Mercer Green Johnston papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40000
Subjects: People's Legislative Service (Washington, D.C.); World War, 1914-1918; United States. Rural Electrification Administration; Episcopal Church; United States; Clergy; War work; National Citizens Committee on Relations with Latin America; Foreign relations; Young Men's Christian associations
Description: Correspondence, diaries, sermons, notebooks, autobiographical papers, poems, prayers, financial papers, pamphlets, periodicals, photographss, clippings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia. Correspondence forms the bulk of the collection and relates to Johnston's career as an Episcopal clergyman in the U.S. and the Philippines, worker for the Young Men's Christian Association during World War I, director of the People's Legislative Service, director of the National Citizens Committee on Relations with Latin America, Inc., and assistant to the Rural Electrification Administrator. Correspondents include Bishops James Steptoe Johnston and Charles H. Brent, Senators Burton K. Wheeler and George W. Norris.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mrs. Mercer Green Johnston, 1955.

Educator, Episcopal clergyman, and author.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room; includes card index to sermons.