Raymond Leslie Buell papers, 1915-1981 (bulk 1920-1946).
- 17,900 items. 51 containers. 20.4 linear feet.
- Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1920-1946: Series 2: Time, Inc., File, 1938-1946: Series 3: Subject File, 1917-1947: Series 4: Speeches, Statements, and Writings File, 1915-1975: and Series 5: Miscellany, 1916-1981.
Open to research.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, statements, writings, subject files, and other papers relating to Buell's career as an author and speaker on domestic and international issues, to his travels, and to his activities with the Foreign Policy Association and the Republican Party. Documents his work as foreign policy adviser and roundtable editor for Time, inc., his congressional campaign in Massachusetts (1942), and as an adviser to Wendell Willkie in the presidential campaigns of 1940 and 1944. Subjects include the League of Nations, postwar reconstruction of Europe, role of the U.S. as a world leader, world politics after World War II, political campaigns, and New Deal policies. Includes material on his study (1925-1927) of conditions in Africa and on his book, Poland: Key to Europe (1939). Many of the papers have been annotated by Buell's wife, Frances Dwight Buell. Correspondents include Louis Adamic, Frederick E. Baker, Roger N. Baldwin, Dantčs Bellegarde, Edward L. Bernays, Karl Brandt, Joseph P. Chamberlain, Brooke Claxton, Russell W. Davenport, Ventura F. Dellunde, Thomas E. Dewey, John Foster Dulles, Albert Einstein, Brooks Emeny, Harvey S. Firestone, Henry Francis Grady, Brooks Hays, Oszkár Jászi, Philip C. Jessup, Alfred M. Landon, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry Robinson Luce, George Fort Milton, Reinhold Niebuhr, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sumner H. Slichter, H. Alexander Smith, W.W. Waymack, Wendell L. Willkie, and W. Walter Williams.
Educator, lecturer, and publicist; active in international affairs.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011006
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Adamic, Louis, 1899-1951 --Correspondence. Baker, Frederick E.--Correspondence. Baldwin, Roger N. 1884-1981 --Correspondence. Bellegarde, Dantčs, 1877-1966 --Correspondence. Bernays, Edward L., 1891-1995 --Correspondence. Brandt, Karl, 1898-1974 --Correspondence. Buell, Frances Dwight, 1894-1985. Chamberlain, Joseph P. 1873-1951 --Correspondence. Claxton, Brooke, 1898-1960 --Correspondence. Davenport, Russell W. 1899-1954 --Correspondence. Dellunde, Ventura F.--Correspondence. Dewey, Thomas E. 1902-1971 --Correspondence. Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959 --Correspondence. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 --Correspondence. Emeny, Brooks, 1901-1980 --Correspondence. Firestone, Harvey S., 1898-1973 --Correspondence. Grady, Henry Francis, 1882-1957 --Correspondence. Hays, Brooks--Correspondence. Jászi, Oszkár, 1875-1957 --Correspondence. Jessup, Philip C. 1897-1986 --Correspondence. Landon, Alfred M. 1887-1987 --Correspondence. Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 --Correspondence. Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967 --Correspondence. Milton, George Fort, 1894-1955 --Correspondence. Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 --Correspondence. Slichter, Sumner H. 1892-1959 --Correspondence. Smith, H. Alexander 1880-1966 --Correspondence. Waymack, W. W. 1888-1960 --Correspondence. Williams, W. Walter, 1894-1983 --Correspondence. Willkie, Wendell L. 1892-1944. Willkie, Wendell L. 1892-1944 --Correspondence.
Foreign Policy Association. League of Nations. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Time, inc.
Elections--Massachusetts. International relations. Journalism--United States. New Deal, 1933-1939. Political campaigns--United States. Presidents--Election--United States--1940. Presidents--Election--United States--1944. Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Europe. World politics.
Africa--History--20th century. Massachusetts--Politics and government--1865-1950. Poland--History--20th century. United States--Economic policy--1933-1945. United States--Foreign relations--20th century. United States--Politics and government--20th century.