08178cpcaa2201213 4500 mm 78015768 DLC 20260227111622.0 cr ||||||||||| 781213|||||||||||| eng mm 78015768 ms 60000026 DLC dacs DLC DLC R lcmd Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917. Joseph Hodges Choate papers, 1745-1929 (bulk 1852-1917). 11,000 items. 40 containers, plus 1 oversize. 16 linear feet. Arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1745-1926; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1847-1919; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1899-1905; Series 4: Subject File, 1852-1918; Series 5: Legal File, 1853-1916; Series 6: Addresses, 1852-1917; Series 7: Miscellany, 1848-1917; Series 8: Scrapbooks and Albums, 1864-1929; and Series 9: Oversize, 1848-1917. Open to research. Correspondence, letterbooks, addresses, lectures, legal memoranda, scrapbooks, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Choate's service as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, law practice in New York, N.Y., student days at Harvard University, and charitable work in New York; and to Choate family affairs. Documents his service as delegate to the International Peace Conference at the Hague, Netherlands, in 1907; chairman of the New York committee for the 1917 reception of British and French commissions headed by Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour, René Viviani, and Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre; and service as president of the New York State Constitutional Convention, 1894. Also documents his association with the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.; and his work with Harvard University alumni. Subjects include the American Bar Association; Open Door policy of the U.S. in the Far East; Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901; treaties of 1900 and 1901 negotiated by U.S. secretary of state John Hay and the British ambassador to the U.S., Baron Julian Pauncefote, pertaining to an interoceanic canal in Central America; the Algeciras Conference of 1906 concerning relations between France and Morocco; the Alaska boundary dispute; and Union League of America. Family correspondents include his parents, George F. Choate and Margaret Manning Choate; his brother and sister, William Gardner Choate and Caroline Choate; his wife, Caroline Sterling Choate; and their daughter, Mabel Choate. Other correspondents include Charles Francis Adams; Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour; James M. Beck; James Bryce, Viscount Bryce; John R. Carter; Grover Cleveland; George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; Charles William Eliot; William Maxwell Evarts; John Watson Foster; F.V. Greene; John Hay; Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne; Edwin T. Morgan; Henry K. Oliver; William Phillips; Robert S. Rantoul; Whitelaw Reid; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root; William V. Rowe; Thomas Henry Sanderson, Baron Sanderson; William H. Taft; Sir George Otta Trevelyan; Henry White; Woodrow Wilson; and Lothrop Withington. Lawyer, author, and diplomat. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034 Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915 Correspondence. Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of, 1848-1930. Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of, 1848-1930 Correspondence. Beck, James M. (James Montgomery), 1861-1936 Correspondence. Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922 Correspondence. Carter, John R. (John Ridgely), 1862-1944 Correspondence. Choate, Caroline, 1834-1889 Correspondence. Choate, Caroline Sterling Correspondence. Choate, George F. (George Francis), 1822-1888 Correspondence. Choate, Mabel, 1870-1958 Correspondence. Choate, Margaret Manning Correspondence. Choate, William Gardner, 1830-1920 Correspondence. Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Correspondence. Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess, 1859-1925. Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 Correspondence. Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901 Correspondence. Foster, John Watson, 1836-1917 Correspondence. Greene, F. V. (Francis Vinton), 1850-1921 Correspondence. Hay, John, 1838-1905. Hay, John, 1838-1905 Correspondence. Joffre, Joseph Jacques Césaire, 1852-1931. Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, Marquess of, 1845-1927 Correspondence. Morgan, Edwin T. Correspondence. Oliver, Henry K. (Henry Kemble), 1800-1885 Correspondence. Pauncefote, Julian, Baron, 1828-1902. Phillips, William, 1878-1968 Correspondence. Rantoul, Robert S. (Robert Samuel), 1832-1922 Correspondence. Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Correspondence. Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 Correspondence. Rowe, William V. Correspondence. Sanderson, Thomas Henry Sanderson, Baron, 1841-1923 Correspondence. Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 Correspondence. Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928 Correspondence. Viviani, René, 1863-1925. White, Henry, 1850-1927 Correspondence. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 Correspondence. Withington, Lothrop, 1856-1915 Correspondence. Choate family. New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1894) American Bar Association. American Museum of Natural History. Harvard University Students. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Union League of America. Algeciras Conference (1906 : Algeciras, Spain) International Peace Conference. Canals Central America. Canals, Interoceanic. Charities New York (State) Diplomatic and consular service, American Great Britain. Eastern question (Far East) Practice of law New York (State) New York. World War, 1914-1918. Alaska Boundaries Canada. Canada Boundaries Alaska. China Foreign relations United States. China History Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. France Foreign relations Morocco. France Foreign relations United States. Great Britain Foreign relations United States. Great Britain. Treaties, etc. United States, 1900 February 5. Great Britain. Treaties, etc. United States, 1901 November 18. Morocco Foreign relations France. Morocco History 20th century. New York (State) Politics and government. United States Foreign relations China. United States Foreign relations France. United States Foreign relations Great Britain. Authors. itoamc Diplomats. itoamc Lawyers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034.3 39784 39784