Manuscripts

The following manuscript collections are primary sources & by and about U.S.& secretaries of state, diplomats and scholars. These materials are housed in the Manuscript Division. Each item listed below links to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to finding aids are provided when available.

Madeleine Korbel Albright papers, 1925-2015 by Madeleine Korbel Albright
Call Number: 0543M
Published/Created: 1961-2001
: U.S. secretary of state, diplomat, and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, schedules, notes, speeches, writings, teaching files, personal memorabilia, and other papers relating to her life and career as a foreign policy expert and diplomat, particularly her time as National Security Council staff member, foreign policy advisor to presidential and vice-presidential candidates, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Secretary of State.
Henry A. Kissinger Papers by Henry A. Kissinger
Call Number: Vault 0206A
Published/Created: 957-1982
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, cables, memoranda of conversations, typewritten transcripts of telephone conversations ("telcons"), minutes of meetings, interviews, articles, speeches, reports, agenda and briefing papers, talking points, research and policy papers, notes, biographical material, press releases, printed material, maps, audiotapes, and other papers relating chiefly to Kissinger's service as assistant to the president for national security affairs, 1969-1975, and as secretary of state, 1973-1977, in the administrations of presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.
Alexander Meigs Haig papers by Alexander Meigs Haig
Call Number: 0577H
Published/Created: 1962-1982
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, briefing books, notes, office files, subject files, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers documenting Haig's service as military advisor to Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council, deputy assistant to President Richard M. Nixon for national security affairs, vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army, chief of Nixon's White House staff, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), and U.S. secretary of state in the Ronald Reagan presidential administration.
Robert Lansing papers by Robert Lansing
Call Number: 0335M
Published/Created: 1831-1935
U.S. secretary of state in the Woodrow Wilson presidential administration, diplomat, member of the American mission to negotiate a peace treaty following World War I, and lawyer.
Elihu Root papers by Elihu Root
Call Number: 0626II
Published/Created: 1863-1937
United States secretary of state, secretary of war, United States senator from New York, and statesman.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, reports, subject files, financial papers, calendar and appointment books,
invitations, and printed materials relating to Root's career as a lawyer and statesman.
Hamilton Fish papers by Hamilton Fish
Call Number: 0318L
Published/Created: 1732-1914
: Congressman, senator, governor, and secretary of state. Correspondence, journals, diaries, subject files, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Fish's service as secretary of state under Ulysses S. Grant, as a member of Congress, and governor of New York.

Zbigniew Brzezinski papers, 1798-2012 by Zbigniew Brzezinsk
Call Number: 0333A
Published/Created: 1952-2011
Foreign policy advisor, political scientist, educator, and author. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes,
reports, notes, journal extracts, writings, speeches, lectures, testimony, travel files, interview transcripts, press clippings,
photographs, family papers, printed matter, and other material relating primarily to Brzezinski's professional life including
his tenure as Jimmy Carter's national security advisor.
Paul H. Nitze papers, 1922-1998 by Paul H. Nitze
Call Number: 0334H
Published/Created: 1946-1996
: Statesman, diplomat, and entrepreneur. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, speeches, writings,
appointment books, business files, name and subject files, and other papers chiefly relating to Nitze's role in United States
foreign and national security policy in the last half of the twentieth century.
Hugh H. Smythe and Mabel M. Smythe papers, circa 1895-1997 by Hugh H. Smythe and Mabel M. Smythe
Call Number: Vault 0202B
Published/Created: 1960-1990
: Diplomats, educators, and scholars. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, photographs, reports, writings,
subject files and other papers relating to the Smythes’ ambassadorships to Cameroon, Malta, and Syria and their work on
African and African-American issues with a variety of organizations and educational institutions.
Henry Morgenthau papers by Henry Morgenthau
Call Number: 0530A
Published/Created: 1795-1941
Businessman and diplomat. Diaries, correspondence, letterbooks, family papers, speeches and writings, subject
files, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Morgenthau's service as ambassador to Turkey, other
diplomatic efforts, involvement in Democratic Party politics, and as a philanthropist.

Hans J. Morgenthau papers, 1858-1981 by Hans J Morgenthau
Call Number: 0635Y
Published/Created: 1925-1981
Political scientist, educator, and author. Born in Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1937. Correspondence, lectures, writings, academic files, subject files, printed matter, and other papers primarily relating to Morgenthau's career as an analyst of international relations from the World War II era until his death in 1980.

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