Richard Olney papers
Contributors: James, Henry, 1879-1947
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28000
Subjects: Politics and government; Boston and Maine Railroad; Farmers; Northern Pacific Railway Company; Fishery law and legislation; Boundaries; Pullman Strike, 1894; Canals; History; Correspondence; Practice of law; Depressions; United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of the Attorney General; Democratic Party (U.S.); United States. Supreme Court; Railroads; Arbitration (International law); Fisheries; Silver question; Southern Pacific Company; Labor unions; Labor movement; Social conditions; World War, 1914-1918; Antitrust law; United States; United States. Dept. of State; Foreign relations
Description: Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, drafts of speeches and articles, reports, subject files, legal records, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Olney's activities as U.S. attorney general and secretary of state during Grover Cleveland's presidential administration.  Also includes material pertaining to his Boston, Mass., law practice.  Subjects include pre-World War I American foreign policy; canal through Nicaragua or Panama; Democratic Party politics; the 1895 Cuban revolution; farmers' protest and labor strife following the Depression of 1893; the proposed arbitration treaty with Great Britain; difficulties with Great Britain over the Bering Sea fisheries dispute and Venezuela-British Guiana boundary dispute; the landmark court decisions of the 1890's; insurrections in the Philippines during the Philippine American War, 1899-1902; the Pullman Strike of 1894; railroads especially the Boston and Maine Railroad, Northern Pacific Railway Company, and Southern Pacific Company; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Silver Purchase Act of 1894; and trade-unions.  Also includes research files collected by Olney's biographer, Henry James (1879-1947).

Correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, Edwin Farnsworth Atkins, Clara Barton, Thomas F. Bayard, French Ensor Chadwick, Grover Cleveland, Josephus Daniels, Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, Charles William Eliot, Samuel Gompers, Walter Quintin Gresham, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, George Frisbie Hoar, Daniel Scott Lamont, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, S.S. McClure, William McKinley, Peter B. Olney, Walter Hines Page, Baron Julian Pauncefote, Robert A. Pinkerton, James Roosevelt Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, James Brown Scott, George W. Smalley, Ida M. Tarbell, Booker T. Washington, Henry White, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 17,389.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978.

In part, typewritten transcripts and handwritten copies from originals in the Manuscript Division. Antoinette M. Straw.

Gift, Agnes Minot, Mary O. Abbot, and other members of the Abbot and Minot families, 1924-1932.

U.S. attorney general, U.S. secretary of state, and lawyer.

Collection material in English.

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