Guide to the John D. Works Papers, 1910-1917

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Guide to the John D. Works Papers, 1910-1917

Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 423

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

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Collection Summary

Collection Title: John D. Works Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1910-1917

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 423

Creator: Works, John D. (John Downey), 1847-1928

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Correspondence; printed copies of his speeches; and some reference materials, such as clippings, reports, copies of bills and government documents. Relate mainly to his career in the U.S. Senate and his stand on such issues as intervention in Mexico, neutrality, preparedness, U.S. entry into World War I, Hetch Hetchy Valley legislation, irrigation in California; and to the political situation in California, particularly during the 1916 presidential campaign.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], John D. Works papers, BANC MSS C-B 423, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content

Senator Works' papers came to the University of California Library in the early part of 1917 and were later transferred to The Bancroft Library. On October 26, 1916, J. C. Rowell, University librarian, requested that Works deposit his senatorial papers in the library, to be preserved for the use of future historians. Works agreed and went through his correspondence, segregating what he thought worthy of preservation and grouping them by subject. He cautioned Rowell that the files were not complete since he did not save all his correspondence, but stated nothing had been "left out by design."

The papers, covering the period 1910 to 1917, consist mainly of letters addressed to Works, carbon copies of some of his outgoing letters, printed copies of his speeches and some reference materials such as clippings, reports, copies of bills and government documents. They relate to his senatorial career, particularly the stand he took on such national issues as intervention in Mexico, neutrality, preparedness and U.S. entry into World War I, and those problems so important to California, Hetch Hetchy legislation and irrigation. They also shed light on the confused political situation in California during the 1916 presidential campaign.

A key to the arrangement of the papers follows herein. As will be seen, the Senator's topic grouping has been retained only in the subject files and in the miscellaneous letters. Most of the correspondence was removed, for easier reference, and placed in incoming and outgoing correspondence files. References have been made, however, on the subject files to the appropriate letters.

The library at UCLA has some of Senator Works' papers -the letters from presidents, cabinet members and congressmen that Works had given in May 1916 to his friend, T. Perceval Gerson of Los Angeles.

Memoirs and some correspondence are at Stanford University.

Biography

John Downey Works was born in Indiana, March 29, 1847, and attended public schools there. At the age of 16 he enlisted in the 10th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Cavalry of the Union Army and served the duration of the war. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1868 and began his practice in Indiana. In 1883 he moved to San Diego, California, and continued the practice of law. He served as judge of the Superior Court of San Diego County, 1886-1887, and as associate justice of the Supreme Court of California, 1888-1891. He moved to Los Angeles in 1896 and became president of the city council in 1910. In November of that year he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, serving from 1911 to 1917. Deciding not to be a candidate for re-election, he resumed his practice of law, and died in Los Angeles, June 6, 1928.

Key to Arrangement

Box l

Letters written by Works, 1911-1917

Scope and Content Note

Carbon copies, arranged chronologically.

Boxes 2-6

Letters to Works, ca. 1910-1917

Scope and Content Note

General incoming correspondence, arranged alphabetically by name of individual or organization. Single letters have been placed in miscellanies preceding each letter of the alphabet. A list of the more important correspondents is appended to this report.

Boxes 7 & 8

Misc. letters protesting the threatened war with Germany, Jan.-Mar. 1917.

Scope and Content Note

Unarranged. Works had destroyed the letters that disagreed with his neutrality stand. In a letter, July 31, 1917, to J. C. Rowell, librarian, University of California, he stated, "If I had known that I was to deposit the letters relating to my course respecting the war in the library for public reference I should have preserved those which disagreed with me and called me names, but I had no intention of using any of the letters for any such purpose and expected very soon to dispose of all of them... They were generally letters denouncing me as a traitor and a disgrace to my state and such like, containing no argument nor anything that would be worth preserving, and they were few in number. I wish now I might have made the record complete by preserving them."

Box 9

Misc. letters pertaining to various subjects, ca. 1912-1916

Scope and Content Note

Arranged by subject, as follows: proposed national home for Confederate soldiers; woman suffrage; appointment of Louis D. Brandeis as associate judge, U.S. Supreme Court; embargo of arms and ammunition; preparedness for national defense; Japanese relations; Japanese immigration; proposed six year term for president; proposed literacy test for immigrants.

Speeches, 1911-1917

Scope and Content Note

Printed copies, arranged chronologically.

