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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 records of the Atlantic Union Committee were given to the Library of Congress in 1964 by Clarence K. Streit and in 1965 by Ruth Nugent Head. Additional installments were given in 1983 by Justin Blackwelder and in 1988 by Jeanne Defrance Streit.
Parts I-III of the Atlantic Union Committee Records were processed in 1984 by Wilhelmena B. Curry. Additional material received in 1988 was processed as Part IV by Connie L. Cartledge and Patrick Kerwin. The finding aid was revised in 1992 and 2009. The finding aid was updated in 2023 by Maria Farmer as part of a division-wide remediation project by the Inclusive Description Working Group.
A related collection in the Manuscript Division is the Clarence K. Streit Papers (see https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009041).
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the Atlantic Union Committee records is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The records of the Atlantic Union Committee 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: Roman numeral designating the Part followed by a colon and container number, Atlantic Union Committee Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The records of the Atlantic Union Committee span the years 1940-1968, with the bulk of the material from 1949 to 1952. The Atlantic Union Committee was organized in 1949 by Justice Owen J. Roberts as an independent committee of Federal Union, Inc., formed in 1939 by Clarence K. Streit, author of
Part I of the Atlantic Union Committee Records spans the years 1940-1968, with the bulk of the material concentrated from 1949 to 1952. Files in Part I include correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, general office administrative files, and miscellany. The material relates primarily to the organization, structure, and general activities of the Atlantic Union Committee, its chapter activities, and the resolutions it submitted to Congress between 1949 and 1952. The principal correspondents include Herbert Agar, Robert J. Bishop, Justin Blackwelder, Will Clayton, Donald P. Dennis, C. A. Edson, Henry C. Flower, Ellen Garwood (Mrs. St. John Garwood), Guy M. Gillette, Livingston Hartley, Gerald B. Henry, Estes Kefauver, Edward J. Meeman, Hugh Moore, Walden Moore, Edmund Orgill, Stellanova Brunt Osborn (Mrs. Chase S. Osborn), Lithgow Osborne, Robert Porter Patterson, Owen J. Roberts, Elmo Roper, and Clarence K. Streit. Within the correspondence related to the congressional comment on the Atlantic Union resolution are letters to and from Senators Hubert H. Humphrey, Irving McNeil Ives, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Part II of the records spans the years 1940-1955, with the bulk from 1950 to 1953, consisting of the personal papers of Henry William Nugent Head (1898-1964), British subject and friend of the Atlantic Union Committee. It reflects Head's role as secretary of the Atlantic Affiliates and the Atlantic Union Committee's desire to build an overseas base. Subject files in this portion include correspondence with Atlantic affiliates and committee agents in European countries and Canada such as Lionel Curtis. Head's papers also contain personal correspondence, minutes of meetings, articles and reprints, and books and clippings.
Part III of the collection consists chiefly of correspondence and transcripts, but also includes reports, memoranda, minutes, financial records, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and related items. This material deals primarily with the efficacy of convincing Congress to pass a resolution inviting representatives from Western democracies to meet and explore the possibilities of forming a free federal union that would strive to prevent the spread of communism without resorting to war. Dating from 1946 to 1968, the bulk of the addition covers the years 1950-1958. Most of the correspondence is with members of the committee and from members of Congress, some of whom were cited previously.
The records of Part IV span the years 1946-1960, with the bulk from 1949 to 1956. The majority of this part consists of committee correspondence and memoranda pertaining chiefly to the organization's efforts to get an Atlantic union resolution passed in Congress. Also included is information about the establishment of the Atlantic Union Committee and minutes of its annual congresses and work conferences.
The collection is composed of eleven series arranged in four parts:
Part I:
Part II:
Part III:
Part IV:
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and related material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Letters, telegrams, memoranda, reports, and related material. Arranged chronologically within four categories: congressional, foreign, press, radio, and general.
The general correspondence file is arranged alphabetically in two chronological subsets, 1943-1954 and 1960.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and routine administrative and financial records relating to the organization and administrative activities of the chapters.
Arranged alphabetically by state and local chapter, respectively, and chronologically within each chapter.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and related material pertaining to the joint resolution before the United States Congress favoring the creation of the Atlantic Union with the United States as a member.
The material is arranged alphabetically by state and therein by name of member of Congress.
Financial records, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous material.
Grouped by type of material.
Subject files containing correspondence, transcripts, minutes of meetings, articles and reprints, clippings, and other printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization, topic, or type of material.
Letters, telegrams, reports, memoranda, minutes, and related material.
Arranged by year and therein alphabetically by name of correspondent or subject.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and related material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization, topic, or type of material.
Handwritten and typewritten drafts, notes, and correspondence relating to speeches, statements, and miscellaneous writings.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically by year.
Financial records, photographs, press releases, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other miscellany.
Arranged by type of material.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, circulars, pamphlets, photographs, congressional resolutions, notes, press releases and statements, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.