Box: 51 Folder: 0
Diary (Black)
Date span: 1932, March 23 - December 31
Description: Contains entries for the year 1932. Entries of
note: April 29;
May 13; May 16; May 25 and May 26; May 31; September 16 and 19;
October 11;
November 8; and December 31.
Box: 51 Folder: 0
Diary (Red)
Date span: 1933, January 3 - July 5
Description: Contains entries for this period.
Box: 51 Folder: 0
Diary (Maroon)
Date span: 1935, January 1 - July 19
Description: Contains entries for this period. Entries of note:
March 15 and
16; May 12, 13, and 14; and July 13 and 14.
Box: 51 Folder: 0
Engagement Book (Black)
Date span: 1933, May 23 - 1934, December 31
Description: Contains Hopkins' appointments only for this period.
Box: 51 Folder: 0
Engagements Book (Black)
Date span: 1935, January 2 - 1936, December 31
Description: Contains Hopkins' appointments only for this period.
Box: 52 Folder: 0
Engagements Book (Black)
Date span: 1937, January 4 - 1938, December 30
Description: Contains Hopkins' appointments only for this period.
Box: 52 Folder: 0
Engagements Book (Black)
Date span: 1939, January 1 - 1940, September 6
Description: Contains Hopkins' appointments only for this period.
Box: 52 Folder: 0
Diary - Pandick (Black)
Date span: 1941, February 26 - December 31
Description: Contains entries for this period. Entry of note is
"December 7"
which contains Hopkins' manuscript notations.
Box: 52 Folder: 0
Diary (Black)
Date span: 1940, September 13 - December 16
Description: Contains appointment entries mainly for this period,
and includes
some notes.
Box: 52 Folder: 1
Appointments by Telephone (Loose)
Date span: ca.1939, January 31 - December 18
Description: Contains listing of telephone calls and messages.
Box: 52 Folder: 2
Engagements Calendar (Loose)
Date span: 1940, September 11 - December 15
Description: Contains Hopkins' appointments for this period.
Box: 52 Folder: 3
Diary (Loose)
Date span: 1941, January 2 - March 17
Description: Contains appointments for this period.
Box: 53 Folder: 0
Diary - Appointment (Black)
Date span: 1942, January 1 - December 31
Description: Contains appointment entries for this period.
Box: 53 Folder: 0
Diary - Appointment (Black)
Date span: 1943, January 2 - December 30
Description: Contains appointment entries for this period.
Box: 53 Folder: 0
Diary - Appointment (Loose)
Date span: 1944, January 1 - December 31
Description: Contains appointment entries for this period.
Entries of note:
August 7; August 12; August 19; August 28; and September 2.
Box: 53 Folder: 0
Diary - Date-book (Green)
Date span: 1945, September 4 - December 31
Description: Contains appointments for this period.
Box: 53 Folder: 0
Diary - Appointment (Black)
Date span: 1945, January 1 - July 21
Description: Contains appointments for this period. Entries of
note: January
25 and 27; February 3 - 12; April 12; May 23 - June 13; and July
3
(announcement of Hopkins' resignation from government
service).
Box: 53 Folder: 0
Diary - Appointments (Blue)
Date span: 1946, January 1 - January 16
Description: Contains appointments for this period.
Box: 53 Folder: 0
Directory - Address (Black)
Date span: Undated
Description: Contains telephone and address listings of various
friends,
businessmen, and government officials.
Box: 54 Folder: 1
"How Can the States Help?"
Date span: 1933
Description: Contains an offprint of Hopkins' statement for the
American
Legislators' Association.
Box: 54 Folder: 2
"There were twenty-one million people . . ."
Date span: 1933
Description: Contains 2 carbon manuscripts, with holograph
corrections, of
Hopkins' article written for Today Magazine.
Box: 54 Folder: 3
"Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933 . . ."
Date span: 1933, June 22
Description: Contains 2 carbon manuscripts, one with an holograph
notation, of
Hopkins' article.
Box: 54 Folder: 4
"Foreword Monthly Report"
Date span: 1933, July 20
Description: Contains typed carbon foreword and holograph note
regarding state
funds apportioned through FERA.
Box: 54 Folder: 5
"Fighting Destitution"
Date span: 1933, August
Description: Contains magazine excerpt of Hopkins' article for
The
Jeffersonian. Folders 3 and 4 contain the manuscript
portions of this
article.
Box: 54 Folder: 6
"White House operator called about one . . ."
Date span: 1933, October 18
Description: Contains Hopkins' autograph notations regarding
FDR's request that
HLH and his wife spend the weekend with him on the "Sequoia";
FDR's press
conference; and Kalinin.
