Series 88. PERSONAL AND BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE, 1932...1974
21 boxes
12 sub-series
Office file code: 73 (plus alphabetical designations), 76
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to a variety
of topics JWF considered to be of a personal nature. Among such topics are reactions
to speeches and publications about or by JWF, legal notes (written as a law student
and as a law instructor), correspondence and court documents related to the Phipps
case, business and Fulbright Foundation operations, topics related to JWF's presidency
of the University of Arkansas and the aftermath of his removal, membership in
the Burning Tree and Chevy Chase Country Clubs as well as the Royal and Ancient
Golf Club of St. Andrew's, Scotland, personal greetings from friends, and condolences
on death of Roberta Waugh Fulbright (JWF's mother). Also included are correspondence
and materials from colleagues in the House and Senate, government personnel (embassy
staff members mainly), and foreign friends and members of foreign governments.
In addition, there is correspondence to and from JWF and members of the immediate
family as well as some of his medical records and those of his wife and children,
plus correspondence on the genealogy of the Fulbright family itself. Note:
Sub-series 3 and 4 are restricted. Restricted materials may NOT be accessed.
Arranged chronologically and alphabetically.
- Personal Acquaintance Correspondence,
1942-1974
- Legal Notes and Materials, 1932...1945
- Phipps Case Materials, 1933...1944
- Business Correspondence, 1943...1967
- Fulbright Foundation Correspondence,
1961...1967
- University of Arkansas Correspondence and
Materials, 1939...1974
- Colleague and Government Personnel
Correspondence, 1943-1974
- Burning Tree and Chevy Chase Country Club
Recommendations for Membership and Related Correspondence,
1945...1972
- Personal Greetings from Friends,
1953...1967
- Condolences on Death of Mother, 1953
- Foreign Correspondents, 1944...1972
- Family Correspondence, 1942...1972
Sub-series 1. Personal Acquaintance
Correspondence, 1942-1974.
10 boxes.
Office file code: 73 (plus alphabetical designations),
76
Correspondence is from individuals considered by JWF to be
friends or close
acquaintances, or from others writing on topics of a personal
nature. Many of these
letters contain political information or observations, but the
majority are on
non-political topics relative to JWF's personal affairs.
In addition to the specifically identified correspondent files,
correspondents include: Homer M[artin] Adkins (1.1), Saul D[avid]
Alinsky (1.1),
Stewart [Johonnot] [Oliver] Alsop (1.1), Louis Fabian Bachrach
(1.2), T[homas]
H[arry] Barton (l.2), Bernard M[annes] Baruch (1.2), Henry B.
Bass (1.2), Rudolf Bing
(1.2), Herbert L[awrence] Block (1.2), Chester [Bliss] Bowles
(1.2), Alexander Calder
(1.3), Bennett [Alfred] Cerf (1.3), Francis [Adams] Cherry (1.3),
Clarence Dillon
(1.4), John Foster Dulles (1.4), Robert H[arley] Estabrook (1.5),
Bernard B. Fall
(2.1), Fred W. Friendly (2.1), Arthur J[oseph] Goldberg (2.2),
Katharine Graham
(2.2), [Alfred] Whitney Griswold (2.2), Virgil M[elvin] Hancher
(2.3), Henry W. A.
Hanson (2.3), [William] Averell Harriman (2.3), Carlisle
H[ubbard] Humelsine (2.3),
George F[rost] Kennan (2.6), Robert E[dmonds] Kintner (2.6),
Robert A[llen] Leflar
(2.7), Sol M[yron] Linowitz (2.7), Henry R[obinson] Luce (2.7),
Ralph [Emerson]
McGill (3.1), Sidney S[anders] McMath (3.1), Eugene Meyer (3.2),
Edward R[oscoe]
Murrow (3.2), Edwin O[ldfather] Reischauer (3.7), James B[arrett]
Reston (3.7), Juan
(Chi-Chi) Rodriguez (3.7), [Arnold] Eric Sevareid (4.1), Lawrence
E[dmund] Spivak
(4.1), Leopold C[oleslawowicz] [Stanislaw] [Antoni] Stokowski
(4.1), and Theodore
H[arold] White (4.5).
Arranged alphabetically and chronologically.
