Nicholas Roosevelt Papers

An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University

Overview of the Collection
Creator:	Roosevelt, Nicholas, 1893-1982.
Title:	Nicholas Roosevelt Papers
Inclusive Dates:	1846-1962
Quantity:	32.0 linear ft.
Abstract:	Papers of the American author, conservationist, diplomat, journalist.Died 1982. Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1846-1962); diaries (1912-1933); manuscript books, essays, editorials, lectures, and speeches; ministerial dispatches; photographs; printed material including articles, clippings, editorials, and reviews; and scrapbooks. Notable correspondents include Louis Adamic, Horace Albright, Dana Atchley, Winston Churchill, Georges Clemenceau, William Colby, Allen Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Milton Eisenhower, Herbert Feis, John Finley, Prentiss Gilbert, Joseph Grew, John Gunther, Hermann Hagedorn, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Herbert Hoover, Cordell Hull, Frank B. Kellogg, John F. Kennedy, Frank Knox, Arthur Krock, Thomas W. Lamont, Alfred M. Landon, Sinclair Lewis, Walter Lippmann, Henry Cabot Lodge, Savoie Lottinville, Dione Lucas, George Marshall, Katherine Mayo, Henry Miller, Raymond Moley, John Montgomery, Allan Nevins, Aurelia Reinhardt, Edgar Robinson, Nelson Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and other family members, Leverett Saltonstall, George Sansom, Louisa Schuyler, George Seldes, William Shirer, Henry L. Stimson, Arthur Sulzberger, Arnold Toynbee, James Wadsworth, Langdon Warner, Earl Warren, Leonard Wood, and others.
Language:	Bulk in English , some newspapers and clippings in French, Dutch, German.
Repository:	Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu

Biographical History

Nicholas Roosevelt (1893-1982) was an American author, journalist, conservationist, and diplomat. A first cousin once removed of President Theodore Roosevelt, he was born June 12, 1893 in New York City and received his A.B. from Harvard in 1914. He served as an attache at the American Embassy in Paris for the next two years, and as secretary to the American mission to Spain in 1916-1917. He served as Vice-Governor to the Philippines for a few months in 1930 before being named minister to Hungary, a post he held for three years (1930-1933). He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a writer for its journal Foreign Affairs, and a foreign correspondent and editorial writer for the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune for more than 20 years (1921-1946). During World War II he was appointed head of the Office of War Informations (1942-1945).

In addition to his newspaper work, Roosevelt wrote twelve books including The Philippines, a Treasure and a Problem (1926), A New Birth of Freedom (1938), Venezuela's Place in the Sun: Modernizing a Pioneering Country (1940), Creative Cooking (1956), and Theodore Roosevelt: The Man as I Knew Him (1967). His autobiography, A Front Row Seat, was published in (1953.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Nicholas Roosevelt Papers include biographical material, correspondence, manuscripts, galley proofs, scrapbooks, and published material.

Correspondence consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence. Subject files includes notes, published material, photographs, research material and genealogy. Diaries, includes manuscripts of diaries arranged alphabetically by subject. Galley proofs includes the galley proofs of an article and two books. Scrapbooks contains

Manuscripts consists of manuscripts of articles, a ballad, books, book reviews, ministerial dispatches, editorials, lectures, notes, speeches, and manuscripts of others.

Published Material -- articles, a book, book reviews, editorials, newspapers, newspaper clippings, and speeches -- cover

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Arrangement of the Collection

Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by subject or correspondent and within that chronologically. The subject "Hungary", because of its size, is broken down further, alphabetically by subject or correspondent. Subject files, diaries, galley proofs, and scrapbooks are also arranged alphabetically by topic or title.

Manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by type. Within that, manuscripts of articles are arranged alphabetically by subject. Newspaper articles are arranged chronologically. Foreign newspaper articles are arranged chronologically. Books are arranged alphabetically by title.