Box: 54 Folder: 7
"Experience of the past nine months . . ."
Date span: 1934, February 28
Description: Contains typed manuscript carbon of a press release
on
unemployment and Civil Works.
Box: 54 Folder: 8
"Pathfinding for the Pioneers of 1934"
Date span: 1934, June 30
Description: Contains 2 typed manuscripts with holograph
corrections and
notations; 2 typed carbon manuscripts; letter from Fulton
Oursler; mailing
list; and 2 copies of Liberty Magazine in which Hopkins'
article
appeared.
Box: 54 Folder: 9
"Mussolini Interview - Notes"
Date span: 1934, July 19 and 25
Description: Contains Hopkins' autograph notes (2 pages; American
Embassy
stationary) regarding his interview with Mussolini in 1934
concerning Germany's
political situation. Includes a memo and a letter carbon to FDR.
Box: 54 Folder: 10
"While we were at Hyde Park . . ."
Date span: 1934, September
Description: Contains Hopkins' 8-page autograph notes on his
Labor Day weekend
at Hyde Park with FDR; and later at the White House with FDR and
Morgenthau
regarding FDR's New Deal programs and policies. Highly
illuminating.
Box: 54 Folder: 11
"They'd Rather Work" (I)
Date span: 1935
Description: Contains typed drafts and carbons of Hopkins'
article for
Collier's on FERA and the dole. Manuscripts contain
holograph
corrections, notations, and additions.
Box: 54 Folder: 12
"They'd Rather Work" (II)
Date span: 1935
Description: Contains second set of typed drafts and carbons of
Hopkins'
article for Collier's on FERA and the dole. Includes a
letter from
George Creel, and a staff memo.
Box: 54 Folder: 13
"Townsend and Old Age Pensions"
Date span: 1935, November
Description: Contains typed drafts and carbons of Hopkins'
article for
Collier's regarding Dr. Townsend's proposed program of old
age pensions.
Box: 54 Folder: 14
Spending to Save - Intro to Chapter X
Date span: 1936 and 1931
Description: Contains typed drafts and carbons of Hopkins' book,
Spending to
Save (Introduction to Chapter X). Includes photostats of
correspondence
between Patrick Hurley and John B. Nichols.
Box: 54 Folder: 15
Spending to Save - Introduction to Chapter VII
Date span: 1936
Description: Contains typed drafts and carbons of Hopkins' book,
Spending to
Save (Introduction to Chapter VII). Includes Hopkins'
autograph notes
(6-pages, Hotel St. Regis stationary).
Box: 55 Folder: 1
Spending to Save - Introduction to Chapter X
Date span: 1936
Description: Contains typed manuscript carbons of Hopkins' book,
Spending to
Save (Introduction to Chapter X).
Box: 55 Folder: 2
Spending to Save - Introduction to Chapter X
Date span: 1936
Description: Contains typed drafts and carbons of Hopkins' book,
Spending to
Save (Introduction to Chapter X). Includes a 2-page
autograph note of
Hopkins' on Drake Hotel stationary.
Box: 55 Folder: 3
Spending to Save - Galley Proofs
Date span: 1936
Description: Contains publisher's galley proofs of Hopkins' book,
Spending
to Save.
Box: 55 Folder: 4
Spending to Save - Correspondence
Date span: 1936, October - 1938, April
Description: Contains letters from various individuals who
received copies of
Hopkins' book, Spending to Save, as well as Hopkins'
outgoing.
Box: 55 Folder: 5
Spending to Save - Publicity
Date span: 1936
Description: Contains listing of names sent to W.W. Norton
Publishers regarding
the release of Hopkins' book, Spending to Save.
Box: 55 Folder: 6
Spending to Save - Publicity - WPA Names
Date span: 1936
Description: Contains listings of WPA personnel sent to W.W.
Norton Publishers
regarding notification of Hopkins' book, Spending to
Save.
Box: 55 Folder: 7
Spending to Save - Publisher's Files
Date span: 1934, April 26 - 1937, March 9
Description: Contains correspondence, telegrams, and memos from
W.W. Norton
Publishers regarding Hopkins' book, Spending to Save.
Box: 56 Folder: 1
Spending to Save - Reviews
Date span: 1936, September - October
Description: Contains book reviews of Hopkins' Spending to
Save.
Box: 56 Folder: 2
"There are as yet only a handful of men . . ."
Date span: 1936, May
Description: Contains typed drafts and carbons, with holograph
notations and
corrections, of Hopkins' proposed article on employment for
Today
Magazine. Includes 1 letter from Eugene Torker.
