Register of the Perrin C. Galpin papers

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Title: Perrin C. Galpin papers
Date (inclusive): 1914-1957
Collection Number: 57015
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 6 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 2 envelopes (4.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, photographs, clippings, and printed matter, relating to the Commission for Relief in Belgium, the American Relief Administration, Herbert Hoover and American electoral politics, and the 1938 trip to Europe and 1946 food relief activities in Europe of Herbert Hoover.
Creator: Galpin, Perrin C., 1889-1973
Creator: Belgian American Educational Foundation
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1957.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Perrin C. Galpin Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1889, August 11 Born, New Haven, Connecticut
1913-1914 Graduate studies, Oxford University, Great Britain
1914-1915 Secretary, Commission for Relief in Belgium (Brussels)
1916-1917 Instructor of history and economics, Union College, Schenectady, New York
1917-1918 Served as a captain of field artillery in the U.S. Army in France
1918-1919 Secretary, Commission for Relief in Belgium (Lille)
1919-1923 Secretary, American Relief Administration
1920 Original incorporator, Belgian-Ameircan Educational Foundation; President until 1963
1923 Incorporator, American Children's Fund; Vice-President from 1936 to 1950
1928 Honorary Doctorate, University of Louvain, Belgium
1930 Honorary Doctorate, University of Brussels, Belgium
1932- Member, Francqui Foundation of Belgium
1938 Accompanied Herbert Hoover on his trip to Europe
1945- Member, Council of Administration, Fondation Universitaire de Belgique
1945-1955 Director, W. T. Grant Co.
1946 Member, Herbert Hoover Food Mission to Europe and Asia
1947-1955 Executive Director, Grant Foundation
1951 Decorated Grand Officer of Leopold II, Belgium
1956 Editor: Hugh Gibson, 1883-1954
1973, August 11 Died, Pelham Manor, New York

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, reports, photographs, clippings, and printed matter, relating to the Commission for Relief in Belgium, the American Relief Administration, Herbert Hoover and American electoral politics, and the 1938 trip to Europe and 1946 food relief activities in Europe of Herbert Hoover.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
International relief
World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief
World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
Commission for Relief in Belgium (1914-1930)
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
American Relief Administration
United States. President's Famine Emergency Committee

 

Biographical File 1914-1946

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically by topic.
box 1

Appointment as special investigator during presidential elections 1928

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Insurance policy contracted for trip to Europe 1938

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Newspaper clippings on Galpin and his trip to Europe and Asia 1946

box 1

Safe-conducts issued by the German authorities in Belgium 1914-1915

 

Correspondence, See also Subject File, Hoover, Herbert, Presidential campaigns, 1928, Corresondence of Galpin 1914-1955.

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
box 1

Unidentified 1945-1946

 

American Relief Administration. See Subject File, A.R.A.

box 1

Anonymous (on the world food situation) 1946

box 1

Bane, Suda L. 1939-1945

box 1

Bottorff, Ann 1955

box 1

Commission for Relief in Belgium, Brussels 1915

box 1

Dupuis, Emile 1915

 

Fisher, Harold H.

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1934-1939

box 1

1940-1949

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1950-1955

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Galpin, Anne Perrin (Penny) (daughter) 1938

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Galpin, Harry (brother), (including a letter to his wife, Ellen) 1914-1915

box 1

Galpin, Lucy K. E. (daughter) 1946

box 1

Galpin, Stephanie (wife) 1938-1946

box 1

Galpin, Mrs. Henry L. 1938

box 1

Hoover, Herbert (mostly on Rhodes Scholars) 1914-1928

box 1

Jessup, Philip C. 1943

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Lucey, Captain J. F. 1914

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Mitchell, P. V. G. (U.S. Lines) 1938

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Murray, Major C. P., Jr. 1945

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Roscoe 1938

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Special Aid Society for American Preparedness 1938

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Telegrams wishing Galpin a good trip and welcoming him back 1938

 

Speeches and Writings 1932-1946

Scope and Contents note

Arranged alphabetically by title.
box 2

"As President," Typewritten carbon copy of the draft for a 3 page essay on Herbert Hoover 1932.

