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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 Moorfield Storey, author, civil rights leader, and lawyer, were deposited in the Library of Congress in 1930 and 1931 by his son, Richard C. Storey. In 1967 photocopies of selected Storey correspondence from a private collection were donated to the Library by Flint Kellogg.
The papers of Moorfield Storey were arranged and described in 1981. The collection was expanded and revised in 1996, and additions and revisions were made to the finding aid in 2008.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Moorfield Storey is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Moorfield Storey 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, Moorfield Storey Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Moorfield Storey (1845-1929) span the years 1876-1929 and include letters received and a few copies of letters sent, scrapbooks, articles, lecture notes, petitions, press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous papers. Only a small part of Storey's career is represented in the collection. Documented in the papers are his interest in the Anti-Imperialist League, which opposed United States ownership of the Philippine Islands, and his support of minority groups, shown in his service as president of the NAACP from 1910 to 1929 and his leadership of the opposition to excluding African-Americans from freshman dormitories at Harvard College in 1922-1923. The papers are organized into the following series: General Correspondence, Subject File, Writings, and Miscellany.
The Subject File includes typed excerpts from the diary of Fiske Warren, paper manufacturer and associate of Storey's in the Anti-Imperialist League, relating principally to United States foreign policy toward the Philippines between 1903 and 1907. The file relating to Edward Brown concerns efforts by the Harvard Medical College to deny Brown residence in university housing.
Of particular interest among the Writings series is Ralph Waldo Emerson's journal, "Wo--Liberty." The journal, once presumed lost, contains excerpts from two of Emerson's speeches and partial drafts of other speeches, essays, poems, and quotations on the history of liberty and higher law. The journal was used by Storey while preparing lectures for the commemoration in 1903 of the centenary of Emerson's birth. A fuller explanation of the journal, its contents, and its use by Storey is contained in "Emerson and Moorfield Storey: A Lost Journal Found," by John C. Broderick,
Over half of the collection consists of printed speeches and articles by Storey and pamphlets, journals, and congressional documents and reports collected by Storey for his book coauthored with Marcial P. Lichauco,
Storey's service as secretary to Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, during which he participated in the attempt to impeach President Andrew Johnson, and his presidency of the American Bar Association are not documented in the collection.
Among Storey's correspondents are Charles Francis Adams, William E. Borah, Charles Evans Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Judson King, William Gibbs McAdoo, Mary White Ovington, Joel E. Spingarn, George Sutherland, William Howard Taft, Walter White, and George W. Wickersham.
This collection is arranged in four series:
Mostly letters received.
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence, press releases, photocopies of letters, typed copies of diary entries, speeches, articles, reports, and minutes.
Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically therein.
Articles and notes containing drafts of articles, petitions, letters to the editor, lectures, and other writings by Storey and others. Also includes a holograph journal of Ralph Waldo Emerson together with notes and printed matter extracted from the collection's scrapbooks which relate to Emerson and the journal.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein chronologically.
Photographs and printed matter, including newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and scrapbooks.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically by month therein.