Charles W. Poletti papers, 1920-1991, bulk 1923-1970

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Series I: Correspondence, 1865-1982

This series contains incoming and outgoing correspondence in English and Italian and spans much of Poletti's life. While some of the material relates to his work and discusses specific bills or laws, most of the material is more personal in nature, and consists of letters of congratulation, invitations, and short notes and letters from friends, family, and political figures. Some letters are accompanied by photographs of Poletti at public events. Correspondence is filed alphabetically by name of individual or institution. Documents filed under Poletti's name consist of correspondence with Who's Who and many articles that provide basic biographical information.



Box 1 Folder 1 A-Ame, 1937-1959


Box 1 Folder 2 Amp-Av, 1942-1964


Box 1 Folder 3 Acheson, Dean, 1945-1958


Box 1 Folder 4 Ahepa, Order of, 1939-1942


Box 1 Folder 5 Aiken, George D., 1941-1960


Box 1 Folder 6 Alfange, Dean, 1940-1955


Box 1 Folder 7 American Civil Liberties Union, 1935-1941


Box 1 Folder 8 American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, 1939-1942


Box 1 Folder 9 American Labor Party, 1939-1942


Box 1 Folder 10 American Legion, 1939


Box 1 Folder 11 Angell, Montgomery B., 1940-1959


Box 1 Folder 12 Anfuso, Victor L., 1939-1955


Box 1 Folder 13 Antonini, Luigi, 1939-1960


Box 1 Folder 14 Association of Towns, 1941-1983


Box 1 Folder 15 Ba, 1937-1963


Box 1 Folder 16 Babcock, H.E., 1940-1941


Box 1 Folder 17 Backer, George, 1937-1941


Box 1 Folder 18 Baldelli, Ferdinando, 1946


Box 1 Folder 19 Barton, Bruce, 1940


Box 1 Folder 20 Batista, Fulgencio, 1938


Box 1 Folder 21 Battle, George Gordon, 1938-1943


Box 1 Folder 22 Be, 1942-1970


Box 1 Folder 23 Beaverbrook, Lord, 1941


Box 1 Folder 24 Benton, William, 1950-1954


Box 1 Folder 25 Berle, Adolf A., Jr., 1937-1955


Box 1 Folder 26 Bernays, Edward L., 1942-1943


Box 1 Folder 27 Bernstein, Henri, 1942


Box 1 Folder 28 Bertolini, Captain Edoardo G., 1940



Box 2 Folder 1 Bi, 1942


Box 2 Folder 2 Bianchi, Adele and Carlo, 1939-1965


Box 2 Folder 3 Biddle, Francis, 1941-1942


Box 2 Folder 4 Bingham, Jonathan B., 1955-1957


Box 2 Folder 5 Bl, 1942


Box 2 Folder 6 Bo, 1940-1966


Box 2 Folder 7 Boland, John P., 1938-1942


Box 2 Folder 8 Bonbright, James C., 1941


Box 2 Folder 9 Botein, Bernard, 1942-1967


Box 2 Folder 10 Brandeis, Louis D., 1935