Boxes 10 & 11

Subject files

Scope and Content Note

Mainly reports, clippings, government documents, copies of legislative bills, and other reference materials. The subject designations were devised by the Senator. Letters that were in these files have been removed and placed in the correspondence files. Where this was done, notations have been made on the folders.

The files are arranged alphabetically, as follows: aerial coast patrol; Alaska legislation; appointing commission; purchase of lands for aviation school; bridge across San Francisco Bay; California postmasters; Chico plant introduction gardens; Choctaw Indians; Clara Barton tablet; clean journalism; Confederate veterans; corrupt practices act; Ralph W. Davis; Department of Commerce; desert sign posts; District of Columbia; downward tendencies of government; election expenses investigation; espionage of courts and judges; exhibition buildings for states; Mrs. Anna M. Foster; good roads bill; health department; Hetch Hetchy water legislation; Imperial Valley; imprisonment -persons serving in the armed forces; Isle of Pines; liquor amendment; irrigation and reclamation of arid lands; merchant marine; Mexico; military training; National Institute of Arts and Letters; establishment of naval bases; oil lands; Panama Canal; postage on foreign periodicals; preparedness and neutrality bills; reclamation projects; proposed reunion of Republican Party, 1916; retirement civil service employees; seal fisheries; tariff commission; treaties; trusts and combinations; war and peace; war tax; war with Germany; water power leasing bills.

Partial Index of Correspondence

A - Miscellany (single letters)

Alaska Packers Association

Letter, Mar. 13, 1914. Signed by Harry F. Fortram.

Alaska Square Deal League

Letter, Nov. 28, 1911. Signed by William Pigott.

Alexander, Moses (1853-1932)

Letter, June 26, 1916

Alfalfa [magazine]

Letter, Aug. 18, 1913. Signed by John T. Bramhall.

American Independence Union

Letter, Feb. 24, 1916. Sent by Patrick H. Winston and J. D. Metzer.

American Independence Union of California

Letter, Jan. 15, 1916. Signed by Daniel O'Connell.

American-Mexican Steamship & Trading Co.

Letter, Apr. 20, 1915. Signed by George W. Beermaker.

Anti-Saloon League of America

Letter, Feb. 5, 1916. Signed by Edwin C. Dinwiddie.

Arizona and California River Regulation Commission

Letter, June 6, 1913. Signed by W. B. Raymund.

Arnold, Morris Allen (1866-1946)

Letter, May 22, 1915

Aston, Taggart

Letter, July 28, 1913

Avery, Russ (1872- )

Letter, Apr. 17, 1911

Adee, Alvey Augustus, 1842-1924

See U.S. Dept. of State.

Ainsworth, Frank Harrison, 1865-

See Federation of Civil Service Employees.

Austin, Richard Wilson, 1857-1919

3 letters, 1915-1916

B - Miscellany (single letters)

Bacon, Augustus Octavius

Letter, Aug. 5, 1913

Bankhead, John Hollis (1842-1920)

Letter, Dec. 12, 1914. Signed also by Claude. A. Swanson, John S. Williams, Frank O. White and J. R. Thornton. Addressed to Perry M. De Leon.

Barclay, Henry Augustus (1849- )

Letter, Apr. 3, 1914

Bard, Thomas Robert (1841- )

Letter, Oct. 28, 1911

Berkeley, California. City Clerk

Letter, Apr. 27, 1914. Signed by Walter J. Seaborn. Enclosures: copy of resolution of city council endorsing Senate bill granting Allan C. Rush a franchise for construction of bridge across S.F. Bay; and copy of letter from mayor of Berkeley to council.

Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore (1877-1947)

Letter, June 24, 1916

Blaisdell, James A.

Letter, Dec. 18, 1912

Borah, William Edgar (1865-1940)

Letter, Nov. 5, 1913

Bridge, Norman (1844- )

Letter, Feb. 14, 1916

Britt, E. W. (1855- )

Letter, May 18, 1916

Brown, Lathrop (1883- )

Letter, Mar. 18, 1914

Burnett, Albert Glenn (1856- )

Letter, Aug. 1, 1911

Burnquist, J. A. A.

Letter, June 30, 1916

Byrne, Frank M. (1858-1927)

Letter, June 29, 1916

Baker, Bernard Nadal, 1854-1918

2 letters, 1915

Beermaker, George W.

See American-Mexican Steamship & Trading Co.

