Robert Worth Bingham papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10500
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; American Diplomatic and consular service; Social life and customs; American newspapers; Louisville courier-journal; Agriculture; Tobacco industry; Louisville times; Monetary and Economic Conference (1933 : London, England); Money; London Naval Conference; Tariff; Foreign relations; Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936
Description: Correspondence, diaries (1933-1937), speeches, financial papers, scrapbooks, appointment books, clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Bingham's service as ambassador to Great Britain (1933-1937).  Subjects include the London Economic Conference, London Naval Conference, invasion of Abyssinia (Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936), tariff and monetary questions, and Bingham's social activities.  Other topics include the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Louisville Times, Kentucky politics, tobacco cooperatives, agriculture, and personal and family matters.

Correspondents include John Jacob Astor, Stanley Baldwin, Alben William Barkley, Bernard M. Baruch, John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham, Ulric Bell, Barry Bingham, Carrie Chapman Catt, Calvin Coolidge, Josephus Daniels, Anthony Eden, James Aloysius Farley, Credo Fitch Harris, Roland Hayes, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Cordell Hull, Joseph P. Kennedy, Arthur Krock, Charles A. Lindbergh, David Lloyd George, Henry Robinson Luce, James Ramsay MacDonald, Lincoln MacVeagh, Jan Masaryk, Eugene Meyer, Margaret Mitchell, Henry Morgenthau, Adolph S. Ochs, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Henry Agard Wallace, Thomas John Watson, Henry Watterson, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Barry Bingham, Sr., 1975-1980.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.

Diplomat, lawyer, and newspaper publisher.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.