Box 2 Folder 11 Brick Presbyterian Church, 1953-1968


Box 2 Folder 12 Broun, Heywood, 1939-1940


Box 2 Folder 13 Brown, Earl L., 1938-1980


Box 2 Folder 14 Brownell, George A., 1937-1959


Box 2 Folder 15 Brownell, Herbert, Jr., 1932-1952


Box 2 Folder 16 Br, 1933-1957


Box 2 Folder 17 Bu, 1937-1959


Box 2 Folder 18 Burlingham, Charles, 1937-1940


Box 2 Folder 19 Ca, 1934-1969


Box 2 Folder 20 Carson, Ralph, 1928-1942


Box 2 Folder 21 Carter, Elmer A., 1940-1973


Box 2 Folder 22 Carusi, Ugo, 1942


Box 2 Folder 23 Ce, 1941-1955


Box 2 Folder 24 Ch, 1936-1971


Box 2 Folder 25 Ci, 1940-1955



Box 3 Folder 1 Cl, 1939-1958


Box 3 Folder 2 Cliff Haven--Catholic Summer School, 1939


Box 3 Folder 3 Co, 1937-1973


Box 3 Folder 4 Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 1941-1946


Box 3 Folder 5 Conti, Piero, 1953-1955


Box 3 Folder 6 Corscadden, Arthur, 1933-1954


Box 3 Folder 7 Corsi, Edward, 1940


Box 3 Folder 8 Cr, 1942-1970


Box 3 Folder 9 Cray, E.F., 1942


Box 3 Folder 10 Criscuolo, Luigi, 1941-1942


Box 3 Folder 11 Crugnola, Dino and Family, 1953-1964


Box 3 Folder 12 Cu-Cz, 1937-1978


Box 3 Folder 13 Cummings, Homer, 1936-1942


Box 3 Folder 14 Curran, Edward Lodge, 1938-1939


Box 3 Folder 15 D, 1937-1970


Box 3 Folder 16 Daffinee, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph and Jean, 1922-1959


Box 3 Folder 17 D'Amanda, Francis J., 1937-1940


Box 3 Folder 18 Daru, Robert, 1942-1943


Box 3 Folder 19 Davidson, Maurice P., 1941-1948


Box 3 Folder 20 Davis, John W., 1940-1955


Box 3 Folder 21 De Chambrun, Rene, 1932-1977



Box 4 Folder 1 Democratic County Committee, 1936-1960


Box 4 Folder 2 Democratic National Committee, 1932-1973


Box 4 Folder 3 Democratic State Committee, 1937-1966


Box 4 Folder 4 Desmond, Charles S., 1942-1954


Box 4 Folder 5 Desmond, Thomas C., 1937-1958


Box 4 Folder 6 Dewey, Thomas E., 1936-1947


Box 4 Folder 7 Diamond, Milton, 1941-1955


Box 4 Folder 8 Dodge, Eleanor, 1941-1977


Box 4 Folder 9 Dubinsky, David, 1940-1975


Box 4 Folder 10 E, 1942-1972


Box 4 Folder 11 Eastman, Edward R., 1939-1942


Box 4 Folder 12 Ellis, J. William, 1934-1974


Box 4 Folder 13 to 14 F, 1940-1958, (2 Folders)


Box 4 Folder 15 Farley, James A., 1931-1972


Box 4 Folder 16 Foley, Edward H., Jr., 1937-1942


Box 4 Folder 17 Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1941-1960



Box 5 Folder 1 to 2 Frankfurter, Felix, 1928-1965, (2 Folders)


