Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Francis Bowes Sayre papers,

Title

• Francis Bowes Sayre papers,

Summary

• Correspondence, speeches, writings including Sayre's autobiography, official reports and communications, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Sayre's diplomatic career and his role as a spokesman for Christianity and the Episcopal Church. Documents his service as U.S. assistant secretary of state, diplomatic advisor to United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, president of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and advisor to and envoy from Thailand. Includes reading copy of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points message to Congress and other papers pertaining to Wilson; papers relating to the foreign trade policies of the first two presidential administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt; materials concerning World War II in the Pacific Area, especially the Philippines; and memoranda of conversation and correspondence with Japanese diplomats. Subjects relating to the Philippines include defense preparations, internees and prisoners of war, conditions on Corregidor Island, Philippine independence, Manuel Luis Quezon, and collaborators. Also includes a Civil War letterbook of Union Army officer Wilberforce Nevin.
• Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Warren Robinson Austin, Ray Stannard Baker, James A. Farley, William Green, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Cordell Hull, Thomas Charles Hart, Owen Lattimore, Herbert H. Lehman, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, Frank Murphy, Sergio Osmeña, Claude Pepper, William Phillips, Roscoe Pound, Manuel Luis Quezon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Scarlett, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Harry S. Truman, and Woodrow Wilson.

Names

• Sayre, Francis Bowes, 1885-1972
• Nevin, Wilberforce, -1899

Headings

• -  Acheson, Dean,--1893-1971--Correspondence
• -  Austin, Warren Robinson,--1877-1962--Correspondence
• -  Baker, Ray Stannard,--1870-1946--Correspondence
• -  Farley, James A.--(James Aloysius),--1888-1976--Correspondence
• -  Green, William,--1870-1952--Correspondence
• -  Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason,--Sir,--1865-1940--Correspondence
• -  Hull, Cordell,--1871-1955--Correspondence
• -  Hart, Thomas Charles--Correspondence
• -  Lattimore, Owen,--1900-1989--Correspondence
• -  Lehman, Herbert H.--(Herbert Henry),--1878-1963--Correspondence
• -  MacArthur, Douglas,--1880-1964--Correspondence
• -  Marshall, George C.--(George Catlett),--1880-1959--Correspondence
• -  Murphy, Frank,--1890-1949--Correspondence
• -  Osmeña, Sergio,--1878-1961--Correspondence
• -  Pepper, Claude,--1900-1989--Correspondence
• -  Phillips, William,--1878-1968--Correspondence
• -  Pound, Roscoe,--1870-1964--Correspondence
• -  Quezon, Manuel Luis,--1878-1944
• -  Quezon, Manuel Luis,--1878-1944--Correspondence
• -  Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945
• -  Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Correspondence
• -  Scarlett, William,--1883-1973--Correspondence
• -  Stettinius, Edward R.,--Jr.--(Edward Reilly),--1900-1949--Correspondence
• -  Truman, Harry S.,--1884-1972--Correspondence
• -  Wilson, Woodrow,--1856-1924
• -  Wilson, Woodrow,--1856-1924--Correspondence
• -  United States.--Department of State
• -  United States.--High Commissioner to the Philippines
• -  Episcopal Church
• -  United Nations.--Trusteeship Council
• -  United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
• -  Christianity
• -  Diplomats--Japan--Correspondence
• -  International trade
• -  World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area
• -  World War, 1939-1945--Philippines
• -  Corregidor Island (Philippines)--History
• -  Philippines--Foreign relations--United States
• -  Philippines--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
• -  Philippines--Politics and government--1935-1946
• -  Thailand--Foreign relations--United States
• -  Diplomatic and consular service, American--Thailand
• -  United States--Commerce
• -  United States--Commercial policy
• -  United States--Foreign relations--Thailand
• -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Notes

• -  Arranged in six series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1915-1961; Series 2: Special Correspondence, 1924-1952; Series 3: Subject File, 1925-1952; Series 4: Book, Speech, and Article File, 1918-1961; Series 5: Miscellany, 1861-1967; and Series 6: 1924-1967.
• -  Gift, Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, 1965-1973.
• -  Gift, J. Richard Kyle, 1983.
• -  Diplomat and statesman.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012177
• -  Invocation given by Sayre at the memorial service for Carl Sandburg held at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., was transferred from the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection in 2012.

Medium

• 8,100 items.
• 27 containers.
• 10.8 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm73022350

Access Advisory

• Open to research.
• Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm73022350

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record