Choate, Joseph Hodges 1832-1917 creator mixed material monographic eng 11,000 40 1 16 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. Open to research. 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 Earl of Balfour, Arthur James Balfour 1848-1930 Earl of Balfour, Arthur James Balfour 1848-1930 Correspondence Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) 1861-1936 Correspondence Viscount Bryce, James Bryce 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 Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon 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 Marquess of Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice 1845-1927 Correspondence Morgan, Edwin T Correspondence Oliver, Henry K. (Henry Kemble) 1800-1885 Correspondence Baron Pauncefote, Julian 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 Baron Sanderson, Thomas Henry Sanderson 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. 1900 February 5. Great Britain. 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 Diplomats Lawyers mm 78015768 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034.3 Open to research. DLC 781213 20260227111622.0 mm 78015768