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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78024976
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 Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman, diplomat, political activist, and author, were given to the Library of Congress by Harriman in 1957. Additions to the papers were made by Harriman between 1958 and 1968 and by Phyllis Darling in 1998.
The papers of Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman were arranged and described in 1957. Additions I and II were processed and the register revised in 2002.
Some photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as a part of these papers.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to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 Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman 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.
A microfilm edition of part of these papers is available on one reel. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition as available.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman (1870-1967) span the years 1857-1982 with the bulk of the material dating from 1910 to 1960. The papers are organized in the following series: Personal Correspondence, Oslo Correspondence, Subject Files (in two chronological sections), Speech and Article File, Miscellany, and Additions.
The Personal Correspondence primarily contains family correspondence. The Oslo Correspondence series, 1937-1940, pertains to Harriman's service as the United States minister to Norway, a post she had to abandon following the Nazi invasion of Norway in 1940.
The rest of the papers contain a wide variety of material reflecting Harriman's broad interests and activities throughout her long and vigorous life. She was a member of the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, 1913-1916, and chairman of the U.S. National Defense Advisory Commission's Committee on Women in Industry, 1917-1919. She worked on behalf of world peace organizations and for the League of Nations. She helped organize and then served as director of the American Red Cross Women's Motor Corps in France during World War I. She cofounded the Colony Club in New York City and the Woman's National Democratic Club in Washington, D.C. Harriman became one of Washington's great hostesses, regularly having Sunday evening dinner parties for the politically well-connected at her home. Late in life, Harriman worked on behalf of home rule for the District of Columbia. Material is lacking on her service, 1906-1918, as a member of the board of managers of the Bedford Reformatory for Women in New York.
Notable correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Irving Berlin, Albert Einstein, Duke Ellington, Helen Hayes, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Estes Kefauver, Archibald Macleish, George C. Marshall, Claude Pepper, John J. Pershing, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Oswald Garrison Villard, and Wendell L. Wilkie.
Addition I contains correspondence and an autograph album. The correspondence is primarily professional and pertains to Harriman's political activities and involvement in social reform movements as well as her service as minister to Norway. The autograph album contains notes signed by many notable people, including William Gibbs McAdoo, John J. Pershing, and Woodrow Wilson. Also in the album is a pencil drawing with watercolor by the Dutch cartoonist Louis Raemaekers.
Addition II includes a scrapbook, correspondence, speeches and writings, transcripts of radio broadcasts, news clippings, and photographs. The scrapbook, which documents Harriman's work in Woodrow Wilson's 1912 presidential campaign, is available on microfilm only. Correspondence from William Gibbs McAdoo and John J. Pershing document the close personal relationship Harriman had with both of these men. Other notable correspondents in Addition II include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, and Woodrow Wilson.
The collection is arranged in six series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78024976
Letters sent and received.
Arranged as Harriman family, Norway, and miscellaneous correspondence.
Letters sent and received.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, and printed matter.
Organized in two chronological groupings, 1912-1937 and 1940-1950, and arranged therein alphabetically by subject.
Handwritten, typewritten, and near-print copies of speeches and articles.
Arranged alphabetically by subject with miscellaneous writings at the end.
Newspaper clippings, scrapbook, financial papers, photographs, awards and souvenirs, and printed matter.
Organized alphabetically by type of material.
Autograph album and correspondence.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein chronologically.
Correspondence, biographical material, scrapbook, news clippings, photographs, writings, and miscellaneous material.
Scrapbook available on microfilm only (shelf no. 21,870).
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or type of material.