 

Letters to the editor. See Subject File, Hoover, Herbert, Presidential campaigns, letters to the editor by Galpin 1920 and 1928,

box 2

Notes on the Commission for Relief in Belgium, Handwriten copy n.d.

box 2

Notes on trip of Handwritten copy 1946.

box 2

Remarks on the Westchester county (N.Y.) elections of Typewritten carbon copy March 19, 1935.

box 2

Review of Leon Trotsky: Stalin. An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence, n.d. (including a letter accompanying the review sent to H. H. Fisher, Typewritten carbon copy June 7, 1944).

box 2

Speech, Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn., (on trip of 1938). Typewritten carbon copy June 18, 1938

box 2

Speech, Pelham Men's Club, Pelham, N.Y., (on trip of 1938). Typewritten copy April 12, 1938

box 2

Speech (notes for), Staten Island, (on Hoover's presidential campaign). Typewritten copy October 26, 1932

box 2

Speech, Women's Republican Club, Poughkeepsie, (On Hoover's presidential campaign). Two typewritten copies, one original and one carbon copy September 1932

box 2

"Through Europe with Mr. Hoover, February and March 1938. Random notes, personal and confidential," dictated early in April in New York. Two typewritten copies, one original and one carbon copy

 

Subject File 1914-1957

Scope and Contents note

Clippings, correspondence, memorabilia, notes, printed matter, studies, arranged alphabetically by topic.
box 2

American Expeditionary Forces Headquarters, district of Paris 1918

 

American Relief Administration (mostly Galpin's correspondence)

box 2

March-May 1921

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June 1921-September 1927

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Anglo-French Pact (new efforts to negotiate,) 1946

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Asia 1946

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Austria 1938

box 2

Belgium, See Germany, occupation of Belgium 1914-1918.

box 6

Boulanger, Nadia 1938

 

Commission for Relief in Belgium 1914-1917

box 6

Articles on the work of

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Articles on the accomplishments of Delegates

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Galpin's work appraised by others

box 8

Memorabilia- 3 embroidered albums

box 6

Miscellaneous

box 2

Publications

box 6

Rationing

box 2

Reports

box 6

Rhodes Scholars. See also CORRESPONDENCE, Hoover, Herbert

box 6

Safe-conduct for two C.R.B. vehicles

box 2

"The Development of Finnish-Soviet Relations during the autumn of 1939" published by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, 1940

box 2

Donovan, Colonel Bill (ran for Governor of New York in 1932)

box 3

Fisher, Harold H., For curriculum vitae, See CORRESPONDENCE, Fisher, H. H. 1952-1957. February 27, 1945

box 3

Galpin, Ellen D. (letter of thanks from C.R.B. Vice-Chairman Lindon W. Bates and certificate of acknowledgment for her donation to the C.R.B. 1915)

box 3

Galpin, Stephanie (letter from an unidentified friend April 9, 1946)

box 3

Galpin, Stephen K. (letters to the family, see also CORRESPONDENCE, Fisher, H. H., , and to Harold H. Fisher, See also Subject File, Hoover, Herbert, Correspondence, Galpin, Stephen K. 1946, March 8, 1945 1950).

 

Germany

 

Occupation of Belgium 1914-1918

box 3

Articles on

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Atrocities perpetrated

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Miscellaneous

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Proclamations

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Survey of the Reichstag election of March 5, 1933

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Treaty of Peace with 1919

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Gibson, Hugh S. (letters to Harry L. Galpin. and to Mrs. Hoover, 1938) 1915,

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Great Britain (supplies for Belgian industries) 1916

box 3

Grey, Sir Edward. See Commission for Relief in Belgium, Publications

box 3

Hall, Representative Edwin Arthur 1946

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Holland (schemes for raising revenue)

 

Hoover, Herbert

box 3

Articles on 1935-1939

 

Correspondence

box 3

Unidentified, (Hoover on C.R.B.) 1915

box 3

Galpin, Stephen K. 1933

 

Presidential campaigns

 

Race for the Republican nomination 1920,

box 3

General

box 3

Galpin's letters to the editor

 

1928

box 3

Articles

box 3

Biographical data on Herbert Hoover

box 3

Campaign books of both parties

box 3

Galpin's correspondence (with Angell, A.R.A. men, Baker, Cross, Flesh, Fox, Gibney, Gutterson, Hoffman, Hubbard, Hutchinson Kott?, Nash?, New York Engineers Hoover Committee, Richards, Richey, Rickards, Surface, Tilson)

box 3

Electoral estimates and results

box 3

Financial matters

box 3

Hoover-Curtis University Committee for Connecticut

box 3

Instructions for election day based on election law

 

