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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm77028845
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 Frank Knox, newspaper editor and publisher and and U.S. secretary of the navy, were given to the Library of Congress by his wife, Annie Reid Knox, 1950-1954.
The papers of Frank Knox were arranged and described in 1977. The finding aid was revised in 2012.
Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of the Frank Knox Papers.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Frank Knox is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Frank Knox 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, Frank Knox Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Frank Knox (1877-1944) span the years 1898-1954. The collection consists mainly of family and special correspondence, some general correspondence, Knox's speeches and writings, correspondence and speeches of his wife, Annie Reid Knox, and a clippings file. Additional papers donated by Annie Reid Knox document the establishment of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship at Harvard University. The Knox Papers are strongest for his role in politics and government service; they contain little material relating to his career as a publisher. The collection is organized into eight series: Diaries , Family Correspondence , General Correspondence , Special Correspondence , Speeches and Writings , Annie Reid Knox File , Miscellany , and Oversize .
The Family Correspondence reflects Knox's service as a private in the Rough Riders regiment in the Spanish-American War and his World War I service as an artillery officer. The letters to his wife in the 1930s and 1940s provide insights into the development of his public career. A Special Correspondence file of letters with Theodore Roosevelt documents Knox's support of Roosevelt's political ambitions from 1911 through 1918.
The General Correspondence extends from 1917 through 1944, but the bulk of the material covers Knox's service as secretary of the navy. This series includes letters with many prominent public figures such as Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford, James Forrestal, Felix Frankfurter, Cordell Hull, Chiang Kai-shek, Harold L. Ickes, Walter Lippmann, George Marshall, John Adam Muehling, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Arthur H. Vandenberg, William Allen White, Wendell Willkie.
Knox's Speeches and Writings cover the major addresses he delivered from the late 1930s through his tenure as secretary of the navy. The writings include a series of editorials he wrote from 1934 to 1940 while he was publisher and editor of the Chicago Daily News. The clippings file contains rather extensive coverage of Knox's campaign as Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1936.
This collection is arranged in eight series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm77028845
Secretary of the navy logbook, desk calendar for 1943, record book of lunches and dinners, calendar of Knox's life compiled by Annie Reid Knox, and incomplete diary.
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence with parents and with Annie Reid Knox.
Arranged chronologically.
Letters sent and received.
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence with John Adam Muehling and Theodore Roosevelt.
Arranged by name of correspondent and thereunder chronologically.
Texts of most speeches delivered by Knox between 1934 and 1944 and writings.
Organized into speeches and writings and therein chronologically.
Letters sent and received by Annie Reid Knox.
Organized into general correspondence, letters of condolence on the death of Knox to his wife and to James Forrestal, and Cordell Hull, and speeches by Mrs. Knox.
Memorabilia, miscellaneous business records, passport papers, writings about Knox, clippings, and scrapbooks.
Arranged by type of material.
Oversize scrapbooks.
Arranged and described according to the series and containers from which they were removed.