Box 5 Folder 3 Freeman, Fulton and Family, 1942-1978


Box 5 Folder 4 Freidin, Jesse, 1938-1971


Box 5 Folder 5 Friendly, Henry J., 1927-1959


Box 5 Folder 6 G-Goe, 1940-1943


Box 5 Folder 7 Gol-Gu, 1937-1942


Box 5 Folder 8 Galeazzi, Enrico Pietro, 1945-1946


Box 5 Folder 9 Glueck, Sheldon, 1942


Box 5 Folder 10 Griswold, Erwin, 1954-1965


Box 5 Folder 11 Gutman, Daniel, 1942-1959


Box 5 Folder 12 Ha, 1937-1975


Box 5 Folder 13 Hanley, Joe R., 1939-1942



Box 6 Folder 1 Harriman, W. Averell, 1941-1973


Harvard University


Box 6 Folder 2 Harvard College and Law School, 1920-1955


Box 6 Folder 3 Graduation Clippings, 1924


Box 6 Folder 4 Class of 1924, 1924-1977, 1924, 1924-1977


Box 6 Folder 5 Harvard Fund Contributions, 1940-1980


Box 6 Folder 6 Board of Overseers, 1937-1942


Box 6 Folder 7 Hayes, Patrick, Cardinal, 1937


Box 6 Folder 8 He, 1938-1955


Box 6 Folder 9 Heck, Oswald D., 1941-1959


Box 6 Folder 10 Heming, Lucile W. (Later, Koshland, L.W.), 1931-1978


Box 6 Folder 11 Henricks, Mrs. Walter A. and Tonawanda Indians, 1939-1941


Box 6 Folder 12 Herrick, Elinore M., 1941-1942


Box 6 Folder 13 Herzog, Paul M., 1937-1957


Box 6 Folder 14 Herzstein, Harold L., 1935-1958


Box 6 Folder 15 Hi, 1940-1959


Box 6 Folder 16 Hillman, Sidney, 1940-1942



Box 7 Folder 1 Ho, 1942


Box 7 Folder 2 Hopkins, Harry, 1939-1942


Box 7 Folder 3 Hu-Hz, 1937-1968


Box 7 Folder 4 Hudson, Manley O.,1928-1966


Box 7 Folder 5 I, 1937-1959


Box 7 Folder 6 Ingegnieros, Jack, 1935-1942


Box 7 Folder 7 Inglis, Ellen, 1921-1922


Box 7 Folder 8 Italy America Society, 1924-1928


Box 7 Folder 9 J, 1937-1955


Box 7 Folder 10 Jackson, Robert H., 1935-1940


Box 7 Folder 11 Johnson, Harold B., 1938-1944


Box 7 Folder 12 Johnson, Lyndon B., 1965-1968


Box 7 Folder 13 Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 1937-1946


Box 7 Folder 14 K, 1937-1955


Box 7 Folder 15 Kiendl, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore and Frances Vaughan, 1942-1976


Box 7 Folder 16 Klaus, Erwin H., 1940-1942


Box 7 Folder 17 Kopple, Robert, 1956-1979


Box 7 Folder 18 Kuhn, Delia W. and Ferdinand, Jr., 1934-1979


Box 7 Folder 19 La, 1937-1951


Box 7 Folder 20 Ladd, Carl E. (New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell), 1937-1942



Box 63 Folder 1 LaGuardia, Fiorello--Campaign Fliers, circa, 1942



Box 8 Folder 1 LaGuardia, Fiorello, 1934-1942


Box 8 Folder 2 to 4 Lamont, Corliss, 1930-1983, (3 Folders)


Box 8 Folder 5 Lamont, Eleanor, 1924-1948


Box 8 Folder 6 Lamont, Thomas S., 1928-1972


Box 8 Folder 7 Lamont, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. and Florence Corliss, 1924-1948


Box 8 Folder 8 Le, 1939-1975


Box 8 Folder 9 Legion for American Unity, 1941-1942


Box 8 Folder 10 Lehman, Edith A., 1932-1976


Box 8 Folder 11 to 12 Lehman, Herbert H., 1933-1942, (2 Folders)



Box 63 Folder 6 Lehman, Herbert H.--New York Executive Chamber Documents Signed to Poletti,, 1936



Box 9 Folder 1 to 2 Lehman, Herbert H., 1943-1963, (2 Folders)


Box 9 Folder 3 Lehman, Irving, 1938-1939


Box 9 Folder 4 Levitt, Arthur, 1954-1959


Box 9 Folder 5 Lexington Democratic Club, 1953-1959


Box 9 Folder 6 Li, 1941-1967


Box 9 Folder 7 Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1933


Box 9 Folder 8 Lo, 1929-1953


Box 9 Folder 9 Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1950-1953


Box 9 Folder 10 Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1931-1933


Box 9 Folder 11 Lu-Lz, 1939-1974


Box 9 Folder 12 Luce, Clare Booth, 1933-1944


Box 9 Folder 13 Lyons, Gerald,1940-1941


Box 9 Folder 14 Ma, 1934-1968


Box 9 Folder 15 Marshall, Thurgood, 1940


Box 9 Folder 16 Mc, 1934-1942


Box 9 Folder 17 McCloy, John J.,1942-1966


Box 9 Folder 18 Me, 1937-1959


Box 9 Folder 19 Mead, James M., 1938-1942


Box 9 Folder 20 Meany, George, 1935-1974


Box 9 Folder 21 Mi, 1939-1956



Box 10 Folder 1 Miller, Frieda S., 1938-1940


Box 10 Folder 2 Millonzi, Robert I., 1942-1967


Box 10 Folder 3 Mills, Saul, 1942


Box 10 Folder 4 Mo, 1933-1960


Box 10 Folder 5 Monod, Philippe, 1967-1970


Box 10 Folder 6 Morrow, Dwight W. and Elizabeth C., 1927-1930


Box 10 Folder 7 Morrow, Elizabeth R., 1929-1934


Box 10 Folder 8 Morse, David A., 1944-1967


Box 10 Folder 9 Moses, Robert, 1952-1982


Box 10 Folder 10 Moynihan, Daniel P.,1955-1982


Box 10 Folder 11 Mu-My, 1942-1955


Box 10 Folder 12 N, 1942-1964


Box 10 Folder 13 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.),, 1939-1966


