William Howard Taft Papers

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1 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRESIDENTS' PAPERS INDEX SERIES INDEX TO THE William Howard Taft Papers VOLUME 1 INTRODUCTION AND PRESIDENTIAL PERIOD SUBJECT TITLES ' MANUSCRIPT DIVISION REFERENCE DEPARTMENT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON : 1972

2 Description of the Papers The Papers of William Howard Taft ( ), numbering about 700,000 items, fully document Taft's long public career as United States Solicitor General ( ), judge of the Sixth United States Circuit Court ( ), President of the United States Philippine Commission ( ), first Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands under American control ( ), Secretary of War ( ), President of the United States ( ), professor of constitutional law at Yale University ( ), and Chief Justice of the United States ( ). Taft placed the main body of his papers in the Library of Congress in 1919 as the first installment and in later years made substantial additions to his collection. The Library acquired legal title to Taft's papers in 1952, when his heirs signed a deed of gift, thereby terminating the deposit status of the papers which had been in effect for more than 30 years. The Taft papers are in 26 series: Series 1. Family Correspondence and Related Items boxes. Chiefly correspondence exchanged among the various members of the Taft family. The arrangement is chronological and, within days, alphabetical by name of the correspondent, by name of the organization, or by name of the locality of the organization. Enclosures are filed with the covering letter. Series 2. William Howard Taft Helen Herron Taft Correspondence boxes. Primarily correspondence between Taft and Helen Herron, later, Mrs. Taft. The letters are arranged in chronological order; the enclosures are filed with their covering letter. Additional correspondence between Taft and Mrs. Taft can be found in Presidential Series No. 3, and a few letters are in other series in the collection. Series 3. General Correspondence and Related Material boxes. Chiefly incoming correspondence, together with related material, and some outgoing correspondence, particularly during the Secretary of War period, the Yale period, and the Supreme Court period. Only six boxes of general correspondence are included for the Presidential years. A few scattered letters and notes in Taft's own handwriting, holographs, and typescripts are included in this series, as well as retained copies of letters written by Taft after the letterbook system was abandoned in Series 4. William Howard Taft-Theodore Roosevelt Correspondence boxes. Subseries 4A: boxes. Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt, primarily with Taft, and related material. The papers are arranged in chronological order and, within days, alphabetically. Subseries 4B: boxes. Mainly letters received by Theodore Roosevelt and apparently referred to Taft for appropriate action. Some of the letters, ostensibly enclosures, were sent without covering letters; other enclosures, however, are filed with the covering letter. The correspondence relates to the arrangements for the White House Governors' Conference on the Conservation of Natural Resources. The arrangement is chronological and, within days, alphabetical by correspondent. Series 5. Executive Office Correspondence (Presidential Series No. 1) boxes. Subject files or case files covering roughly the first year of the Taft administration, and consisting of correspondence relating to the functioning of the Federal Government. Arranged in two groups of case files, each alphabetically by case file title. Within each case file, the arrangement of documents is chronological and, within days, alphabetical by name of correspondent. A third group of miscellaneous papers is arranged in chronological order and, within the day, alphabetical by name of correspondent. Enclosures are filed with the covering letter. An alphabetical list of case file titles is provided in the Index and is filmed as a target at the front of the series. Series 6. Executive Office Correspondence (Presidential Series No. 2) boxes. A continuation of the Federal Government correspondence of Series 5, covering the last three years of Taft's administration. Case files are in their original arrangement of numbered files 1 to 5003, arranged in numerical order. The arrangement of Series 6 is the result of a reorganization of the Executive Office filing system in the summer of Within each case file, the documents are arranged chronologically to the day and, within the day, alphabetically by name of correspondent. Enclosures are filed with the covering letter. An alphabetical XI

