Mitchel, John Purroy,  1879-1918. <br/><br/>
John Purroy Mitchel papers, 1835-1932  (bulk 1892-1918). 

 - 27,000  items. 71  1  containers plus  oversize. 28.4  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in 5 series.  Series 1: Correspondence, 1882-1932; Series 2: Speeches, Articles, and Press Releases, 1892-1918; Series 3: Subject File, circa 1835-1922; Series 4: Scrapbooks, 1914-1917; and Series 5: Miscellany, 1870-1891. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> Correspondence, desk diaries, speeches, articles, notebooks, press releases, family papers, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to Mitchel's administrations as counselor and mayor of New York City.  Also documents his work as Collector of the Port of New York, New York, N.Y., and his views on national defense.  Includes records kept by Mitchel as a member of the board of directors of the Corona Diamond Syndicate, a firm conducting mining operations in British Guiana (Guyana).  Correspondents include Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour; August Belmont; Andrew Carnegie; Joseph Hodges Choate; Learned Hand; Norman Hapgood; Myron T. Herrick; Herbert Hoover; Charles Evans Hughes; John D. Rockefeller; Theodore Roosevelt; William H. Taft; Oswald Garrison Villard; and Woodrow Wilson. 
<br/><br/><br/>Soldier, lawyer, and mayor of New York, N.Y. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013068 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 78033084  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of,  1848-1930 --Correspondence.<br/>Belmont, August, 1853-1924 --Correspondence.<br/>Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 --Correspondence.<br/>Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917 --Correspondence.<br/>Hand, Learned, 1872-1961 --Correspondence.<br/>Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937 --Correspondence.<br/>Herrick, Myron T. 1854-1929 --Correspondence.<br/>Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 --Correspondence.<br/>Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 --Correspondence.<br/>Rockefeller, John D. 1839-1937 --Correspondence.<br/>Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 --Correspondence.<br/>Taft, William H. 1857-1930 --Correspondence.<br/>Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 --Correspondence.<br/>Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 --Correspondence.<br/>Mitchel family.<br/>Mitchell family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>New York (N.Y.) Collector of the Port of New York. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Diamond mines and mining--Guyana.<br/>National security--United States.<br/>Ports of entry--New York (State)--New York.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government.<br/>United States--Defenses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Lawyers.<br/>Mayors--New York (State)--New York.<br/>Soldiers.