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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78037804
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 Donald R. Richberg, lawyer, author, and public official, were given to the Library of Congress by Richberg in 1957 and 1959. Additional material was given by his wife, Lenore Aagaard, in 1976.
The papers of Donald R. Richberg were processed in 1964 and 1983. The finding aid was revised in 2011.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Donald R. Richberg is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Donald R. Richberg 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, Donald R. Richberg Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Donald Randall Richberg (1881-1960) span the years 1900-1960 and consist of correspondence, book material, articles, speeches, interviews, radio broadcasts, statements, poetry, musical compositions and songs, book reviews, plays, skits, short stories, legislative and political files, biographical material, financial papers, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous items. The collection is organized into four series: General Correspondence , Writings , Subject File , and Miscellany .
The Richberg Papers relate mainly to his service as a member of the New Deal brain trust, labor and public works adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in formulating the National Industrial Recovery Act, general counsel and chairman to the National Recovery Administration, executive secretary of the President’s Executive Council, director of the Industrial Emergency Committee, executive director of the National Emergency Council, and special assistant to the attorney general. There is material on Richberg as an author of important labor legislation including the Railway Labor Act, the Norris LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Law, and the Ball-Burton Hatch Labor Relations Bill; to his political career in the Bull Moose movement and later in the Progressive Party as director of the National Legislative Reference Bureau; as supporter of the New Deal; and later as a conservative. Rounding out the collection is material on his legal career, specifically relating to his corporate and labor practice in which he argued landmark cases before the United States Supreme Court, and to his literary and public speaking career. The papers comprising the latter element of Richberg’s career dominate the collection. In addition to his many articles, book reviews, short stories, and poems, he was the author and coauthor of books on economics, politics, works of fiction and poetry. The papers contain material concerning most of his published works including
The correspondence is small in volume but important. Prominent among his correspondents were David Tennant Bryan, George Creel, Herbert David Croly, Allen B. Crow, Homer S. Cummings, Joseph Edward Davies, Cecil B. DeMille, Felix Frankfurter, Albert W. Hawkes, B. E. Hutchinson, Harold L. Ickes, Joseph P. Kennedy, James Jackson Kilpatrick, William Draper Lewis, David Eli Lilienthal, Peter Locke, John S. Lord, Charles Edward Merriam, Marvin Hunter McIntyre, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Samuel I. Rosenman, Edward A. Rumely, Gerard Swope, and Edwin Watson. Other correspondents included Clarence Darrow, Herbert Hoover, Edward F. Hutton, Ben B. Lindsey, Ben Moreell, Frances Perkins, A. Willis Robertson, Richard B. Russell, Amos Alonzo Stagg, and DeWitt Wallace.
This collection is arranged in four series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78037804
Letters, telegrams, and memoranda sent and received.
Arranged chronologically.
Drafts, typescripts, galley proofs and published copies of articles, books, speeches, interviews, radio broadcasts, statements, poetry, musical compositions and songs, book reviews, plays, skits, short stories, and memoranda. Included is correspondence pertaining to and requests for copies of articles and speeches.
Arranged by type of material and chronologically thereunder.
Correspondence, reports, legal briefs, memoranda, records, newspaper clippings, and printed matter. Arranged by subject. Each major subject is subdivided under various headings and arranged chronologically therein.
Miscellaneous subject files are arranged alphabetically.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, records, biographical and personal material, financial papers, photographs, material relating to real estate transactions, newspaper clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and miscellany.
Grouped by type of material or subject.