Whitney H. Shepardson, Colgate, 1910, was elected Rhodes Scholar from New York State in January 1910. He entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he read in modern history for three years. He was the first American to win the Gladstone Memorial Prize--a university-wide competition for the best thesis in history.
Letters of congratulation, July-August 1913--to WHS for receiving "first class honors" at Balliol; correspondence from C.H. Firth relating to the editing of certain manuscripts and correspondence concerning the Gladstone Memorial Prize.
Pamphlets, newspaper clippings, picture postal cards, dinner menus, bills of fare, musical and stage programs, lists, golf score sheet, rowing programs, memorandum of expenses, university regulations, lecture schedules and accounts of charges.
Letter received, 1910-1914, from Katherine and C.R. Fletcher and F.F. Urquhart, Several items.
Two undated samples of work submitted in Latin and Political Science. Also a typed manuscript of diary entries made during a 30 day trip through Holland, Germany and Belgium. Also a copy of a talk before the Southboro, Mass. Mens Club of Oxford.
Undated but presumably taken while WHS was at Oxford.
Notices, program, directory, menu and other printed material concerning the reunion of Rhodes Scholars at Oxford, July 1929.
Diary of a trip through Holland, Germany, and Belgium between December 1911 and January 1912. 90 pages handwritten.
Transcript copies of letters sent, 1913-1934, to F.F. "Slinger" Urquhart, tutor in Balliol College, Oxford. Correspondence contains brief and random comments on Balliol, World War I, Paris Peace Conference, American politics and foreign policies and the Council of Foreign Affairs.
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, newspaper clippings, picture postal cards and reprints concerning WHS's work as European manger (stationed in Vienna) of P.N. Gray and Co. Gray and Co. was an American concern acting as the agent for Belgian, Polish and Austrian government in their purchase of food from the United States. Also a 42 page typed manuscript recounting a 10 week visit (1921) to South Africa with stops at Capetown, Durban, Johannesburg and Fort Elizabeth.
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, cablegrams and printed material. WHS served as director of the General Education Board, 1925-1927, and was particularly interested in the development of agricultural and biological research.
Correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings and printed materials relating to his service as an attorney with the U.S. Shipping Board May 1917-July 1918.
Miscellaneous programs, student legal briefs, newspaper clippings and picture postal cards.
Printed material. Reunion dinner of class of 1917.
Statement for the nine month period ending September 30, 1930. WHS was president of Bates from 1928-1930.
Printed material.
Correspondence, newspaper and periodical clippings that comment on The United States in World Affairs. These annual surveys of American Foreign relations were written by Whitney H. Shepardson in collaboration with William O. Scroggs and under the sponsorship of the Council on Foreign Relations. Includes remarks by Herbert Feis, Arnold Toynbee, Isaiah Bowman and Anne O'Hare McCormick.
A wide variety of correspondence including: communications with Wagner College concerning an honorary degree, 1947; election to American Academy in Rome, 1945; correspondence with American Red Cross suggesting candidates for Red Cross positions, 1942; and correspondence concerning an African research project under the sponsorship of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1933.
Exchange [1935] with Doubleday, Coran concerning Colonel Lawrence's SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. Several items.
Exchanges with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, April 1939, in which WHS suggests the convening of a peace conference. Several items.
Correspondence. WHS served the Century Club Association as member and chairman of several committees and as vice president. (1 Folder).
Correspondence, memoranda, note cards, speech transcripts, circular notices, schedules, picture postal cards, newspaper clippings, mimeographed and printed material. WHS toured the British Isles during the summer of 1941 at the invitation of the Royal Institute of international Affairs. The ostensible
purpose of the visit was to discuss peace aims and reconstruction with British officals and members of the Foreign Research and Press Service.
Correspondence, memoranda and newspaper clippings on a wide range of topics. Communications from Dwight D. Eisenhower, James B. Conant, Christian Herter, Hamilton Fish Armstrong and Henry A. Wallace. Also includes materials concerning his service in the United States Army during World War I and correspondence and other material relating to the awarding of the Medal of Merit in 1960.
Correspondence, memoranda, photographs and memorabilia relating to WHS's service as a civilian adviser to the Office of Strategic Services. Also photograph and memorabilia pertaining to General William J. Donovan, director of OSS.
Invitation to membership.
Correspondence concerning his election as treasurer of the United Chapters of Phi Betta Kappa. Several items.
Correspondence concerning preparation for the Century Club's centennial celebration.
Correspondence with the following: Thomas Lamont, 1941; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada, 1927-1939; John Laylin, 1935; Charles Merz, NEW YORK TIMES, 1932; Charles Ross, ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH, 1936.
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, cablegrams, reports, mimeographed and printed materials. WHS was president of the Free Europe Committee, operator of Radio Free Europe.
Undated and unidentified. Several items.
Photographs, printed material and memorabilia. WHS was one of a score of OSS veterans who visited Algeria and France as the guests of Amicale Action, the veterans' organization of French Resistance.
Correspondence. WHS's service as a member of the Committee to visit the History Department. 3 items.
Correspondence concerning the awarding of the Medal of Freedom to WHS for his wartime service. Several items.
Memorial to Irving S. Olds by WHS. 1 item.
Correspondence and newspaper clippings of letters submitted and printed on the TIMES editorial page.
Printed material.
Correspondence on WHS's election to the Athenaeum. Several items.
Correspondence, photograph and printed material relating to the Colgate Foreign Policy Conference.
Letter [1965] acknowledging WHS's gift to United Nations of several folders of material on the Paris Peace Conference. Also several transcripts of press releases.
Correspondence with Sir David Kier, Master of Balliol, Vincent Massey and others concerning affairs at Balliol.
Correspondence, programs, and printed material from the White House. Several items.
Random verses. Handwritten and typescript.
Drafts of articles and speeches.
Correspondence to, from, and about Lothian, 1912-1942. Correspondents,in addition to Lothian and Shepardson, include Lothian's family, Shepardson's wife, Eleanor Cargin Shepardson, Norman H. Davis, Felix Frankfurter, Thomas W. Lamont, Vincent Massey, and others. Topics and individuals mentioned include Jan C. Smuts' visit to Canada and the U.S. in 1930, the Rhodes Trust, the endowment of a professorship at Harvard, Herbert Baker, Lionel Curtis, the ROUND TABLE, Britain's need for destroyers in 1940. There are newspaper clippings concerning Lothian from THE TIMES OF LONDON, the NEW YORK TIMES, the NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE, the IRISH TIMES, and the WASHINGTON POST.
Two letters from Robert Brand, 1951, re Korea, the UN, etc. A letter re the origin of Theosophy.
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Pamphlets, newspaper clippings, picture postal cards, dinner menus, bills of fare, musical and stage programs, lists, golf score sheet, rowing programs, memorandum of expenses, university regulations, lecture schedules and accounts of charges.
Correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings and printed materials relating to his service as an attorney with the U.S. Shipping Board May 1917-July 1918.
66 matches returned.