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Series I: Correspondence and Catalogued Items
Series II: Appearances
Series III: Manuscripts, Documents and Miscellaneous

Spruille Braden papers, 1903-1977

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Series I: Correspondence and Catalogued Items

This series contains cataloged correspondence, manuscripts and photographs. This series also contains general and diplomatic corrospondence arranged chronologically and alphabetically.

Catalogued Correspondence


Box 1 Acheson, Dean

Box 1 Aldrich, Winthrop W.

Box 1 Ayala, Eusebio

Box 1 Batista y Zaldivar, Fulgencio

Box 1 Berle, Adolf A., Jr.

Box 1 Biddle, Francis

Box 1 Bowers, Claude G.

Box 1 Bowman, Isaiah

Box 1 Buckley, James L.

Box 1 Buckley, William F., Jr.

Box 1 Byrnes, James F.

Box 1 Christy, Howard Chandler

Box 1 Church, Frank

Box 1 Clayton, William L.

Box 1 Clemens, Cyril

Box 1 Cooke, Terence. Cardinal

Box 1 Crawford, Joan

Box 1 Cummings. Homer S.

Box 1 Davidson, Jo

Box 1 Davila, Carlos.

Box 1 Davis, John W.

Box 1 Duggan, Stephen F.

Box 1 Dulles, John Foster

Box 1 Eisenhower, Dwight David

Box 1 Farley, James A.

Box 1 Gellhorn, Martha

Box 1 Goldwater, Barry

Box 1 Grew, Joseph C.

Box 1 Gruening, Ernest

Box 1 Gunther. John

Box 1 Hayes, Carlton J.H.

Box 1 Hemingway, Ernest

Box 1 Hoover, John Edgar

Box 1 Hull, Cordell


Box 2 Javitz, Jacob K.

Box 2 Johnson, Lyndon B.

Box 2 Kellor, Frances

Box 2 King, Willard V .

Box 2 Knox, Frank

Box 2 Koch, Edward I.

Box 2 Lane, Arthur Bliss

Box 2 Lewisohn, Sam A.

Box 2 Lippmano, Walter

Box 2 Lodge, John Davis

Box 2 Long, Breckinridge

Box 2 MacLeish, Archibald.

Box 2 McNutt, Paul V.

Box 2 Meany, George

Box 2 Merrill, John L.

Box 2 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

Box 2 Ospina Perez, Mariano

Box 2 Pearson, Drew

Box 2 Reagan, Ronald

Box 2 Reid, Whitelaw

Box 2 Rickenbacker, Edward

Box 2 Rockefeller, Nelson A.

Box 2 Rodino, Peter W., Jr.

Box 2 Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt (Mrs. Franklin D.)

Box 2 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Box 2 Roosevelt, Nicholas

Box 2 Rowe, Leo S.


Box 3 Skouras, Spyros P.

Box 3 Spellman, Francis Joseph, Cardinal

Box 3 Stettinius, Edward R., -Tr.

Box 3 Sulzberger, Arthur Mays

Box 3 Sulzberger, Iphigene Ochs

Box 3 Swope, Herbert Bayard

Box 3 Tejada Gorzano, Jose Luis 1881-1938

Box 3 Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas, 1891-

Box 3 Truman, Harry S.

Box 3 Vandenberg, Arthur H.

Box 3 Wallace, Henry A.

Box 3 Watson, Thomas J.

Box 3 Welch, Robert

Box 3 Welles, Sumner

Box 3 Wilder, Thornton

Catalogued Manuscripts

Gunther, John.

Box 3 The Chaco War

Box 3 Hail Colombia

Catalogued photographs:

Box 3 Cummings, Homer

Box 3 Grew, Joseph C.

Box 3 Olav V, King of Norway

Box 3 Rowe, Leo S.

Correspondence, Diplomatic


Box 4 1935

Box 4 1936-1938 - U.S. Dept. of State Despatches, 1936-1938

1936

Box 4 A-D


Box 5 E-G

Box 5 H-N

Box 5 O-Z

1937


Box 6 A-K

Box 6 L-Z

1938

Box 6 A-H

Box 6 J-Z


Box 7 1939

Box 7 1940

1941

Box 7 A-M

Box 7 N-Z

1942


Box 8 A-Braden

Box 8 Braden-Bz

Box 8 C

Box 8 D-H


Box 9 I-L

Box 9 M-R

Box 9 S-We

Box 9 Wr-Z

1943


Box 10 A-Be

Box 10 Briggs

Box 10 B misc. - C

Box 10 D-E


Box 11 F-I

Box 11 J-L

Box 11 M-N

Box 11 O-R


Box 12 S-T

Box 12 U-Z

1944

Box 12 A-Bo

Box 12 Br-Bz


Box 13 B misc.

Box 13 C misc.

