John Haynes Holmes papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
Subjects: Industries; Toleration; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Church of the Messiah (New York, N.Y.); Peace; Racism; Foster Parents' Plan for War Children; Religion; Social problems; Social values; Council Against Intolerance in America; Civil society; Sermons; Correspondence; Race relations; Society of Friends; Civil rights; Labor and laboring classes; Prejudices; War Resisters League; Industrial policy; Planned Parenthood Federation of America; African Americans; Social service; Libertarianism; League for Industrial Democracy; Abortion; Pacifism; World War, 1939-1945; Birth control; Economic policy; Refugees; Contraception; American Civil Liberties Union; Unitarian churches; Community Church (New York, N.Y.); Labor unions; American Friends Service Committee; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Hymns; Children
Description: Correspondence, published and unpublished writings, printed material, and other papers reflecting all facets of Holmes's public career and the libertarian movements of the 20th century.  Documents his involvement with civil liberties, civil rights, pacifism, and social service organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, Council Against Intolerance in America, Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, League for Industrial Democracy, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and War Resisters League; his activities as pastor (1907-1949) of the Church of the Messiah (later Community Church), New York, N.Y.; and his personal life.  Subjects include abortion, African Americans, birth control, civil society, contraception, economic conditions, economic policy, industrial policy, industry, labor, labor unions, peace, prejudices, race relations, racism, social conditions, social values, Society of Friends, toleration, and World War II refugee children.  The writings file includes Holmes's articles, hymns, sermons, and manuscripts of his books including My Gandhi (1953) and I Speak for Myself: The Autobiography of John Haynes Holmes (1959).

Correspondents include Roger N. Baldwin, Henry Beckett, Arthur E. Calder, Carl Colodne, Ethelwyn Doolittle, Donald Szantho Harrington, Arthur Garfield Hays, Arthur Heller, B.W. Huebsch, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Corliss Lamont, Lillian Laub, Salmon Oliver Levinson, Minnie Loewenthal, Louis B. Mayer, George E. Moesel, Francis Neilson, Carl Nelson, Edith Lovejoy Pierce, Henriette Posner, Ralph C. Roper, Norman Thomas, Carl Hermann Voss, Blanche Watson, and Walter Francis White.

Holmes's autograph collection contains copies of letters from individuals including John Dewey, Mahatma Gandhi, Herbert Hoover, Helen Keller, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jawaharlal Nehru, Eddie Rickenbacker, Bertrand Russell, and Wendell L. Willkie.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Microfilm edition of containers 177-269 available, no. 19,060.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985.

In part, photocopies. [S.l.].

Gift, Roger W. Holmes, Frances Holmes Brown, and others, 1969-1984.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Unitarian clergyman and author.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.