William Edward Dodd papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 22000
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; World politics; American Diplomatic and consular service; University of Chicago; Description and travel; Foreign relations; History
Description: Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, autobiographical notes, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Dodd's work as an author, professor of history at the University of Chicago, and U.S. ambassador to Germany (1933-1937).  Subjects include local, state, national, and international politics.  Includes letters written by Dodd during a trip to Europe (1928-1929).  Family correspondents include his wife, Martha Johns Dodd, and their daughter, Martha Dodd (Stern).  Other correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Carl L. Becker, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Claude Gernade Bowers, George P. Brett, Nicholas Murray Butler, Josephus Daniels, Edward Mandell House, Cordell Hull, R. Walton Moore, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, and Frederick Jackson Turner.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Martha Dodd Stern and William E. Dodd, Jr., 1945-1953.

Deposit of 1945 converted to gift, 1965.

Gift and deposit, Martha Dodd Stern, 1964-1981.

Remaining deposit converted to gift, 1989.

Other gift and purchase, 1952-1979.

Historian and diplomat.

Collection material in English and German, with French.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.