Hugh Lenox Scott papers
Contributors: Scott, William McKendree, 1817-1861
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40000
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Government relations; Nez Percé Indians; Smithsonian Institution; Politics and government; Officers; Indian sign language; Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology; Languages; Religion; Wars, 1877; New Jersey. State Highway Commission; Military readiness; Correspondence; United States; American Diplomatic and consular service; Indians of North America; Ghost dance; Dakota Indians; Wars; New Jersey; United States Military Academy; United States. Board of Indian Commissioners; United States. Army; Foreign relations; Spanish-American War, 1898
Description: Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, memoirs,  drafts of writings, speeches, reports, notes,  biographical and genealogical material, account books, financial papers, lists, printed material, maps, photographs, drawings, prints, and other papers relating to Scott's career in the U.S. Army from 1876 to his retirement following World War I, to his service as a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners (1919-1933) and as chairman of the State Highway Commission of New Jersey (1920s), and to his work on Indian languages at the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology.

Includes drafts of his memoir, Some Memories of a Soldier; a typescript of a journal (1845) kept by his father, William McKendree Scott; and family correspondence (1874-1933).  Topics include expeditions against the Sioux (Dakota) and Nez Percé Indians, the ghost dance of the Plains Indians, sign language, government relations, religion, and other aspects of Indian life and culture; the Spanish-American War and administration of military government in Cuba; Scott's appointment as superintendent of the United States Military Academy; military preparation for World War I; and Scott's role as army chief of staff, superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and member of the U.S. special diplomatic mission to the Soviet Union in 1917.  Correspondents include Tasker Howard Bliss, John J. Pershing, Mary Merrill Scott, Pancho Villa, Woodrow Wilson, and Leonard Wood.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of container 1 available, no. 16,787.

Microfilm edition of containers 2-5 available, no. 17,249.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1976-1978.

In part, positive photocopies. [S.l.].

Deposit, Mary Merrill Scott, 1938.

Converted to gift, 1951.

Gift, Lewis Merrill Scott, 1951.

Additional gifts and transfers, 1955-1982.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

Army officer and 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.ms003070