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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78020982
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 W. Cameron Forbes, business executive, government official, and diplomat, were given to the Library of Congress by Forbes between 1951 and 1953.
The collection was processed circa 1953. The finding aid was created in 2008.
Originals of the collection are in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Typewritten transcripts are also available at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of W. Cameron Forbes is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of W. Cameron Forbes 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, W. Cameron Forbes Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of William Cameron Forbes (1870-1959) span the years 1904-1946. The collection consists of typewritten transcripts of journals documenting Forbes's activities in the civil government of the Philippines as secretary of commerce, vice-governor, governor-general, and member of the United States Philippine Commission, and as receiver of the Brazil Railway Company, member and chairman of presidential missions to study conditions in Haiti and the Philippines, ambassador to Japan, chairman of the American Economic Mission to the Far East, and partner or director in several American business and banking firms. Some correspondence is transcribed with the daily entries and a few printed items are tipped in to the journals.
Presidential correspondents include Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Others major correspondents are Emilio Aguinaldo, Warwick Greene, James G. Harbord, Francis Burton Harrison, Conrad Hatheway, Frank Ross McCoy, Sergio Osmeña, Henry L. Stimson, and Leonard Wood.
This collection is arranged in two sets arranged as received in general chronological order. Separate indexes accompany the sets.