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Series I:  Eleanor Wilson McAdoo

 

Family Correspondence, Outgoing

Box 1: 1

1899-1907

Box 1: 2

1908-1927

Box 1: 3

1942-1946

Box 1: 4

Undated

 

Personal Correspondence, Incoming

Box 1: 5-12

A-Z (arranged alphabetically by surname of correspondent), ca. 1922-1964

Box 1: 13

Unidentified

 

Professional Correspondence

Box 2: 1

Outgoing, 1927-1950

 

Incoming (arranged alphabetically by surname of correspondent, mostly dealing with writings and speeches), ca. 1914-1965

Box 2: 2-7

A-J

Box 3: 1-5

K-S

Box 4: 1-2

T-Z

Box 4: 3

Unidentified

Box 4: 4

Office of War Information, 1943-1944

 

Works

Box 4: 5

Articles, and Reminiscences (includes "Statement" re Woodrow Wilson's last thoughts about League of Nations)

 

Books

Box 18

Julia and the White House (novel about a young girl growing up in the White House), TSS, 1946

 

The Priceless Gift

Box 4: 6-7

Holographic and typescript partial drafts

Box 19

TSS

Box 20

Galley Proofs, 1962

 

The Woodrow Wilsons

Box 4: 8-9

Typescript drafts of chapters, with holographic corrections

Box 5: 1

Typescript drafts of chapters, with holographic corrections

 

Other Writings

Box 5: 2

[Julia] and other (partial typescript and holographic drafts)

Box 5: 3

Short Stories (typescript drafts)

Box 5: 4

Publicity Book (includes biographical sketch, with comments and radio scripts, and typed copies of letters and speeches concerning Woodrow Wilson), n.d.

 

Radio Broadcasts

Box 5: 5

April-July 1941

Box 5: 6-7

Unidentified, n.d.

Box 5: 8

Radio Broadcasts and Speeches (unidentified holographic drafts), n.d.

Box 5: 9

Speeches (holographic and typescript drafts), ca. early 1940s

 

Records - Financial

Box 6: 1

Incoming Correspondence, 1923-1951

 

Banking Records

Box 6: 2

Los Angeles, 1947-1951

Box 6: 3

New York, 1950-1951

Box 6: 4-5

Receipts, 1926-1951

 

Personal Ephemera

Box 7: 1

Address Books and Diary (re trip to Europe), n.d.

Box 7: 2

Biographical Material (includes 1967 obituaries)

Box 7: 3

Invitations and Distinctions

Box 7: 4

Lecture Advertisement (includes biographical sketch; spoke on the topics of: "The Peacemakers-1918 and 1945," "Women as a Force for World Peace," "The San Francisco Charter," and "The Battle-Scarred Road to Peace")

Box 7: 5

Notes

Box 7: 6

Publications and Papers (by other writers)

Box 7: 7

Typescript articles and papers (by other writers)

Box 7: 8

Miscellaneous Writings (holographic copies, apparently by EWM)

Box 7: 9

Unidentified TSS and MSS (including list of achievements of League of Nations during its first 25 years)

Box 7: 10

Wedding Gift Book, 1914

 

Series II:  Ellen Wilson McAdoo

Box 7: 11

Family Correspondence, Outgoing (to mother and Mary Faith McAdoo), 1928-1935

Box 7: 12

Personal Correspondence, Incoming, 1923-1933

Box 7: 13

Professional Correspondence, Incoming, 1915, 1932

Box 7: 14

Personal Ephemera, 1913, 1931

 

Series III:  Mary Faith McAdoo

Box 7: 15

Family Correspondence, Outgoing (to mother), 1933-1938

Box 7: 16

Personal Correspondence, Incoming, n.d.

