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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78012591
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Albert J. Beveridge, United States senator from Indiana, lawyer, historian, and biographer, were given to the Library of Congress by his wife, Catherine Eddy Beveridge, between 1940 and 1953. Additional installments to the papers were given between 2006-2011 by Beveridge's grandson, Albert J. Beveridge III.
The Beveridge Papers were processed in 1954 by Katherine Brand. The finding aid was revised in 2007 and again in 2011 by Maria Farmer. Material received between 2006 and 2011 was processed as an addition to the papers by Connie L. Cartledge in 2012. The finding aid was updated in 2023 by Maria Farmer as part of a division-wide remediation project by the Inclusive Description Working Group.
Card indexes to the Office Files series of the collection received with the papers are available in the Manuscript Division Reading Room. Consult reference staff for further information.
Related collections in the Manuscript Division include the Albert J. Beveridge Collection of John Marshall Papers.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Albert J. Beveridge in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The papers of Albert J. Beveridge are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Albert J. Beveridge Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862-1927) document his career from 1890 to 1927, beginning with his law practice in Indianapolis, Indiana, prominence as an acclaimed orator and two terms in the United States Senate, war correspondent in Europe during World War I, and later achievement as a historian and biographer of John Marshall and Abraham Lincoln. The collection spans the years 1788-1943, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1886-1927. Major correspondents include George Horace Lorimer, George W. Perkins, David Graham Phillips, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), John C. Shaffer, and Albert Shaw. Beveridge's senatorial career covered the period of political insurgency that led to the rise of the Progressive Party. He was one of the original Progressive Republicans, and in 1912 went into the Progressive Party with Theodore Roosevelt, making the keynote address at the Chicago Progressive Convention the same year. In 1916 he re-entered the Republican Party. The collection is organized into eleven series: Office Files, General Correspondence, Lincoln Correspondence, Speeches and Articles, Miscellaneous Notes and Manuscripts, Biographical Material, Philippines Speech, Scrapbooks, Miscellany, and Book File, and Addition.
At the request of his wife, Catherine Eddy Beveridge, Albert Beveridge's drafts of articles that appeared first in
Also in the Book File is material relating to Beveridge's biographies of John Marshall and Abraham Lincoln, including notes, transcripts drafts, galleys, and other background files. Other topics of importance in the collection, in addition to the rise of Progressivism and his role in it, include Indiana politics, his call for empire and defense of imperialism, support for annexation of the Philippines, advocacy before the First World War of the construction of a new navy, and championship of national child labor laws and other reform legislation.
The Addition, 1898-1943, consists primarily of photographs of Beveridge and speeches, writings, and notes of Beveridge. Included in the speeches and writings are a speech given in 1912 by Beveridge at the Progressive National Convention in Chicago, Ill., a speech to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity in 1926 discussing the merits of the election primary versus the party convention, and an introduction written by Beveridge about Robert W. McBrides's book
The collection is arranged in ten series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78012591
Letters sent and received largely relating to post office patronage.
Arranged numerically and controlled by an index received with the collection. Index available only in the Manuscript Division Reading room.
Letters sent and received.
Organized largely as received by year or groups of years and therein alphabetically by name of person or organization.
Letterspress volumes of letters sent.
Organized chronologically within volumes.
Special correspondence.
Organized alphabetically by name of person.
Miscellaneous correspondence and other material.
Organized chronologically.
Letters sent and received by relating to Beveridge's biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Arranged alphabetically. Includes a small group of clippings filed at the end of the series.
Addresses and articles by Beveridge in various forms, including notes, handwritten and typed drafts, and printed texts.
Arranged chronologically.
Miscellaneous writings.
Unarranged.
A biographical record and notes and manuscripts for an autobiography.
Arranged by type of material.
Newspapers regarding Beveridge's speech of Jan. 9, 1900 on the Phillippines.
Arranged chronologically.
Scrapbooks of clippings.
Arranged chronologically.
Undated writings, fragmentary material, and other miscellaneous items.
Unarranged.
Bond volumes of correspondence, mainly letters received; diary notes; drafts of chapters; interviews; and notes used in preparing chapters for Beveridge's book about his European trip. Also unbound printed matter and photographs.
Organized by type of material.
Research notes, drafts, and galleys for Beveridge's book on Marshall.
Organized by type of material.
Research notes, draft, and other material relating to Beveridge's book on Lincoln.
Organized by type of material.
Correspondence, speeches, writings, notes, a notebook, photographs, a broadside, and other miscellaneous material.
Arranged by type of material and therein either alphabetically or chronologically arranged.