Charles Edward Russell papers, 1864-1941 (bulk 1900-1930).
- 12,000 items. 53 containers. 16 linear feet.
- Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: Bound Volumes, 1864-1941; Series 2: Notebooks, 1883-1939; Series 3: Subject File, 1897-1940; Series 4: Writings, 1896-1940; and Series 5: Miscellany, 1865-1940.
Open to research.
Correspondence, diaries, lectures, poetry and other writings, notebooks, subject files, clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers relating principally to Russell's work as a reformer, journalist, and poet. Documents his activities on behalf of various progressive reform causes, commitment to socialism and humanitarianism, writing career, and interest in music and literature, especially poetry. Includes material pertaining to Russell's assignment with Everybody's Magazine for a series of articles on economic conditions in foreign countries and travels as a presidential appointee to England and Russia, especially as a member of a special diplomatic mission to Russia led by Elihu Root in 1917. Subjects include World War I in Europe, travels in Europe and East Asia, Ireland and Irish independence, the Philippines, prominent Filipinos, Palestine, and Zionism. Other subjects include agribusiness, civil rights, labor unions, lumber trusts, prison reform, railroads, and women's suffrage. Correspondents include Arthur Brisbane, Clarence Darrow, Ruby Darrow, Éamon De Valera, Fannie Hurst, H.M. Hyndman, Mary MacSwiney, W.G. McAdoo, Ernest McGaffey, Julia Marlowe, André Tardieu, Carl Dean Thompson, and William Allen White.
Photographs Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. transferred to
Author and journalist.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
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Brisbane, Arthur, 1864-1936 --Correspondence. Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 --Correspondence. Darrow, Ruby, 1869-1957 --Correspondence. De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975 --Correspondence. Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968 --Correspondence. Hyndman, H. M. 1842-1921 --Correspondence. MacSwiney, Mary, 1872-1942 --Correspondence. McAdoo, W. G. 1863-1941 --Correspondence. McGaffey, Ernest, 1861- --Correspondence. Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950 --Correspondence. Rodriguez, Eulogio Balan, 1893- --Correspondence. Root, Elihu, 1845-1937. Tardieu, André, 1876-1945 --Correspondence. Thompson, Carl Dean, 1870-1949 --Correspondence. White, William Allen, 1868-1944 --Correspondence.
Everybody's magazine.
Agricultural industries. Civil rights. Economic history. Humanitarianism. Labor unions. Literature. Lumber trade. Music. Poetry. Prison reformers. Railroads. Reformers. Socialism. Trusts, Industrial. Women--Suffrage. World War, 1914-1918--Europe. Zionism.
East Asia--Description and travel. England--Description and travel. Europe--Description and travel. Ireland. Ireland--History--Autonomy and independence movements. Palestine. Philippines. Philippines--Biography. Russia--Description and travel. Russia--Foreign relations--United States. United States--Foreign relations--20th century. United States--Foreign relations--Russia.