Published material is arranged alphabetically by type. Within that, book reviews about Roosevelt's books are arranged alphabetically by subject and the remaining subseries are arranged chronologically.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on this material

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Nicholas Roosevelt Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library

Finding Aid Information

Created by: --
Date: Dec 1966
Revision history: 15 Jul 2008 - converted to EAD (MRC)

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Inventory

	Correspondence
Box 1		Biographical Material
Box 1		A-B
Box 1		Adamic, Louis
Box 1		Adams, Brooks 1955-1956
Box 1		Albright, Horace
Box 1		American Historians, Society of
Box 1		American Newspaper Publishers Association
Box 1		Arizona Trip 1913
Box 1		Atchley, Dana W.
Box 1		C-D
Box 1		Carmel Valley Fire 1949
Box 1		Castle, William
Box 1		Chicago Daily News
Box 1		Churchill, Winston
Box 1		Clemenceau
Box 1		Colby, William Edward
Box 1		Corbin, John
		Creative Cooking
Box 1			1955-1956
Box 2			1956-1957-1958, undated
Box 2			Fan mail 1956-1957, undated
Box 2		Dryfoos, Orvil E.
Box 2		E-F
Box 2		Economic Forces in the Development of American History 1945, 1946, 1951
Box 2		Eisenhower, Milton
Box 2		England and America 1929-1930
Box 3		Family
Box 3		Far Eastern Trip 1925-1926
Box 3		Finley, John H.
		A Front Row Seat
Box 3			1946-1948, 1950-1952
Box 3			Jan.-Aug. 1953
Box 3			Sept.-Dec. 1953
Box 4			1954-1955, 1957-1958, undated
Box 4		G-J
Box 4		Genealogy, Roosevelt
		Good Cooking
Box 4			1955-1960, undated (3 folders)
Box 4			Fan mail 1959-1960, undated
Box 4			A. Watkins, Inc.
Box 4		Grey, Earl of Fallodin
Box 4		Gunther, John
Box 4		Hagedorn, Hermann
Box 4		Harvard Board of Overseers
Box 4		Hoover, Herbert
Box 4		Horthy, H.S.H. Admiral Nicholas
Box 5		House and Garden
Box 5		Hull, Cordell
Box 5		Hungarian American Society 1933-1939
		Hungary
Box 5			A-C
Box 5			Appointment as Minister to Hungary
Box 5			Appointment, congratulatory
Box 5			Blair, Floyd
Box 5			Castle, William R. Jr.
Box 6			D-F
Box 6			Dulles, Allen
Box 6			Dulles, John Foster
Box 6			Feis, Dr. Herbert
Box 6			G
Box 6			Gilbert, Prentiss B.
Box 6			Green, Joseph C.
Box 6			Grew, Joseph C.
Box 6			Gunther, John
Box 6			H
Box 6			Hanfstaengal, Ernst F.S.
Box 6			Havas, Eugene
Box 6			J-L
Box 7			Knox, Frank
Box 7			Krock, Arthur
Box 7			Lamont Thomas
Box 7			Lodge, Henry Cabot
Box 7			M
Box 7			Marriner, Guy
Box 7			Mayo, Katherine
Box 7			McPherson, Martha E.
Box 7			Moreno, Jose
Box 7			N-P
Box 7			Plemp van Duivelend, L.J.
Box 7			R
Box 7			Resignation
Box 7			Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Box 7			Roosevelt, Mrs. J. West (mother) 1930-1933 (3 folders)
Box 7			Roosevelt, Oliver W.
Box 7			Roosevelt, Theodore Jr.
Box 7			S
Box 7			Shirer, William L.
Box 7			Stimson, Henry L.
Box 7			Sulzberger, Arthur Hayes
Box 7			T-Z
Box 8			Tuck, S. Pinkney
Box 8			Van Oss
Box 8			Wiley, Louis
Box 8			Williams, Daniel R.
Box 8			Wilson, Charles S.
Box 8			Winslow, Rollin R.
Box 8			Wright, J. Butler
Box 8		Jusserand (French Ambassador, 1914)
Box 8		K
Box 8		Kellogg, Hon. Frank B.
Box 8		Kennedy, John F.
Box 8		L
Box 8		Landon, Alf M.
Box 8		Lewis, Sinclair
Box 8		Lippman, Walter
Box 8		Lottinville, Savoie (University of Oklahoma Press)
Box 8		Lucas, Dione
Box 8		Marshall, George
Box 8		Miller, Henry
Box 8		Moley, Raymond
Box 8		Monterey Peninsula College
Box 8		Monterey Republicans
Box 8		Montgomery, John F.
Box 8		Mother's death
Box 8		Munsterburg
Box 8		N
Box 8		Nevins, Allen
Box 9		A New Birth of Freedom 1938-1939, undated (2 folders)
Box 9		N.Y. World's Fair 1935
Box 9		N.Y. World's Fair 1936
Box 9		O
Box 9		Office of War Information 1943
Box 9		P
Box 9		Panama Canal
Box 9		Paris Embassy
Box 9		Pennell, Joseph
Box 9		Peru
		Philippines
Box 9			About Philippines 1926-1929
Box 9			Appointment A-W 1929
Box 10			Appointment A-L 1930
Box 10			Appointment M-Z 1930
Box 10			Nicholas Roosevelt for Gov. General 1927
Box 10		The Philippines: A Treasure and a Problem 1925-1929, undated
Box 10		Putnam, Carleton
Box 10		R
Box 10		Reinhardt, Aurelia
Box 10		Restless Pacific 1928 - letters about
Box 10		Robinson, Edgar
Box 10		Rockefeller, Nelson A.
Box 10		Roosevelt, Andre
Box 11		Roosevelt, Archibald
Box 11		Roosevelt, Eleanor
Box 11		Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Box 11		Roosevelt, James
Box 11		Roosevelt, Mrs. Laura 1912, 1915-1916, 1918-1920, 1922-1924, 1928-1929, 1933-1941, undated (8 folders)
Box 11		Roosevelt, Oliver
Box 11		Roosevelt, Theodore
Box 12		ROTC
Box 12		S
Box 12		Saltonstall, Leverett
Box 12		Sansome, George
Box 12		Schuyler, Louisa Lee
Box 12		Seldes, George
Box 12		Smith, Mrs. Joseph
Box 12		Stimson, Henry L.
Box 12		T
Box 12		Teleki, Paul
Box 12		Toynbee, Arnold
Box 12		U-V
Box 12		Vienna 1919
Box 12		Warner, Mr. & Mrs. Langdon
Box 12		Warren, Earl
Box 12		A. Watkins, Inc.
Box 12		Western Trip 1940-1941
Box 12		Wood, Leonard 1919, 1921, 1923, 1924, undated
Box 12		Gen. Wood Campaign Trip 1920
Box 12		World War I
Box 12		WQXR New York Times radio station
Box 12		Yosemite 1928-1229
Box 12		Unidentifiable
		Correspondence of others
Box 12			Alsop, Mrs. Joseph W.
Box 12			Roosevelt, J. West
Box 12			Roosevelt, Mrs. Laura
Box 12			Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. S.W.
Box 12			Wadsworth, James W.

