Philip W. Bonsal papers
Contributors: Ollivier, Emile, 1825-1913
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1100
Subjects: Politics and government; American Diplomatic and consular service; International agencies; Colonies; Foreign relations; History
Description: Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, speeches, and statesments documenting Bonsal's foreign service career, especially as U.S. ambassador to Cuba during and after the 1959 revolution there.  Includes material on the differences between Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles regarding Argentina and ideological battles at international meetings over the independence of colonial Africa.  Also includes Bonsal's English translation from the French of Emile Ollivier's book L'Expedition du Mexique (1914) concerning Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.
Notes: Open to research.

Classified, in part.

Gift, Philip W. Bonsal, 1993.

Diplomat.

Collection material in English, with French.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009156