Box: 56 Folder: 3
"Boondoggling: Boon or Bane"
Date span: 1936, May 19 and August 19
Description: Contains Hopkins' carbon letter and manuscript on
boondoggling as
well as a copy of the Christian Science Monitor Magazine
in which the
article appeared.
Box: 56 Folder: 4
"People Want Steady Jobs"
Date span: 1936, October
Description: Contains typed carbon manuscript, with holograph
corrections and
notations, of Hopkins' article written for the Sunday Magazine of
the New York
Times, as well as a staff letter.
Box: 56 Folder: 5
"What Price Recovery"
Date span: 1936, December
Description: Contains typed draft and carbon, with holograph
notations and
corrections, of Hopkins' article for The New Republic.
Includes staff
letter and revealing memo from David Niles.
Box: 56 Folder: 6
"President Roosevelt had good reason . . ."
Date span: 1937, February
Description: Contains Hopkins' typed draft and carbon, with
holograph notations
and corrections, and notes of a proposed article on flood relief.
Includes
correspondence from The Saturday Evening Post.
Box: 56 Folder: 7
"WPA Looks Forward"
Date span: 1938, May 21 - June
Description: Contains typed carbon, with holograph corrections,
and an offprint
of Hopkins' article for Survey Midmonthly.
Box: 56 Folder: 8
"We left Washington early in the afternoon . . ."
Date span: 1939, April 3
Description: Contains Hopkins' 2-page autograph manuscript of his
trip to Warm
Springs with FDR.
Box: 56 Folder: 9
"Department of Commerce - Historical"
Date span: 1939, April 28
Description: Contains typed draft of an article on the Department
of Commerce
prepared by Russell Davenport and sent to Hopkins for criticism.
Box: 56 Folder: 10
"Press Club Speech"
Date span: 1940, June 15
Description: Contains memorandum from Victor Sholis regarding
material for
Hopkins' speech.
Box: 56 Folder: 11
"Racing Memo"
Date span: 1940, October (?)
Description: Contains White House memo regarding races.
Box: 56 Folder: 12
"London Trip"
Date span: 1941, January 10
Description: Contains Hopkins' autograph manuscript (9-page, on
blue Claridge's
stationary), concerning his London trip as Lend-Lease
representative.
Discusses Eden and Churchill. Includes manuscript note and
envelope.
Box: 56 Folder: 13
"Diary - George VI meeting"
Date span: 1941, January 30
Description: Contains Hopkins' typed manuscript, (7-page legal
size), regarding
Hopkins' luncheon with George VI and Queen Elizabeth; as well as
a typed
manuscript (2-page, legal size), of his visit with the King of
Norway.
Box: 56 Folder: 14
"Civilian Mobilization"
Date span: 1941, May - 1942, December
Description: Contains correspondence and letters from the
editorial staff of
The American Magazine regarding Hopkins' article on
civilian
mobilization.
Box: 56 Folder: 15
"Hitler Can't Win"
Date span: 1941, May
Description: Contains typed drafts and carbons, with holograph
notations and
corrections, of Hopkins' article which appeared in The
American
Magazine. Includes correspondence and telegrams regarding
that article.
Box: 56 Folder: 16
"We may as well start . . ."
Date span: 1941, May - 1942, March
Description: Contains 13-page typed manuscript of Hopkins'
proposed article for
Collier's concerning the war and party politics. Includes
correspondence from The American Magazine.
Box: 56 Folder: 17
"Inside Story of My Meeting"
Date span: 1941, December
Description: Contains magazine clipping only of Hopkins' article
on his meeting
with Stalin.
Box: 56 Folder: 18
"Stalin-Hitler Grudge Fight"
Date span: 1941, December
Description: Contains 2 (two) typed carbon manuscripts, with
holograph
corrections and notations, of Hopkins' article on Hitler and
Stalin.
Box: 56 Folder: 19
"You and Your Family Will Be Mobilized"
Date span: 1942, February - 1943, April
Description: Contains typed drafts and carbons of manuscript,
(with holograph
notations and corrections), of Hopkins' article on civilian
mobilization.
Includes a letter from OIW as to the official White House line
Box: 56 Folder: 20
"You and Your Family Will Be Mobilized"
Date span: 1942, February 2 - 1943, April
Description: Contains readership response concerning Hopkins'
article on
civilian mobilization which appeared in Reader's Digest.
Box: 57 Folder: 1
"You Will Be Mobilized" - Correspondence
Date span: 1943, January - February
Description: Contains readership response concerning Hopkins'
article on
civilian mobilization. The major portion of the correspondence
is negative as
to the government handling of the situation.
