Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr. Papers

Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff; latest revision D. Tambo
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Preliminary Guide to the Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr. Papers, 1895-1939

Collection number: Bernath Mss 9

Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara

Contact Information:

  • Department of Special Collections
  • Davidson Library
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Santa Barbara, CA 93106
  • Phone: (805) 893-3062
  • Fax: (805) 893-5749
  • Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
  • URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/
Processed by:
Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff
Date Completed:
11 June 1999
Latest revision:
April 15, 2013
Encoded by:
David C. Gartrell, A. Demeter
© 2001 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr. Papers
Dates: 1895-1939
Collection Number: Bernath Mss 9
Creator: Hathaway, Charles Montgomery
Collection Size: 7 linear feet (5 cartons; 1 oversize box; 2 map folders)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Boxes 1-5 (SRLF); Box 6 (Annex 2); Map Folders (Map Cabinet 20/5).
Abstract: The collection includes calendars or lists for dispatches and reports from Ireland and Germany, depositions and proceedings from the Dail Funds Suit, documents and official dispatches, correspondence, clippings and notes from both Ireland and Germany, and financial statements and reports on trade with Ireland.
Language: English.

Access Restrictions

Majority of collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval. Collection contains confidential material that was declassified by the State Department in 1962. See Head of UCSB Special Collections for further details.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr. Papers. Bernath Mss 9. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1962.

Biography

Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr., was born in Deposit, New York, on March 31, 1874, and received his B.A. (1899), M.A. (1901) and Ph.D. (1902) degrees from Yale. Hathaway was a Ben Jonson scholar and author of a critical edition of Jonson's The Alchemist, Yale Studies in English, vol. 17 (New York: H. Holt, 1903). He taught English at Adelphi College (1902-1903) and Columbia University (1903-1905), and was an Instructor in English and law at the U.S. Naval Academy (1905-1911), before his first diplomatic appointment as Consul in the Dominican Republic in 1911. His Irish experience began with an assignment as Consul in Cork on May 22, 1917, and except for brief terms in Budapest and Bombay, between 1919 and 1921, he remained in Ireland, principally at Dublin, until 1927. He was transferred to Munich on July 27, 1927, where he served as Consul until his retirement in 1939. On his return to the United States, Hathaway lived in Santa Barbara, California until his death in 1954.
A more extensive account of Hathaway's career and a description of some of the collection's highlights can be found in Christian Brun, "The Papers of Charles M. Hathaway: A Diplomat's Experience in Ireland and Germany," [UCSB Library] Soundings (Nov. 1970): 17-29.

Scope and Content of Collection

Arrangement

The Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr., Papers are divided into the following series:
General. Contains calendars or lists for dispatches and reports from Ireland, ca. 1917-1927, and Germany, 1930-1938.
Dail Funds Suit [Irish Free State, Provisional Government of Ireland, et al, Plaintiffs, against Guaranty Safe Deposit Company, Central Union Safe Deposit Company, et al. Defendants]. Includes depositions, proceedings, and other court records, ca. 1923-1924.
Documents. The largest series in the collection, which includes material relating both to Ireland and Germany, in the form of Official Dispatches, Weekly Summary of Events, Monthly Reports, Reports, and Miscellaneous Documents. Of particular note is Hathaway's April 13, 1932 report on "The Economic and Social Ideas of the National-Socialistic Movement of Adolf Hitler," and his August 5, 1933 dispatch to Ambassador William E. Dodd, on his "Visit to Dachau Concentration Camp," in which he describes the prisoners and conditions at that camp.
Correspondence. Primarily outgoing, 1918-1938.
Ephemera, relating both to Ireland and Germany. Mainly clippings, notes, and printed documents and pamphlets. Included is a copy of "The Jews in Nazi Germany: The Factual Record of Their Persecution by the National Socialists" (New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1933).
Oversize. Includes financial statements and reports on trade with Ireland, some apparently related to the Dail Funds Suit.
Newspapers. Irish, ca. 1922-1925, and German, ca. 1928-1933.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Hathaway, Charles Montgomery -- Archives.
Consuls -- United States.
Consular reports -- United States.

Related Materials

The Hathaway Collection, purchased by UCSB in 1962, not only contained his diplomatic papers, but a number of printed Ben Jonson items, including some early editions. These have been cataloged separately and are housed in the UCSB Department of Special Collections.