 

Series IV:  William Gibbs McAdoo

 

Family Correspondence

Box 8: 1

Outgoing (to wife, EWM), 1929

Box 8: 2

Outgoing (to EWM), 1936

Box 8: 3

Incoming - Outgoing (financial matters re Ellen Wilson McAdoo), 1938

Box 8: 4

Personal Correspondence, Incoming (includes telegrams of condolences re Woodrow Wilson's death in 1924), 1922-1931

 

Professional Correspondence

Box 8: 5

Outgoing (includes letters while Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the Democratic National Committee), 1912-1913

Box 8: 6-9

Incoming (arranged alphabetically by surname, mostly about statement to Senate committee, and intention to move to California), 1922-1923

 

Records

Box 8: 10

Financial, 1920-1931

Box 8: 11-13

Legal, 1921-1922, 1942

Box 8: 13

Personal Ephemera (includes obituary), ca. 1916-1941

 

Series V:  Ellen Axson Wilson

 

Family Correspondence, Outgoing

 

To Woodrow Wilson

Box 9: 1-2

Photostats (apparently used by EWM for her book Priceless Gift; originals at Princeton University), ca. 1885-1904

Box 9: 3

Letters (while on trip to Italy), 1904

Box 9: 4

Telegrams (while on trip to Italy), 28 Mar-19 Aug. 1904

Box 9: 5

To Eleanor Wilson (daughter), 1911

Box 9: 6

Professional Correspondence, Incoming, 1914

 

Series VI:  Jessie Woodrow Wilson

Box 9: 7-8

Family Correspondence, Outgoing - to Margaret (sister), n.d., 1911-1930

 

Series VII:  Margaret Woodrow Wilson

 

Family Correspondence, Outgoing

Box 9: 9

To father (Woodrow Wilson), ca. 1894-1923

Box 9: 10

To mother (Ellen Axson Wilson), ca. 1901-1909

Box 9: 11

To sister (Eleanor Wilson McAdoo), ca. 1936-1940

Box 9: 12

To others, n.d., ca. 1939-1942

 

Personal Correspondence

 

Outgoing

Box 10: 1

To Sri Aurobindo, ca. 1938

Box 10: 2-4

A-Z (arranged by name of correspondent, often forename, many written from or about India), ca. 1939-1942

Box 10: 5-6

Incoming, A-Z (arranged by name of correspondent, often forename), ca. 1916-1942

 

Professional Correspondence

Box 10: 7

Outgoing, n.d., 1936-1942

Box 10: 8-9

Incoming, n.d., ca. 1939-1942

Box 10: 10

Solicitations of Sri Aurobindo's books, 1940

Box 10: 11

Unidentified Correspondence, ca. 1938-1942

 

Works

Box 11: 1-5

Gospel of Ramakrishna (TSS drafts)

Box 11: 6

"The School House as a Community Center" (printed pamphlet), 1916

Box 11: 7

Speeches, n.d.

 

Records

 

Financial

Box 12: 1

Correspondence, Outgoing, 1938-1942

Box 12: 2

Correspondence, Incoming, 1938, 1940

Box 12: 3

Banque de l'Indochine, 1940-1943

Box 12: 4-5

Imperial Bank of Inda, 1941-1944

Box 12: 6

National Metropolitan Bank, 1938-1941

Box 12: 7

Miscellaneous Receipts

Box 12: 8

Legal (Will of Willa Boord), ca. 1938-1940

 

Personal Ephemera

Box 13: 1

Diary, 1939

Box 13: 2

Miscellaneous Correspondence by other writers

Box 13: 3

Miscellaneous Notes

Box 13: 4

Personal Memorabilia (includes address book, clippings, and envelopes)

Box 13: 5

Publications and Papers by Sri Aurobindo (including partial corrected typescript draft of The Life Divine)

Box 13: 6

Publications and Papers by other writers

Box 13: 7

Notebook (in French)

Box 13: 8

Portrait of Sri Aurobindo (b/w framed photo)

Box 13: 9

Recital Scrapbook, 1917

 

Series VIII:  Thomas Woodrow Wilson

 

Family Correspondence, Outgoing

Box 14: 1

To Eleanor Wilson McAdoo - 2 TLS, 1919, 1923

 

To Ellen Axson Wilson (photostats; apparently used by EWM for her book Priceless Gift; originals at Princeton University)

Box 14: 2

ca. 1884-1896

Box 14: 3

1913

Box 14: 4

Personal Correspondence, Outgoing

Additional Note

1 ALS to Lucy Marshall Smith, 15 Sept. 1897 and 1 TLS to Arthur Brisbane, re the Espionage Bill before Congress, 25 April 1917.
Box 14: 5

