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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 Frank Ross McCoy, army officer, were deposited by in the Library of Congress by McCoy and his wife, Frances McCoy, in 1931 and converted to a gift in 1951. Additional gifts were received through 1956. A gift by Frances McCoy’s sister, Alice Judson Jones, was received in 1973.
The papers of Frank Ross McCoy were processed in 1950 and 1970 and revised and expanded in 1984. The finding aid was revised in 2013. The finding aid was updated in 2023 by Maria Farmer as part of a division-wide remediation project by the Inclusive Description Working Group.
Some photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of these papers.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Frank Ross McCoy in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.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 Frank Ross McCoy 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, Frank Ross McCoy Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Frank Ross McCoy span the years 1847-1957, with the bulk of the papers concentrated in the period 1892-1954. The documentation before 1892 consists of his father Thomas Franklin McCoy’s
The focus of the collection is on the East Asia, Latin America and World War I, and World War II. Individuals represented include President Theodore Roosevelt; Generals Leonard Wood, Hugh Lenox Scott, James G. Harbord, George C. Marshall, and Matthew B. Ridgway; statesmen W. Cameron Forbes and Henry L. Stimson; and public figures as diverse as Gutzon Borglum, Malin Craig, Felix Frankfurter, James Rudolph Garfield, Henry Cabot Lodge (1902-1985), Robert Rutherford McCormick, and George S. Patton. Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman also appear as correspondents.
Among the important topics in the Subject File series are the Roberts Commission on the Facts of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and the military commission on the trial of Nazi saboteurs, Washington, D.C., 1942. Established, for the most part, by McCoy himself, the Subject File includes a compilation of material on the Philippines created after its receipt by the Library to bring together administrative material reflective of his role in the affairs of the region. This file includes reports and memoranda for the United States Special Mission of Investigation to the Philippine Islands (Wood-Forbes Mission) of 1921; the letters of the secretary of war and the chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs on Philippine affairs between 1916 and 1923; material relating to Philippine finance and administration in the 1920s; and American policy toward the islands in the early 1930s. This material is supplemented by note and dispatch books that detail McCoy’s activities between 1903 and 1905.
Material relating to the American Electoral Mission in Nicaragua, the Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation, Bolivia and Paraguay, 1929, and the Isthmian canal route, 1912-1913, is documented in both the General Correspondence and Subject File. The same is true for files concerning to the American Relief Mission to Japan following the Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the League of Nations Commission of Enquiry into the Sino-Japanese Dispute (Lytton Commission). The General Correspondence for 1912 contains letters of interest from James H. Reeves in Peking to McCoy on the upheaval in China.
The Military File consists of official correspondence, memoranda, reports, orders and printed material for McCoy’s corps commands within the United States. Files on the American Expeditionary Forces are comprised chiefly of printed reports on the organization and operations of the 1st Army and the 32nd Division in World War I, and a Transportation Corps report for 1919. The remainder treats various assignments including with the Transportation Corps and the Procurement Review Board.
Civilian topics documented in the Subject File series include the Civilian Conservation Corps, New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940, Foreign Policy Association, and Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships (Equitable Life Assurance Society). McCoy was active in the Roosevelt Memorial Association, for which he has a voluminous correspondence, principally with Hermann Hagedorn, from the late 1920s through 1954. McCoy maintained relations with the immediate families of close associates, as evidenced in correspondence with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, and Nicholas Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Louise Adriana Wood, General Osborn Cutler Wood, and Mary Merrill Scott, widow of Hugh Lenox Scott.
This collection is arranged in ten series:
Typescript and carbon of T. F. McCoy’s
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence between McCoy, Margaret Eleanor Ross McCoy (his mother), and other family members.
Arranged chronologically.
Letters received and copies of letters sent.
Arranged chronologically by day for the period 1864-1914 and alphabetically within each year for the period 1915-1954. A file of II Corps Area letters sent are filed at the end of the series.
American Expeditionary Forces material, Corps Area papers, and other military files.
Arranged by subject and thereunder chronologically.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, organization or subject.
Speeches and writings by McCoy and others.
Arranged chronologically.
Compilations of newspapers, clippings, photographs and other memorabilia.
Arranged chronologically.
Bank and investment statements, income tax matters, bills and receipts and other personal financial material.
Arranged by type of material.
Biographical material, maps, poems, invitations, programs, lists, news clippings, and typed lists of correspondence, mainly for the 1930s.
Arranged by type of material.
Desk diaries, general correspondence, condolence letters, and miscellaneous material, including typescript journals, a biographical file, photographs, printed matter, and other material.
Arranged by type of material.