Robert Lee Sherrod Papers

An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University

Overview of the Collection
Creator:	Sherrod, Robert Lee, 1909-
Title:	Robert Lee Sherrod Papers
Inclusive Dates:	1910-1963
Quantity:	25.0 linear ft.
Abstract:	Papers of the American journalist, editor, war correspondent. Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1926-1963); typescript manuscripts for articles, books, interviews, press copy, radio scripts, and speeches; notebooks (1935-1950); photographs (1910-1963); scrapbooks; and printed material. Notable correspondents include James Agee, Claude Auchinleck, Hanson Baldwin, Omar Bradley, James F. byrnes, Mark W. Clark, James Forrestal, Ford C. Frick, Martha Gellhorn, Raymond Henle, John F. Kennedy, Henry Luce, Joseph W. Martin, Mary Margaret McBride, William C. Menninger, Carl Mydans, Richard L. Neuberger, Chester W. Nimitz, Roger Pineau, Arthur W. Radford, Sam Rayburn, Haru M. Reischauer, James Roosevelt, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Eric Sevareid, David M. Shoup, Holland M. Smith, Time, Inc., Harry S. Truman, Frank W. Wead, and Walter Winchell.
Language:	English
Repository:	Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu

Biographical History

Robert Lee Sherrod (1909-1994) was an American war correspondent, editor, and author. Born on February 8, 1909 in Thomas County, Georgia, he graduated from the University of Georgia in 1929 and began his newspaper career (1929-1935) as a reporter for various newspapers in the south. From 1935-1952, he served with Time and Life magazines as their Washington correspondent, associate editor and War and Far East Correspondent. From 1952-1966, he worked for the Saturday Evening Post as magazine editor, editor and editor-at-large. In 1965, he also took on the responsibilities of editorial coordinator for the Curtis Publishing Company and was named its vice-president in 1965.

Sherrod covered several battles during World War II, and went ashore with the U.S. Marines at the Battle of Tarawa, an experience narrated in his book Tarawa: the story of a Battle (1944). The U. S. Navy Department commended Mr. Sherrod at the Battle of Attu and at the Battle of Tarawa in 1943. In 1944, he was the recipient of the Headlines Club award for war reporting. He also received the Benjamin Franklin award in 1954, and the Overseas Press Club Certificate in 1955.

Sherrod's other books include On to Westward: the Battles of Saipan and Iwo Jima (1945), and History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II (1952). He co-authored the text for Life's Picture History of World War II (1950) and Kobonshi's Picture History of the Pacific War in Japanese.

Sherrod's first wife, Elizabeth Hudson, whom he married in 1936, died in 1958, leaving two children, John and Robert Lee. In 1961 Mr. Sherrod married Margaret C. Ruff; after their divorce in 1972 he married Mary Gay Labrot Leonhardt, who died in 1978.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Robert Lee Sherrod Papers include biographical material, correspondence, manuscripts, cabled press dispatches, photographs, notebooks, scrapbooks, published material and letters in a frame.

Correspondence comprises both incoming and outgoing correspondence. Subject files include published material, manuscripts, and correspondence. Cables consists of cabled press dispatches written or edited by Mr. Sherrod. Notebooks contain Sherrod's own handwritten notes. Subjects of Photographs include the Aleutian Islands, Attu, Iwo Jima, and Tarawa as well as family, friends, and Sherrod himself. Scrapbooks on various time periods and topics include published material, photographs, and letters. Manuscripts includes manuscripts of articles, books, book reviews, press copy, drawings, radio scripts, interviews, and speeches.

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Arrangement of the Collection

Correspondence and subject files are arranged alphabetically. Cables, notebooks, and scrapbooks are arranged chronologically. Manuscripts and published material are arranged alphabetically by type and within that by title.

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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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Subject Headings

Persons

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genres and Forms

Occupations

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Robert Lee Sherrod Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library

Acquisition Information

Gift of Robert L. Sherrod, 1966.