	Subject files
Box 13		Count Apponyi
Box 13		Austria
Box 13		Bank for International Settlements 1931-1933
Box 13		Bulgaria 1932
Box 13		Decorations
Box 13		Disarmament
Box 13		European Geography
Box 13		European trip 1923-1924
Box 13		Financial
Box 13		Foreign loans
Box 13		France
Box 13		Genealogy
Box 13		Genealogy by Mrs. J. West Roosevelt - manuscript
		Genealogy by Dixon Wector (photostat)
Box 13			pp. 1-116
Box 14			pp. 117-251
Box 14		Greece
Box 14		Hungary, Financial Condition 1924, 1928, 1930-1932
Box 14		Hungary and the U.S.
Box 14		Itinerary
Box 15		League of Nations 1925, 1927, 1931-1932
Box 15		Legal documents
		A. Lincoln
			See Schuyler, Louisa Lee
Box 15		Monterey and Carmel, California
Box 15		Moro History
Box 15		Navy League of the U.S.
Box 15		New York World's Fair 1935
		Notes and Research Material
			Economic Forces in the Development of American History
Box 15				Bibliography
Box 15				Climate
Box 15				Economics
Box 16				Education
Box 16				Food
Box 16				Population
Box 16				The Press
Box 16				Transportation
Box 16			Good Cooking
Box 16		Passports 1914-1915
Box 16		Photographs
Box 16		Programs
Box 16		Propaganda, World War I
Box 17		Research Material, Good Cooking
Box 17		Roosevelt, F.D.
Box 17		Roosevelt, J. West
Box 17		Roosevelt, Mrs. J. West
Box 17		Schuyler, Louisa Lee 1865, 1920
Box 17		Ticonderoga and Gettysburg
Box 17		Travel Orders 1919
Box 17		U.S. flag
Box 17		Yosemite

	Diaries
Box 18		Arizona 1913
		Austria and Hungary
Box 18			1919
Box 18			1919, originals
Box 18			1919, fragments and notes
Box 18		European trip 1923-1924
Box 19		Far eastern journal 1925-1926
Box 19		Hungary 1930-1933
		Paris
Box 19			1914-1916
Box 20			vol. I 1914
Box 20			vol. II 1915
Box 20		Republican National Convention 1912
Box 20		Spain 1916-1917
Box 20		Trip around the world 1915
Box 20		Washington Conference on Limitations of Naval Armaments 1921
Box 20		Western Trip 1933
Box 20		Diaries of others - Mrs. J. West Roosevelt

