Robert Lansing papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 6000
Subjects: Correspondence; World War, 1914-1918; Transportation; American Diplomatic and consular service; Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920); Diplomatic history; Lusitania (Steamship); Politics and government; Merchant marine; Personal narratives; International law; Foreign relations; History
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, resolutions, desk diaries, book manuscripts, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Lansing's years (1914-1920) as counsel to the Dept. of State and as secretary of state and particularly to American foreign relations during World War I, the Paris Peace Conference, and Lansing's relations with President Woodrow Wilson and with various foreign diplomats and statesmen. Includes material on the Lusitania affair, the Mexican crisis, the arming of merchant seamen, the Irish rebellion, the purchase of the Danish West Indies, relations with Japan and China, and Latin America and the proposed Pan American Pact.  Personal papers concern Lansing's participation in private legal cases involving international law and his activity in domestic politics. Includes the draft of Lansing's war memoirs, published in part in 1935.

Correspondents include Chandler P. Anderson, Frederick M. Boyer, William Jennings Bryan, Viscount James Bryce, John W. Davis, J. M. Dickinson, Allen Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Abram I. Elkus, John Watson Foster, Paul Fuller, James Watson Gerard, John Grier Hibben, Cone Johnson, J. J. Jusserand, V. K. Wellington Koo, Franklin K. Lane, Henry Cabot Lodge, Wayne MacVeagh, Thomas R. Marshall, Alexander Meiklejohn, John Bassett Moore, Henry Morgenthau, William Phillips, Frank L. Polk, Elihu Root, L. S. Rowe, James Brown Scott, Edward North Smith, William Joel Stone, Seymour Van Santvoord, Brand Whitlock, Woodrow Wilson, and Lester Hood Woolsey.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

In part, available on microfilm, no. 15,347.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1972.

Gift, Eleanor Lansing, 1929.

Other gifts, 1956-1980.

Lawyer, diplomat, secretary of state during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, and member of the American mission to negotiate a peace treaty following World War I.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010227