Finding Aid Information

Created by: --
Date: Jan 1967
Revision history: 10 Jul 2008 - converted to EAD (MRC); 23 Nov 2011 - noted returned journals (MRC)

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Inventory

	Correspondence
		Incoming
Box 1			A
Box 1			Agee, James
Box 1			Alexander, Roy
Box 1			Alpha Tau Omega
Box 1			Auchinleck, Claude
Box 1			Aulick, June
Box 1			B
Box 1			Baldwin, Hanson
Box 1			Belknap, Walter K.
Box 1			Billingsley, Sherman
Box 1			Block, Herb
Box 1			Board of Education, Thomasville, Georgia
Box 1			Boutell, C. B.
Box 1			Bradley, Omar N.
Box 1			Buckley, William E.
Box 1			Bush, James D., Jr.
Box 1			Byrnes, James F.
Box 1			C
Box 2			Canadian Academy
Box 2			Cates, Clifton
Box 2			Childs, Marquis
Box 2			Clark, Mark W.
Box 2			Collins, J. Lawton
Box 2			Cornell University
Box 2			D
Box 2			Duell, Sloane and Pearce, Inc. 1943-1955 (2 folders)
Box 2			E
Box 2			Estes, Mrs. Charles T.
Box 2			F
Box 2			Fischer, Marion
Box 2			Forrestal, James
Box 2			Fortune
Box 3			Frick, Ford
Box 3			Foreign Service of the U. S. A.
Box 3			G
Box 3			Gellhorn, Martha
Box 3			Georgia, University of
Box 3			Gray, William P.
Box 3			Gruenther, Alfred M.
Box 3			H
Box 3			Hackney, James
Box 3			[Lord] Halifax
Box 3			Hall, Benn
Box 3			Hamilton, Thomas, Jr.
Box 3			Haverford School
Box 3			Henle, Ray
Box 3			Hill School
Box 3			Howard, Alan
Box 4			Hulburd, David
Box 4			I
Box 4			Imperial War Museum
Box 4			J
Box 4			Jannell, Anne
Box 4			K
Box 4			Kennedy, Edward M.
Box 4			Kennedy, John F.
Oversize 2			Kennedy, John F. (oversize) - 2 letters in frame
Box 4			Kennedy, Robert F.
Box 4			L
Box 4			Lambs Servicemen's Morale Corps
Box 4			Landon School
Box 4			Life
Box 4			Luce, Henry and Clare Booth
Box 4			Lyons, Leonard
Box 4			M - Me
Box 5			Mi
Box 5			Marin, Munoz
Box 5			The Marine Corps Gazette
Box 5			A. N. Marquis Company
Box 5			Martin, Joseph W., Jr.
Box 5			Matthews, Francis P.
Box 5			Matthews, T. S.
Box 5			McBride, Mary Margaret
Box 5			Menninger, William C., M.D.
Box 5			Merwin, Davis
Box 5			Monahan, James
Box 5			Mountbatten
Box 5			Mydans, Carl and Shelley
Box 5			N
Box 5			N. S. Bienstock
Box 5			Nakano, Goro
Box 5			Neuberger, Richard L.
Box 5			N. Y. Herald Tribune
Box 5			Nimitz, Admiral C. W.
Box 5			O
Box 5			O'Connor, Mr. and Mrs. Basil
Box 6			P
Box 6			Parker, Mr. and Mrs. David B.
Box 6			Pineau, Roger 1951-1958 (2 folders)
Box 6			Provine, Christine
Box 6			R
Box 6			Radford, A. W.
Box 6			Rayburn, Sam
Box 6			The Reader's Digest
Box 7			Readers ( Saturday Evening Post)
Box 7			Red Cross
Box 7			Reischauer, Haru Matsukata
Box 7			Remedial Education Center
Box 7			Roosevelt, James
Box 7			Rosenthal, Dr. Harold
Box 7			S - Sn
Box 7			So
Box 7			Saint Albans
Box 7			Sandox, Inc.
Box 7			Sanford Preparatory School
Box 7			Saturday Evening Post
Box 7			Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Box 7			Servicemen's families - letters from
Box 8			Sevareid, Eric
Box 8			Shepherd, Lemuel C., Jr.
Box 8			Sherrod, Mrs. Elizabeth Hudson
Box 8			Sherrod, John
Box 8			Sherrod, Joseph A.
Box 8			Sherrod, Mrs. Joseph A.
Box 8			Sherrod, Joseph Jr.
Box 8			Sherrod, Leone
Box 8			Sherrod, Louise
Box 8			Sherrod, Olin Jay
Box 8			Sherrod, Robert Jr.
Box 8			Sherrod, Robert E.
Box 8			Shoup, David M.
Box 8			Smith, Edna Loftus
Box 8			Smith, Holland M.
Box 8			Sobol, Lewis
Box 9			T
Box 9			Tartar, Jerome
Box 9			Tarawa fan mail
			Time, Inc.
Box 9				1931-1946 (2 folders)
Box 10				1947-1950, 1951-1953, undated (3 folders)
			Correspondence books - incoming and outgoing, Time
Box 11				1945 Jan. - Apr.
Box 11				1946-1947
Box 11				1947
Box 11				1947-1948
Box 12			Treasury Department
Box 12			Truman, Harry S.
Box 12			Turner, Gorden B.
Box 12			U
Box 12			United Press Associations
Box 12			U. S. Army
Box 12			U. S. Marine Corps
Box 12			U. S. Navy
Box 12			U. S. Naval Institute
Box 12			V
Box 12			W
Box 12			W. C. and A. N. Miller
Box 12			War Department
Box 13			Wead, Frank
Box 13			Wilson, Earl
Box 13			Winchell, Walter
Box 13			Worley, Eugene
Box 13			W. Colston Leigh, Inc.
Box 13			XYZ
Box 13			Telegrams A-Z Unidentifiable
Box 13			Not identified
		Outgoing Correspondence
Box 14			1926-1927, 1930, 1932, 1934-1935, 1937-1944 (7 folders)
Box 15			1944-1945 Saipan Controversy
Box 15			1945-1951 (6 folders)
Box 16			1952-1957 (7 folders)
Box 16			1958 Jan.
Box 17			1958 February-December (11 folders)
Box 18			1959 April-December (9 folders)
Box 18			1960 January-April (4 folders)
Box 19			1960 May-December (8 folders)
Box 19			1961 January-May (5 folders)
Box 20			1961 June-December (7 folders)
Box 20			1962 January-April (2 folders)
Box 21			1962 May-Nov.
Box 21			1963
Box 21			Telegrams 1942, 1944, 1946-1947, 1949, 1952-1953, 1956-1958, undated
Box 21			Undated
		Correspondence of others - Sherrod
Box 21			Mrs. Elizabeth Hudson
Box 21			John
Box 21			Mrs. Margaret Carson
Box 21			Robert, Jr.