Booth, Willis H., 1874-

7 letters, 1915-1916

Bourne, Jonathan, 1855-1940

3 letters, 1915-1916

Boynton, Albert E., 1875-

4 letters, 1914

Brownlow, Louis

See District of Columbia. Commissioners.

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

See U.S. Dept. of State.

Bulla, Robert Nelson, 1850-1935

See Republican Party. United Republicans of California.

C - Miscellany (single letters)

California. Adjutant General's Office.

Letter, Apr. 11, 1916. Signed by C. W. Thomas, Jr.

Camp, E. W.

Letter, Mar. 7, 1912

Capper, Arthur (1865-1951)

Letter, July 15, 1916

Carter, John P.

Letter, Dec. l, 1915

Chandler, Harry (1864-1944)

Letter, June 7, 1916

Chapman, Charles Clarke (1853-1944)

Letter, May 10, 1915

Chapman, Ervin S. (1838-1921)

Letter, Oct. 29, 1913

Chuckawalla and Palo Verde Irrigation Association

Letter, May 26, 1913. Signed by L. V. Shepherd.

Clark, George Archibald (1864- )

Letter, Feb 10, 1913

Clark, Walter (1846-1924)

Letter, Jan. 25, 1916

Committee for the Preservation of American Rights in the Panama Canal.

Letter, n.d. Signed by Bainbridge Colby.

California. State Mining Bureau.

2 letters, 1911. Signed by Lewis E. Aubury.

California. University. Library

6 letters, 1911-1917. From J. C. Rowell, librarian. Copies.

California Federation of Women's Clubs

3 letters, 1913-1916

Call, Joseph H.

4 letters, 1916

Carr, Harry, 1877-1936

4 letters, 1916

Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America

3 letters, 1915-1916

Chamber of Mines and Oil, Los Angeles

5 letters, 1914-1916

Chambers, John Sheerer, 1867-1923

3 letters, 1915-1916

Christian Science Monitor

17 letters, 1914-1916. Signed by Alexander Dobbs and Frederick Dixon.

Colby, Bainbridge, 1869-

See Committee for the Preservation of American Rights in the Panama Canal.

Crocker, William Henry, 1861-1937

8 letters, 1915-1916. Many written for the Republican National Committee.

Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936

3 letters, 1916

D - Miscellany (single letters)

Daniels, Gilbert B.

Letter, Apr. 11, 1916

Davidson, Gilbert Aubrey (1868- )

Letter, Aug. 17, 1916

Davis, Samuel McClellan (1861- )

Letter, Feb. 28, 1916

Dawe, Grosvenor (1863-1948)

Letter, Apr. 24, 1916

Deemer, Horace Emerson (1858-1917)

Letter, July 23, 1913

Dennett, Lewis Lincoln (1867- )

Letter, July 5, 1913

Dollar, Robert (1844-1932)

Letter, Sept. 25, 1914

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948

See U.S. Navy Dept.

District of Columbia. Commissioners.

10 letters, 1913-1916. Signed by Oliver P. Newman, Louis Brownlow and others.

Dixon, Frederick

See Christian Science Monitor.

Drew, Alexander M.

9 letters, 1914-1916. Enclosure to letter of Jan. 21, 1914: copy of letter from Rudolph Spreckels, Jan. 16, 1914. Enclosures to letter of Nov. 5, 1915: exchange of letters between Drew and L. L. Dennett and Drew and Frank R. Devlin, Oct.-Nov. 1915.

Dunn, Russell L.

4 letters, 1913-1914

Dunnigan, John S.

See San Francisco. Board of Supervisors.

E - Miscellany (single letters)

Eagle, Joe Henry (1870- )

Letter, Mar. 16, 1915

Earl, Edwin T.

2 letters, 1911-1912. Enclosure to letter, Apr. 21, 1911: copy of letter from California State Mining Bureau to Secretary of Navy, Apr. 5, 1911; and copy of letter from State Mining Bureau to Earl, Apr. 20, 1911.

Ellison, John F.

See Iron Canyon Project Association.

F - Miscellany (single letters)

Ferguson, James Edward (1871-1944)

Letter, July 1, 1916

Ferris, Woodbridge Nathan (1853-1928)

Letter, July 6, 1916

Fishburn, John Eugene (1859-1929)

Letter, Apr. 23, 1915

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

3 letters, 1915. Written by Archibald Kains.

