Nicholas Murray Butler papers, 1891-1947

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence and Photographs


Subseries I.1: Cataloged Correspondence

This includes some correspondence of Nicholas Murray (1802-1861) and others. Correspondence is with Nicholas Murray Butler unless otherwise noted.



Box 1A Butler, Nicholas Murray to Alice Haven Requa (Mrs. Charles Howard), 1884-[1896]


Box 1A Adams, John Adams to Nicholas Murray, 1845


Box 1A Bradley, Joseph P. and John Adam Kasson, 1884

Letter of introduction for Nicholas Murray Butler


Box 1A Calhoun, John C. to Nicholas Murray, 1840


Box 1A Clay, Henry to Lloyd Jones, 1814


Box 1A Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron (1820-1894), 1885


Box 1A Corson, Hiram, 1883


Box 1A Croce, Benedetto, 1921-1934


Box 1A Curtis, George William to Thomas Chalmers Murray, 1868


Box 1A Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore to Mark Spencer Brewer, 1884

Letter of introduction for Nicholas Murray Butler


Box 1A Greeley, Horace to Thomas Chalmers Murray, 1868


Box 1A Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901), circa 1886


Box 1A Murray, Nicholas to John Dorrance, 1832-1833


Box 1A Murray, Nicholas to Rosa Murray, [1850]


Box 1A Murray, Nicholas to Eliza Jones Rhees Murray (Mrs. Nicholas), 1850-1860


Box 1A Murray, Thomas Chalmers, 1863-1877


Box 1A Phillips, Wendel to Thomas Chalmers Murray, 1868


Box 1A Pound, Ezra, 1928-1934

Also available on microfilm MN# 81-6019


Box 1A Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1917


Box 1A Roosevelt, Theodore, 1907


Box 1A Taylor, Zachary to Nicholas Murray, 1849, Photostat


Box 1A Wagner, Robert Ferdinand, 1926-1945


Subseries I.2: Cataloged Photographs

Cataloged photographs that were originally shelved as oversized at the end of the collection are missing (2024)

These are portraits unless otherwise noted.



Box 1B Althoff, Friedrich


Box 1B Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry) (1852-1928)



Box Oversized Borglum, Gutzon

Item is currently missing (2024).

Photograph of Mt. Rushmore



Box 1B Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount (1862-1933)



Box Oversized Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount (1856-1928)

Item is currently missing (2024).



Box 1B Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount (1856-1928)

Copy of sketch, signed and inscribed to Butler on 1939 July 4


Box 1B Hanotaux, [Albert Auguste] Gabriel



Box Oversized Harnack, Adolf von

Item is currently missing (2024).



Box 1B Høffding, Harald


Box 1B Lloyd George, David


Box 1B Misciattelli, Adriana (Mrs. Piero?)



Box Oversized Morley, John, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Item is currently missing (2024).



Box 1B Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)


Box 1B Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922)


Box 1B Paulsen, Friedrich



Box Oversized Pius XII, Pope [Eugenio Pacelli]

Item is currently missing (2024).



Box 1B Stresemann, [Gustav]



Box Oversized Weardale, Philip James Stanhope, 1st Baron (1847-1923)

Item is currently missing (2024).



Box 1B Zeller, Eduard

Reproduction of painting by J. Scheurenberg


Subseries I.3: Presidential Correspondence, 1891-1946

Volumes of correspondence between Butler and presidents of the United States including William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman.



Volume Coolidge Calvin Coolidge, 1919-1932



Volume Harding 1 Warren G. Harding, 1915-12-1921-06



Volume Harding 2 Warren G. Harding, 1921-06-1923-09



Volume Hoover Herbert Hoover, 1917-01-23-1932-03-03



Volume McKinley William McKinley, 1889-1900



Volume FDR 1 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1923-1936



Volume FDR 2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937-1944



Volume TR 1 Theodore Roosevelt, 1891-1900



Volume TR 2 Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1902



Volume TR 3 Theodore Roosevelt, 1903



Volume TR 4 Theodore Roosevelt, 1904



Volume TR 5 Theodore Roosevelt, 1905-1906



Volume TR 6 Theodore Roosevelt, 1907-1917



Volume Taft 1 William H. Taft, 1902-1912



Volume Taft 2 William H. Taft, 1913-1925



Volume Wilson Woodrow Wilson, 1902-1911



Volume Truman Harry S. Truman, 1945-09-25-1946-05-31