mixed material monographic eng 232,000 850 1 239 340 Whitelaw Reid papers consist of correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, manuscripts of speeches and articles, reports, scrapbooks, printed matter, biographer's notes, photographs, and memorabilia particularly relating to Reid's ambassadorship to Great Britain and to extradition and commercial treaties with France, Spanish-American War treaty negotiations, and Newfoundland fisheries negotiations. Other topics include the Franco-Prussian War, the erection of the New York Tribune building, the "cipher dispatches" concerning the Hayes-Tilden presidential election of 1876, the beginning of the Tribune's Fresh Air Fund in 1879, opposition to Roscoe Conkling in the New York Republican Party, the Mergenthaler linotype machine, and the 1892 Homestead Strike. Also includes a file on Horace Greeley, founder of the New York Herald Tribune and Reid's mentor and partner. Correspondents include Oliver Wendell Holmes, John E. Milholland, and Elihu Root. Other correspondents of Whitelaw Reid are indexed in an appendix to the finding aid for the collection. Elisabeth Mills Reid papers include family and personal correspondence and business and financial papers pertaining to social and political life in Washington, D.C., and New York, N.Y., diplomatic circles in London, and her philanthropic work for the American Red Cross, Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses, New York, N.Y., and other medical facilities. Correspondents include Franklin P. Adams, Mabel Thorp Boardman, Charles Henry Brent, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Frederick Huntington Gillett, Walter Lippmann, Darius O. Mills, Ogden Mills, Helen Rogers Reid, and Mark Sullivan. Ogden Mills Reid papers consist of correspondence, trip diary, financial papers, subject file, and other papers relating to the amalgamation of the New York Tribune and New York Herald, the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune during World War II, and Reid's visit to the Far East following the war and interviews with Douglas MacArthur and Chiang Kai-shek. Correspondents include John V. Babcock, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Royal Cortissoz, Frederic R. Coudert, Laurence Hills, Harold L. Ickes, Leon L. Lewis, Edward G. Longman, George H. Moses, John J. Pershing, Fred B. Pitney, Elisabeth Mills Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, and Leonard Wood. Helen Rogers Reid papers span the years 1903 to 1970, comprising the bulk of the collection, and consist of correspondence, speeches and writings, financial papers, subject file, and other papers chiefly relating to her career at the New York Herald Tribune as director of advertising (1918), vice president (1922), and president (1947). Includes material on the newspaper's New York Herald Tribune Forum and its stand on political issues. Other topics include her work on behalf of Barnard College, the Fresh Air Fund, New York University, women's suffrage, and the President's Commission on the Status of Women. Correspondents include Jospeh Alsop, Bert Andrews, Lois A, Barrett, André Bing, Heywood Broun, Calvin Coolidge, Royal Cortissoz, Gladys V. Draper, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Fanny Fern Fitzwater, Eric Hawkins, Elsie M. Hill, Herbert Hoover, Selwyn Lezard, Walter Lippmann, Lucie Noël, Geoffrey Parsons, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marcel M. Tallin, Dorothy Thompson, Kay Thorpe, Francis B. Trudeau, Harry S. Truman, Purificacion C. Valera, and Irita Taylor Van Doren. Reid Foundation records established to grant funds to journalists for work and study abroad following World War II, consist of correspondence, applications, resumes, articles, printed matter, and photographs. Grant recipients included Ben H. Bagdikian and Jules Witcover. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Microfilm edition of Part I : A1-A357 available, no. 14,990. Microfilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1971-1972. Reid (Reed) family members include Whitelaw Reid, journalist, editor, political advisor, and U.S. minister to France and ambassador to Great Britain; his wife, Elisabeth Mills Reid; their son, Ogden Mills Reid, editor of the New York Tribune and owner of the New York Herald; and Helen Rogers Reid, wife of Ogden Mills Reid and president and chairman of the board of directors of the New York Herald Tribune. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet. Collection material in English. Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) 1881-1960 Correspondence Alsop, Joseph 1910-1989 Correspondence Andrews, Bert 1901-1953 Correspondence Babcock, John V. (John Vincent) Correspondence Bagdikian, Ben H Barrett, Lois A Correspondence Bing, André Correspondence Boardman, Mabel Thorp 1860-1946 Correspondence Brent, Charles Henry 1862-1929 Correspondence Broun, Heywood 1888-1939 Correspondence Byrd, Richard Evelyn 1888-1957 Correspondence Chiang, Kai-shek 1887-1975 Conkling, Roscoe 1829-1888 Coolidge, Calvin 1872-1933 Correspondence Cortissoz, Royal 1869-1948 Correspondence Coudert, Frederic R. (Frederic René) 1871-1955 Correspondence Cowles, Anna Roosevelt 1855-1931 Correspondence Draper, Gladys V Correspondence Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 1890-1969 Correspondence Fitzwater, Fanny Fern Correspondence Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron 1877- Correspondence Gillett, Frederick Huntington 1851-1935 Correspondence Greeley, Horace 1811-1872 Hawkins, Eric b. 1888 Correspondence Hayes, Rutherford Birchard 1822-1893 Hill, Elsie M. (Elsie Mary) b. 1883 Correspondence Hills, Laurence 1879-1941 Correspondence Holmes, Oliver Wendell 1841-1935 Correspondence Hoover, Herbert 1874-1964 Correspondence Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair) 1874-1952 Correspondence Lewis, Leon L Correspondence Lezard, Selwyn Correspondence Lippmann, Walter 1889-1974 Correspondence Longman, Edward G 1881-1969 Correspondence MacArthur, Douglas 1880-1964 Milholland, John E 1860-1925 Correspondence Mills, Darius O. (Darius Ogden) 1825-1910 Correspondence Mills, Ogden 1856-1929 Correspondence Moses, George H. (George Higgins) 1869-1944 Correspondence Noël, Lucie Correspondence Parsons, Geoffrey 1879-1956 Correspondence Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) 1860-1948 Correspondence Pitney, Fred B Correspondence Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Correspondence Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 Correspondence Root, Elihu 1845-1937 Correspondence Sullivan, Mark 1874-1952 Correspondence Tallin, Marcel M Correspondence Thompson, Dorothy 1893-1961 Correspondence Thorpe, Kay Correspondence Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) 1814-1886 Trudeau, Francis B Correspondence Truman, Harry S 1884-1972 Correspondence Valera, Purificacion C Correspondence Van Doren, Irita Taylor 1891-1966 Correspondence Witcover, Jules Wood, Leonard 1860-1927 Correspondence Reed family American Red Cross. Barnard College. Bellevue Hospital. Training School for Nurses. Fresh Air Fund. New York University. Republican Party (N.Y.) Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) United States. President's Commission on the Status of Women. New York Herald Tribune Forum. American newspapers Charities Diplomatic and consular service, American France Diplomatic and consular service, American Great Britain Extradition France Extradition United States Fisheries Newfoundland and Labrador Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 Homestead Strike, Homestead, Pa., 1892 Journalism New York (State) New York Labor disputes Pennsylvania Linotype Office buildings New York (State) New York Presidents United States Election 1876 Spanish-American War, 1898 Women Suffrage World War, 1939-1945 Journalists East Asia Description and travel France Commercial treaties New York (N.Y.) Politics and government New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs New York (State) Politics and government United States Commercial treaties United States Politics and government Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs Reid, Elisabeth Mills, 1858-1931 Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970 Reid, Ogden Mills, 1882-1947 Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912 Reid Foundation. mm 82065491 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003038 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003038 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 820525 20260227111716.0 mm 82065491