3 list of case file titles for this series is provided in the Index and is filmed as a target at the front of the series. Series 7. The President's Personal File (Presidential Series No. 3) boxes. Correspondence and related items for the Presidential period relating to personal and confidential matters, primarily with members of Taft's immediate family, his official family (particularly cabinet officers and other high Government officials), foreign dignitaries, classmates, and very close friends, some of whom corresponded with Taft during the entire period of his long public career. The arrangement is a numbered case file system consisting of 566 case file titles of personal names and names of organizations or institutions. The internal arrangement in each case file folder is chronological and, within the day, alphabetical by correspondent. An alphabetical list of case file titles for this series is provided in the Index and is filmed as a target at the front of the series. Series 8. Letterbooks, volumes. Copies of outgoing letters, which in many instances complement the incoming correspondence in other series, particularly in Series 3, the General Correspondence Series. The letterbooks begin with the period of Alphonso Taft's partnership with his sons (1872) and end with the period when William Howard Taft became Chief Justice of the United States (1921). Afew of the letters are illegible or partially illegible. This series is chronologically arranged with some overlapping dates within the following groups: Alphonso Taft & Sons volumes. Volume Volume Volume Solicitor General volume. Philippine Commission volume. Secretary of War Period volumes. Personal Letters volumes. Semiofficial volumes. Orders volumes. Presidential Letterbooks volumes. Yale Letterbooks volumes. Series 9. Speeches, Articles, and Messages This series is divided into four subseries and includes a few addresses, articles, and re- lated material of Taft's father Alphonso Taft. The speeches are arranged chronologically within each subseries and, within each date, under the name of the location where the speech was delivered, but occasionally, under the title of a well-known address. Subseries 9A: volumes. Bound volumes of typescript and printed addresses, articles, remarks, statements, drafts, notes, and newspaper clippings. Chiefly transcripts made from stenographic notes of Wendell W. Mischler, Taft's stenographer and private secretary. An index is included in each volume. Subseries 9B: pamphlets in 2 boxes. Published collected addresses, articles, messages, opinions, briefs, decisions, proclamations, extracts, statements, photographs, interviews, documents concerning the Republican campaigns, clippings, and other related material. The pamphlets are numbered consecutively and arranged in a rough chronological order; they are cataloged and classified in the general collection of the Library of Congress, but located in the Manuscript Division. Subseries 9C: ca boxes. Chiefly unpublished addresses, articles, messages, reports, remarks, editorials, statements, interviews, memoranda, and certificates (with notes relating to them), and drafts, fragments, galley proofs, and clippings of them. Arranged in rough chronological order and, within dates, alphabetically by title, subject, or by place of delivery. Subseries 9D: box. Mainly published addresses and articles of Alphonso Taft. The arrangement is chronological. Series 10. Professional Diaries volumes. Diaries and diary material concerning William Howard Taft's official and professional activities, including engagement books, letterbooks, address books, and guest lists. The arrangement is chronological within the following groups: Official volumes. Chiefly diaries kept by Taft's military aides, with official reception books and an official letterbook. xn