Box: 57 Folder: 2
"Waller Case Memorandum and Eleanor Roosevelt" Date span:
1942, July 1
Description: Contains a White House memo from Hopkins regarding
Eleanor
Roosevelt's involvement in this case concerning a negro tenant
farmer accused
of murdering his landlord. Interesting Hopkins' statement.
Box: 57 Folder: 3
"What We Have to Face"
Date span: 1943
Description: Contains 2 letters only on the public's reaction to
Hopkins'
article regarding food rationing. Includes copy of newspaper
cartoon.
Box: 57 Folder: 4
"What Victory Will Bring Us"
Date span: 1943, November 4 - 1944, May
Description: Contains 2 typed carbon manuscripts of Hopkins'
article, "What
Victory Will Bring Us". Includes interesting readership
response regarding
the article.
Box: 57 Folder: 5
"We Can Win By 1945"
Date span: 1943, July - November
Description: Contains 2 typed manuscripts, with holograph
corrections, of
Hopkins' article predicting a quick victory over Germany and
Japan. Includes
correspondence from Sumner Blossom, editor of American
Magazine.
Box: 57 Folder: 6
"Foreign Affairs Article" - "Killed"
Date span: 1944, March 27 - April 21
Description: Contains 1 typed carbon manuscript of Hopkins'
proposed article on
foreign affairs which did not pass official censorship, and was
"killed" by
FDR. Notations were made by the War Department; State; and other
agencies.
Includes Hull and Early memos.
Box: 57 Folder: 7
"Your Job After the War"
Date span: 1944, September - October
Description: Contains readership response of Hopkins' article
which appeared in
the October issue of the American Magazine.
Box: 57 Folder: 8
"Tomorrow's Army and Your Boy"
Date span: 1944, July 10 - 1945, March
Description: Contains 1 typed carbon draft (second) of Hopkins'
article on
compulsory military training which appeared in the American
Magazine.
Includes correspondence from its editorial staff.
Box: 57 Folder: 9
"V-E Day Speech"
Date span: 1945, May 8
Description: Contains 2-page typed copy of Hopkins' radio speech
on NBC
regarding V-E Day.
Box: 57 Folder: 10
"Eisenhower Visit - Frankfurt, Germany"
Date span: 1945, June 7
Description: Contains Hopkins' 2-page typed memo regarding his
visit with
General Eisenhower in Frankfurt, Germany. Topics discussed:
Eisenhower as
president; Zukhov; Allied Control Commission and occupation; and
Stalin.
Box: 57 Folder: 11
"Notes on Negotiations During Moscow Visit"
Date span: 1945, June 13
Description: Contains Hopkins' 1-page, 1 paragraph typed memo
regarding his
Moscow visit. Topics discussed: the Polish question; Churchill's
participation; and British elections.
Box: 57 Folder: 12
"I can write now . . . as a private citizen"
Date span: 1945, July 20
Description: Contains 24-page typed carbon manuscript of Hopkins'
proposed
article on writing about foreign affairs as a private citizen.
Box: 57 Folder: 13
"America is now faced with 2 great tasks . . ."
Date span: 1945, September 6
Description: Contains Hopkins' 12-page (yellow legal) holograph
manuscript of a
speech to the Coat and Suit Industry, New York. Speech concerns
2 tasks of
U.S.: war to peacetime economy, and the securing of a lasting
peace.
Box: 57 Folder: 14
"Yalta"
Date span: 1945, October 19
Description: Contains 7-page typed mansucript of Hopkins'
reminiscences of the
Yalta Conference and its participants.
Box: 57 Folder: 15
Undated Manuscript - "Anti-Aircraft Drill"
Date span: Undated
Description: Contains Hopkins' 3-page holograph manuscript
regarding an
anti-aircraft drill attended by FDR and staff on board the U.S.S.
"Iowa".
Interesting incident related about a torpedo accidentally fired
at them by an
American destroyer.
Box: 57 Folder: 16
Undated Manuscripts - "Public funds"
Date span: Undated
Description: Contains Hopkins' typed manuscripts, with holograph
notations and
corrections, regarding relief funding; social planning; and the
expenditure of
public funds.
Box: 57 Folder: 17
Undated Notes
Date span: Undated
Description: Contains 2 holograph notes by Hopkins.
Box: 57 Folder: 18
Manuscript Requests
Date span: 1936 - 1945
Description: Contains correspondence from individuals such as
Cass Canfield and
Bennett Cerf requesting Hopkins write books, articles, or columns
for their
respective publishing companies, magazines, or newspapers.