W. Cameron Forbes papers, 1904-1946.
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 2,500 items; 11 containers; 2.2 linear feetSubject(s): - Aguinaldo, Emilio, 1869-1964 -- Correspondence
- Greene, Warwick, 1879-1929 -- Correspondence
- Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 -- Correspondence
- Harrison, Francis Burton, 1873-1957 -- Correspondence
- Hatheway, Conrad -- Correspondence
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 -- Correspondence
- McCoy, Frank Ross, 1874-1954 -- Correspondence
- Osmeña, Sergio, 1878-1961 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Correspondence
- Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950 -- Correspondence
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 -- Correspondence
- Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927 -- Correspondence
- United States. Philippine Commission (1900-1916)
- American Economic Mission to the Far East
- Brazil Railway Company
- Banks and banking -- United States
- Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Japan
- Haiti -- History
- Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Philippines -- History -- 1898-1946
- United States -- Commerce
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan
- Businessmen
- Diplomats
- Public officials
Open to research.
Typewritten transcripts of journals documenting Forbes's activities in the civil government of the Philippines, and as a diplomat and businessman. Documents his service in the Philippines as secretary of commerce, vice-governor, governor general, and member of the U.S. Philippine Commission. Also documents his work as receiver of the Brazil Railway Company, member or chairman of presidential missions to study conditions in Haiti and the Philippines, U.S. ambassador to Japan, chairman of the American Economic Mission to the Far East, and partner or director in several American business and banking firms. Includes correspondence transcribed along with daily entries and printed items. Correspondents include Emilio Aguinaldo, Warwick Greene, James G. Harbord, Warren G. Harding, Francis Burton Harrison, Conrad Hatheway, Herbert Hoover, Frank Ross McCoy, Sergio Osmeña, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry L. Stimson, William H. Taft, and Leonard Wood.
Typewritten transcripts. [S.l.].
Originals in: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Typewritten transcripts also available at: Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
Business executive, government official, and diplomat.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
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