Professional Correspondence, Outgoing

Additional Note

1 ALS to Mrs. John Lyon Gardiner, 14 Feb. 1901 and 1 TLS to General John J. Pershing, introducing Wilson's brother-in-law, Dr. Stockton Axson, 13 Sept. 1918
Box 14: 6

Works - Baccalaureate Address, 13 June 1909

Box 14: 7

Personal Ephemera (includes Woodrow Wilson autograph and 1920 Democratic National Convention ticket)

 

Wilsoniana (material relating to Woodrow Wilson)

Box 14: 8

Inaugural Day (program and invitation, addressed to EWM), 5 Mar. 1917

Box 14: 9

Memorials (for Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson)

Box 14: 10

Miscellaneous Correspondence - Incoming, 1919-1966

Box 14: 11-12

Miscellaneous Published Material (mostly articles about Woodrow Wilson)

Box 15: 1

Miscellaneous Unpublished Material (includes dedications, essays, and songs)

Box 15: 2

Woodrow Wilson Foundation (includes minutes and reports), ca. 1944-1965

 

Series IX:  Wilson Family Ephemera

Box 15: 3

Axson Family Correspondence, 1859-1929

Box 15: 4

Axson, J. S. K., Jr. - Notebook, ca. 1884

Box 15: 5

Bones [?], Helen - To Margaret Wilson, 1914, 1927

Box 15: 6

Hoyt Family Correspondence, n.d., 1859

Box 15: 7

McAdoo, Molly - To Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, ca. 1935-1937

Box 15: 8

McAdoo, Robert H. - Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1918, 1923

Box 15: 9

Sayre, Francis B. - To Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 1966

Box 15: 10

Woodrow, James - To Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, ca. 1963

Box 15: 11-12

Wilson Family - Miscellaneous Correspondence, ca. 1900-1946

Box 15: 13

Miscellaneous Ephemera (primarily cards and envelopes), ca. 1893-1950

 

Series X:  Wilson Family Clippings

 

Eleanor Wilson McAdoo

Box 16: 1

Wedding Scrapbook, 1914

Box 16: 2

Biographical Articles, ca. 1914-1956

Box 16: 3

Reviews of The Woodrow Wilsons, 1937

Box 16: 4

Reviews of The Priceless Gift, 1962, 1967

Box 16: 5

William G. McAdoo - Biographical Articles (includes death notices), ca. 1917-1941

Box 16: 6

Margaret W. Wilson - Biographical Articles (includes death notice), ca. 1917-1944

Box 16: 7

Thomas Woodrow Wilson - Biographical Articles (includes death notices), ca. 1913-1964

Box 16: 8

Miscellaneous Family Clippings, ca. 1915-1963

Box 16: 9

Miscellaneous Historical Clippings, ca. 1915-1953

 

Series XI:  Wilson Family Photographs

Box 17: 1

Eleanor Wilson McAdoo

Box 17: 2

William G. McAdoo

Box 17: 3

Ellen and Mary Faith McAdoo

Box 17: 4

Ellen Axson Wilson (11 items)

Box 17: 5

Jessie and Margaret Woodrow Wilson

Box 17: 6

Margaret Woodrow Wilson

Box 17: 7

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (25 items)

Box 17: 8

Wilson Homes and Monuments

Box 17: 9

Miscellaneous and Unidentified Photographs

 

Series XII:  McAdoo Family Childrens Collection

Box 21: 1-2

Correspondence (includes Ellen McAdoo, Eleanor McAdoo, Mary Faith McAdoo, William G. McAdoo, and Sally McAdoo as correspondents), ca. 1925-1936

 

Series XIII:  Oversize Wilson Family Ephemera

Box 22

Scrapbook with articles about Woodrow Wilson's death in 1924; other newspaper articles, ca. 1917-1956

Box 23

Photographs (black and white, mostly of Eleanor Wilson McAdoo)

 

Series XIV:  Audiovisual Materials

A/V No. A0312/D12

78 rpm sound recording - Star Spangled Banner, sung by Margaret Woodrow Wilson (A Panama Pacific International Exposition Souvenir Record), 1915

A/V No. A0313/D16

Acetate sound recording - Democratic National Committee, Interview with Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 11 Oct. 1948

A/V No. A0314/D12

LP sound recording - Adlai Stevenson in Conversation with Arnold Michaelis, 19 June 1956