Charles S. Hamlin papers
Contributors: Hamlin, Anna, d. 1925; Hamlin, Huybertie Pruyn, 1873-1964; Robles, Sebastian T. (Sebastian Tomas), 1902-1959
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3380
Subjects: Correspondence; Practice of law; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.); Democratic Party (U.S.); Politics and government; Social life and customs; Public Finance; United States; United States. Dept. of the Treasury
Description: Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, biographical notes, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Hamlin's service in the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System; Hamlin's civic affairs; and his family's social life in Washington, D.C.  Topics include leaders and policies of the Democratic Party especially during the Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt administrations and Hamlin's law practice in Boston, Mass.  Includes copies of Huybertie Pruyn Hamlin's manuscript pertaining to the Hamlin, Pruyn, and Roosevelt families and to social visits (November 1941-January 1942) to the White House where guests included Winston Churchill and other prominent leaders; diaries and scrapbooks of the Hamlin's daughter, Anna Hamlin; and genealogical information concerning the Hamlin family.  Of special interest is an original cartoon depicting Hamlin drawn by Sebastian T. Robles for the Washington Post.

Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, John H. Clarke, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, Josephus Daniels, Edith Benham Helm, Herbert Hoover, Cordell Hull, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Gibbs McAdoo, William McKinley, Levi P. Morton, Richard Olney, George Foster Peabody, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Diaries, index-digests of diaries, and indexes to scrapbooks available on microfilm, no. 20,753.

Scrapbooks available only on microfilm, no. 20,753.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1994.

Gift, Charles and Huybertie Pruyn Hamlin, 1936-1955.

Other gift and transfer, 1974-1998.

Lawyer, U.S. assistant secretary of the treasury, and member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.  Full name: Charles Sumner Hamlin.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.

Scrapbooks, containers 45-313, no longer exist and are available only on microfilm.