Box 13 C-E

Box 13 F-J


Box 14 K-M

Box 14 M

Box 14 N-P

Box 14 R


Box 15 S

Box 15 T-Z

1945

Cuba

Box 15 A

Box 15 B


Box 16 C-F

Box 16 G-K

Box 16 L-Na

Box 16 Ne-P


Box 17 R-S

Box 17 S-Z


Box 18 Argentine Transfer (Argentina)

Box 18 A-B

Box 18 C-F

Box 18 G-L

Box 18 M-P


Box 19 Q-S

Box 19 T-Z

Box 19 Washington Transfer -, (2 Folders)


Box 20 1946-1947

Box 20 A-D

Box 20 E-I

Box 20 Q-V

Box 20 W-Z


Box 21 Condolences, 1943

Congratualtions, 1945

Box 21 A-L

Box 21 M-Z

Invitations

Box 21 1938

Box 21 1945


Box 22 Correspondence, General

Box 22 Argentina, 1945-1947

Braden, Spruille

Box 22 Resignation, 1947

Box 22 Statements and Articles, 1945-1947

Box 22 Cabot, John M., 1945-1947

Box 22 Fan Mail, 1945-1947

Box 22 Messersmith, G.S., 1945-1946

Box 22 New York City Anti-Crime Committee, 1955-1957

Box 22 Thompson, Scott, 1945-1947

Box 22 Miscellaneous


Box 23 Braden, Spruille

Box 23 Childhood letters, 1903-1904

Box 23 Family letters, Ca., 1925-1953

Box 23 (1929-1933) - Letters to and from his father

Braden, William - Personal Files

Box 23 January-December 1934

Box 23 January-June 1935

Box 23 Briggs, Ellis 0. - 2 Folders


Box 24 Miscellaneous

Box 24 1909-1959 and not dated, 1909-1959

Box 24 1960-1977

Box 24 U.S. Dept. of State Memoranda

Series II: Appearances

This series contains documents relating to speeches and conference attendence by Braden. This series is arranged alphabetically and chronologically.

Speeches


Box 25 Albright College, 2, June 1946

Box 25 American Geographical Society, 19, December 1945

Box 25 American Institute of Mining Engineers, New York, 19, March 1947, (2 Folders)

Box 25 American Club, 26, May 1942

Box 25 Argentina

Box 25 Boston Conference on Distribution, 14, October 1946

Box 25 Boston Trip, October 1946 - Off the record

Box 25 Bromley Lectureship at Yale University, 18, December 1945, (2 Folders)

Box 25 Celestials, 13, February 1946

Box 25 Clark University, 26, May 1946

Box 25 Cleveland Commission on Foreign Relations; Chicago - Off the record

Box 25 Columbia University Club, 2, March 1946

Box 25 Departmental Group - Mr. Braden and Mr. Spaeth, 24, September 1946

Box 25 Executives' Club of Chicago, 13, September 1946, (3 Folders)


Box 26 Foreign Policy Association, and Pan American Association at Philadelphia, 13, April 1946

Box 26 Hemispheric Insurance, 15, May 1946

Box 26 Historians Luncheon, 14, December 1945

Box 26 House Foreign Affairs Committee, 26, July 1946

Box 26 Johns Hopkins University, 1939

Box 26 Litoral University, Buenos Aires, 21, July, 1945

Box 26 Mass Media Representatives - Off the record

Box 26 Meet the Press (American Mercury)

Box 26 Montana School of Mines, 7, June 1947

NBC Broadcast

Box 26 21, December 1946

Box 26 5, January 1946, (2 Folders)

Box 26 National Democratic Club, 23, March 1946

Box 26 National Trade Council, 14, November 1945

Box 26 Navy Day, 27, October 1945

Box 26 New York Herald Tribune High School Forum, 8, March 1947

Box 26 New York Times - To General Federation of Women's Clubs, 27, March 1946


Box 27 Pan American Union - Dr. Leo S. Rowe's Memorial

Box 27 Pan American Day - Radio Greetings to Latin America, 1947

Box 27 Pan American Union - Tribute to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November, 1946

Box 27 Peron University, La Plata, 10, June 1944

Box 27 Roosevelt Memorial Exhibit, Pan American Union

Box 27 Rutgers University, 26, October 1945

Box 27 Santander and Jefferson

Box 27 University Club, 19, January 1946

Box 27 Wendell L. Willkie Awards for Negro Journalism, 1, March 1946

Chronological

Box 27 1933-1938

Box 27 1938-1942


Box 28 1942-1943, (2 Folders)

Box 28 1943, (2 Folders)


Box 29 1944

Box 29 1945

Box 29 1946-1947


Box 30 1945-1950

Box 30 1946-1947

Miscellaneous

Box 30 1950s

Box 30 Pre-State Department

Box 30 Material for Speeches

Box 30 General


Box 31 Conferences

Pan American Commercial Conference, Buenos Aires, 1935, (2 Folders)

