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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Stephen Bonsal papers, 1890-1973 (bulk 1900-1947)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Bonsal, Stephen</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1865-1951</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>4,500</extent>
    <extent>39</extent>
    <extent>16.8</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries, writings, subject files, and other papers relating chiefly to Bonsal's career as a journalist and as foreign correspondent for the New York Herald and New York Times.  Documents his role as confidential interpreter for President Woodrow Wilson and Edward Mandell House at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919-1920, and as secretary of the U.S. Legation, Tokyo, Japan, 1895.  Subjects include Japanese culture, customs, politics, and relations with the United States; the Spanish-American War, especially in Cuba and the Philippines; the Santiago Campaign, Cuba, in 1898; Mexican president Porfirio Díaz and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920; the American-Mexican Joint Commission, 1916; American ambassador Henry Lane Wilson's views on Mexico; World War I; national political affairs; Otto Fürst von Bismarck, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, and other contemporaries; Bonsal's friendship with House, Georges Clemenceau, and Hendrik Willem Van Loon; literature; and Bonsal's travels.  Correspondents include James Truslow Adams, Newton Diehl Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, James Stuart Douglas, Arthur Hugh Frazier, Hugh Gibson, Francis Burton Harrison, Edward Mandell House, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, and Henry Lane Wilson.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Journalist and foreign correspondent.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Adams, James Truslow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1949</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baker, Newton Diehl</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1937</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-1965</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Fürst von</namePart>
      <namePart>Bismarck, Otto</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1898</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clemenceau, Georges</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1929</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Díaz, Porfirio</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1915</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Douglas, James Stuart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1949</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Frazier, Arthur Hugh</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gibson, Hugh</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1954</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harrison, Francis Burton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1957</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>House, Edward Mandell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1938</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>House, Edward Mandell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1938</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1945</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Van Loon, Hendrik Willem</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1944</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Van Loon, Hendrik Willem</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1944</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1961</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilson, Henry Lane</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1932</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilson, Henry Lane</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1932</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilson, Woodrow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1924</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Legation (Japan)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American-Mexican Joint Commission.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="conference">
      <namePart>Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>New York herald</title>
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  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>New York times</title>
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  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Literature</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Santiago Campaign, 1898</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Spanish-American War, 1898</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Spanish-American War, 1898</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Spanish-American War, 1898</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>Philippines</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Voyages and travels</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <topic>Peace</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1868-1912</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mexico</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mexico</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1910-1920</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Mexico</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1933</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1933-1953</temporal>
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    <occupation>Foreign correspondents</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Journalists</occupation>
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