James G. McDonald papers, 1838-1972, bulk 1914-1962

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Series I: Special Files, 1922-1972

This series contains correspondence with prominent public figures, primarily politicians and government officials such as Dean Acheson, Henry Stimpson, and Harry Truman. The files were originally part of the general correspondence found in Series II, but were removed and housed separately. They are arranged alphabetically by correspondent name.



Box 1 Folder 1 Acheson, Dean, 1945-1951


Box 1 Folder 2 Aldrich, Winthrop W, 1933


Box 1 Folder 3 Astor, Viscount and Viscountess (Nancy Langhorne), 1929-1931


Box 1 Folder 4 Baerwald, Paul, 1934-1961


Box 1 Folder 5 Baker, Newton D., 1932-1936


Box 1 Folder 6 Barrett, Edward Ware, 1949


Box 1 Folder 7 Baruch, Bernard M., 1932-1958


Box 1 Folder 8 Ben-Gurion, David,1946-1961


Box 1 Folder 9 Benton, William, 1945-1959


Box 1 Folder 10 Berle, Adolph A., Jr., 1932-1943


Box 1 Folder 11 Ben-Zvi, Itashak, 1954-1961


Box 1 Folder 12 Berlin, Irving, 1951


Box 1 Folder 13 Bernstein, Leonard, 1949-1958


Box 1 Folder 14 Black, Hugo, 1950


Box 1 Folder 15 Bloom, Sol, 1944


Box 1 Folder 16 Bok, Curtis, 1928-1934


Box 1 Folder 17 Bowles, Charles, 1953


Box 1 Folder 18 Bradley, Omar, 1949


Box 1 Folder 19 Brandeis, Louis D., 1931-1934


Box 1 Folder 20 Brannan, Charles, 1949


Box 1 Folder 21 Brooks, Van Wyck, 1951


Box 1 Folder 22 Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1931-1946


Box 1 Folder 23 Byrnes, James, 1945-1946


Box 1 Folder 24 Cantor, Eddie, 1937-1960


Box 1 Folder 25 Cardozo, Benjamin V., 1934-1935


Box 1 Folder 26 Celler, Emanuel, 1938-1949


Box 1 Folder 27 to 30 Chamberlain, Joseph P., 1933-1938 (4 Folders), 1933-1938



Box 2 Folder 1 Chamberlain, Joseph P., 1939-1945


Box 2 Folder 2 Clay, Lucius D., 1949


Box 2 Folder 3 Cohen, Benjamin V., 1945-1946


Box 2 Folder 4 Clayton, William L, 1944-1946


Box 2 Folder 5 Coudert, Frederic R., 1933-1936


Box 2 Folder 6 Davies, Joseph E., 1942-1943


Box 2 Folder 7 Davis, Elmer, 1939-1954


Box 2 Folder 8 Davis, Norman, 1932-1942


Box 2 Folder 9 Dewy, Thomas E., 1942-1944


Box 2 Folder 10 Donovan, William J., 1940-1941


Box 2 Folder 11 Douglas, William O., 1948-1949,1960


Box 2 Folder 12 Dubinsky, David, 1940-1959


Box 2 Folder 13 Dulles, Allen W., 1942


Box 2 Folder 14 Dulles, John Foster, 1938-1954


Box 2 Folder 15 Eban, Abba, 1951-1961


Box 2 Folder 16 Einstein, Albert, 1933-1949


Box 2 Folder 17 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1948-1954


Box 2 Folder 18 Eshkol, Levi, 1953-1961


Box 2 Folder 19 Ford, Henry, II, 1941,1944


Box 2 Folder 20 Forrestal, James V., 1945-1948


Box 2 Folder 21 Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1933, 1948-1957, 1933, 1948-1957