Federation of Federal Civil Service Employees

4 letters, 1915-1916. Written by Frank H. Ainsworth.

Fisher, Walter L., 1862-1935

See U.S. Dept. of Interior.

Fulkerth, L. W.

2 letters, 1913

G - Miscellany (single letters)

Gallinger, Jacob Harold (1837-1918)

Letter, Jan. 25, 1916

Gates, Charles Winslow (1856-1927)

Letter, July 1, 1916

Gerson, T. Perceval

Letter, May 10, 1916

Graves, Jackson Alpheus (1852-1933)

Letter, Apr. 26, 1915

Greene, Carlton W.

Letter, Feb. 16, 1917

Guck, Homer

Letter, Jan. 6, 1917

Gulick, Sidney Lewis (1860-1945)

Letter, July 28, 1916

Garrison, Lindley Miller, 1864-

See U.S. War Dept.

Graham, S. C., 1862-

3 letters, 1911-1912

Gregory, Thomas Watt, 1861-1933

See U.S. Attorney General

H - Miscellany (single letters)

Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938)

Letter, Apr. 6, 1916

Hart, William Henry Harrison (1848- )

Letter, Feb. 3, 1914

Hay, Eugene Gano (1853-1933)

Letter, July 8, 1912

Hayes, Everis Anson (1855-1942)

Letter, Oct. 28, 1915

Hays, George Washington (1863- )

Letter, June 26, 1916

Heney, Francis Joseph (1859-1937)

Letter, Feb. 1, 1916

Herrick, S. H.

Letter, Apr. 27, 1915

Hopkins, Charlotte Everett (1851-1935)

Letter, Jan. 24, 1917

Humphrey, William Ewart (1862-1934)

Letter, Apr. 4, 1914

Hammond, John Hays, 1855-1936

2 letters, 1911-1916

Hilles, Charles Dewey, 1867-1949

2 letters, 1911-1914. One written as secretary to President Taft.

Houston, David Franklin, 1866-1940

See U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948

3 letters, 1916

Imperial Irrigation District, Calif.

7 letters, 1912-1916. Signed by George L. Melton and others.

Irish, John Powell, 1843-1923

2 letters, 1913-1915

Iron Canyon Project Association

2 letters, 1914. Signed by John F. Ellison and W. A. Beard. Enclosures: copies of letters addressed to Secretary of the Interior.

J - Miscellany (single letters)

Jacobs, Isidor

Letter, Oct. 8, 1913

Johnson, Hiram Warren (1866-1945)

Letter, July 25, 1916

Johnson, Robert Underwood (1853-1937)

Letter, Feb. 24, 1914

Joint Party State Committee, Calif.

Letter, July 12, 1914. Signed by W. C. Ralston.

Jones, Thomas Goode (1844-1914)

Letter, July 22, 1913

Jones, Wesley Livsey (1863-1932)

Letter, May 18, 1912

Judson, Harry Pratt (1849-1927)

Letter, Mar. 14, 1914

Jackson, Grant

2 letters, 1911-1917

Jess, Stoddard, 1856-

3 letters, 1914-1916

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

4 letters, 1911-1913

K - Miscellany (single letters)

Kahn, Julius (1861-1924)

Letter, Nov. 4, 1915

Kent, William (1864-1928)

Letter, July 10, 1911

Kofoid, Charles Atwood (1865-1947)

Letter, Feb. 1, 1913

Kains, Archibald Chetwode, 1865-1944

See Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Keesling, Francis V.

2 letters, 1915

Kerckhoff, William George, 1856-

3 letters, 1914-1916

Kimba1l, Ernest John

14 letters, 1913-1916

Knowland, Joseph Russell, 1873-

2 letters, 1914-1915

L - Miscellany (single letters)

Latimer, Norval H., (1863- )

Letter, May 5, 1915

Lister, Ernest (1870-1918)

Letter, July 3, 1916

Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924)

Letter, Apr. 12, 1911

Loveland, Harvey Davis (1853- )

Letter, Sept. 5, 1913

Lubin, David (1849-1919)

Letter, Nov. 26, 1915

[Labor unions correspondence]

8 letters, 1913-1916. Include letters from the following: Samuel Gompers, president, A. F. of L.; Petaluma Local 438 American Federation of Musicians; California State Federation of Labor; Central Labor Council of Alameda County; Federal Employees Union; International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers; International Union of the United Brewery Workmen of America.