	Galley Proofs
		Articles
Box 21			The Roosevelt Record
		Books
Box 21			Creative Cooking
Box 21			Good Cooking (5 folders)

	Scrapbooks
Oversize		1930
Box 22		America and England
Box 22		Articles and editorials by Nicholas Roosevelt 3/21-4/23
		Articles by and about Nicholas Roosevelt
Box 23			1922-1930
Box 23			1933-1935
Box 24		Articles by Nicholas Roosevelt 1937
Box 24		Articles by New York Herald Tribune Sep 1935-Mar 1937
		Clippings about Nicholas Roosevelt
Box 24			1932-1933
Box 25			1935-1937 (2 folders)
Box 26		Congratulatory letters 1930
Oversize		Creative Cooking
Box 26		Editorials and articles by Nicholas Roosevelt Nov. 7, 1933 - Mar. 7, 1934
Box 26		Editorials and articles by Nicholas Roosevelt Feb.14, 1934 - May 4, 1934
Box 27		Editorials May 5-10, 1934
Box 27		Editorials and articles July, 1934 - Feb. 20, 1935
Box 27		Editorials and articles by Roosevelt, N.Y. Herald Tribune July 8 - Dec. 31, 1935
Box 28		Editorials and articles by Roosevelt, N.Y. Herald Tribune July 8 - Nov. 20, 1936
Box 28		Editorials by Roosevelt, N.Y. Herald Tribune Jan. 1 - July 8, 1936
Box 28		Editorials by Roosevelt, N.Y. Herald Tribune Nov. 11, 1936 - June 10, 1937
Box 29		Editorials 1937-1939 (3 folders)
Box 30		Editorials 1939-1942 (3 folders)
Oversize		A Front Row Seat
Oversize		Hungary
Box 31		A New Birth of Freedom
Oversize		Newspaper articles 1926-1930 (4 volumes)
Box 31		Orient clippings
Box 31		The Restless Pacific

