Richard Olney papers, 1830-1928 (bulk 1893-1917).
- 28,000 items. 159 1 containers plus oversize. 62 microfilm reels. 33 linear feet.
- Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1830-1925; Series 2: Letterbooks, 1887-1917; Series 3: Special Correspondence and Indexes, 1892-1922; Series 4: Subject File, 1891-1928; Series 5: Speech and Article File, 1890-1917; and Series 6: Miscellany (Oversize), 1861.
Open to research.
Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, drafts of speeches and articles, reports, subject files, legal records, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Olney's activities as U.S. attorney general and secretary of state during Grover Cleveland's presidential administration. Also includes material pertaining to his Boston, Mass., law practice. Subjects include pre-World War I American foreign policy; canal through Nicaragua or Panama; Democratic Party politics; the 1895 Cuban revolution; farmers' protest and labor strife following the Depression of 1893; the proposed arbitration treaty with Great Britain; difficulties with Great Britain over the Bering Sea fisheries dispute and Venezuela-British Guiana boundary dispute; the landmark court decisions of the 1890's; insurrections in the Philippines during the Philippine American War, 1899-1902; the Pullman Strike of 1894; railroads especially the Boston and Maine Railroad, Northern Pacific Railway Company, and Southern Pacific Company; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Silver Purchase Act of 1894; and trade-unions. Also includes research files collected by Olney's biographer, Henry James (1879-1947). Correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, Edwin Farnsworth Atkins, Clara Barton, Thomas F. Bayard, French Ensor Chadwick, Grover Cleveland, Josephus Daniels, Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, Charles William Eliot, Samuel Gompers, Walter Quintin Gresham, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, George Frisbie Hoar, Daniel Scott Lamont, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, S.S. McClure, William McKinley, Peter B. Olney, Walter Hines Page, Baron Julian Pauncefote, Robert A. Pinkerton, James Roosevelt Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, James Brown Scott, George W. Smalley, Ida M. Tarbell, Booker T. Washington, Henry White, and Woodrow Wilson.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978. In part, typewritten transcripts and handwritten copies from originals in the Manuscript Division. Antoinette M. Straw.
U.S. attorney general, U.S. secretary of state, and lawyer.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008102
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Adee, Alvey A. 1842-1924 --Correspondence. Atkins, Edwin Farnsworth, 1850-1926 --Correspondence. Barton, Clara, 1821-1912 --Correspondence. Bayard, Thomas F. 1828-1898 --Correspondence. Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 --Correspondence. Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908. Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 --Correspondence. Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948 --Correspondence. Dupuy de Lôme, Enrique--Correspondence. Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 --Correspondence. Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924 --Correspondence. Gresham, Walter Quintin, 1832-1895 --Correspondence. Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 --Correspondence. Hay, John, 1838-1905 --Correspondence. Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904 --Correspondence. Lamont, Daniel Scott, 1851-1905 --Correspondence. Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928 --Correspondence. Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 --Correspondence. McClure, S. S. 1857-1949 --Correspondence. McKinley, William, 1843-1901 --Correspondence. Olney, Peter B. 1843-1922 --Correspondence. Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918 --Correspondence. Pauncefote, Julian Pauncefote, Baron, 1828-1902 --Correspondence. Pinkerton, Robert A. 1848-1907 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, 1854-1927 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 --Correspondence. Scott, James Brown, 1866-1943 --Correspondence. Smalley, George W. 1833-1916 --Correspondence. Tarbell, Ida M. 1857-1944 --Correspondence. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 --Correspondence. White, Henry, 1850-1927 --Correspondence. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 --Correspondence.
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney General. United States. Department of State. United States. Supreme Court. United States. Sherman Act. Boston and Maine Railroad. Democratic Party (U.S.) Northern Pacific Railway Company. Southern Pacific Company.
Antitrust law--United States. Arbitration (International law) Canals--Nicaragua. Canals--Panama. Depressions--United States.--1893 Farmers--United States. Fisheries--Bering Sea. Fishery law and legislation. Labor movement--United States. Labor unions--United States. Pullman Strike, 1894. Practice of law--Massachusetts--Boston. Railroads--United States. Silver question. World War, 1914-1918.
British Guiana--Boundaries--Venezuela. Cuba--History--Revolution, 1895-1898. Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States. Panama Canal (Panama)--History. Philippines--Foreign relations--United States. Philippines--History--Philippine American War, 1899-1902. United States--Foreign relations. United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain. United States--Foreign relations--Philippines. United States--Politics and government--1865-1933. United States--Social conditions--1865-1918. Venezuela--Boundaries--British Guiana.