Richard Welling papers

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{"value"=>"1881-1941", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1881/1941"}

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1881

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1941

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1881

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1881

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1941

unittitle

{"value"=>"Richard Welling papers"}

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repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Richard Ward Greene Welling (1858-1946), New York City lawyer and reformer, was founder of the National Self Government Committee and president of the George Junior Republic. He was active in political and municipal reform and belonged to many social and political organizations. Collection consists of correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, personal papers, photographs, and printed matter. Correspondence, ca. 1894-1941, relates to Welling's involvement with various social, political, cultural, and reform organizations. Writings include typescript of his autobiography, As the Twig is Bent; articles he wrote; and his diaries, 1883-1945. Scrapbooks, 1876-1946, contain materials covering a wide range of topics. Also, personal papers, photographs (mainly of Welling), and printed matter concerning politics."}

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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}

prefercite

{"value"=>"<p>Richard Welling papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}

index

{"value"=>"<div class=\"head\">Index List of prominent correspondents</div> <p>(note: incomplete)</p> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Adams, James T.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Ade, George</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Barlow, Sir Montague</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Barton, Bruce</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Beard, Charles</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Beard, Mary</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Bloom, Sol</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Bori, Lucrezia</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Brandeis, Louis D.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Brooks, Phillips</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Broun, Heywood</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Buck, Pearl S.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Butler, Nicholas M.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Carnegie, Louise</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Conant, James B.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Crowninsheild, Frank</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Damrosch, Walter</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Dewey, John</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Dewey, Thomas E.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Downes, Olin</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Eliot, Charles W.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Field, Marshal</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Finley, John H.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Flagler, Harry Harkness</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Gildersleeve, Virginia</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Hart, Albert Bushnell</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Ickes, Harold</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">James, Henry William</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Keppel, F. W.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Lafarge, John</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">LaGuardia, F. H.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Lamont, Thomas</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Laski, Harold</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Lehman, Herbert</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Lippmann, Walter</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Lowell, A. Lawrence</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Ludwig, Emil</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Mackay, Clarence</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Manning, Bishop William T.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Millikan, Robert A.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Norman, Sir Harry</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Patri, Angelo</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Peabody, George Roster</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Perry, Ralph Barton</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Pershing, John J.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Pinchot, Gifford</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Roosevelt, Edith K.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Roosevelt, Eleanor</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Roosevelt, Franklin D.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Roosevelt, Theodore</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Root, Elihu</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Satterlee, Herbert L.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Schurz, Carl</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Shaw, George B.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Smith, Alfred E.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Stimson, Henry L.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Stokowski, Leopold</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Tarkington, Booth</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Taylor, Deems</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Thomas, Norman</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Thompson, Dorothy</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Tunney, Gene</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Wagner, Robert F.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Wallenstein, Alfred</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Welles, Sumner</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Wells, H. G.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Wharton, Edith?</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">White, William A.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Willkie, Wendell L.</span></li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Wilson, Woodrow</span></li>", "type"=>"index", "structured"=>[{"sib_seq"=>0, "type"=>"head", "value"=>"Index List of prominent correspondents"}, {"sib_seq"=>1, "type"=>"p", "value"=>"(note: incomplete)"}, {"sib_seq"=>2, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Adams, James T."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>3, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Ade, George"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>4, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Barlow, Sir Montague"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>5, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Barton, Bruce"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>6, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Beard, Charles"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>7, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Beard, Mary"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>8, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Bloom, Sol"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>9, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Bori, Lucrezia"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>10, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Brandeis, Louis D."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>11, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Brooks, Phillips"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>12, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Broun, Heywood"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>13, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Buck, Pearl S."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>14, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Butler, Nicholas M."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>15, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Carnegie, Louise"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>16, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Conant, James B."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>17, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Crowninsheild, Frank"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>18, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Damrosch, Walter"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>19, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Dewey, John"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>20, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Dewey, Thomas E."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>21, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Downes, Olin"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>22, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Eliot, Charles W."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>23, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Field, Marshal"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>24, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Finley, John H."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>25, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Flagler, Harry Harkness"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>26, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Gildersleeve, Virginia"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>27, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Hart, Albert Bushnell"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>28, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Ickes, Harold"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>29, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"James, Henry William"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>30, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Keppel, F. W."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>31, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Lafarge, John"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>32, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"LaGuardia, F. H."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>33, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Lamont, Thomas"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>34, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Laski, Harold"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>35, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Lehman, Herbert"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>36, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Lippmann, Walter"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>37, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Lowell, A. Lawrence"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>38, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Ludwig, Emil"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>39, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Mackay, Clarence"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>40, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Manning, Bishop William T."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>41, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Millikan, Robert A."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>42, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Norman, Sir Harry"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>43, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Patri, Angelo"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>44, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Peabody, George Roster"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>45, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Perry, Ralph Barton"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>46, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Pershing, John J."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>47, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Pinchot, Gifford"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>48, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Roosevelt, Edith K."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>49, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Roosevelt, Eleanor"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>50, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Roosevelt, Franklin D."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>51, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Roosevelt, Theodore"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>52, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Root, Elihu"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>53, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Satterlee, Herbert L."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>54, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Schurz, Carl"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>55, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Shaw, George B."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>56, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Smith, Alfred E."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>57, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Stimson, Henry L."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>58, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Stokowski, Leopold"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>59, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Tarkington, Booth"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>60, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Taylor, Deems"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>61, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Thomas, Norman"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>62, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Thompson, Dorothy"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>63, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Tunney, Gene"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>64, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Wagner, Robert F."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>65, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Wallenstein, Alfred"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>66, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Welles, Sumner"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>67, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Wells, H. G."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>68, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Wharton, Edith?"}]}, {"sib_seq"=>69, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"White, William A."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>70, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Willkie, Wendell L."}]}, {"sib_seq"=>71, "type"=>"indexentry", "value"=>[{"type"=>"persname", "value"=>"Wilson, Woodrow"}]}]}