Box 2 Folder 22 Fosdick, Raymond B., 1933,1972


Box 2 Folder 23 Frank, Jerome N., 1938


Box 2 Folder 24 Frankfurter, Felix, 1933-1953


Box 2 Folder 25 Fulbright, J. William, 1946,1957


Box 2 Folder 26 Green, William, 1934-1935


Box 2 Folder 27 Harriman, W. Averell, 1943,1957


Box 2 Folder 28 Hayes, Carlton J.H., 1922-1945


Box 2 Folder 29 Herter, Christian A., 1942-1957


Box 2 Folder 30 Hoffman, Paul G., 1943-1944


Box 2 Folder 31 Hoover, Herbert, 1929-1954


Box 2 Folder 32 Hoover, J. Edgar, 1942


Box 2 Folder 33 House, Edward M., 1932


Box 2 Folder 34 Hughes, Charles Evans, 1924-1930


Box 2 Folder 35 Hull, Cordell, 1933-1946


Box 2 Folder 36 Javits, Jacob K., 1949.1959


Box 2 Folder 37 Jessel, George, 1941-1945


Box 2 Folder 38 Jessup, Philip C., and Mrs. (Lois K.), 1932, 1941-1960, 1932, 1941-1960


Box 2 Folder 39 Kennedy, Joseph P., 1938, 1946, 1938, 1946


Box 2 Folder 40 Kellog, Paul, 1933


Box 2 Folder 41 Kennedy, Joseph P., 1938, 1946, 1938, 1946


Box 2 Folder 42 Knopf, Alfred A., 1936,1947



Box 3 Folder 1 Kollek, Theodore, 1951-1958


Box 3 Folder 2 Krock, Arthur, 1939-1961


Box 3 Folder 3 La Guardia, Fiorello, 1943-1946


Box 3 Folder 4 Lehman, Irving, 1935-1945


Box 3 Folder 5 Lamont, Thomas W., 1922-1944


Box 3 Folder 6 Laval, Pierre, 1931


Box 3 Folder 7 Leffingwell, Russell, 1934


Box 3 Folder 8 Lehman, Herbert, 1932-1961


Box 3 Folder 9 Leidesdorf, S.D. & Co., 1946-1961


Box 3 Folder 10 Lerner, Max, 1949


Box 3 Folder 11 Lindbergh, Charles A., 1944-1946


Box 3 Folder 12 Lippmann, Walter, 1933-1953


Box 3 Folder 13 Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1952


Box 3 Folder 14 Macdonald, J. Ramsey, 1932


Box 3 Folder 15 Magnes, Judah L., 1946


Box 3 Folder 16 Mann, Thomas, 1940


Box 3 Folder 17 Marshall, George C., 1948-1949


Box 3 Folder 18 Masaryk, Jan, 1937


Box 3 Folder 19 McDonald, James G., 1928-1946


Box 3 Folder 20 McNutt, Paul V., 1938, 1942, 1938, 1942


Box 3 Folder 21 Meir, Golda, 1961, 1958, 1951, 1961, 1958, 1951


Box 3 Folder 22 Mellon, Andrew W., 1930


Box 3 Folder 23 Meyer, Eugene, 1934-1961


Box 3 Folder 24 Moley, Raymond, 1932-1933, 1936, 1932-1933, 1936


Box 3 Folder 25 Morgenthau, Henry, Sr. and Mrs. Josephine Sykes Morgenthau, 1922, 1930-1937


Box 3 Folder 26 Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. and Mrs. Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, 1939-1953


