Found 4 collections related to Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

Edward Warren Ordway (1864- ) was a New York City lawyer and political activist. He was secretary from 1899 to 1904 of the Anti-Imperialist League of New York (later the Philippine Independence Committee) and of the Filipino Progress Association which he formed in 1905. Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, petitions, and other papers related to Ordway's political activities. Bulk of the collection is correspondence, 1893-1907, which concerns the University Settlement Society, the Social Reform Club, the Anti-Imperialist League of New York, the Philippine Independence Committee, and the Filipino Progress Association. Topics include organization of public opposition to American policy in the Philippine Islands following the Spanish-American War, the suppression of the independence movement for the Philippines, the policies of William Howard Taft as civil governor, the opium trade in the Far East, and the political, social and economic conditions in the Philippines. Also, minutes of the Filipino Progress Association and other papers, including signed petitions and typescript by George F. Seward. less

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, notes and transcripts, student notes and notebooks, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, miscellaneous papers, and printed matter. General correspondence, 1862-1938, is between Ford and historians, librarians, scholars, writers, publishers, booksellers, and lawyers, including extensive correspondence with Charles Francis Adams, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Ford Rhodes, and John Franklin Jameson. Family correspondence, 1870-1935, is chiefly incoming letters from many members of Ford's family. Most of the writings are drafts or hand-written manuscripts for works which Ford authored or edited and are concerned with American history and economics. Notes and transcripts are comprised of numerous transcripts of historical letters and other documents with research notes, annotated printed matter, and notebooks (some from Ford's student days.) Diaries, 1873-1918, contain brief entries concerning Ford's activities, and scrapbooks, ca. 1898-1931, consist mostly of clippings and other materials on a particular subject. Photographs are of Ford family members and of various personal and public subjects. Miscellaneous papers include personal papers, writings by individuals other than Ford, records of organizations with which he was affiliated, genealogical documents and biographical sketches of the Fowler and Chauncey families, financial accounts, and ephemera. less

Albert Bushnell Hart (1854-1943), historian, was a professor of history at Harvard University. Collection consists of selected correspondence during the years of Hart's service on the faculty of Harvard University. Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, James B. Angell, Nicholas Murray Butler, Charles W. Eliot, William Cameron Forbes, Henry Cabot Lodge, John D. Long, A.T. Mahan, Walter Hines Page, Bliss Perry, James Ford Rhodes, and George Parker Winship. less