Lane, Franklin Knight, 1864-1921

See U.S. Dept. of the Interior.

Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928

See U.S. Dept. of State.

Los Angeles. Chamber of Commerce

7 letters, 1911-1916. Enclosures to each letter: copies of resolutions passed.

Lynch, Robert Newton, 1875-1931

See San Francisco. Chamber of Commerce.

M - Miscellany (single letters)

Martin, Theodore

Letter, May 24, 1911

Martin, Walter S.

Letter, Feb. 28, 1916

Merrill, Charles Washington (1869- )

Letter, Apr. 3, 1916

Miller, Charles R. (1857-1927)

Letter, July 5, 1916

Mills, Abbot Low (1858-1927)

Letter, May 5, 1915

Minot, Thomas Sumner (1862- )

Letter, Sept. 18, 1913

Morrow, William W. (1843-1929)

Letter, June 19, 1914

Myers, Henry Lee (1862-1943)

Letter, Oct. 6, 1913

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936

2 letters, 1912-1913

McHarg, Ormsby, 1871-

6 letters, 1915

McKeeby, George Lemuel, 1873-

6 letters, 1913-1916

McLellan, Archibald, 1857-1917

4 letters, 1912-1913

McReynolds, James Clark, 1862-1946

See U.S. Attorney General.

Mann, Seth, 1860-1935

See San Francisco. Chamber of Commerce.

Maxwell, George H.

9 letters, 1915-1916

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936

9 letters, 1911-1916

Miller, Clement H.

2 letters, 1913-1914

Modesto Irrigation District

11 letters, 1913. Include letters of the Modesto Water Users Association.

National Republican Union

3 letters, 1915

Newman, Oliver P.

See District of Columbia. Commissioners.

Newton, Byron Rufus, 1861-1938

See U.S. Treasury Dept.

O - Miscellany (single letters)

Oliver, George Tener (1848-1919)

Letter, Jan. 25, 1916

Osborne, Henry Zenas (1848-1923)

Letter, Apr. 4, 1914

Oxnard, Robert (1853- )

Letter, Apr. 27, 1915

Oil Industry Association of California

7 letters, 1915-1917. Written by Roy N. Bishop and J. N. Gillett.

O'Shaughnessy, Michael Morris, 1864-1934

See San Francisco. Dept. of Public Works.

P - Miscellany (single letters)

Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920)

Letter, Nov. 17, 1915

Perky, Kirtland Irving (1867-1939)

Letter, Dec. 26, 1912

Phelan, James Duval (1861-1930)

Letter, Nov. 26, 1915. Enclosure: copy of telegram from Oil Industry Association of California to Phelan.

Poindexter, Miles (1868-1946)

Letter, Apr. 24, 1915

Pomerene, Atlee (1863-1937)

Letter, Mar. 28, 1916

Parsons, George W.

11 letters, 1911-1916

Polk, Frank Lyon, 1871-1943

See U.S. Dept. of State

Pruitt, Drew, 1860-

2 letters, 1913-1914

R - Miscellany (single letters)

Reeve, Sidney N.

Letter, Feb. 5, 1917

Redfield, William C., 1858-1932

See U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

Republican Party. National Committee

4 letters, 1916. Written by David S. Barry, William R. Willcox, W. Y. Morgan.

Republican Party. United Republicans of California.

2 letters, 1916. Signed by Robert N. Bulla.

Roberts Frank C.

5 letters, 1914-1916

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

3 letters, 1915-1916

Roper, Daniel Calhoun, 1867-1943

See U.S. Post Office Dept.

Rowell, Chester Harvey, 1867-1948

2 letters, 1914-1916

Rowell, Joseph Cummings, 1853-1938

See California. University. Library.

Rush, Allan C.

30 letters, 1911-1916. Many enclosures.

S - Miscellany (single letters)

San Francisco. Board of Supervisors.

Letter, Feb. 8, 1916. Signed by J. S. Dunnigan.

Sanford, John Bunyan (1869-1928)

Letter, Feb. 18, 1913

Siddons, Frederick Lincoln (1864-1931)

Letter, Jan.7, 1916

Smith, Addison Taylor (1862- )

Letter, Jan. 6, 1917

Spaulding, Rolland Harty (1823-1942)

Letter, July 5, 1916

Spry, William (1864-1929)

Letter, July 10, 1916

Stanton, Philip Ackley (1868- )

Letter, Nov. 9, 1915

Sacramento Valley Development Association

2 letters, 1916

San Diego Co. Chamber of Commerce

6 letters, 1914-1916

San Francisco. Chamber of Commerce

6 letters, 1914-1916. Some signed by Robert N. Lynch and Seth Mann.

