The Harry Hopkins Papers--Part Three

Articles in Newsletters 18 and 23 have described the remarkable Harry L. Hopkins archives at Georgetown, both the original gift and a subsequent addition of family related correspondence. We are pleased to now report a third major installment of Hopkins papers, generously donated by Robert Hopkins of Washington, D.C.

This most recent addition consists of personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and related printed ephemera. There is considerable material on the controversial 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago (at which FDR was nominated to run for a third term); on Hopkins' tenure as Secretary of Commerce; and on the death in 1944 of his youngest son, Stephen Hopkins, while fighting in the Pacific. Although the collection includes letters from such notables as Max Beaverbrook, James A. Farley, Felix Frankfurter, George C. Marshall and Robert Sherwood, perhaps of greatest interest are the numerous letters between Hopkins and his son Robert during the war years.