Sub-series 2. Legal Notes and Materials,
1932-1936, 1938-1939, 1945.
3 boxes.
Office file code: no code
Material consists of classroom notes taken by JWF as a law
student at
George Washington University, Washington, D. C., from 1932
through 1934, briefs and
case notes created by or for JWF while an attorney in the
Anti-Trust Division of the
Department of Justice in Washington, D. C., 1934 - 1935, and
lecture notes and class
handouts used by JWF as an Instructor in Law at both George
Washington University and
the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, 1935 through 1939.
Arranged chronologically.
Sub-series 3. Phipps Case Materials, 1933, 1935, 1943-1944.
RESTRICTED and may NOT be accessed.
1 folder.
Office file code: no code
Material consists of correspondence and court materials related
to the
prosecution of the Phipps case, a legal matter in which JWF and
the Fulbright family
were involved from 1933 through 1944. The case concerned
ownership of certain shares of
stock in the Phipps Lumber Company, formerly a Fulbright
enterprise, and the
disposition of these.
Arranged chronologically.
Sub-series 4. Business Correspondence, 1943-1955, 1957,
1960-1967. RESTRICTED and may NOT be accessed.
1 box.
Office file code: no code, 73 (plus alphabetical designations)
Correspondence primarily relates to JWF's involvement in the
affairs of the
Fulbright family business enterprises, such as the Springfield
Wagon Company, Phipps
Lumber Company, the Northwest Arkansas Times operation, the Coca
Cola Bottling
Company, and the Fulbright Investment Company. Some
correspondence pertains to income
tax returns, land transactions, insurance, and the management of
JWF's farm.
Arranged chronologically.
Sub-series 5. Fulbright Foundation
Correspondence, 1961, 1963, 1965-1967.
1 folder.
Office file code: 73 - F, no code
Correspondence relates to various gifts of financial grants to
academic
institutions in the state of Arkansas, to several personal
memorials, and to the
Fayetteville Public Library for purchase of land for construction
of a new library
building (later designated the Roberta Fulbright Library).
Arranged chronologically.
Sub-series 6. University of Arkansas
Related Correspondence and Materials 1939-1947, 1950-1951, 1953-
1957, 1961-1972, 1974.
1 box.
Office file code: 73, no code
Materials consist of correspondence, news clippings, and printed
materials
on topics related to events and people at the University of
Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Included are such topics as state politics surrounding JWF's
ouster as University
president and its aftermath, impact of World War II on University
life, former
students in the military, world organizational ideas generated
among campus faculty,
and other matters pertaining to JWF's alumnus status of both the
University and of
Sigma Chi fraternity.
Correspondents include: Laird Archer (15.6), Carl E[dward] Bailey
(15.5),
Walter L[ee] Brown (15.8), [John] Frank[lin] Broyles (15.9),
Walter R[awlins]
Horlacher (15.3, 15.4), Hemphill M[offet] Hosford (15.3, 15.4,
15.5, 15.6), O[scar]
E. Jones (15.5), Ben [Travis] Laney (15.5), Robert A[llen] Leflar
(15.5), Walter
J[ohn] Lemke (15.3), Paul W[illiam] Milam (15.5), Roy [Waymon]
Milum (15.3, 15.5),
Jeanette Scudder (15.5), Herbert [L.] Thomas (15.3, 15.4, 15.5,
15.6), Julian
S[eesel] Waterman (15.3, 15.4), and Guy E[llsworth] Williams
(15.5).
Arranged chronologically.
Sub-series 7. Colleague and Government
Personnel Correspondence, 1943-1974.
2 boxes.
Office file code: 73, 76
Correspondence relates to a variety of personal topics between
JWF and
his Congressional colleagues and associates in government
service. Among these
topics are acknowledgements of small personal gifts,
congratulations on special
occasions, birthday greetings, retirement letters, calling of
emergency sessions of
Congress, requests for ambassadorial assistance for constituents
visiting foreign
countries, and Department of State political notes and embassy
personnel comments on
various foreign situations.
Correspondents include: George W[ildman] Ball (16.3), Alben
W[illiam]
Barkley (16.1), Birch Evans Bayh, Jr. (17.1, 17.4), Leslie L.
