roy Owen,--1868-1958--Correspondence
  • -  Willis, Frank B.--(Frank Bartlette),--1871-1928--Correspondence
  • -  Winston, Garrard Bigelow,--1882-1955--Correspondence
  • -  Wood, Leonard,--1860-1927--Correspondence
  • -  United States.--Executive Office of the President
  • -  White House (Washington, D.C.)
  • -  Prohibition
  • -  Veterans--United States
  • -  World War, 1914-1918--Veterans
  • -  Latin America--Foreign relations--United States
  • -  United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945
  • -  United States--Foreign relations--1923-1929
  • -  United States--Foreign relations--Latin America
  • -  United States--Politics and government--1923-1929
  • -  United States--Politics and government--1929-1933
  • -  United States--Social conditions--1918-1932
  • -  Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs

Notes

  • -  Arranged in four series. Series 1: Executive Office Correspondence, 1923-1929; Series 2: Additional Correspondence, 1921-1929; Series 3: Reception Lists, 1925-1927; and Series 4: Addition, 1915-1932.
  • -  Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Calvin Coolidge Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Microfilm edition of Series 1-3 available, no. 12,731.
  • -  Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1963.
  • -  Deposit, Calvin Coolidge, 1929.
  • -  Converted to gift, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, 1953.
  • -  Gift, purchase, and transfer, 1921-2022.
  • -  Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
  • -  U.S. president, lawyer, and businessman.
  • -  Collection material in English.
  • -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009246
  • -  Index published by the Library of Congress in 1965 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet. Cataloged in record 65060004.

Medium

  • 179,000 items.
  • 294 containers.
  • 190 microfilm reels.
  • 43 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

  • mm79016741

Access Advisory

  • Open to research.

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Coolidge, Calvin. Calvin Coolidge Papers. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/collections/calvin-coolidge-papers/about-this-collection/.

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