4 Social volumes. Mainly records of social activities at the White House, including one social letter-book, mostly for the White House period. Personal diaries volumes. Chiefly records of Taft's personal appointments and speaking engagements. Secretarial volumes. Nine volumes of diaries ( ) kept by Fred W. Carpenter, secretary to Taft during this period; one volume ( ) kept by Wendell W. Mischler, private secretary to Taft; two copies of desk diaries ( and ); and one memorial book (1909). Series 11. Family Diaries and Miscellaneous Personal Volumes volumes. Chiefly personal diaries (including the honeymoon diary of Taft and his wife, in part, in Taft's own handwriting); together with graduation books, docket books, commonplace books, a students register, a journal index, a financial ledger, a lecture book (partially in shorthand), a teachers instructional journal, an address book, a London album, a poetry book, a memorial to W. H. Taft, and a few other related items of some of the early members of the Taft family listed as follows: Alphonso Taft, Fanny Phelps (later, Mrs. Alphonso Taft), Peter Rawson Taft-I, Peter Rawson Taft-II, Helen Herron (later, Mrs. William Howard Taft), and Delia C. Torrey. The volumes are arranged in numerical, sequence and, in a rough chronological order. Series 12. Legal Papers of Alphonso Taft. ( ) 3 boxes. Legal case files arranged alphabetically by name of first party in the case file title and numbered from 1 to 40. The files include agreements, arguments, attachments, answers, affidavits, assignments, abstracts of titles, briefs, bills of sale and receipts, contracts, charges, confirmations, commissions, deeds, defense motions, depositions, decrees, evidence, exceptions, judgments, lists, leases, minutes, maps, protests, powers of attorney, pleas, proposals, promissory notes, policies, quit claims, summonses, surveys, shorthand notes, statements, scholarship trust papers, testimony, transfers, and wills. The case file titles for this series are listed in the Index and are filmed as a target at the front of the series. Series 13. Legal Papers of William Howard Taft boxes. Legal instruments, cases, and other items. Includes appeals, abstracts, affidavits, agreements, applications, arbitration proceedings, awards', bills of particular, briefs, correspondence, court orders, decisions, dockets, fragments, exceptions, exhibits, extracts, memoranda, notices of deposition, notes, opinions, petitions, reports, shorthand notes, syllabuses, and transcripts. The case files are arranged alphabetically by the first party named. A list of 86 case file titles, to which consecutive numbers have been assigned, appears in the Index and is filmed as a target at the front of the series. Series 14. Legal Notebooks volumes. Notebooks kept by Taft while he was judge of the Superior Court, Cincinnati, Ohio, and while judge of the Sixth United States Circuit Court. The volumes are arranged in a chronological order. Consecutive numbers from 1 to 11 have been assigned to the volumes. Series 15. Miscellaneous Legal Manuscripts boxes. Chiefly designations for district judges, together with some scattered correspondence, agreements, opinions, reports, House and Senate bills, hearings, amendments, summaries, statements, suggestions, copies of decisions, drafts, a list of cases, memoranda, notes, petitions, resolutions, and fragments. The arrangement is chronological. Series 16. Law Lectures and Related Material boxes. Law lectures and lecture notes, examination questions, record books of students' grades, and fragments relating to the periods Taft served as dean of the University of Cincinnati Law School and professor of constitutional law at Yale University. The arrangement is alphabetical by name of the institution or by name of the location at which the lecture or series of lectures was given. Series 17. Scrapbooks, volumes. Chiefly newspaper clippings or articles, editorials, and speeches relating to nearly every aspect of Taft's political life up to the Supreme Court period. Includes invitations, pamphlets, programs, menus, and other items relating to his personal and social life. The arrangement is roughly chronological in volumes, numbered from 1 to 25. Series 18. Taft Family Financial Papers boxes. Bills and receipts; canceled checks and check books; Philippine commission expenses; contributions, dues, and subscrip- Xlll

