Louis F. Post papers
Contributors: Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Subjects: Deportation; Politics and government; Trials, litigation; Dissenters; Buried treasure; Journalism; Social change; United States; Single tax; Progress; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Correspondence; Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.); Radicalism; Civil rights; Hackettstown gazette; United States. Dept. of Labor; New Jerusalem Church; Radicals; Treasure troves; Social history; Social conditions
Description: Correspondence, diary, writings, articles, biographical material, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Post's career as an author, journalist, and public official.  Documents his support of Henry George and the single tax, Swedenborgian (New Jerusalem Church) religious beliefs, policies favoring the civil rights of radicals, and views on society and progress.  Documents the attempted impeachment of Post as U.S. assistant secretary of labor because of his policies relating to the deportation of political dissidents and radicals.  Subjects also include an alleged buried treasure in South Africa and Ku Klux Klan trials in South Carolina.  Includes manuscripts of Post's books, The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty : A Personal Narrative of an Historic Official Experience (1923) and The Prophet of San Francisco : Personal Memories & Interpretations of Henry George (1930), and of his unpublished autobiography, Living a Long Life Over Again.  Also includes papers of Post's wife, Alice Thacher Post.  Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan and the Hackettstown Gazette.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of Living a Long Life Over Again (container 4) available, no. 16,981.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.

Gift, Post family and Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, 1933-1970.

Journalist, lawyer, 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.ms012041