Letters to the editor

box 3

Galpin's

box 3

Others'

box 3

Miscellaneous

box 3

New York Engineers' Hoover Committee

box 3

New York Young Republican Club

 

Newspaper clippings

box 3

General

box 3

On the candidates

box 3

On the issues (prohibition, immigration, religion, Hoover's relief work, water power, etc.)

box 3

Politricks

box 4

Publications of both parties

box 4

Publicity for Hoover

 

Speeches and statements

box 4

By Herbert Hoover

box 4

By Al Smith

box 4

By others

 

1932

box 4

Articles and letters in favor of Hoover

box 4

Galpin's correspondence (with Hinshaw, Morgan, Strauss)

box 4

Material gathered on Franklin D. Roosevelt and Haiti (including Galpin's research notes on the question)

box 4

New York Young Republican Club

box 4

Publicity and publication of both parties, including reprints of speeches by both candidates

box 4

Speeches 1926-1953

 

Trips

 

to Europe 1938,

box 7

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, telegrams, photographs, invitations, menus, speeches, postcards, bills, etc.

 

Countries visited

box 4

Austria

box 4

Belgium

box 4

Czechoslovakia

box 4

France

box 4

Germany

box 5

Great Britain

box 5

Poland

box 5

Itineraries

 

Newspaper clippings

box 5

General

box 5

Before departure

box 5

Return to the United States. Address by Herbert Hoover at the Council on Foreign Affairs March 21, 1938

box 5

S.S. Normandie

 

to Europe and Asia, as honorary chairman of President Truman's Famine Emergency Commitee 1946,

box 5

Conversion rates of foreign currencies

 

Countries visited

box 5

Czechoslovakia

box 5

Germany

box 5

Great Britain

box 5

Egypt

box 5

India

box 5

Japan

box 5

Norway

box 5

Poland

box 5

Siam (Thailand)

box 5

Food situation (articles, reports, etc.)

box 5

Itinerary

box 5

Mason, Frank E. Reports of trips

box 5

Newspaper clippings (including those from the Daily News and others in a binder)

box 5

"Random vital statistics"

box 5

Hoover Overseas and War Service Organizations 1914-1924, 1929

box 5

Iran 1946

box 5

Navigation science. A review of Lawrence C. Wrath's The Way of a Ship: An Essay on the Literature of Navigation, Science, by Lincoln Colcord O'Hare, Anne McCormick (N.Y. Times correspondent in Europe) 1939, 1938-1946

box 5

Official Directory for 1776 State National Committeemen

box 5

Poland Fights April-May 1946

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La Province February 26, 1930

box 5

Rickard, Edgar (on Hoover) 1928

 

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. See also Hoover, Herbert, Presidential campaigns, material gathered on F.D.R. and Haiti; Smith, Al 1932,

box 5

General

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Inaugural Address March 4, 1933

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Rugby Union 1946

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Smith, Al, relations with Franklin Delano Roosevelt

box 5

Smith, Paul C. (accompanied Hoover on his trip to Europe in 1938), articles in the San Francisco Chronicle April 1938

box 5

Time Magazine, "Background for War" (special issue) 1938

box 5

United Nations Organization, Military Staff Committee meeting in New York, to submit plans for an international police force to the Security Council) March 1946,

box 5

Zeeland, Paul van. Report on International Economic Reconstruction March 1938

 

Increment

box 5

Album with metal covers, embossed title "Remerciements" and flowers. Watercolor illustration and letters of thanks, and a poem. "Le Comité des Dames de Montegne, Liége à la noble Amérique!" 1915

General note

Received from Perrin Galpin 1966
box 5

Materials re. CRB, including identification papers for Perrin Galpin (one with photograph), and two postcards to Henry Galpin

 

Memorabilia 1928

box 7

2 copies of Galpin's honorary doctorate from the University of Louvain, Belgium 1928. May 25, 1928

 

Photographs 1938-1946.

General Physical Description note: (27 photographs / 2 envelopes)
envelope A

10 photographs depicting Herbert Hoover on his trip to Europe on board of SS Normandie and in Belgium, accompanied by Perrin C. Galpin and Paul C. Smith 1938

envelope B

17 photographs depicting Herbert Hoover on his trip to Europe and Asia, at the Vatican, in Poland, Greece and Norway 1946