Register of the Stephen Miles Bouton papers

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Title: Stephen Miles Bouton papers
Date (inclusive): 1918-1962
Collection Number: 83014
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and German
Physical Description: 6 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope (2.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs, dispatches, newspaper columns, other writings, speeches, and correspondence, relating to the German revolution of 1918, German politics and society from World War I to World War II, interwar European politics, and social conditions and civil liberties in the U.S.
Creator: Bouton, S. Miles (Stephen Miles), 1876-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1983.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Stephen Miles Bouton Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

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.

Scope and Contents

Memoirs, dispatches, newspaper columns, other writings, speeches, and correspondence, relating to the German revolution of 1918, German politics and society from World War I to World War II, interwar European politics, and social conditions and civil liberties in the U.S.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Civil rights -- United States
Journalists
Germany -- Social conditions
Germany -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Germany -- History -- Revolution, 1918
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945
United States -- Social conditions

 

CORRESPONDENCE 1918-1962.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
box 1, folder 1

Unidentified 1919

box 1, folder 2

Alexander-Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia 1929

box 1, folder 3

Bernstorff 1923-1925

box 1, folder 4

Bouton, Johnny 1955

box 1, folder 5

Burlingame, Roger 1938

box 1, folder 6

Eckener, Hugo 1934

box 1, folder 7

Goodell, Charles E. 1942

box 1, folder 8

Haeckel, Ernst 1919

box 1, folder 9

Keating, Kenneth B. 1962

box 1, folder 10

Lamont, Corliss 1960

box 1, folder 11

Lewis, Sinclair 1926-1934

box 1, folder 12

Lowell, Stanley 1962

box 1, folder 13

Ludendorff, General Erich n.d.

box 1, folder 14

Mahoney, Joseph C. 1957

box 1, folder 15

Mencken, H. L. 1936-1946

box 1, folder 16

Rieckent(?), J. 1955

box 1, folder 17

Seymour, H. T. 1960

box 1, folder 18

Stresemann, Gustav 1925-1928

box 1, folder 19

Sudermann, Hermann 1923

box 1, folder 20

U.S. Department of State 1918-1920

box 1, folder 21

Wagner, Winifred 1923

box 1, folder 22

Wilhelm, Prince 1927-1939

 

JOURNALISM CAREER FILE 1918-1959.

Scope and Contents note

Articles, dispatches, newspaper columns, and notes by S. M. Bouton, arranged chronologically.
box 1, folder 23

Notes on Berlin, Typescript, holograph, and mimeographed copies November 1918-March 1919.

 

Articles and dispatches, mostly for the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post, on Germany. Typescript, printed, and carbon copies

box 1, folder 24

1920-1933

box 1, folder 25

1933-1939

box 1, folder 26

Dispatches from Danzig, Prague, Warsaw, Vienna, and Paris, Typescript and carbon copies 1920's-1930's.

 

Articles, essays, interviews, as well as newspaper columns for the Post-Journal entitled Of Many Things, on the United States

box 1, folder 27

Typescript, printed, and carbon copies 1925-1935.

box 2

Printed copies (pasted on loose cardboard sheets) 1941-1945

box 3

Printed copies (pasted on loose cardboard sheets) 1941-1945

box 3

Typescript and carbon copies 1949-1957.

box 4, folder 1

Printed copies 1950-1951.

box 4, folder 2

Printed copies 1958-1959.

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1931-1962.

Scope and Contents note

Articles, conference papers, essays, lectures, letters to the editor, manuscripts of books, memoirs, and notes by S. M. Bouton, arranged chronologically.
box 4, folder 3

The Double Patriot, Carbon copy short story n.d.

box 4, folder 4

Fake Relics and Miracles, Printed article n.d.

box 4, folder 5

Interview of General Erich Ludendorff, Typescript copy, with holograph annotations by General Ludendorff n.d.

box 4, folder 6

An Irregular Adoption, Typescript short story n.d.

box 4, folder 7

And the Kaiser Abdicates Printed review, New York Times Book Review and Magazine 1920. January 2, 1921

box 4, folder 8

Chiefly Concerning Garet Garret June 1923.

General Physical Description note: Pamphlet
box 4, folder 9

Lectures, American Women's Club of Berlin, Typescript notes April 1931-January 1932.

 

Speeches, Svenska Föreningen, Berlin (Swedish Club). Typescript transcripts

box 4, folder 10

In Swedish 1933 November 11.

box 4, folder 11

In German 1934, April 14.

box 4, folder 12

Memoir re Sinclair Lewis, Typescript account of an incident that took place in 1928, which throws a special light on the man's kindness of heart... c. 1934.

box 4, folder 13

Article re Adolf Hitler, Printed copy. June 18, 1934.

Scope and Contents note

Includes material related to the controversy between Archbishop Michael J. Curley and the Baltimore Sun surrounding the article, in which S. M. Bouton compares Hitler to Ignatius Loyola
box 4, folder 14

Yugoslavia and the Present Balance of Power in the Balkans, Typescript essay c. 1935.

box 4, folder 15

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

box 4, folder 16

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

box 4, folder 17

Hitlerism Menaces European Peace. Printed account of a speech delivered before the Rockford Woman's Club, Rockford, Ill. March 27, 1935

box 4, folder 18

Lectures, Columbia University, Typescript notes 1937.

 

Germany Goes German, Manuscript of a book never published 1937.

box 4, folder 19

Carbon copy

box 5, folder 1

Typescript copy

box 5, folder 2

Article re European federation, Mimeographed copy 1940.

box 5, folder 3

Fritz Reuter, Typescript and printed copies 1947.

box 5, folder 4

Autobiographical notes, Holograph 1955.

box 5, folder 5

Letters to the editor, relating to the fall of the Weimar Republic and to separation of church and state in the United States 1957-1962,

box 5, folder 6

America's Place among the Nations. Carbon copy of a paper delivered before the University Club (of Jamestown, N.Y.?) October 2, 1958

box 5, folder 7

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, Manuscript of memoirs never published c. 1962.

box 6, folder 1

Carbon copy

box 6, folder 2

Typescript copy

 

SUBJECT FILE 1932-1956.

Scope and Contents note

Articles by others and related correspondence by S. M. Bouton, arranged alphabetically by subject.
box 6, folder 3

Academics in the United States

box 6, folder 4

Censorship in the arts

box 6, folder 5

Separation of church and state

box 6, folder 6

Völkischer Beobachter. Includes correspondence of S. M. Bouton and Louis Lochner - both misrepresented in a photograph caption - with the editor 1932

 

MISCELLANY FILE n.d. n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Poem and invitation card.
box 6, folder 7

Invitation to a beer evening sent out by S. M. Bouton while in Germany. Printed card, in English and German

box 6, folder 8

Poem by Noel L. Bouton, brother of S. M. Bouton. Carbon copy, in a German dialect

envelope  A

PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTCARDS c. 1910's-1950's.

Scope and Contents note

2 prints and 1 postcard depicting S.M. Bouton, circa 1910s-1950s; and 1 postcard, autographed, depicting Count Luckner, German U-boat captain and explorer, 1926.