 

Series 1.  General

Box 1: 1

Calendar and Index to Dispatches and Reports [Ireland], ca. 1917-1927

Box 1: 2

Calendar of Reports [Germany], 1930-1938

 

Series 2.  Dail Funds Suit

Box 1: 3-41

Dail Funds Suit, ca. 1923-1924

 

Series 3.  Documents

 

Subseries 1.  Official Dispatches

Box 1: 42

1912

Box 1: 43-57

1918

Box 1: 58-69

1919

Box 1: 70-71

1920

Box 1: 72-81

1922

Box 1: 82-102

1923

Box 1: 103

1924

Box 2: 1-44

1924

Box 2: 45-93

1925

Box 2: 94-141

1926

Box 3: 1-33

1927

Box 3: 34-43

1928

Box 3: 44-76

1933

Box 3: 77-116

1934

Box 3: 117-151

1935

Box 3: 152-178

1936

Box 3: 179-201

1937

Box 3: 202-222

1938

Box 4: 1-22

1938

Box 4: 23

1939

 

Subseries 2.  Weekly Summary of Events

Box 4: 24

1919

Box 4: 25

1922

Box 4: 26-30

1923

Box 4: 31

1924

 

Subseries 3.  Monthly Reports

Box 4: 32-33

1919

Box 4: 34

1924

 

Subseries 4.  Reports

Box 4: 35

1917

Box 4: 36-40

1923

Box 4: 41

1924

Box 4: 42-47

1925

Box 4: 48-56

1926

Box 4: 57-66

1927

Box 4: 67

1931

Box 4: 68-69

1932

Box 4: 70-71

n.d.

 

Subseries 5.  Miscellaneous Documents

Box 4: 72

1916

Box 4: 73

1917-1918

Box 4: 74

1920-1921

Box 4: 75

1922

Box 4: 76

1923

Box 4: 77-78

1924

Box 4: 79

1924-1927

Box 4: 80-81

1925

 

Series 4.  Correspondence

Box 4: 82

1918

Box 4: 83-87

1919

Box 4: 88-89

1922

Box 4: 90-94

1924

Box 4: 95

1925

Box 4: 96-118

1928

Box 4: 119-139

1929

Box 4: 140-154

1930

Box 4: 155-160

1931

Box 5: 1-13

1931

Box 5: 14-30

1932

Box 5: 31-49

1933

Box 5: 50-53

1934

Box 5: 54-60

1936

Box 5: 61

1938

Box 5: 62

n.d.

 

Series 5.  Ephemera

 

Subseries 1.  Ireland

Box 5: 63

Acts

Box 5: 64

Bills

Box 5: 65

Clippings

Box 5: 66

Confidential Press Data [Irish newspapers]

Box 5: 67-69

Dispatches [of others], 1923-1924

Box 5: 70

"First Report...Financial Relations between Great Britain and Ireland," 1895

Box 5: 71

Handbills

Box 5: 72

Irish Free State Exit Visas

Box 5: 73-76

Notes for Dispatches and Other

Box 5: 77

"Official Correspondence Relating to the Peace Negotiations, June-September 1921 [printed document]

Box 5: 78-79

Pamphlets

Box 5: 80

Report [incomplete draft]

 

Subseries 2.  Germany

Box 5: 81

Clippings

Box 5: 82

Clippings from The Times, 1933

Box 5: 83

Commendations on Reporting

Box 5: 84

Memoranda

Box 5: 85

Notes

Box 5: 86

Notes on Old Dispatches and Reports on the German Situation

Box 5: 87-90

Pamphlets, 1928-1929, 1933-1936

Box 5: 91

Reichstelle fur Familienzuwaches [document]

Box 5: 92

Speech, ca. 1930

Box 5: 93

Statement re closure of Bavarian presses under Nazi regime

Box 5: 94

Statements on the Condition of Nazi Germany

Box 5: 95-102

Transcripts of Published Documents, 1920-1934

 

Series 6.  Oversize

Box 6: 1

Financial Statements [and other articles and reports re trade with Ireland; some of this possibly relating to the Dail Fund Suit], ca. 1925-1928

Box 6: 2

Lady of the House (with article on "Dail Eireann at Work on the Irish Constitution"), Christmas issue, 1922

 

Series 7.  Newspapers

Map Cabinet 20/5: 1

Ireland, ca. 1922-1925

Box 20: 2

Germany, ca. 1928-1933