Box 3 Folder 27 Morgenthau, Henry III, 1930


Box 3 Folder 28 Murphy, Frank, 1940


Box 3 Folder 29 Murrow, Edward R., 1934-1935


Box 3 Folder 30 Nelson, Donald M., 1943


Box 3 Folder 31 Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1946


Box 3 Folder 32 Norris, George W., 1942


Box 3 Folder 33 Patterson, Robert P., 1943


Box 3 Folder 34 Poletti, Charles, 1936-1942


Box 3 Folder 35 Potofsky, Jacob S., 1949-1954


Box 3 Folder 36 Proskauer, Joseph M., 1939-1959


Box 3 Folder 37 Rabi, Isidor I., 1959


Box 3 Folder 38 Reid, Ogden R., 1952-1960


Box 3 Folder 39 Reid, Helen Rogers, 1948-1953


Box 3 Folder 40 Rickenbacker, Edward V., 1943-1944


Box 3 Folder 41 Robinson, Edward G., 1953-1954


Box 3 Folder 42 Rockefeller, David, 1939-1941


Box 3 Folder 43 Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 1927-1958


Box 3 Folder 44 Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1942-1955


Box 3 Folder 45 Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 1949-1950


Box 3 Folder 46 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1932-1943


Box 3 Folder 47 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1932-1936



Box 4 Folder 1 Roosevelt, James, 1950


Box 4 Folder 2 Rosenberg, Anna M., 1941-1949


Box 4 Folder 3-4 Rosenberg, James N., 1937-1961 (2 Folders), 1937-1961



Oversize Box 39 Folder 5 Rosenberg, James N.--German Protest Poster, circa, 1930s



Box 4 Folder 5 Rosenwald, William, 1935-196


Box 4 Folder 6 Salter, Sir Arthur, 1935


Box 4 Folder 7 Sarnoff, David, 1938-1959


Box 4 Folder 8 Schiff, Dorothy, 1952-1953


Box 4 Folder 9 Seligman, Eustace, 1932-1954


Box 4 Folder 10 Shotwell, James T., 1932-1953


Box 4 Folder 11 Silver, Abba Hillel, 1949-1960


Box 4 Folder 12 Silver, Charles H., 1954-1960


Box 4 Folder 13 Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 1949, 1951, 1949, 1951


Box 4 Folder 14 Stettinius, Edward R., 1943-1946


Box 4 Folder 15 Stimson, Henry L., 1930-1933, 1942-1946, 1930-1933, 1942-1946


Box 4 Folder 16 Stone, Dewey D., 1950-1961


Box 4 Folder 17 Straus, Roger W., 1948-1954


Box 4 Folder 18 Straus, Lewis L., 1934-1959


Box 4 Folder 19 Taylor, Myron C, 1941-1953


Box 4 Folder 20 Sulzberger, Arthur H., 1932-1957


Box 4 Folder 21 Swope, Gerald, 1936, 1949-1958, 1936, 1949-1958


Box 4 Folder 22 Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1934, 1945-1951, 1934, 1945-1951


Box 4 Folder 23 Taft, Robert A., 1939-1944, 1953, 1939-1944, 1953



Oversize Box 39 Folder 24 Thomas, Norman, 1941



Box 4 Folder 25 Thompson, Dorothy, 1936-1942



Box 5 Folder 1 Truman, Harry S., 1944-1961


Box 5 Folder 2 Vandenberg, Arthur H., 1945-1948


Box 5 Folder 3 Wagner, Robert , Sr., 1934, 1945-1949, 1934, 1945-1949


Box 5 Folder 4 Wald, Lillian, 1933-1936


Box 5 Folder 5 Warburg, Felix M., 1933-1934


Box 5 Folder 6 Warburg, Edward M. M., 1940-1960


Box 5 Folder 7 Warburg, Felix M., 1935-1936


Box 5 Folder 8 Warburg, Frieda Schiff, 1933, 1948-1958, 1933, 1948-1958


Box 5 Folder 9 Weizmann, Chaim, 1945-1955


Box 5 Folder 10 Welles, Sumner, 1942-1952


Box 5 Folder 11 Whalen, Grover, 1941


Box 5 Folder 12 Wilkie, Wendell L, 1939-1947


Box 5 Folder 13 Weizmann Institute, 1952-1959


Box 5 Folder 14 Wise, Stephen S., 1934-1949


Box 5 Folder 15 Young, Owen D., 1928-1933