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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 George Thomas Washington, judge, official in the U.S. Office of the Attorney General, and law professor, were given to the Library of Congress by his wife, Helen Goodner Washington, in 1971. Additional material was received in 1996.
The collection was processed by Edward F. Bachman in 1972. The finding aid was revised in 2012. Material received in 1996 was processed and the finding aid revised in 2023 by Rachel Telford.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of George Thomas Washington is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of George Thomas Washington 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, George Thomas Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of George Thomas Washington (1908-1971) span the years 1934-1965, with most of the material concentrated in the period 1942-1965, when Washington worked as an official in the United States Lend-lease operations in Iraq and Iran, when he was an attorney with the Justice Department, and during his tenure as a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The correspondence is almost entirely of a professional nature. Of particular significance are letters relating to the operations of the American economic missions in Iraq and Iran that Washington supervised during World War II. Letters from his work at the Justice Department discuss policy and other issues. Notable correspondents include Dean Acheson, Tom C. Clark, Livingston L. Short, Edward R. Stettinius, Robert S. Stevens, and Harry S. Truman.
Subject files on the economic mission to Iraq and Iran detail the fiscal operations of the mission. There are also a few memoranda and notes about other aspects of the mission. Files relating to the Justice Department consist almost entirely of departmental and legal memoranda. Included are miscellaneous materials dealing with the trial in 1942 of Nazi saboteurs, the activities of immigrants, foreign citizens, and national security, price controls, the treatment of German war criminals, the duties of the solicitor general, coal miners and their labor conditions, the congressional investigation of subversives, and other matters handled by the Justice Department in the period 1944-1949. Also of note is a report on the foreign service that Washington helped to draft.
The writings deal primarily with the legal matter of the compensation of corporation executives, on which Washington was an authority, and on the administration of the law at the level of the federal government.
The 2023 Addition consists of a partial alphabetical file, maintained during Washington's tenure as a judge, as well as material relating to his work as an official in the United States lend-lease operations in Iraq and Iran, and as an attorney with the Justice Department. Some topics addressed in the subject file, including the trial in 1942 of Nazi saboteurs, the activities of immigrants, foreign citizens, and national security, and price controls are also documented here.
This collection is arranged in six series:
Letters sent and received.
Arranged chronologically.
Book draft, lectures, speeches, and legal memoranda.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein by title.
Photographs, clippings, invitations, and other material.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Personal papers and office files from Washington's official duties.
Personal papers alphabetically by type and office files by agency or mission
Chiefly writings of others.
Arranged alphabetically by name of writer.
Office files from Washington's official duties.
Arranged alphabetically by topic.