	Subject files
Box 22		Alaska-Attu 1943
Box 22		Applications
Box 22		Artifacts
Box 22		Australia 1941-1942 (2 folders)
Box 22		Awards and certificates
Box 22		B-36 controversy 1949
Box 23		Biographies
Box 23		Calling cards, tickets, time tables, menus
Box 23		China
Box 23		Citations
Box 23		Dutch East Indies 1946
		Financial
Box 23			Banks 1925-1953
Box 23			Bills, receipts (Europe) 1951
Box 23			Bills, receipts (Hotel) 1930-1949
Box 24			Bills, receipts (misc.) 1932-1953
Box 24			Earnings 1941-1951
Box 24			Expense accounts 1936-1957
Box 24			Insurance
Box 24			Saturday Evening Post 1954
		Financial and legal
Box 24			Duell, Sloan and Pearch 1943-1954
Box 24			Kobun-sha 1952-1956
Box 24		Fortune articles 1935-1936
Box 24		Galley proofs for Tarawa 1944
Box 24		Hardbooks 1928-1950
Box 25		Hawaii 1944
Box 25		History of Marine Corps Aviation 1952-1954
Box 25		Identification cards 1936-1951
Box 25		Income taxes 1937-1957 (2 folders)
Box 25		India 1946
Box 25		Iwo Jima 1945
Box 25		Korea 1951-1953
Box 26		Lattimore Owen 1938-1952
Box 26		Legal documents 1942-1951
Box 26		Life's Picture History of World War II 1950-1963
		Lists
Box 26			Books, courses, places, words 1927-1940
Box 26			Directories 1925-1929, 1934
Box 26			Graves
Box 26			Inventories
Box 26			Persons, civilian 1940-1959
Box 26			Person, military 1943-1952
Box 26			Maps
Box 27		Medical record, family 1942-1959
Box 27		Memos (mimeograph) - Armed Forces 1942, 1954
Box 27		New Guinea 1942
Box 27		Notes
Box 27		Notes from secretary 1944, 1962
Box 27		Notes to secretary
Box 27		Okinawa 1945
Box 27		Operation Crossroads - Bikini 1946
Box 27		Organizations
Box 27		Organization charts
Box 27		Passports
		Programs
Box 28			1926, 1927, 1929
Box 28			1931, 1936, 1938, 1939
Box 28			1941, 1942, 1944, 1934, 1949
Box 28			1950-1952, 1943-1955, 1957, 1959, undated
Box 28		Propaganda, World War II
Box 28		Research Material "Op. 23" 1949
Box 29		Round the World Story 1945
		Saipan Controversy
			See also Manuscripts: Articles: Saipan Controversy and Manuscripts: Notes: Saipan Controversy
Box 29			Action report 1944
Box 29			Manuscripts
Box 29			Proceedings of a Board of Officers
Box 30			Published material
		Sherrod
Box 30			Elizabeth
Box 30			John 1938, 1942, 1946-1960 (2 folders)
Box 30			Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A.
Box 31			Robert Sherrod, Jr. 1939-1959 (3 folders)
Box 31		Statistics
Box 31		Tarawa 1943, 1953
Box 31		Tarawa, pre and post 1943
Box 32		Tarawa: The Story of a Battle
Box 32		Travel authorizations 1943-1945, 1949
Box 32		U. S. budget 1950-1953
Box 33		U.S. Marine Corps
Box 33		U.S. Naval Ships
Box 33		U.S. Navy 1944, 1945, 1951
Box 33		U.S. War, Navy Department Unification 1949
Box 33		Warfare 1949
Box 33		Western Pacific Trip 1944