origination

{"value"=>"Welling, Richard, 1858-1946", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Richard Ward Greene Welling, lawyer, social reformer and author was born in North Kingston, Rhode Island, August 27, 1858, the son of Charles Hunt Welling and Katherine Celia Greene. Welling graduated from Harvard with an A. B. in 1880; he studied 2 yrs. at Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar of NY in 1883. He received a P. D. M. from New York University in 1911. Welling was known as an active political and municipal reformer in New York City, and also as a founder and member of many organizations. They include: City Reform Club; the City Club which organized 25 \"Good Government Clubs\"; the Citizens Union\", responsible for electing Seth Low to office, and the \"National Arts Club\" (Director).</p> <p>Welling's writings include \"Self Government Miscellanies\" and his autobiography \"As the Twig's is Bent\".</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The papers basically covers the many social and reform organizations Welling was involved with. Prominent correspondents include Thomas E. Dewey; Virginia Gildersleeve; F. H. LaGuardia; Winifred Letts; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin S. Roosevelt; Theodore Roosevelt; Norman Thomas & H. G. Wells.</p> <p>Organizations include A. S. P. C. A.; Boys Brotherhood Republic; Citizens Union of New York; City Reform Club; George Junior Republic; Municipal Arts Society; National Sculpture Society; Philharmonic Symphony Society; Roosevelt Memorial Association; American Labor Party and Citizens & Non Partisan Committee. His interests also include civil service reform, New York City parks and the National Self Government Committee.</p> <p>The remaining papers are writings that include a typescript of Welling's autobiography \"As the Twig is Bent\"; scrapbooks, printed material and photographs.</p> <p>The photographs are mainly of Welling from childhood to adult.</p>"}

arrangement

{"value"=>"<p>The papers of Richard Welling are arranged in two main series: 1) General Correspondents and Prominent Correspondents 2) Organizations and subject correspondence</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>1945; 1946; 1949; 1960; 1971, Received from R. Welling; Welling estate; Winifred Letts; National Self Improvement Committee; Mrs. Sophia Rush; Anonymous</p>"}

processinfo

{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Valerie Wingfield, 4/11/86</p>"}

extent_statement

21 linear feet (55 boxes)

date_bulk_start

1925

date_bulk_end

1941

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1. General Correspondents [5/1]
2. Prominent Correspondents [5/2]
3. Organizations and Subject Correspondence [19/2]
4. Political Papers [9/1]
5. Writings [6/2]
6. Scrapbooks [23/1]
7. Personal assorted papers [7/2]
8. Photographs (FB)
9. Postcards commenting on article by RW in the NY Times 1st Steps in Citizenship"
10. Questionnaire Reply Cards on Self Government in the Schools
11. Unprocessed addition