Louis F. Post papers, 1864-1940 (bulk 1900-1922).

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsDescription: 600 items; 11 containers; 1 microfilm reel; 4.4 linear feetContained works:
  • Post, Louis F. 1849-1928. Deportations delirium of nineteen-twenty : a personal narrative of an historic official experience. 1923
  • Post, Louis F. 1849-1928. Prophet of San Francisco : personal memories & interpretations of Henry George. 1930
Subject(s): Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Microfilm edition of Living a Long Life Over Again (container 4) available, no. 16,981.
Summary: Correspondence, diary, writings, articles, biographical material, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Post's career as an author, journalist, and public official. Documents his support of Henry George and the single tax, Swedenborgian (New Jerusalem Church) religious beliefs, policies favoring the civil rights of radicals, and views on society and progress. Documents the attempted impeachment of Post as U.S. assistant secretary of labor because of his policies relating to the deportation of political dissidents and radicals. Subjects also include an alleged buried treasure in South Africa and Ku Klux Klan trials in South Carolina. Includes manuscripts of Post's books, The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty : A Personal Narrative of an Historic Official Experience (1923) and The Prophet of San Francisco : Personal Memories & Interpretations of Henry George (1930), and of his unpublished autobiography, Living a Long Life Over Again. Also includes papers of Post's wife, Alice Thacher Post. Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan and the Hackettstown Gazette.
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Correspondence, diary, writings, articles, biographical material, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Post's career as an author, journalist, and public official. Documents his support of Henry George and the single tax, Swedenborgian (New Jerusalem Church) religious beliefs, policies favoring the civil rights of radicals, and views on society and progress. Documents the attempted impeachment of Post as U.S. assistant secretary of labor because of his policies relating to the deportation of political dissidents and radicals. Subjects also include an alleged buried treasure in South Africa and Ku Klux Klan trials in South Carolina. Includes manuscripts of Post's books, The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty : A Personal Narrative of an Historic Official Experience (1923) and The Prophet of San Francisco : Personal Memories & Interpretations of Henry George (1930), and of his unpublished autobiography, Living a Long Life Over Again. Also includes papers of Post's wife, Alice Thacher Post. Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan and the Hackettstown Gazette.

Microfilm edition of Living a Long Life Over Again (container 4) available, no. 16,981.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.

Journalist, lawyer, and public official.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012041

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