San Francisco. Dept. of Public Works

2 letters, 1913. Signed by M. M. O'Shaughnessy.

San Joaquin Valley Water Problem Association

2 letters, 1913

Shaw, Leslie Mortier, 1848-1932

5 letters, 1916

Short Frank H.

10 letters, 1914-1916. Several written for the Oil Industry Association of California

Speer, Emory, 1848-1918

7 letters, 1913

Spreckels, Rudolph, 1872-1958

2 letters, 1914

Stimson, Henry Lewis, 1867-1950

See U.S. War Dept.

Swanson, Claude Augustus 1862-1939

See Bankhead, John Hol1is

T - Miscellany (single letters)

Taft, William Howard (1857-1930)

Letter, Mar. 21, 1911

Trammell, Park (1876-1936)

Letter, June 26, 1916

U - Miscellany (single letters)

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

Letter, Nov. 20, 1915. Signed by D. F. Houston.

U.S. Dept. of Labor

Letter, Nov. 18, 1915. Signed by W. B. Wilson.

U.S. Post Office Dept.

Letter, Nov. 23, 1915. Signed by Daniel C. Roper.

U.S. Adjutant General's Office

4 letters, 1916. Signed by H. F. McCain.

U.S. Attorney General

6 letters, 1911-1915. Written by George W. Wickersham, J. C. McReynolds and Thomas W. Gregory.

U.S. Dept. of Commerce

12 letters, 1912-1916. Signed by William C. Redfield, E. F. Sweet, A. L. Thurman, E. Lister Jones and George M. Bowers. Include 2 letters under former title, Dept. of Commerce and Labor.

U.S. Dept. of State

30 letters, 1911-1916. Signed by P. C. Knox, W. T. S. Doyle, Huntington Wilson, Alvey A. Adee, William J. Bryan, Robert Lansing, Frank L. Polk.

U.S. Dept. of the Interior

11 letters, 1912-1916. Signed by Walter L. Fisher, F. H. Newell, Franklin K. Lane, W. A. Ryan, B. O. Sweeney.

U.S. Navy Dept.

2 letters, 1915-1916. Signed by Josephus Daniels and J. M. Helm.

U.S. Treasury Dept.

6 letters, 1915-l916. Signed by Byron R. Newton.

U.S. War Dept.

7 letters, 1911-1915. Signed by Robert S. Oliver, Henry L. Stimson, Lindley M. Garrison.

V - Misce1lany (single letters)

Van Fleet, William Cary, (1852-1923)

Letter, July 25, 1911

Vogelsang Alexander Theodore, 1861-1930

2 1etters, 1913

W - Miscellany (single letters)

Wallace, Albert Joseph (1853- )

Letter, Apr. 21, 1911

Walsh, Thomas James (1859-1933 )

Letter, Jan. 14, 1916. Enclosure: copy of his letter to N. J. Sinnot.

Wangenheim, Julius

Letter, May 4, 1915

Wellborn, Olin (1843- )

Letter, Nov. 27, 1912

Western Oil Jobbers' Association

Letter, Apr. 12, 1916. Signed by R. L. Welch.

Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)

Letter, Apr. 22, 1916

Women's State Democratic Club of California

Letter, Dec. 4, 1913. Sent by Mrs. Charles H. Spinks.

Works, Lewis Reed (1869- )

Letter, Apr. 20, 1912

Waters, Arthur J., 1871-

2 letters, 1915-1916

Weeks, John Wingate, 1860-1926

5 letters, 1915-l916

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927

4 letters, 1911-1916

Wickersham, George Woodward, 1858-1936

See U.S. Attorney General.

Wilson, Huntington

See U.S. Dept. of State.

Wilson, William Bauchop, 1862-1934

See U.S. Dept. of Labor.

Withycombe James 1854-1919

4 1etters, 1915-l916

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

2 letters, 1914-1916

[Yuma Irrigation project, Imperial Co., Calif. - correspondence]

17 letters, 1915. Include letters from Everett P. Teasdale, Charles W. Johnson and Edgar A. Riggs. Many enclosures.

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