Breckinridge Long papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; American Diplomatic and consular service; Missouri Code Commission; Democratic Party (U.S.); Princeton University; United States. Dept. of State; United States; National Jefferson Centennial Committee; Collections; Universities and colleges; Autographs; Procedure (Law); Foreign relations
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, reports, notes, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Long's career as third assistant secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson (1917-1920), ambassador to Italy (1933-1936), ambassador on special mission to Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay (1938), and assistant secretary of state under Franklin D. Roosevelt (1940-1944).  Also documents Long's work as secretary for the Missouri Code Commission for the revision of judicial procedure (1914), chairman of the National Jefferson Centennial Committee (1925-1929), in the Democratic Party, and trustee of Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. (1937-1941).  Includes drafts of Long's Genesis of the Constitution of the United States of America (1926); papers (1740-1945) of the Blair, Breckinridge, Long, and Preston families; material relating to political campaigns (1908-1944); and an autograph collection (1486-1923).

Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, Desha Breckinridge, Jefferson Caffery, Wilbur J. Carr, Bainbridge Colby, Homer S. Cummings, Josephus Daniels, J. Lionberger Davis, James A. Farley, Carter Glass, Harry Bartow Hawes, W.R. Hollister, Edward Mandell House, Andrieus Aristieus Jones, Michael Kinney, Robert Lansing, W.G. McAdoo, Vance Criswell McCormick, Wilbur W. Marsh, George S. Messersmith, George Fort Milton, Henry Morgenthau, A. Mitchell Palmer, William Phillips, Key Pittman, Frank L. Polk, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, Selden P. Spencer, William Stanley, Herbert Bayard Swope, Frank Abner Thompson, Guy Atwood Thompson, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Classified, in part.

Gift, Breckinridge Long, 1930-1952.

Gift, Mrs. Arnold Willcox, 1962.

Lawyer, diplomat, and author.

Collection material in English.

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

Index to the autograph collection in container 224 also available in the Manuscript Reading Room.