Diplomatic Service Material

The books, correspondence, diaries, documents, and maps gathered by diplomats and other persons in foreign service provide valuable research resources for students and faculty. In connection with the recent formation and development of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown the library is seeking to acquire more collections of diplomatic service material. Associates can help by notifying the Librarian of collections which may be acquired.

Earle B. Mayfield Papers

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Mayfield have donated to the library the books and papers of Mr. Mayfield's father, Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas. Senator Mayfield (1881-1964) had a distinguished career in Texas politics. He was at the time the youngest man elected to the State Senate (1906), where he served until 1912, in which year he was, for the first of three times, elected to the State Railroad Commission. He won election to the United States Senate in 1922 and was active in Texas politics for many years. The papers span Senator Mayfield's career and are especially valuable for insight into Texas politics in the 1920's.

Included in the gift is a substantial body of John S. Mayfield's papers from the 1920's including letters from literary figures such as Robinson Jeffers and Vincent Starrett, and copies of books and pamphlets written by Mayfield and others which he published between 1924 and 1930.

Richard Crane Papers

Mrs. Bruce Crane Fisher of Richmond, Virginia, has presented to the library the papers of her late father, diplomat Richard Crane, who served as private secretary to the Secretary of State Robert Lansing and in 1919 was appointed by President Wilson the first American ambassador to the new nation of Czechoslovakia. The collection contains Crane's personal papers and diaries, his extensive diplomatic files, and the papers of his wife, Ellen Bruce Crane. Among the correspondents are Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Foster Dulles, Allen W. Dulles, and Charles Crane who was American ambassador to China and the father of Richard Crane. The acquisition of this important diplomatic collection was aided by a former member of the Georgetown faculty, the late Dr. Dagmar Horna-Perman.

Hinckley - Werlich Family Papers

From Mr. Robert Werlich of Washington, D.C., the library has received the records of the Hinckley and Werlich families with manuscript material dating between 1850 and 1972. This gift includes the papers of McCeney Werlich, Robert O'Donnell Hinckley and Thomas Hinckley, all career diplomats; Robert O Hinckley, a well known Washington portrait painter, and Gladys Hinckley Werlich. Of particular interest is the extensive family correspondence detailing diplomatic activities in Vienna during World War I, in Warsaw during the 1920's, and in Monrovia during the 1930's.