	Cables
		Press Dispatches
Box 34			1942-1946, 1948 Time Magazine (4 folders)
Box 34			1949 Feb.-Dec, Time Magazine (2 folders)
Box 35			1950, Time Magazine (2 folders)
Box 35			1951 Jan, Feb, Jun, Jul, Aug, Time Magazine (2 folders)
Box 36			1951 Sep-Dec, Time Magazine (3 folders)
Box 36			1952 Jan-Apr, undated, Time Magazine (2 folders)

	Notebooks
Box 37		1935, 1936, 1938, 1941
Box 37		1940-1941 Pre War
Box 37		1941
Box 37		1942-1943, Australia
			Returned to donor, 1973
Box 37		1943-1944, Aleutians, Wake, Tarawa
			Returned to donor, 1973
Box 38		1943-1944, Aleutians, Wake, Tarawa
			Returned to donor, 1973
Box 38		1944-1945, Saipan, Okinawa
			Returned to donor, 1973
Box 38		1945 , Saigon, South China, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
			Returned to donor, 1973
Box 38		1950

	Photographs
Box 39		Aleutians
Box 39		Attu 1943
Box 39		Iwo Jima
Box 39		Self, family, friends
			Scrapbooks also contain photographs.
Box 39		Tarawa
Box 39		1936-1937
Box 39		1942
Box 39		1951, 1945, 1963, undated

	Scrapbooks
Box 40		1925-1935
Box 40		May 28, 1932 - March 17, 1933
Box 40		1933(newspaper clippings)
Box 40		1942-1945 (mostly Tarawa)
Box 40		1946-1947
Box 40		1952
Oversize 1		Photographs

