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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 John Bassett Moore, lawyer, educator, and jurist, were given to the Library of Congress by his daughters, Phyllis Elwyn Storey, Anne Ferguson Frederick, and Angela Turner Plac, in 1959. Additions were received from Yale University, 1975-1976, and Richardson Dougall, 1981.
The papers of John Bassett Moore were arranged and described in 1960 and revised and expanded in 1979. The finding aid was revised in 2013.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of John Bassett Moore in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The papers of John Bassett Moore 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, John Bassett Moore Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of John Bassett Moore (1860-1947) span the years 1866-1949, with the bulk from the period 1885-1938. The collection consists of correspondence, a few letterbooks, notes, memoranda, manuscripts of speeches, articles, and books, memorabilia, newspaper clippings and printed matter. The papers are organized into nine series: Diary Memoranda ; General Correspondence ; Subject File ; Autobiographical and Biographical File ; Speech, Article, and Book File ; Scrapbooks ; Miscellany ; William L. Marcy Biographical File ; and Addition.
The dominant subject is international law. Much of Moore's life, from when he entered the Department of State as a law clerk in 1885 until he resigned from the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague in 1938, was devoted to the study and practice of international law, and the collection reflects this central theme. The typescript of an unpublished memoir edited by Edwin Borchard, and a large file of miscellaneous autobiographical and biographical material is included in the papers.
Significant correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, Thomas F. Bayard, William Jennings Bryan, Edwin Borchard, Nicholas Murray Butler, William R. Day, Cleveland H. Dodge, John Watson Foster, George Gray, Walter Quintin Gresham, John Hay, Charles Evans Hughes, Hiram Johnson, Philander C. Knox, A. T. Mahan, W. G. McAdoo, William L. Putnam, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, Elihu Root, L. S. Rowe, Harland Fiske Stone, and Woodrow Wilson.
This collection is arranged in nine series:
Diary-like memoranda of various events.
Arranged chronologically.
Letters sent and received.
Arranged by year or span of years and therein alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Correspondence, notes, memoranda, newpaper clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged in major topics and thereunder alphabetically.
Notes, memoranda, photocopies and typescripts of Moore's papers and other source material as assembled by him and his assistants in the preparation of his memoirs. Includes an unpublished memoir edited by Edwin Borchard.
An index to a portion of this series is in Container 206. The unindexed portion is grouped by type of material.
Holograph, typed, near-print, and printed copies as well as drafts of speeches, articles, remarks, and book reviews. Also included is correspondence regarding Moore's writings.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically.
Bound and unbound mounted clippings.
Bound volumes are arranged chronologically by the earliest date in each volume and unbound material by subject.
Announcements, calling cards, invitations, birthday and anniversary greetings, notes and memoranda, loose newspaper clippings and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material.
Miscellaneous papers collected for a projected biography of Marcy, including correspondence, transcripts of letters and related material, notes, memoranda, a typescript of a diary (1833-1857), printed matter and newspaper clippings.
Unarranged.
General correspondence, subject files, writings, and miscellaneous material.
Organized alphabetically by type of material and therein by subject or topic.