Chandler P. Anderson papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18300
Subjects: Correspondence; American Investments; Conference on the Limitation of Armament (1921-1922 : Washington, D.C.); International relations; League of Nations; World War, 1914-1918; Officials and employees; Peace; Disarmament; Fishery law and legislation; Boundaries; Germany. 1921 Aug. 25; Germany; United States. Dept. of State; United States; International law; Foreign relations; History
Description: Correspondence, diaries, minutes of meetings, writings, reports, informal records and notes of negotiations, transcripts of court proceedings and other legal records, press releases, clippings, print and near-print material, maps, and other papers relating chiefly to Anderson's career in international law and official activities in the U.S. Dept of State.  Includes summaries of conversations with Bernard M. Baruch, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, Elihu Root, and Woodrow Wilson.  Subjects include relations between the United States and Great Britain; public and official opinion in Great Britain during World War I; the peace treaty with Germany, 1921; the League of Nations; American economic interests in the Soviet Union in the 1920s; the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922; boundary problems between Central American countries; internal problems in Nicaragua during the 1920s; and inland and international fisheries negotiations.  Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Otis T. Cartwright, Charles Evans Hughes, David Starr Jordan, Philander C. Knox, Robert Lansing, Frank L. Polk, Elihu Root, James Brown Scott, and Charles Beecher Warren.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm of diaries (1914-1928, 1934) available, no. 15,819.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1973.

Gift, Harriet W. Anderson, 1938-1952.

Gift, Alan D. Gibbons, 1952.

Gift, Chandler P. Anderson, Jr., 1958.

Transfer, U.S. Dept. of State, 1961.

Lawyer, advisor to the U.S. Dept. of State, and international arbitrator.

Collection material in English.

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

Correspondence between Anderson and Robert Lansing was transferred to the Manuscript Division's Robert Lansing papers.