1802-1943; bulk: 1884-1936
Guide to the Collection
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers of lawyer, author, and diplomat Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855-1943).
Collection Description
This collection consists of the papers of lawyer, author, and diplomat Frederic Jesup Stimson related primarily to his teaching and scholastic activities at Harvard, 1903-1914, his career as ambassador to Argentina, 1914-1921, and his literary endeavors and writings for Scribner's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and other journals. Subjects include Argentinian politics, diplomacy, and society; Japanese society; World War I; and the Democratic Party. Among the correspondents are William Jennings Bryan, Louis Brandeis, James Bryce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Charles Evans Hughes, Robert Lansing, A. Lawrence Lowell, John Boyle O'Reilly, Charles Scribner, Charles Warren, and Barrett Wendell. The collection also includes correspondence of Frederic and Mabel Ashhurst Stimson with Ashhurst and Stimson family members.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mabel Ashhurst Stimson, 13 Apr. 1944.
Box List of the Collection
Correspondence
1802-1897
1898-Sep. 1914
Oct. 1914-July 1915
Aug. 1915-May 1916
June 1916-Dec. 1917
1918-1920
1921-1930
1931-1943
Undated correspondence
Arranged alphabetically.
Undated family correspondence
Undated miscellaneous papers
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Miscellaneous printed matter
Photographs and postcards
Drafts of published writings
In Cure of Her Soul (1906)
Popular Lawmaking (1910)
My Story (1917)
The Light of Provence (1922)
Ariel (1922)
My United States (1931)
Mary Maberly (undated)
L'Affaire Dreyfus (1898)
The World End (undated)
Scrapbook, 1870s
Oversize manuscripts from correspondence
"Personal Correspondence"
Vol. 1, Jan. 1915-Dec. 1917
Vol. 2, Jan.-July 1918
Preferred Citation
Frederic Jesup Stimson papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
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.