Biffle (16.1, 16.2, 16.4, 17.1),
Harry F[lood] Byrd (16.1), Robert C[arlyle] Byrd (16.4, 17.1,
17.3, 17.4), Thomas Campbell
Clark (16.1), Clark M[cAdams] Clifford (16.3), Clarence Douglas
Dillon (16.2), Everett
McKinley Dirksen (16.3), Paul H[oward] Douglas (16.2), William
O[rville] Douglas (16.3,
17.3), John Paul Hammerschmidt (17.4), Oren Harris (16.1), Carl
[Trumbull] Hayden (16.3),
[Lawrence] Brooks Hays (16.3, 17.1), Christian A[rchibald] Herter
(16.3), John Edgar
Hoover (16.1), Hubert H[oratio] Humphrey, [Jr.] (16.3, 17.2,
17.3, 17.4), [Claudia] [Alta]
[Taylor]("Lady Bird") Johnson (17.1), Lyndon B[aines] Johnson
(16.2, 16.3, 16.5), George
F[rost] Kennan (16.5), Edward M[oore] Kennedy (16.5), John
F[itzgerald] Kennedy (16.2,
16.3), Al[fred] M[ossman] Landon (17.4), Henry Cabot Lodge
(16.1), Scott W[ike] Lucas (16.1,
17.3, 17.4), Douglas MacArthur II (16.4), Eugene Joseph McCarthy
(17.2), John W[illiam]
McCormack (17.1, 17.2), George S[tanley] McGovern (17.3, 17.4),
Michael Joseph Mansfield
(16.3, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4), Wilbur D[aigh] Mills (16.5,
17.2), Wayne L[yman] Morse (16.2, 17.3,
17.4), Stan[ley] [Frank] Musial (17.3), Lawrence F[rancis]
O'Brien (16.3, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3,
17.4), Frank Pace, Jr. (16.1), Sam [Taliaferro] Rayburn (16.3),
Dean Rusk (17.1), Richard
B[revard] Russell (16.4, 16.5), [Robert] Sargent Shriver, [Jr.]
(17.1), John J[ackson] Sparkman (16.4), Adlai
E[wing] Stevenson (16.3, 16.5), [William] Stuart Symington (16.2,
16.5, 17.2), James William
Trimble (16.1), and Frederick Moore Vinson (16.1).
Arranged chronologically.
Sub-series 8. Burning Tree and Chevy
Chase Country Club Recommendations for Membership and Related
Correspondence, 1945...1972.
1 folder.
Office file code: 73
Materials consist primarily of requests for recommendations for
membership
in the Burning Tree and Chevy Chase Country Clubs,
recommendations (or refusals to
write recommendations) for membership, and letters expressing
gratitude for such
recommendations. Some material pertains to JWF's golf activities
at these two clubs.
Arranged chronologically.
Sub-series 9. Personal Greetings from
Friends, 1953-1954, 1961-1967.
0.5 box.
Office file code: 73
Materials consist of greeting cards, letters and telegrams
expressing
birthday, Christmas and Easter greetings to JWF and his family.
Arranged chronologically.
Sub-series 10. Condolences on Death of
Mother, 1953.
0.5 box.
Office file code: 73
Letters, telegrams and sympathy cards expressing condolences to
JWF on the
death of his mother, Roberta Waugh Fulbright (d. January 12,
1953).
Arranged alphabetically.
Sub-series 11. Foreign Correspondents,
1944, 1947-1957, 1959, 1961-1970, 1972.
1 box.
Office file code: 73
Letters from foreign nationals to JWF on a variety of topics,
such as
information relative to JWF's pending visits to foreign nations,
political, economic
and social observations on foreign affairs, Fulbright
Scholarship matters, offers of
foreign decorations and medals, correspondence from foreign
embassy personnel
stationed in the United States, and letters from friends dating
from JWF's days at
Oxford.
Arranged chronologically and topically.
Sub-series 12. Family Correspondence,
1942...1972.
2 boxes.
Office file code: 73, 76
Material consists of correspondence on a wide variety of topics
between JWF
and his mother, wife, sisters, brother, in-laws, nieces, nephews
and grandchildren.
Included also are medical records for JWF and his wife, and
correspondence related to
the genealogy of the Fulbright family.
Arranged chronologically.
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