Collection  |  Manuscript/Mixed Material Joseph Hodges Choate papers,

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Title
Joseph Hodges Choate papers,
Summary
Correspondence, letterbooks, addresses, lectures, legal memoranda, scrapbooks, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Choate's service as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, law practice in New York, N.Y., student days at Harvard University, and charitable work in New York; and to Choate family affairs. Documents his service as delegate to the International Peace Conference at the Hague, Netherlands, in 1907; chairman of the New York committee for the 1917 reception of British and French commissions headed by Arthur James Balfour, René Viviani, and Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre; and service as president of the New York State Constitutional Convention, 1894. Also documents his association with the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.; and his work with Harvard University alumni. Subjects include the American Bar Association; Open Door policy of the U.S. in the Far East; Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901; treaties of 1900 and 1901 negotiated by U.S. secretary of state John Hay and the British ambassador to the United States, Julian Pauncefote, pertaining to an interoceanic canal in Central America; the Algeciras Conference of 1906 concerning relations between France and Morocco; the Alaska boundary dispute; and Union League of America.
Family correspondents include his parents, George F. Choate and Margaret Manning Choate; his brother and sister, William Gardner Choate and Caroline Choate; his wife, Caroline Sterling Choate; and their daughter, Mabel Choate. Other correspondents include Charles Francis Adams; Arthur James Balfour; James M. Beck; James Bryce, Viscount Bryce; John R. Carter; Grover Cleveland; George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; Charles William Eliot; William Maxwell Evarts; John Watson Foster; F.V. Greene; John Hay; Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne; Edwin T. Morgan; Henry K. Oliver; William Phillips; Robert S. Rantoul; Whitelaw Reid; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root; William V. Rowe; Thomas Henry Sanderson, Baron Sanderson; William H. Taft; Sir George Otta Trevelyan; Henry White; Woodrow Wilson; and Lothrop Withington.
Contributor Names
Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917.
Subject Headings
-  Adams, Charles Francis,--1835-1915--Correspondence
-  Balfour, Arthur James,--1848-1930
-  Balfour, Arthur James,--1848-1930--Correspondence
-  Beck, James M.--(James Montgomery),--1861-1936--Correspondence
-  Bryce, James Bryce,--Viscount,--1838-1922--Correspondence
-  Carter, John R.--(John Ridgely),--1862-1944--Correspondence
-  Choate, Caroline,--1834-1889--Correspondence
-  Choate, Caroline Sterling--Correspondence
-  Choate, George F.--(George Francis),--1822-1888--Correspondence
-  Choate, Mabel,--1870-1958--Correspondence
-  Choate, Margaret Manning--Correspondence
-  Choate, William Gardner,--1830-1920--Correspondence
-  Cleveland, Grover,--1837-1908--Correspondence
-  Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon,--Marquess,--1859-1925
-  Eliot, Charles William,--1834-1926--Correspondence
-  Evarts, William Maxwell,--1818-1901--Correspondence
-  Foster, John Watson,--1836-1917--Correspondence
-  Greene, F. V.--(Francis Vinton),--1850-1921--Correspondence
-  Hay, John,--1838-1905
-  Hay, John,--1838-1905--Correspondence
-  Joffre, Joseph Jacques Césaire,--1852-1931
-  Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice,--Marquess of,--1845-1927--Correspondence
-  Morgan, Edwin T.--Correspondence
-  Oliver, Henry K.--(Henry Kemble),--1800-1885--Correspondence
-  Pauncefote, Julian,--1828-1902
-  Phillips, William,--1878-1968--Correspondence
-  Rantoul, Robert S.--(Robert Samuel),--1832-1922--Correspondence
-  Reid, Whitelaw,--1837-1912--Correspondence
-  Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Correspondence
-  Root, Elihu,--1845-1937--Correspondence
-  Rowe, William V.--Correspondence
-  Sanderson, Thomas Henry Sanderson,--Baron,--1841-1923--Correspondence
-  Taft, William H.--(William Howard),--1857-1930--Correspondence
-  Trevelyan, George Otto,--1838-1928--Correspondence
-  Viviani, René,--1863-1925
-  White, Henry,--1850-1927--Correspondence
-  Wilson, Woodrow,--1856-1924--Correspondence
