Mitchel, John Purroy 1879-1918 creator mixed material monographic eng 27,000 71 1 28.4 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. Open to research. 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 Earl of Balfour, Arthur James Balfour 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 Mayors Soldiers Corona Diamond Syndicate. mm 78033084 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013068 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013068.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013068 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013068.3 Open to research. DLC 780830 20260227111625.0 mm 78033084 eng