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    <title>Robert Lansing papers, 1831-1935 (bulk 1914-1920)</title>
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    <namePart>Lansing, Robert</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1864-1928</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, reports, resolutions, desk diaries, book manuscripts, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Lansing's years (1914-1920) as counsel to the Dept. of State and as secretary of state and particularly to American foreign relations during World War I, the Paris Peace Conference, and Lansing's relations with President Woodrow Wilson and with various foreign diplomats and statesmen. Includes material on the Lusitania affair, the Mexican crisis, the arming of merchant seamen, the Irish rebellion, the purchase of the Danish West Indies, relations with Japan and China, and Latin America and the proposed Pan American Pact.  Personal papers concern Lansing's participation in private legal cases involving international law and his activity in domestic politics. Includes the draft of Lansing's war memoirs, published in part in 1935.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Chandler P. Anderson, Frederick M. Boyer, William Jennings Bryan, Viscount James Bryce, John W. Davis, J. M. Dickinson, Allen Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Abram I. Elkus, John Watson Foster, Paul Fuller, James Watson Gerard, John Grier Hibben, Cone Johnson, J. J. Jusserand, V. K. Wellington Koo, Franklin K. Lane, Henry Cabot Lodge, Wayne MacVeagh, Thomas R. Marshall, Alexander Meiklejohn, John Bassett Moore, Henry Morgenthau, William Phillips, Frank L. Polk, Elihu Root, L. S. Rowe, James Brown Scott, Edward North Smith, William Joel Stone, Seymour Van Santvoord, Brand Whitlock, Woodrow Wilson, and Lester Hood Woolsey.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>In part, available on microfilm, no. 15,347.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1972.</note>
  <note>Lawyer, diplomat, secretary of state during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, and member of the American mission to negotiate a peace treaty following World War I.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Anderson, Chandler P. (Chandler Parsons)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1936</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Boyer, Frederick M</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bryan, William Jennings</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1925</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Viscount</namePart>
      <namePart>Bryce, James Bryce</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1922</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davis, John W. (John William)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1955</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dickinson, J. M. (Jacob McGavock)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1928</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dulles, Allen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1969</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dulles, John Foster</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1959</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Elkus, Abram I</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1947</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Foster, John Watson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1836-1917</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fuller, Paul</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gerard, James Watson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hibben, John Grier</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-1933</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Cone</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1933</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1932</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Koo, V. K. Wellington</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1985</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lane, Franklin K</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lodge, Henry Cabot</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>MacVeagh, Wayne</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1917</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Marshall, Thomas R. (Thomas Riley)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1854-1925</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Meiklejohn, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1964</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Moore, John Bassett</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morgenthau, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1946</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Phillips, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1968</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Polk, Frank L. (Frank Lyon)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1943</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Root, Elihu</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1937</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rowe, L. S. (Leo Stanton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Scott, James Brown</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1943</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Smith, Edward North</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1943</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stone, William Joel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1848-1918</namePart>
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      <namePart>Van Santvoord, Seymour</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1938</namePart>
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      <namePart>Whitlock, Brand</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1934</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wilson, Woodrow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1924</namePart>
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      <namePart>Woolsey, Lester Hood</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1961</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Lusitania (Steamship)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <topic>International law</topic>
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    <topic>Merchant marine</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
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    <topic>Personal narratives</topic>
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    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <topic>Transportation</topic>
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    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <temporal>Sinn Fein Rebellion, 1916</temporal>
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    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1913-1921</temporal>
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    <occupation>Cabinet officers</occupation>
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