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This addition to the Louis J. Halle, Jr.Collection, consisting of ca. 3,850 items (13 Hollinger boxes; ca. 4.5 linear feet), 1938-1987, contains a chronological correspondence file kept by Louis J. Halle, Jr.'s secretary during his tenure at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, topical correspondence, and lecture notes, talks, speeches, articles, and book reviews by Louis J. Halle, Jr.. The composition of this group of papers is very similiar to previous Louis J. Halle, Jr.accessions but the collection contains more material from his tenure in the State Department, departmental correspondence as a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, and many more of his earlier lectures.

This seven-item addition to the papers of Louis J. Halle, Jr., July-August 1948, consists of two copies of a memorandum prepared by Halle for Mr. Walter A. Taylor, Director of the Department of Education and Research, The American Institute of Architects, and related correspondence, concerning the effects of the architecture of public buildings on government personnel and the public.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Cumming Familypapers consist of ca. 53,100 items (23 Hollinger boxes, ca. 8 linear shelf feet), 1777-1778, 1806 (1820-1977) 1984, including correspondence, financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, bound volumes, writings, printed material, and miscellaneous related items pertaining to the life and activities of Dr. Hugh Smithand Lucy Booth Cumming, Sr., and their son, Ambassador Hugh S. Cumming, Jr., (1900-1986), and his wife, Winifred Burney West, as well as other family members. Also present are papers relating to the Booth Family.

Dr. Cumming (1869-1948) was Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Servicefrom 1920 to 1936; Ambassador Cumming (1900-) was a career diplomat and served primarily in Europeand Indonesiafrom 1933 until his retirement in 1963.

The majority of the collection is chiefly correspondence dealing with family, professional, and diplomatic matters. In addition, Ambassador Cumming maintained extensive files containing additional correspondence, photographs, reports, memoranda, notes, and other related materials regarding his public and personal activities.

The collection has been divided into three subgroups: I. Booth FamilyPapers, II. Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr., and III. Papers of Ambassador Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr.There are various series and subseries within each subgroup. A more detailed description of the papers, especially biographical and organizational information, can be found later in this guide, under each subgroup. The descriptions were compiled by Robin D. Wear (Subgroup I), T. Sharon Defibaugh (Subgroup II), and Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. (Subgroup III). This collection contains 6922-b, 6922-d, 6922-e, 6922-f, 6922-h, 6922-h, 6922-i, 6922-k, 6922-l, 6922-m, 6922-n, 6922-p, 6922-r, 6922-s, 6922-u, 6922-w, 6922-ab, 6922-ac and 6922-ad.

SUBGROUP I BOOTH FAMILY PAPERS

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This subgroup of the Cumming Papers pertains chiefly to the Booth family, and consists of ca. 270 items, (Boxes 1 and 2), encompassing the years 1814-1978. Included are correspondence, legal papers, and photographs of the Booth family; and biographical and genealogical information in the form of correspondence, notes, copies of family documents, and printed material concerning the Boothand allied families such as Armistead, Thomson, Throckmorton, Gilliam, Rootes, Bernard, and Terry.

Correspondents include Rebecca Hicks Booth, Robert Henry Booth, Edwin Gilliam Booth, and the latter's children, Edwin Gilliam Booth, Archer Jones Booth, Francis Rebecca Booth, and Sarah Tanner Booth, as well as Clara Haxall Thomson Booth, Lucy Almira Booth, Hugh Smith Cumming, Charles J. Cabaniss, and William Cabell Rives.

Edwin Gilliam Booth's two older sons fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side in Virginia. Archer Jones Boothwrote to his father from Clark County, and to his grandmother from a camp near Fredericksburgmentioning long marches and various campsites. Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr., wrote to his father from a camp near Yorktown(June 5, 1861), discussing camp life, the hardships of warfare, and their hopes that President [Jefferson] Daviswould send an additional 25,000 men; and, later writes from the C. S. Steamer Selma off Mobile, Alabama(April 13, 1864) mentioning the occupation of Vicksburgby Yankees, the defense of Richmond, and news of Archer's regiment and an anticipated battle.

Other letters of interest include those from E. C. Cabellto Edwin Gilliam Booth(November 22, 1846 and November 14, 1847) concerning a controversy between Booth and his brother, Archer, and the Bank of Florida; two letters from William Cabell Rivesto Edwin Gilliam Booth(July 5, 1858 and November 24, 1862); and a lengthy letter from Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.to his sister, Frances Rebecca Booth, from Paris, France(February 5, 1866).

[Thanks Sargeant for a favor; discusses package from the State Departmentreceived on his return from Washington D. C.which includes a note from Daniel Websterintroducing him to Powhatan Ellis, minister to Mexico; mentions being at home, apparently ill; invites Sargeant to visit.]

[Discusses the burdensome quantity of mail, receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature, finances, lifestyle, the difficulty of giving things away, dogs, the blacks' fight for civil rights and a childhood trip to Big Basin; briefly discusses aftermath of eye surgery, the demands of writing, upcoming travel for the State Department, Robert Frost, Charley's grave, Gilfry's poems, Sea of Cortezand his boys [ Thom Steinbeckand John Steinbeck IV]; mentions New York City, Europe, Air Forces Aid Society, a book [ Bombs Away], England, Santa Cruz County, Californiaand [ Elworthy W. Somerset Word-book]; includes a note in another hand regarding Yale Reviewarticle on verso of envelops and "Answered August 19" on face.]

[Asks to be given privately his opinion on the legality of a decision by the State Departmentto deny United Statescitizens protection and passports after they have lived abroad for more than five years; explains he was issued a temporary passport by the Embassy in Romeunder the condition that he declare his intention to return to the United Stateswithin a limited time; states that he knows other people with the same predicament, most of whom like himself are without the funds to make a case before the Supreme Court; mentions mutual friends of the old "Adirondack set" John Holmes, Forbes, and Ward; says that he and the judge are the only ones of the set still living.]

There are fourteen items, 1942-1959, chiefly letters from William Faulkner(1897-1962), from the areas of Burbank, California, New York, New York, and Charlottesville, Virginia, to his step-son, Malcolm Argyle Franklin, in Oxford, Mississippi. These letters have been published in BITTERWEEDS Life with William Faulkner at Rowan Oakby Malcolm A. Franklin( The Society for the Study of Traditional Culture: Irving, Texas, 1977) [Rare Books Faulkner PS 3511.A86Z4.F7B5 1977]

This addition to the Louis J. HallePapers consists of a two page typescript by Halle entitled "Memories Of One Who Taught at Bologna" (1989). In the typescript, Halle explains that one of the reasons that he moved from his government work in the State Departmentto the academic world was to help close the gap between "foreign relations experienced in a foreign office and as taught in the universities."