	Manuscripts
		Articles
Box 41			Drawings of Robert Sherrod by others
Box 41			About Captain Woodyard 1954
Box 41			Admiral Reeves 1950
Box 41			American Nurses and Doctors in Korea
Box 41			Australia Tries a Blood Transfusion 1953
Box 41			Chiang-Kai Shek's Formosa
Box 41			Comments on Mr. Huie's Reader's Digest Series
Box 41			Bob Jackson 1940
Box 41			Darndest Battle We Ever Fought
Box 41			The H-Bomb and The Tuna
Box 41			How Can Japan Survive?
Box 41			How The War Ended In Korea 1950
Box 41			Is This Our Next War? 1954
Box 41			Kashmir
Box 41			Kyoto
Box 41			Last Chance In The Philippines 1953
Box 41			A Layman's Guide to The Military 1951
Box 41			Look Where They're Holding The Olympics 1953
Box 41			Most Expensive City In The World 1953
Box 41			1941
Box 41			On Looking For A Job in New York 1931
Box 41			Our Korean Dilemma 1953
Box 41			Palm Beach Was Built Upon Sand 1935
Box 41			Saipan Controversy
				See also Notes: Saipan Controversy in this series, and Subject files: Saipan Controversy
Box 42			Singapore 1955
Box 42			Tarawa Revisited
Box 42			The Trouble About Islands 1952
Box 42			The Trouble About Paradise
Box 42			Vacationing on Three Dollars a Day 1954
Box 42			What Shall We Do About American Micronesia? 1952
Box 42			What's Eating Nehru? 1954
Box 42			Young Indonesia Flirts With Calamity 1953
Box 42			Corrections and inserts
Box 42			Incomplete
Box 42			Outlines for
Box 42			Untitled 1941, undated
		Books
Box 42			Iwo Jima (incomplete)
Box 42			Kobun-sha's Picture History of Pacific War 1952
Box 42			On to Westward 1945
Box 42			Tarawa: The Story of a Battle 1944, 1954
Box 42			Tarawa (incomplete)
Box 42			Outlines
Box 43		Drawings 1943, 1957
Box 43		Interviews
		Notes
Box 43			1927-1935
Box 43			1940, 1952, undated
Box 43			1949-1951
Box 43			B-36 hearing 1949
Box 43			James Forrestal suicide 1962
Box 43			India
Box 43			Korea Medical History 1954
Box 43			Life Pictorial History of World War II 1950
Box 43			Marine Aviation History 1948
Box 43			Saipan Controversy
				See also Articles: Saipan Controversy in this series (above), and Subject files: Saipan Controversy
Box 44		Press copy 1941-1943, 1945, 1950-1951, undated (3 folders)
Box 44		Radio Scripts 1939, 1942-1945, 1950-1952, undated
Box 44		Short story, untitled
Box 44		Speeches
Box 44		Of others

	Published material
Box 45		Advertisements
Box 45		Articles about
		Articles by
Box 45			1928-1929, 1935, 1938, 1942-1945, 1947, 1949 (4 folders)
Box 46			1951, 1953, 1955, undated
Box 46		Articles by and about others
Box 46		Book reviews by
		Books
Box 46			I Can Tell It Now - anthology with article by Sherrod, "Secret Conference with General Marshall"
Box 46			A Concise History of the Pacific War
Box 46			A Concise History of the Pacific War (in Japanese)
Box 47			History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II
Box 47			Iwo Jima (in Japanese)
Box 47			Kobunsha's Picture History of the Pacific War
Box 48			On to Westward 1945
Box 48			Saipan (in Japanese)
Box 48			Tarawa
Box 48			Tarawa (in French)
Box 48			Tarawa (Inscribed)
Box 49			Tarawa (in Japanese)
Box 49			By others
Oversize 2		Magazine clippings (framed)
		Newsletters
Box 49			American Aviation Daily
Box 49			F.Y.I. mimeographed
Box 49			Matson Line Wireless
Box 49		Newspaper clippings about
Box 49		Newspaper clippings by
Box 49		Newspaper clippings by or about others
		Newspapers
Box 49			The Chatter Sheet, ed. by Sherrod
Box 49			Foreign
Box 49			Servicemen
Box 49		Press releases
Box 49		Radio scripts 1944
Box 49		U. S. Government publications

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