Box 31 Instructions to delegates


Box 32 7th International Conference of American States, 1932-1933

Box 32 Instructions to delegates

Box 32 Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, 1936


Box 33 Appointment Books and Wedding Guest Lists, 1937, 1942-1945

Series III: Manuscripts, Documents and Miscellaneous

This series contains financial and legal documents, manuscripts, scrapbooks, pamphlets, phonograph records, movie film and books from the library of Spruille Braden. Braden library items in this series include approximately 150 volumes inscribed to or by Braden; annotated by, citing, or by Braden; and miscellaneous works. Most concern South America, diplomacy, or ultraconservative politics.


Box 34 Financial and Legal Documents, 1924-1943

Box 34 Accounting Memos

Box 34 Accounts

Box 34 Barranquilla Electric Project, 1926

Box 34 Contracts

Box 34 Insurance

Box 34 Mexican Gas Negotiations

Box 34 Munoz, Sara

Box 34 Receipts, (2 Folders)

Box 34 Romero

Subject File


Box 35 Ambassadorship, 1933

Box 35 American Arbitration Association

Argentina

Box 35 General, (2 Folders)

Box 35 1944-1945

Box 35 1945

Box 35 AFL Report, 10, March 1947

Box 35 Magazine Articles

Box 35 Memorandum to President Truman, July 1946

Box 35 Peron, Juan - "Blue and White Book"


Box 36 Press, 1945

Box 36 Wells, Robert C , Reports, 1945-1946, (3 Folders)

Box 36 Argentina's Compliance with. . .Agreements - Memorandum, 1946

Box 36 Braden Family Genealogy

Box 36 Chaco, 1942-1943

Box 36 Cienfuegos - 1942 Trip - Correspondence and related items, 1942

Box 36 Clark University Honorary Degree, 1946

Box 36 Dictatorships and Disreputable Governments

Box 36 Inter-American Commerical Arbitration Commission


Box 37 Military and Naval Information

Box 37 Montana - 1947 Trip, 1947

Box 37 New York City Anti-Crime Committee

Box 37 Paraguay

Box 37 Passports, Cancelled Diplomatic - Braden Family

Box 37 Personnel Investigations, Inter-Office Committee on

Box 37 Reference File

Box 37 Schuyler, Chadwich and Burnham

Box 37 Stonehurst Apartments

Box 37 Tetens, T.H.

Box 37 Tomlinson, Edward

Box 37 UNESCO

Manuscripts and Documents, Miscellaneous


Box 38 Undated

Box 38 1930s

Box 38 1945-1947

Box 38 1948-1952

Box 38 Government Reports, 1946


Box 39 General

Box 39 Braden, Spruille. [Diplomats and Demagogues.] 1966 draft ms., 1966

Box 39 Certificates, Diplomas

Box 39 Nazi Operations, Colombia and Panama

Box 39 Passports

Box 39 Works by others


Box 40 Scrapbooks

Box 40 1935-1938


Box 41 1939


Box 42 1939-1942; (numbered) 1, 2 - 1942, 1939-1942, 1942


Box 43 2a-4 -, 1942


Box 44 5, 6 -, 1942


Box 45 7, 8 -, 1943


Box 46 9, 10 -, 1943


Box 47 11-13 -, 1944


Box 48 14, 15 -, 1944


Box 49 16, 17 and unnumbered


Box 50 19, 20


Box 51 Scrapbooks end clippings, miscellaneous


Box 52 Scrapbook and photographs, miscellaneous


Box 53 Clippings, 1937-1947


Box 54 Clippings, ca. 1938 and miscellaneous printed, 1938


Box 55 Miscellaneous printed material


Box 56 Photographs, tapes, awards, movie film and related items


Box 57 Pamphlets: Peronist, ultraconservative, others, tapes and movie film continued


Box 58 Clippings and Periodicals


Box 59 Printed miscellany

Box 59 Catalogued photographs


Mapcase 14-P-2 OVERSIZE; Photographs and Documents


Mapcase 14-P-3 OVERSIZE; Photographs and Documents


Box Flat Box 30 OVERSIZE: Phonograph records of speeches and miscellaneous events - 1 Folder


Box CMI Box 71 OVERSIZE: Report: Argentinian and German Activities


Box CMI Box 72 Scrapbook - 1 volume


Box 60 Inscribed books


Box 61 Inscribed books


Box 62 Inscribed books


Box 63 Inscribed books


Box 64 Inscribed books


Box 65 Inscribed books


Box 66 Inscribed books


Box 67 Annotated books


Box 68 Annotated books


Box 69 Annotated books


Box 70 Annotated books