Box 10 Folder 14 National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1938-1941


Box 10 Folder 15 National Council of Young Israel, 1939-1941


Box 10 Folder 16 National Lawyers Guild, 1939



Box 11 Folder 1 Neufeld, Maurice F., 1941-1982


Box 11 Folder 2 The New Republic, 1940-1941


Box 11 Folder 3 New York State Council of Churches, 1940-1942


Box 11 Folder 4 New York Stock Exchange, 1940-1941


Box 11 Folder 5 Niles, David K., 1942-1953


Box 11 Folder 6 O, 1937-1983


Box 11 Folder 7 O'Dwyer, William, 1942-1949


Box 11 Folder 8 Orlando, Vittorio, 1944


Box 11 Folder 9 Ottman, William, 1942


Box 11 Folder 10 Pa, 1936-1960


Box 11 Folder 11 Palladino, Giuseppe, 1949-1965


Box 11 Folder 12 Parri, Feruccio, 1945


Box 11 Folder 13 Pe, 1937-1953


Box 11 Folder 14 Perkins, Frances, 1936-1965


Box 11 Folder 15 Ph-Pm, 1942-1957


Box 11 Folder 16 Po, 1937-1957


Box 11 Folder 17 Poletti, Carla Knox (Mrs. Kyril R. Tidmarsh), 1942-1960


Box 11 Folder 18 Poletti Family Correspondence, 1865-1875


Box 11 Folder 19 Poletti, Carolina G. (Mother), 1922-1978



Box 12 Folder 1 to 7 Poletti, Charles


Box 12 Folder 1 Biographical Information, 1924-1964


Box 12 Folder 2 to 4 Clippings, 1929-1969, (3 Folders)


Box 12 Folder 5 Correspondence with Cousins, 1929-1956


Box 12 Folder 6 Correspondence with Friends from Barre, Vermont, 1920-1924


Box 12 Folder 7 Personal and Financial Affairs, 1928-1966



Box 63 Folder 2 Personal and Financial Affairs, 1930-1939


Box 63 Folder 3 Vermont Background, 1922-1973



Box 13 Folder 1 Personal and Financial (Elizabethtown, NJ), 1941-1942


Box 13 Folder 2 "Self Analysis of Personal Traits,", 1924


Box 13 Folder 3 Vermont Background, 1922-1973


Box 13 Folder 4 Poletti, Charles Ellis, 1938-1979



Box 63 Folder 4 Poletti, Charles Ellis--Clippings, 1954



Box 13 Folder 5 Poletti, Dino (Grandfather) and Poletti, Maria Cavigioli (Grandmother), 1890-1895


Box 13 Folder 6 Poletti, Dino (Father), 1922


Box 13 Folder 7 Poletti, Jean Knox, 1939-1974, (2 Folders)


