Stimson, Henry Lewis, 1867-1950. The Henry Lewis Stimson Diaries in the Yale University Library.
- Location: McKeldin Library
Call Number: Microfilm E748.S883A32 - 9 reels.
Description
The diaries of Henry Lewis Stimson record the events of his career as a statesman from 1909 to 1945. He served as Secretary of War under President Willian Howard Taft, 1911-1913; colonel of field artillery with the American Expeditionary Force in France, 1917-1918; special envoy of President Calvin Coolidge to Nicaragua, 1927; Governor General of the Philippine Islands, 1928-1929; Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933; and Secretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 1940-1945.
The diaries are filmed in chronological order. Each volume is separately paginated, with the number appearing in the upper right hand corner of each page. The index for each reel, along with an introduction, appears at the beginning of that reel.
There are fifty-two volumes of diaries, averaging 180 pages per volume. Most of the diaries are typed, but there are some had written volumes, and the typed volumes include handwritten notes which Stimson added at a later date.
The Indexes are designed to aid in the location of proper names, important place names, dates and significant topics. Popular names and events and legislation are included even of Stimson did not use the terms in his entries. Diary volume numbers are designated by Roman numerals; page numbers follow in Arabic numerals. The date of the entry is in parenthesis.
There is no cumulative index to the fifty-two volumes.
Before using the collection, it is recommended that researchers read the Introduction and "reel notes" in the Guide, which desribe the contents and offer explantory notes for each reel.
Index/Guide
The following source provides more detailed information about the contents of each microfilm reel in the collection:- Mck-Ref E748.S883A33
- Yale University. Library. Guide to a Microfilm Edition of the Diaries of Henry Lewis Stimson in the Yale University Library. (There is an index for each reel of the microfilm collection at the beginning of the reel.
