Henry Prather Fletcher papers, 1898-1958.

By: Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsDescription: 6,600 items; 29 containers; 10.2 linear feetSubject(s): Online resources: Summary: Correspondence, letterbook, diary, speeches, articles, scrapbook, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Fletcher's career from his enlistment in the Rough Riders (the 1st Volunteer Cavalry, U.S. Army) during the Spanish-American War through his service as a special adviser to the U.S. secretary of state following World War II. Documents his diplomatic service in Havana, Cuba; Peking, China; Lisbon, Portugal; Santiago, Chile; Mexico City, Mexico; Brussels, Belgium; and Rome, Italy. Also documents Fletcher's term as U.S. under secretary of state, 1921-1922, and his participation in the fifth International American Conference in 1923, Santiago, Chile, and the sixth International American Conference in 1928, Havana, Cuba. Postwar correspondence pertains primarily to the Republican Party.Summary: Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Calvin Coolidge, Joseph C. Grew, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg, Frank Knox, Alfred M. Landon, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Bassett Moore, Benito Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Willard Dickerson Straight, Robert A. Taft, William H. Taft, and Fletcher's wife, Beatrice Bend Fletcher.
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Correspondence, letterbook, diary, speeches, articles, scrapbook, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Fletcher's career from his enlistment in the Rough Riders (the 1st Volunteer Cavalry, U.S. Army) during the Spanish-American War through his service as a special adviser to the U.S. secretary of state following World War II. Documents his diplomatic service in Havana, Cuba; Peking, China; Lisbon, Portugal; Santiago, Chile; Mexico City, Mexico; Brussels, Belgium; and Rome, Italy. Also documents Fletcher's term as U.S. under secretary of state, 1921-1922, and his participation in the fifth International American Conference in 1923, Santiago, Chile, and the sixth International American Conference in 1928, Havana, Cuba. Postwar correspondence pertains primarily to the Republican Party.

Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Calvin Coolidge, Joseph C. Grew, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg, Frank Knox, Alfred M. Landon, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Bassett Moore, Benito Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Willard Dickerson Straight, Robert A. Taft, William H. Taft, and Fletcher's wife, Beatrice Bend Fletcher.

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Collection material in English.

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

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012198

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