Robert Helyer Thayer papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 8700
Subjects: Correspondence; Practice of law; Art; American Diplomatic and consular service; Embassy buildings; Intelligence specialists; Congresses and conventions; Kidnapping, 1932; United States; World War, 1939-1945; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); United States. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs; Bankruptcy; United States. Navy; United States. Dept. of State; Military intelligence
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, legal briefs and case files, reports, financial records, scrapbook, printed matter, maps, photographs and other papers documenting Thayer's legal career in private practice in New York City and as a district attorney for New York County, political activities in the Republican party, service in naval intelligence during World War II, and as assistant secretary for cultural and educational affairs at the U.S. State Dept.  Topics include U.S. and Canadian bankruptcy laws; the Lindbergh kidnapping case (as assistant counsel to Charles A. Lindbergh); his support of Thomas E. Dewey's campaigns for New York City, New York state, and national offices; Unesco and other international congresses; and art in U.S. embassies.  Correspondents include McGeorge Bundy, William R. Castle, Thomas E. Dewey, C. Douglas Dillon, William J. Donovan, Allen Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Sol Hurok, Dean Rusk, and Sinclair Weeks.
Notes: Open to research.

Classified, in part.

Gift, Robert Helyer Thayer, 1981.

Bequest, estate of Robert Helyer Thayer, 1984.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Diplomat, lawyer, and New York public official.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009200