-  Withington, Lothrop,--1856-1915--Correspondence
-  Choate family
-  New York (State).--Constitutional Convention--(1894)
-  American Bar Association
-  American Museum of Natural History
-  Harvard University--Students
-  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
-  Union League of America
-  Algeciras Conference--(1906 :--Algeciras, Spain)
-  International Peace Conference
-  Canals--Central America
-  Canals, Interoceanic
-  Charities--New York (State)
-  Diplomatic and consular service, American--Great Britain
-  Eastern question (Far East)
-  Practice of law--New York (State)--New York
-  World War, 1914-1918
-  Alaska--Boundaries--Canada
-  Canada--Boundaries--Alaska
-  China--Foreign relations--United States
-  China--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901
-  France--Foreign relations--Morocco
-  France--Foreign relations--United States
-  Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States
-  Great Britain.--Treaties, etc.--United States,--1900 February 5
-  Hay-Pauncefote Treaty--(1901 November 18)
-  Morocco--Foreign relations--France
-  Morocco--History--20th century
-  New York (State)--Politics and government
-  United States--Foreign relations--China
-  United States--Foreign relations--France
-  United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain
Notes
-  Arranged in nine series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1745-1926; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1847-1919; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1899-1905; Series 4: Subject File, 1852-1918; Series 5: Legal File, 1853-1916; Series 6: Addresses, 1852-1917; Series 7: Miscellany, 1848-1917; Series 8: Scrapbooks and Albums, 1864-1929; and Series 9: Oversize, 1848-1917.
-  Deposit, Mabel Choate, 1930-1931.
-  Converted to gift, 1946.
-  Purchase, 1981.
-  Lawyer, author, and diplomat.
-  Collection material in English.
-  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034
Medium
11,000 items.
40 containers, plus 1 oversize.
16 linear feet.
Repository
Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
Library of Congress Control Number
mm78015768
Access Advisory
Open to research.
Language
English
Description
Correspondence, letterbooks, addresses, lectures, legal memoranda, scrapbooks, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Choate's service as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, law practice in New York, N.Y., student days at Harvard University, and charitable work in New York; and to Choate family affairs. Documents his service as delegate to the International Peace Conference at the Hague, Netherlands, in 1907; chairman of the New York committee for the 1917 reception of British and French commissions headed by Arthur James Balfour, René Viviani, and Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre; and service as president of the New York State Constitutional Convention, 1894. Also documents his association with the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.; and his work with Harvard University alumni. Subjects include the American Bar Association; Open Door policy of the U.S. in the Far East; Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901; treaties of 1900 and 1901 negotiated by U.S. secretary of state John Hay and the British ambassador to the United States, Julian Pauncefote, pertaining to an interoceanic canal in Central America; the Algeciras Conference of 1906 concerning relations between France and Morocco; the Alaska boundary dispute; and Union League of America. Family correspondents include his parents, George F. Choate and Margaret Manning Choate; his brother and sister, William Gardner Choate and Caroline Choate; his wife, Caroline Sterling Choate; and their daughter, Mabel Choate. Other correspondents include Charles Francis Adams; Arthur James Balfour; James M. Beck; James Bryce, Viscount Bryce; John R. Carter; Grover Cleveland; George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; Charles William Eliot; William Maxwell Evarts; John Watson Foster; F.V. Greene; John Hay; Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne; Edwin T. Morgan; Henry K. Oliver; William Phillips; Robert S. Rantoul; Whitelaw Reid; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root; William V. Rowe; Thomas Henry Sanderson, Baron Sanderson; William H. Taft; Sir George Otta Trevelyan; Henry White; Woodrow Wilson; and Lothrop Withington.
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