	Manuscripts
		Articles
Box 32			Arizona trip (unpublished) 1913
Box 32			China 1926
Box 32			Japan 1934
Box 32			Unpublished
Box 32			Washington Naval Conference
			Newspapers
Box 32				European trip 1923-1924
Box 32				1934, undated
Box 32				Foreign ( Neue Freie Presse) 1919
Box 32				Foreign 1921, undated
Box 33				Foreign ( Le Temps) 1922-1925 (3 folders)
Box 33		Ballad 1914
Box 33		Book Reviews 1934, undated
		Books
			Creative Cooking
Box 34				Front matter through Chapter VI (8 folders)
Box 35				Chapter VII through XVIII, PostScript (13 folders)
Box 35				Unidentified Pages
Box 36			Divided They Stand
			Economic Forces in the Development of American History
Box 36				Outline, incomplete
Box 36				Food, incomplete
Box 36				Health, incomplete
Box 36				Immigration, incomplete
Box 36				Isolation, incomplete
Box 36				Politics, incomplete
Box 36				Religion, incomplete
Box 36				Social, incomplete
Box 36				Fragments
			A Front Row Seat
Box 36				Carbon
Box 37				Early draft
Box 38				A Front Row Seat
Box 39				pp. 2-136
Box 39				Carbons and Notes No. 1
Box 39				Carbons and Notes No. 2
Box 39				Table of Contents
Box 39				Chapter I
Box 39				Chapter III
Box 39				Chapter IV - early drafts
Box 39				Chapter XXII
Box 39				Chapter: Americanizing Malays
Box 39				Chapter: Arizona rough drafts
Box 40				Bull Moose: early drafts
Box 40				Chapter: The Breakup of an Empire
Box 40				Chapter: China
Box 40				Chapter: Diplomats, Archdukes, and Aristocrats
Box 40				Chapter: From Manila to Budapest
Box 40				Chapter: The Dust of New York
Box 40				Chapter: Good-Bye to Europe
Box 40				Chapter: A Hapsburg Postlude
Box 40				Chapters: Hungary - early drafts
Box 41				Chapter: MacArthur
Box 41				Chapter: Manchuria
Box 41				Chapter: N.Y. Herald Tribune
Box 41				Chapter: N.Y. Times
Box 41				Chapter: Office of War Information
Box 41				Chapter: On the Lecture Front
Box 41				Chapter: Paris in W.W.I Chapter: F.D. Roosevelt
Box 41				Chapter: T. Roosevelt and the 1912 Campaign
Box 41				Chapter: Spanish Interlude
Box 41				Chapter: Time to Think - early drafts
Box 41				Chapter: Vienna - early drafts
Box 41				Chapter: Visiting the Front (W.W.I)
Box 41				Chapter: With Wilson in Paris
Box 42				Chapter: Unidentified - early drafts
Box 42				Chapter fragments (3 folders)
Box 42				Chapter corrections
			Good Cooking
Box 43				Complete copy
Box 43				Chapters I-IV (4 folders)
Box 44				Chapters V-IX (6 folders)
Box 45				Chapters X-XVI (9 folders)
Box 46				Chapters XVII and XVIII (2 folders)
Box 46				Appendix
Box 46				Index
Box 46				Chapter fragments
Box 46				Chapter outlines
Box 46				Recipes (2 folders)
Box 47			Hungary (unpublished)
Box 47			A New Birth of Freedom (1938) - Chapters I-VII and IX-XIII (2 folders)
Box 47			The Philippines: A Treasure and a Problem - fragment
			The Stream of Liberty or Roots of Freedom
Box 48				Early drafts (2 folders)
Box 48				1963
Box 49				Early drafts
Box 49				Final draft 1963
Box 49				Discarded insets
Box 50				Chapter outline
Box 50				First carbon
Box 50				Carbon of final draft 1964
Box 51				Chapters I-XXX (2 folders)
Box 51				Table of Contents
Box 51				Introduction
Box 51				Chapters I-III (3 folders)
Box 52				Chapters IV-XXIV (20 folders)
Box 53				Chapters XXV-XXXI (7 folders)
Box 54				Chapters XXXII-XXXIV, Epilogue (3 folders)
Box 54				Unidentified
Box 54				Fragments of chapters
		Mimeo copy, books
			The Stream of Liberty
Box 55				Vol. I
Box 55				Vol. II
Box 55				Chapters I-XXXIV (2 folders)
Box 56				Chapters I-XXXIV (2 folders)
Box 56				Incomplete pp. 41-237
Box 56				Incomplete pp. 240-439
Box 57				Complete
Box 57				The Stream of Liberty
Box 58				The Stream of Liberty
		Book
Box 58			U.S. Foreign Policy unpublished () 1916 or 1917
Box 59		Dispatches from Hungary 1930-1933
Box 59		Editorials
Box 59		Introduction to Horthy memoirs
		Lectures
Box 59			American Journalism
Box 59			Monterey College Address
Box 59			Mills College 1941
		Notes
Box 59			Far eastern trip 1925-1926
Box 59			Loans to foreign nations
Box 59			Mussolini
Box 59			Political campaign 1912
Box 59			Vienna 1919
		Speeches and statements of others
Box 59			Baron Nopsca 1918, on 1919
Box 59			J. West Roosevelt
Box 59			Gen. Leonard Wood
Box 59		Unidentified

	Published Material
Box 60		Articles by Nicholas Roosevelt
Box 60		Book, Creative Cooking
		Book reviews and clippings
Box 60			Creative Cooking 1957-1958
Box 60			A Front Row Seat 1953
Box 60			Good Cooking
Box 60			A New Birth of Freedom 1938
Box 60			The Philippines:A Treasure and a Problem
Box 60			The Restless Pacific
Box 61		Book reviews by Roosevelt 1921-1924, 1926-1928, 1930, 1939-1943
Box 61		Editorials by Roosevelt 1917, 1927-1930 (2 folders)
Box 62		Letters to the Editor by N. Roosevelt
		Newspapers
Box 62			The Continental Times Jan. 23, 1915 - Aug. 30, 1915
Box 62			The Continental Times Sept. 3, 1915 - Dec. 1, 1915
		Newspaper clippings about N. Roosevelt
Box 62			1916
Box 62			1927-1930 (Philippines)
Box 62			1930 (Hungarian appointment)
Box 62			1931-1932 (Hungary)
Box 62			1933-1942
Box 62			1936-1959, undated
		Newspaper clippings by N. Roosevelt
Box 63			1920-1926, 1928-1929, 1933-1941, 1943, 1954 (4 folders)
Box 63			The Annalist 1924
Box 63			Dutch newspapers 1919, 1923, 1939
Box 64			Far eastern trip 1925-1926
Box 64			French papers 1921-1923
Box 64			German papers 1921-1922
Box 64			Washington Conference of Limitations of Naval Armaments 1921
Box 64		Newspaper clippings, Austria
Box 64		Newspaper clippings by and about others

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