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    <title>Russell Wheeler Davenport papers, 1899-1980 (bulk 1930-1954)</title>
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    <namePart>Davenport, Russell W. (Russell Wheeler)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1899-1954</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, writings, speeches, research material, political files, biographical material, legal and financial papers, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Davenport's career as a writer and editor with Fortune and Life magazines, his involvement with the Republican Party, his work with the Institute for Creative Research, New York, N.Y., his writings including The Dignity of Man (1955), his service in World War I and II, and his personal life.  Includes material pertaining to Davenport's work with Republican Advance and his management of Wendell W. Willkie's bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1940.  Topics include Davenport's research in public policy matters, his work against communism and fascism and for democracy, peace, and world government, and his interest in astrology and psychoanalysis.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Robert Chapman Bates, Raymond Leslie Buell, Harriet Cowles, Cornelia Whipple Davenport, Marcia Davenport, Natalie Potter Davenport, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eric Hodgins, Paul G. Hoffman, Herbert Hoover, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, Robert L. Johnson, Joseph P. Kennedy, Walter Lippmann, Parker Lloyd-Smith, Henry Cabot Lodge, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry Robinson Luce, Archibald MacLeish, Henry V. Poor, Phelps Putnam, John D. Rockefeller, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Elmo Roper, William Siegmund Schlamm, Joseph M. Scribner, Simon and Schuster, inc., Blackwell Smith, the Thacher School, and Adelaide Walker.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Author, editor, and political activist.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Bates, Robert Chapman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1942</namePart>
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      <namePart>Buell, Raymond Leslie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1896-1946</namePart>
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      <namePart>Cowles, Harriet</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davenport, Cornelia Whipple</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davenport, Marcia</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1996</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Davenport, Natalie Potter</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1969</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hodgins, Eric</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1971</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoffman, Paul G. (Paul Gray)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1974</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoover, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1964</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1946</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Robert L. (Robert Livingston)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1966</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1969</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lippmann, Walter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1974</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Lloyd-Smith, Parker</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lodge, Henry Cabot</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1985</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Luce, Clare Boothe</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1987</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Luce, Henry Robinson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1898-1967</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>MacLeish, Archibald</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1982</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Poor, Henry V</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Putnam, Phelps</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1948</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
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      <namePart>Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1960</namePart>
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      <namePart>Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1908-1979</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roper, Elmo</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1971</namePart>
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      <namePart>Schlamm, William S. (William Siegmund)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-1978</namePart>
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      <namePart>Scribner, Joseph M</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1979</namePart>
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      <namePart>Smith, Blackwell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1944</namePart>
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      <namePart>Institute for Creative Research (New York, N.Y.)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Republican Advance (Organization)</namePart>
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      <title>Fortune</title>
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      <title>Life</title>
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    <topic>Anti-communist movements</topic>
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    <topic>Psychoanalysis</topic>
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    <topic>Political planning</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
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