Register of the Ernest Lloyd Harris Papers, 1894-1924.

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Register of the Ernest Lloyd Harris Papers, 1894-1924.

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

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Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Phone: (650) 723-3563
Fax: (650) 725-3445
Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Ernest Lloyd Harris Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1894-1924.

Collection number: XX072

Creator: Harris, Ernest Lloyd, 1870-1946.

Collection Size: 6 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope (2.6 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Reports, memoranda, and correspondence, relating to the Russian Civil War in Siberia, the Czechoslovak Legion, political and economic conditions in Siberia, and American policy in Siberia.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

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Access Points

Russia. Armiia. Ceskoslovensky strelecky pluk.

United States. Consulate General (Irkutsk, Russia)

Czechoslovakia.

Siberia (Russia)--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.

Soviet Union.

Russia (Federation)

Soviet Union--History--Allied intervention, 1918-1920.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

Diplomats--United States.

Biographical Note.

1870, October 26	Born, Jasper County, Iowa
1891	Ph.B., Cornell College, Iowa
1895	A.M., Ph.D., University of Heidelberg
1896	J.U.D., University of Heidelberg
1896	Lecturer on Jurisprudence, State University of Iowa
1898	Consular Agent, Eibenstock, Germany
1902	Commercial Agent, Eibenstock, Germany
1905-1906	Consul at Chemnitz, Germany
1905-1906	Lecturer on commerce, University of Chicago
1906-1908	Consul at Smyrna Turkey
1908-1911	Consul General, Smyrna, Turkey
1911-1916	Consul General, Stockholm
1917	Staff, National City Bank of New York, Moscow branch
1918-1921	Consul General, Irkutsk, Siberia
1921-1925	Consul General, Singapore
1925-1929	Consul General, Vancouver, British Columbia
1929-1935	Consul General, Vienna
1935	Retired from the Foreign Service
1946, February 2	Died, Vancouver, British Columbia

Series Description

Box No. 1.

Correspondence, 1909-1930.

Scope and Content Note

Letters sent and received by Ernest Lloyd Harris, arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent.

Box No. 1-2.

Subject File, 1918-1924.

Scope and Content Note

Reports, protocols, clippings, arranged alphabetically by subject or title.

Box No. 3-5.

Telegrams, 1918-1921.

Scope and Content Note

Copies of telegrams sent and received by the office of Ernest Lloyd Harris, U.S. Consul General in Siberia, 1918-1921. Arranged alphabetically by name of office or last name of person, thereunder chronologically. Outgoing telegrams are filed by date sent, incoming telegrams by date received, if indicated.

Box No. 5.

Writings, 1894-1924.

Scope and Content Note

Writings of Ernest Lloyd Harris on Siberia and other topics, arranged alphabetically by title or, in absence thereof, by subject.

Box No. 5.

Miscellany.

Scope and Content Note

Letters, notes, clippings, transcripts of wire conversations, fragments of articles by Ernest Lloyd Harris, register of telegrams, humor, etc.

Audio-Visual File.

Scope and Content Note

See photofile card index.

Container List

CORRESPONDENCE, 1909-1930

Box 1.

Finocchi, Guido, August, 20, 1919

Fowler, W. B., March 31, 1920

Grovesnor, Gilbert H., January 15, 1909

Lutz, Professor Ralph J., March 17, 1930

Morris, Ambassador Roland S., May 7, 1919

Pollak, R., April 26, 1920

Semenov, Ataman G., February 28, 1920

Thomas, Edward B., May 24, 1920

U.S. Secretary of State, September 9, 1918

SUBJECT FILE, 1918-1924

Box 1.

Border, Russian-Chinese, inspection

Chita, conditions in

Consulates, U.S.

Finances

Personnel

Reports of consuls

Cooperatives, Russian and Siberian

Cotton in Russia

Preliminary report

Supplemental report

Czecho-Slovak Legion

Actions in Siberia, 1918, consular reports

Bolsheviks, relations with

Conversations and conferences

"The Czecho-Slavok [sic] Incident," official version by the Temporary Executive Committee of the Czecho-Slovak Army, 1918

"The Czecho-Slovak Revolutionary Movement," speech by Kenneth D. Miller, Young Men's Christian Association, date unknown

Fourth-of-July greetings to U.S. President

"History of the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia," book review (author unknown)

Kolchak army, relation to

"Manifesto to the Inhabitants of Siberia," by the Information Department of the Czech Forces in Siberia, 1920 (translation)

Political role

Press reports

Trains

"The Truth about the Czechoslovak Legions in Siberia," article by Jaroslav Papousek in the Central European Observer, Prague, April 14, 1933

U.S. attitude

"With the Czecho-Slovacks [sic] from Mariensk to Neusneuodinsk [sic]," report by Ernest F. Campbell, June-July 1918

"Zborov--the Revolutionary Movement of Czehs-Slovaks [sic]," ca. June, 1918 (author unknown)

Box 2.

