03895cpcaa2200625 i 4500 mm 78033084 DLC 20260227111625.0 780830|||||||||||| eng mm 78033084 ms 59000152 DLC eng dacs DLC DLC R lcmd Mitchel, John Purroy, 1879-1918. John Purroy Mitchel papers, 1835-1932 (bulk 1892-1918). 27,000 items. 71 containers plus 1 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. Open to research. 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. Soldier, lawyer, and mayor of New York, N.Y. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013068 Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of, 1848-1930 Correspondence. Belmont, August, 1853-1924 Correspondence. Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 Correspondence. Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917 Correspondence. Hand, Learned, 1872-1961 Correspondence. Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937 Correspondence. Herrick, Myron T. (Myron Timothy), 1854-1929 Correspondence. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 Correspondence. Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 Correspondence. Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Correspondence. Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 Correspondence. Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 Correspondence. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 Correspondence. Mitchel family. Mitchell family. New York (N.Y.) Collector of the Port of New York. Diamond mines and mining Guyana. National security United States. Ports of entry New York (State) New York. New York (N.Y.) Politics and government. United States Defenses. Lawyers. itoamc Mayors New York (State) New York. itoamc Soldiers. itoamc Corona Diamond Syndicate. Corona Diamond Syndicate records. circa 1904-1912. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013068 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013068.3 39969 39969