COLLECTION GUIDES

1920-1982

Guide to the Collection

Restrictions on Access

The bulk of the Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers is stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@masshist.org.

This collection includes digital material that can only be accessed onsite at the MHS library.


Collection Summary

Creator: Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1902-1985
Title: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers
Dates: 1920-1982
Physical Description: 66 record cartons (stored offsite); 3 oversize boxes and 5 oversize volumes (stored onsite); 5 open-reel audiotapes and 9 16mm films (digitized, 26.4 GB); unreformatted audiovisual material
Call Number: OFFSITE STORAGE
Call Number: Ms. N-1583 (oversize onsite)
Call Number: Dig-1978-001 (digital only)
Call Number: DigR-1978-001 (digital only)
Microfilm Call Number: P-519, 16 reels (Cartons 30-35, 37 only)
Catalog Record:

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Repository:
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston StreetBoston, MA 02215library@masshist.org

Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., author, reporter, United States senator, and ambassador. Included are letters, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, audio tapes, newsreels, and memorabilia concerning Lodge's career as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, Massachusetts state representative, United States senator, and representative to the United Nations.

Biographical Sketch

Henry Cabot Lodge (1902-1985) was a U.S. senator and diplomat, the son of poet George Cabot Lodge and Mathilda Frelinghuysen (Davis) Lodge, and the grandson of U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924). He graduated from Harvard in 1924 and worked as a journalist until 1933. He married Emily Sears in 1926, and the couple had two children. Elected as a Republican state representative in Massachusetts in 1932, he moved up to the U.S. Senate in 1936. He took a temporary leave of absence from the Senate and served in World War II with American tank units in Libya. Lodge was re-elected to the U.S. Senate in 1942, but resigned in 1944 to serve with the army in Europe. He was elected once again to the Senate in 1946, but lost in 1952 to John F. Kennedy while working on Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign. President Eisenhower appointed Lodge ambassador to the United Nations, where he served until 1960, when he ran as vice president with Richard Nixon, losing to the Kennedy/Johnson ticket. In 1963, President Kennedy appointed Lodge ambassador to Vietnam, and he was again appointed in 1965 by President Johnson. He served in that position until 1967 and then served in 1968-1969 as ambassador to Germany. In 1969, Lodge headed the U.S. delegation to the unsuccessful Paris Peace Talks with Vietnam. From 1969 to 1977, he served occasionally as an envoy to the Vatican for Presidents Nixon and Ford.

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Collection Description

The papers of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., author, reporter, United States senator, and ambassador, include letters, speeches, scrapbooks, audio tapes, newsreels, and memorabilia concerning Lodge's career as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, Massachusetts state representative, United States senator, and representative to the United Nations. The collection also contains campaign literature, legislative subject files, and Senate correspondence; material related to Eisenhower's inauguration, including a Truman-Eisenhower transition diary, 1952-1953; material related to Lodge's service as 1952 Republican campaign manager, United Nations ambassador (1953-1960), Republican vice-presidential candidate (1960), and director of the Atlantic Institute (1961-1962); and diaries kept by Lodge, 1928-1929, 1943-1944, recording world trips.

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Acquisition Information

The Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers were a gift to the Massachusetts Historical Society from Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Feb. 1978, with additions in 1983. Lodge's speech on the Panama Canal, ca. 1977, was a gift from Mark Zashin, March 2018.

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Restrictions on Access

The bulk of the Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers is stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@masshist.org.

This collection includes digital material that can only be accessed onsite at the MHS library.

Restrictions on Use

The Massachusetts Historical Society does not own the copyright to the audiovisual materials in Series XVII, Subseries A and B, and cannot provide copies to researchers. The Massachusetts Historical Society cannot give permission to publish or quote from documents to which it does not hold copyright. Use of these materials does not imply permission to publish. It is the sole responsibility of the researcher to obtain formal permission from the owners of the literary rights (copyright) to publish or quote from this collection.

Arrangement

Please note that this collection has only received a preliminary arrangement.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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XVII. Audio/visual material, 1940-1967Digital Content

Stored ONSITE in the MHS A/V Archives. Two boxes of LPs stored ONSITE at Ms. N-1583 (XT).

Included are films and audiotapes, as well as two boxes of records (LPs).

Note: For information about the material in this series, please contact the MHS library at reference@masshist.org.

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Preferred Citation

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.

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Access Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.

Persons:

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.

Organizations:

Atlantic Institute.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
United States. Congress. Senate.
United States. Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Subjects:

Diaries--1928.
Diaries--1929.
Diaries--1943.
Diaries--1944.
Elections--Massachusetts.
Massachusetts--Politics and government.
Politicians--Diaries.
Politicians--Massachusetts.
Presidents--United States--Election--1952.
Presidents--United States--Election--1960.
Voyages and travels--Diaries.

Titles:

New York Herald Tribune.

Materials Removed from the Collection

Photographs from this collection have been removed to the Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. photographs, ca. 1861-1985. Photo. Coll. 184.

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Collection processed by Rachel Wise, Sep. 2001.

Revised 22 Nov. 2024

Encoded by Kathleen J. Barker, April 2004

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