5 tions; insurance policies and receipts; personal income taxes and tax forms; lists of figures and other expense notes; and miscellaneous items. The documents are arranged by types of material. Selectively filmed. Series 19. Taft Family Financial Account Books and Related Material volumes in 7 boxes. Chiefly financial account books relating to the Taft family; including bank books, a payroll book, and an estate book kept by Alphonso Taft & Sons, Peter Rawson Taft-I, Waity Mansfield, Alexander Fraser, J. L. Thayer, Stephen Torrey, William Howard Taft, Helen H. Taft-I, and Fred W. Carpenter. The arrangement is roughly chronological. Series 20. Miscellaneous Correspondence and Related Material, ca boxes. Chiefly miscellaneous correspondence, together with announcements, bills, statements, receipts, contracts, cards, clippings, suggestions, drafts, shorthand notes, transmittals, extracts, circulars, memoranda, notes, resolutions, and fragments. The arrangement is chronological. Series 21. Special Correspondence volumes. Volume Copies of letters, chiefly from Taft to Hiram D. Peck, arranged in a chronological order. Volume Copies of letters, mainly between Taft and Elihu Root, relating to the Philippine situation. The arrangement is roughly chronological. Volume Mainly letters to Taft while he was President, from several State Governors, relating to an invitation to inspect the Mississippi River. The arrangement is chronological and, within the day, alphabetical. Series 22. Miscellaneous Addresses, Articles, and Related Material, ca boxes. Addresses, articles, messages, remarks, press releases, and an oration, by persons other than William Howard Taft and Alphonso Taft. Includes drafts, extracts, and fragments. The arrangement is chronological. Series 23. Miscellaneous Reports and Minutes boxes. Chiefly reports and minutes, including memoranda, announcements, lists, resumes, programs, dockets, and fragments. The arrangement is alphabetical by subject. Series 24. Miscellaneous Messages boxes. Mainly printed messages to Congress, together with some short transmittals. The arrangement is chronological and, within the day, alphabetical by subject. Only title pages of lengthy messages have been filmed. Series 25. Miscellany. 42 boxes. Programs, contracts, and other miscellaneous documents relating to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; cross references ( ) from case file 300 of series 6, relating to political matters, arranged by state; deeds and leases ( ); genealogical material ( ), arranged in alphabetical order by family; shorthand notebooks and shorthand notes ( ) by Wendell W. Mischler; three theses; annotated covers, calling cards, invitations, acknowledgments, and annotated pamphlets; family portraits, cartoons, sketches, and clippings; and bookplates, passes, membership cards, and place cards. These items are grouped by types of material. Series 26. Oversize Material. 15 containers. Diplomas, certificates, passports, photographs, cartoons, and sketches, mainly of Taft and of his family, together with blueprints, drawings of a floor plan, scrapbooks, bound newspapers, and a map. The arrangement is roughly chronological. The user is cautioned that the publication of the contents of this microfilm may be construed as constituting a violation of literary rights. These rights derive from the principle of common law that the writer of an unpublished letter or other manuscript has the sole right to publish the contents thereof, unless he affirmatively parts with the right; the right descends to his legal heirs regardless of the ownership of the physical manuscript itself. It is the responsibility of an author or his publisher to secure the permission of the owner of literary property rights in unpublished writings. Literary property rights in the writings of William H. Taft have been dedicated to the public. xiv

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11 Reel Series Dates and Files Alphabetical List of Case File Titles Mar Dec Jan Feb 28 & Undated Alphonso Taft & Sons Vol Jan Feb 26 Vol Feb 28-Dec Vol Jan Oct 18 Vol Oct May 26 Solicitor General Vol Mar Dec 22 Philippine Commission Vol Apr Jan Vol Jan Oct 12 Secretary of War Personal Letters Vol Feb l-apr5 Vol Apr Vol May 2-Aug 16 Reel Series Dates and Files Vol Aug 12-Dec22 Vol Dec Feb Vol Feb 3-May 5 Vol May 4-Nov 23 Vol Nov Jan Vol Jan 5-Feb 26 Vol Feb 17-July 1 Vol May 30-Sep Vol Sep 16-Dec 1 Vol Oct Mar 30 Vol Apr 1-May Vol May 10-June 6 Vol June 6-Aug 8 Vol Aug6-Nov Vol Nov 13-Dec 26 Vol Dec Jan 17 Vol Jan 16-Feb Vol Feb 8-10 Vol Feb 10-Mar 6 Vol Mar 5-Apr 7 Vol Apr Vol Apr 14-May 21 Vol May 21-June 15 Vol June Vol June 29-July 9 Vol June 19-July 16 Vol. 20A 1908 June 19-July Vol. 20A 1908 July 1-25 Vol. 20B 1908 June 19-July 9 Vol. 20C 1908 June 25-July 10 Vol June 25-July Vol July Vol June 25-Aug 6 Vol Aug Vol Aug Vol Aug 18-Sep 18 Vol Aug 31-Sep 17 Vol Sep Vol Sep 18-Oct 9 Vol Oct 5-26 Vol Oct 26-Nov Vol Nov 7-16 Vol Nov Vol Nov Vol Nov 30-Dec 3 Vol Nov4-Dec 19 Vol Dec Vol Dec 8-27 Vol Dec Jan 16 Vol Dec xx

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