Register of the Ralph Haswell Lutz papers

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Title: Ralph Haswell Lutz papers
Date (inclusive): 1903-1963
Collection Number: 68039
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 12 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes, 1 oversize folder (5.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, notes, and diaries, relating to administration of the Hoover Institution, teaching of history and international relations at Stanford University, and various aspects of European history during World War I and the interwar period.
Creator: Lutz, Ralph Haswell, 1886-1968
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Ralph Haswell Lutz Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1886, May 18 Born, Circleville, Ohio
1906 A.B., Stanford University
1910 Ph.D., University of Heidelberg
1916-20 Assistant Professor of History, University of Washington
1919 Member of Team Gathering Material for Hoover War Collection in Europe
1920-25 Co-director, Hoover War Collections, Stanford University
1925-43 Chairman of Board of Directors, Hoover War Library, Stanford University
1934 Editor, The Causes of the German Collapse in 1918
1935 Editor, The Treaty of St. Germain, A Documentary History of Its Teritorial and Political Clauses
1942 Editor, The Blockade of Germany After the Armistice, 1918-1919
1943 Editor, Organization of American Relief in Europe, 1918-1919
1966 Editor, The Political Institutions of the German Revolution, 1918-1919

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1914-1918 -- Austria
World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace
World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany
Germany -- History -- Revolution, 1918
World War, 1914-1918 -- Italy
Germany -- History -- 1918-1933
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford University

 

RESEARCH FILES

box 1

Austrian Peace Delegation 1919

box 1

Causes of the German Collapse in 1918, Stanford University Press 1934

Scope and Contents note

Includes notes and miscellaneous documents.
 

"Imperial Germany in Revolution, 1918-1919: A Documentary Survey," by Charles B. Burdick and Ralph H. Lutz

box 1

Drafts of title page and preface

box 1

Outlines

box 1

Notes and miscellaneous lists of documents

box 1

Chronology of events

 

Source materials

Scope and Contents note

Contains translations of selected published and unpublished German documents.
 

Group I

Scope and Contents note

Folders 6, 8, 9, and 16 are missing.
box 2

Folder 1, #1-63

box 2

Folder 2

box 2

Folder 2A, #64-125

box 2

Folder 3, #125-217

box 2

Folder 4, #218-285

box 2

Folder 5, #286-327

box 2

Folder 7, #378-427

box 2

Folder 10, #506-545

box 2

Folder 11, #546-610

box 2

Folder 12, #611-657

box 2

Folder 13, #658-698

box 2

Folder 14, #699-754

box 2

Folder 15, #755-812

 

Group II

Scope and Contents note

Folders 19, 22-29, and 36 are missing.
box 3

Folders 1-5A

box 4

Folders 6-11B

box 5

Folders 12-18

box 5

Folders 20-21

box 5

Folder 30

box 6

Folders 31-35

box 6

Folders 37-38

 

Group III

box 6

Unarranged documents

box 7

Unarranged documents

box 8

Unarranged documents

box 9

Unarranged documents

 

Italian Politics 1914-1919

box 9

Translation of Aldrovandi by Jean Black

box 9

Translation of Pietro Bertolini's Diary by Jean Black

box 9

Translation of The Intervention of Italy, In the Secret Documents of the Entente by Jean Black

box 9

Memorandum of Conversation between Professor Singer of Vienna and R. H. Lutz about German-Austrian relations 1926 November

box 9

Nazis and the Bruening Ministry

Scope and Contents note

Translations of Selected Documents
box 9

Raymond Poincoré Letter to R. H. Lutz (1926) about the Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia of July 1914

 

WRITINGS

box 10

"The Spanish Armada" thesis by Ralph N. Lutz 1903

 

MISCELLANY

box 10

Correspondence between Ralph H. Lutz and his father Harry E. Lutz (trip reports)

box 10

Letters and reports from E.D. Adams pertaining to A.R.A. Euopean operations

box 10

Letters from E.L. Harris regarding the deposition of his papers at the Hoover Institution

box 10

Letters from Frank A. Golder

box 10

Letters from German publishers and collectors

box 10

Correspondence between H. Hoover and Henry L. Stimson concerning the "Green Smear" (size of the American overseas army)

box 10

Copies of documents dealing with the criminal case against F.K. Ferenz and the "Friends of Progress" in Sacramento (accused of being pro-nazi) 1942

box 10

Notes, passports, clippings, maps, etc.

box 10

"The State of France in 1791," thesis by Ralph H. Lutz, Stanford University 1904

box 10

Miscellaneous correspondence, etc.

drawer I03

Oversize maps

box 11

Diaries and notebooks (16) for the time between 1918 and 1943

box 11

"Report of Mr. S. Miles Bouton Concerning the Conditions in Germany" 1919

box 11

Letters and clippings regarding Professor Lutz' acceptance of a German merit cross (Verdienstkreuz) of the Order of the German Eagle, conferred upon him and other Americans by the Leader and Chancellor of the German Reich, Adolf Hitler 1938

box 11

"Transcript of the Cornerstone Ceremony of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Inc., at Hyde Park, New York" (copy for Ralph H. Lutz) 1939 November 19

box 11

Letter of Harold H. Fisher to Ralph H. Lutz 1945 August 8

box 11

Army commission orders, Headquarters of the U.S. Military Mission in Berlin 1919

 

Photographs

envelope A

1 photo of Ralph H. Lutz undated

envelope A

1 group photo of fraternity members including R.H. Lutz April 1, 1948

box 12

Material not yet described