Economy, Russian and Siberian

Agriculture

Currency

Effects of Revolution

Trade

Entente, policy towards Russia

German-Japanese Treaty, draft

Intervention, Allied

Irkutsk

Conditions

Socialist-Revolutionary/Zemstvo Party uprising

Janin, General Pierre

Joint Distribution Committee, relief work in Siberia

Kolchak, Admiral Alexamder Vasilevich

Allies' relation to

Arrest and execution

Government

Korean National Council

Krasnoyarsk, events in

McCroskey, Lt. Col. B. B., mission of

Nizhneudinsk, Menshevik government at

Omsk

Evacuation

Political situation, May-November 1918

Socialist-Revolutionaries killed at

Passports

Perm, conditions in (report of French Military Mission in Siberia)

Petrov, Minister N. I., address of

Property, American, in Russia and Siberia

Publicity, U.S.

Railroads

Red Cross

Russia

Imperial Family

"The Political Situation in Russia," article by Vladimir Dillon (date unknown)

Semenov, Ataman G.

Serbian refugees

Siberia, government of

Soviet Federal Republic, governmental plan

Tredwell, R.

U.S. - Soviet relations

Verkhneudinsk, situation in

Vladisvostok, hostilities in

Voitsekhovskii, Major General (first name unknown)

Wild Division (Mongol-Buriat division under Ataman Semenov, commanded by General Levitskii), atrocities committed by Young Men's Christian Association

TELEGRAMS, 1918-1921

Box 3.

American Consulates, general circulars, 1918

American Consulate, Chita, 1920

American Consulate, Ekaterinburg, 1918

American Consulate, Harbin, 1920

American Consulate, Irkutsk, 1918-1919

American Consulate, Omsk, 1918-1919

American Consulate, Samara, 1918

American Consulate, Tomsk, 1918-1919

American Consulate, Ufa, 1918

American Consulate, Vladisvostok

1918

January-March 1919

April-June 1919

July-September 1919

October-December 1919

1920

American Legation, Peking

June-September 1918

Box 4.

October-December 1918

January 1919

February 1919

March 1919

April 1919

May 1919

June 1919

July 1919

August 1919

September 1919

October 1919

November 1919

December 1919

January 1920

Box 5.

American Minister, Peking

American Red Cross

American Vice-Consulate, Krasnoyarsk

Dillon, Vladimir E.

Emerson, Colonel George H.

Glaman, Vice-Consul Otto T.

Graves, Major General William S.

Morris, Ambassador Roland S.

Morrow, Colonel C. H.

Stevens, John F.

U.S. Department of State

General file

Secretary of State

WRITINGS, 1894-1924

Box 5.

"The Allies in Siberia," carbon copy of incomplete typewritten manuscript, 1921

"Beginnings of the Czecho-Slovak Anabasis," article by Consul General Harris, n.d.

"Church and State in the Maryland Colony," published dissertation, Heidelberg, 1894

"The Consular Crops in Siberia," incomplete handwritten manuscript, n.d.

"The Czechoslovak Campaign in the Trans-Baikal," incomplete handwritten manuscript by Consul General Harris, n.d.

"The Economical Situation in Sweden," handwritten manuscript, n.d.

Lapland, carbon copy of typewritten manuscript fragment, n.d.

"The March of the Seventy Thousand," incomplete handwritten manuscript of Consul General Harris, n.d.

Raffles, Sir Stamford, Section IV of a typewritten manuscript with carbon copies, n.d.

"Recollections of a Consul General," incomplete handwritten manuscript, n.d.

"Siberia in Revolt," handwritten manuscript by Consul General Harris, n.d.

Soviet Trade, typewritten manuscript, n.d.

"Turkestan in Time of War," incomplete typewritten manuscript, n.d.

Miscellaneous writings

MISCELLANY

Box 5.

Miscellany

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