Speeches and writings, correspondence, military orders and dispatches, interview transcripts, printed matter, and photographs, relating to world travel, and to Office of Strategic Services operations in France and Thailand during World War II. Includes research materials collected by Sharon E. Karr for her authorized biography Traveler of the Crossroads: A Biography of Adventurer Nicol Smith (Dorrington, Calif., 1994).

Lieutenant colonel, United States Army; member, Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945; travel writer.

8 manuscript boxes (3.2 linear feet)

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.

Collection is open for research.