Box 13 Folder 8 Poletti, Jean Knox--Clippings, 1940-1944



Box 63 Folder 5 Poletti, Jean Knox--Clippings,1974



Box 14 Folder 1 Poletti, Joanna Shattuck, 1941-1965


Box 14 Folder 2 Polier, Justine Wise, 1926-1973


Box 14 Folder 3 Polk, Frank L., 1937-1942


Box 14 Folder 4 Pope, Generoso, 1940-1946


Box 14 Folder 5 Pope, Paul VI, 1944-1958


Box 14 Folder 6 Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1942


Box 14 Folder 7 Pr-Pu, 1937-1973


Box 14 Folder 8 Prendergast, Michael H., 1956-1960


Box 14 Folder 9 Q, 1939-1968


Box 14 Folder 10 R, 1937-1978


Box 14 Folder 11 Rabin, Benjamin J., 1937-1968


Box 14 Folder 12 Rockefeller, John D. III, 1941-1966


Box 14 Folder 13 Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1953-1967


Box 14 Folder 14 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1940-1964


Box 14 Folder 15 Roosevelt, Franklin, D., 1930-1955


Box 14 Folder 16 Rose, Alex, 1938-1966


Box 14 Folder 17 Rosenberg, Anna M., 1940-1950


Box 14 Folder 18 Rosenman, Samuel I., 1937-1966


Box 14 Folder 19 Rossini, Vincenzo, 1937-1942



Box 15 Folder 1 Sa, 1939-1958


Box 15 Folder 2 Sc, 1939-1960


Box 15 Folder 3 Schlesinger, Emil, 1938-1967


Box 15 Folder 4 Schwarz, Frederick A.O., 1938-1981


Box 15 Folder 5 Se-Sf, 1939-1958


Box 15 Folder 6 Sforza, Count Carlo, 1941-1943


Box 15 Folder 7 Sh, 1937-1958


Box 15 Folder 8 Shattuck, Mr. and Mrs. John and Grace Costello and Family, 1941-1963


Box 15 Folder 9 Shientag, Florence Perlow, 1954


Box 15 Folder 10 Si, 1942-1954


Box 15 Folder 11 Sk-Sn, 1936-1955


Box 15 Folder 12 Smith, Alfred E., 1938-1944


Box 15 Folder 13 So-Sp, 1935-1959


Box 15 Folder 14 Sobel, Nathan R., 1939-1960


Box 15 Folder 15 Spano, Olga Albasini--Poletti Bust, 1953-1963


Box 15 Folder 16 Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 1939-1964


Box 15 Folder 17 Spofford, Charles M., 1928-1967


Box 15 Folder 18 St, 1937-1966


Box 15 Folder 19 Stevenson, Adlai E., 1952-1961


Box 15 Folder 20 Stimson, Henry L., 1943-1946


Box 15 Folder 21 Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1941


Box 15 Folder 22 Strebel, Gustave A., 1940-1942


Box 15 Folder 23 Su-Sy, 1942-1978



Box 16 Folder 1 Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1936-1948


Box 16 Folder 2 T, 1936-1967


Box 16 Folder 3 Taussig, F.W., 1924-1935


Box 16 Folder 4 Taylor, Myron C., 1944-1947


Box 16 Folder 5 Truman, Harry S., 1958-1964


Box 16 Folder 6 U.S. Presidents, 1958-1967


Box 16 Folder 7 U, 1938-1958


Box 16 Folder 8 V, 1939-1967


Box 16 Folder 9 Van Schaick, George S., 1937-1942


Box 16 Folder 10 to 11 Veiller, Lawrence, 1937-1939, (2 Folders)


Box 16 Folder 12 Wa, 1937-1942


Box 16 Folder 13 Wagner, Robert F., Jr., 1942-1968


Box 16 Folder 14 Wagner, Robert F., Sr.,1937-1942


Box 16 Folder 15 Ward, Ivy (Estate), 1939-1942


Box 16 Folder 16 Wardwell, Allen, 1931-1953


Box 16 Folder 17 Watt, Murray L., 1941-1957


Box 16 Folder 18 We, 1937-1966


Box 16 Folder 19 Weinberger, Howard, 1939-1955


Box 16 Folder 20 Weinfeld, Edward, 1948-1982


Box 16 Folder 21 Wh, 1930-1958


Box 16 Folder 22 White, Walter, 1937-1942


Box 16 Folder 23 White, William Allen, 1940-1973


Box 16 Folder 24 Wi, 1929-1960


Box 16 Folder 25 Wickersham, Cornelius W., 1939-1942


Box 16 Folder 26 Willkie, Wendell L., 1940-1944


Box 16 Folder 27 Wilson, Charles E. ("Electric"), 1941-1948



Box 61 Folder 10 Wo--Cartoon signed by Denys Wortman, undated



Box 17 Folder 1 Wo, 1937-1977


Box 17 Folder 2 Wu-Wy, 1937-1939


Box 17 Folder 3 X, 1937-1942


Box 17 Folder 4 Y, 1939-1957


Box 17 Folder 5 Young, Owen D.,1941


Box 17 Folder 6 Young Men's Board of Trade, 1940


Box 17 Folder 7 Z, 1942-1974