Register of the Stephen Miles Bouton Papers, 1918-1962
Register of the Stephen Miles Bouton Papers, 1918-1962
Hoover Institution ArchivesStanford University
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- Prepared by:
- Linda Bernard
- Date Completed:
- August 1985
| 1876, September 24 | Born, Blockville, N.Y. |
| 1899 | LL.B., Albany Law School Admitted to N.Y. bar; practiced at Jamestown, N.Y. |
| 1903, November 11 | Married Frieda Dorothea Kleinsang |
| 1903-1904 | On staff, Meadville (Pa.) Star |
| 1904-1905 | On staff, Oil City Times |
| 1905-1909 | On staff, Buffalo Express |
| 1909-1919 | With Associated Press |
| 1911 | Transferred to Berlin, Germany |
| 1911-1912, 1925-1927 | Studied, University of Berlin |
| 1914-1916 | With the German army on various fronts as war correspondent |
| 1916-1919 | In charge of Associated Press bureau in Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1917, Summer | In Petrograd |
| 1918, November | First enemy correspondent to enter Berlin after the armistice |
| 1920 | Author, And the Kaiser Abdicates |
| 1920-1934 | Berlin correspondent, N.Y. World, N.Y. Times, Baltimore Sun |
| 1922 | Author, Das Ende der Grossmacht Deutschland |
| 1934, June | Ordered by the Hitler government to leave Germany |
| 1935-1939 | Lecturer |
| 1940's-1950's | Chief editorial writer, The Post-Journal, Jamestown, N.Y. |
Container List
CORRESPONDENCE, 1918-1962.
Scope and Content Note
Unidentified, 1919
Alexander-Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, 1929
Bernstorff, 1923-1925
Bouton, Johnny, 1955
Burlingame, Roger, 1938
Eckener, Hugo, 1934
Goodell, Charles E., 1942
Haeckel, Ernst, 1919
Keating, Kenneth B., 1962
Lamont, Corliss, 1960
Lewis, Sinclair, 1926-1934
Lowell, Stanley, 1962
Ludendorff, General Erich, n.d.
Mahoney, Joseph C., 1957
Mencken, H. L., 1936-1946
Rieckent(?), J., 1955
Seymour, H. T., 1960
Stresemann, Gustav, 1925-1928
Sudermann, Hermann, 1923
U.S. Department of State, 1918-1920
Wagner, Winifred, 1923
Wilhelm, Prince, 1927-1939
JOURNALISM CAREER FILE, 1918-1959.
Scope and Content Note
Notes on Berlin, November 1918-March 1919. Typescript, holograph, and mimeographed copies
Articles and dispatches, mostly for the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post, on Germany. Typescript, printed, and carbon copies
1920-1933
1933-1939
Dispatches from Danzig, Prague, Warsaw, Vienna, and Paris, 1920's-1930's. Typescript and carbon copies
Articles, essays, interviews, as well as newspaper columns for the Post-Journal entitled Of Many Things, on the United States
1925-1935. Typescript, printed, and carbon copies
1941-1945. Printed copies (pasted on loose cardboard sheets)
1949-1957. Typescript and carbon copies
1950-1951. Printed copies
1958-1959. Printed copies
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1931-1962.
Scope and Content Note
The Double Patriot, n.d. Carbon copy short story
Fake Relics and Miracles, n.d. Printed article
Interview of General Erich Ludendorff, n.d. Typescript copy, with holograph annotations by General Ludendorff
An Irregular Adoption, n.d. Typescript short story
And the Kaiser Abdicates, 1920. Printed review, New York Times Book Review and Magazine, January 2, 1921
Chiefly Concerning Garet Garret, June 1923.
Lectures, American Women's Club of Berlin, April 1931-January 1932. Typescript notes
Speeches, Svenska Föreningen, Berlin (Swedish Club). Typescript transcripts
1933, November 11. In Swedish
1934, April 14. In German
Memoir re Sinclair Lewis, c. 1934. Typescript account of an incident that took place in 1928, which throws a special light on the man's kindness of heart...
Article re Adolf Hitler, June 18, 1934. Printed copy.
Scope and Content Note
Yugoslavia and the Present Balance of Power in the Balkans, c. 1935. Typescript essay
My Years in Germany. Reprint from the Proceedings of the Institute of Public Affairs, Ninth Annual Session, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, January 23-30, 1935
The Totalitarian State. Reprint from the Proceedings of the Institute of Public Affairs, Ninth Annual Session, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, January 23-30, 1935
Hitlerism Menaces European Peace. Printed account of a speech delivered before the Rockford Woman's Club, Rockford, Ill., March 27, 1935
Lectures, Columbia University, 1937. Typescript notes
Germany Goes German, 1937. Manuscript of a book never published
Carbon copy
Typescript copy
Article re European federation, 1940. Mimeographed copy
Fritz Reuter, 1947. Typescript and printed copies
Autobiographical notes, 1955. Holograph
Letters to the editor, 1957-1962, relating to the fall of the Weimar Republic and to separation of church and state in the United States
America's Place among the Nations. Carbon copy of a paper delivered before the University Club (of Jamestown, N.Y.?), October 2, 1958
Religion in American Politics. Mimeographed copy of a paper delivered before the University Club of Jamestown, N.Y., December 1, 1960
A Veteran Journalist Reports, c. 1962. Manuscript of memoirs never published
Carbon copy
Typescript copy
SUBJECT FILE, 1932-1956.
Scope and Content Note
Academics in the United States
Censorship in the arts
Separation of church and state
Völkischer Beobachter. Includes correspondence of S. M. Bouton and Louis Lochner - both misrepresented in a photograph caption - with the editor, 1932
MISCELLANY, n.d. MISCELLANY FILE, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Invitation to a beer evening sent out by S. M. Bouton while in Germany. Printed card, in English and German
Poem by Noel L. Bouton, brother of S. M. Bouton. Carbon copy, in a German dialect
PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTCARDS, c. 1910's-1950's.
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