Title: Marquis William Childs Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1919-1959

Creator:

• Childs, Marquis William, 1903-

Call Number: U.S. Mss 20AF; Tape 275A; Tape 276A; Tape 412A

Quantity: 11.6 c.f. (29 archives boxes) and 4 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Papers of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter and columnist who covered primarily national and world developments. Correspondence includes fan mail, exchanges with agents and publishers, and letters concerning interests in the Austen Riggs Center for psychological treatment and research, the Episcopal Church, and the Gridiron Club. General correspondents include many people of prominence. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington bureau files, 1932-1960, contain editorial correspondence, memos, dispatches, and some articles. Childs' writings are represented by free-lance articles; book reviews; speeches and addresses; book drafts and notes. There are also scripts for several ABC radio news programs. Documentation of his research methodology includes notes and memoranda; interviews with Winston S. Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Alfred M. Landon, and Franklin D. Roosevelt; and news dispatches from Poland and Russia.

Language: English

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Marquis Childs, writer and reporter of outstanding reputation, was born in Iowa, March 17, 1903, the son of a lawyer. From the time of his boyhood he wanted to be a newspaperman, and although in the past thirty years he has written numerous books, appeared on many radio and television programs, and lectured widely, he remains essentially a reporter. In the course of his travels in search of material and news he has visited Europe many times, and has made studies in South America.

Graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1923, Marquis Childs first started working for the United Press at Chicago. In 1925 he returned to college, this time at the University of Iowa. There he taught English composition, and received the master's degree. He then went to New York for the United Press, but in 1926 joined the staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as a feature writer. In 1934 the Post-Dispatch sent Childs to Washington D.C. He represented that newspaper in Washington until 1944 when he launched a syndicated column known as “Washington Calling”--a column that has had a circulation of 150 to 200 newspapers throughout the country. A series known as “Washington Spotlight” was started in 1951, featuring television interviews of prominent people, with Childs serving as moderator.

His reputation is such that through the years Childs has become an opinion maker as well as reporter, repeatedly reporting and forecasting news with accuracy and perception. Known as a “liberal” in his points of view, Childs once described himself in a letter as being “somewhat to the left of center.” He has written many short stories and articles for magazines such as Harpers, Yale Review, Scribner's, the Saturday Evening Post, New Republic, Life, Reader's Digest, and Look. Among his books, both fiction and non-fiction, Sweden--the Middle Way has been the most widely read, becoming a best seller soon after it came off the press in 1936. Other books by Childs include:

• They Hate Roosevelt - 1936
• Washington Calling - 1937
• This Is Democracy - 1938
• This Is Your War - 1942
• I Write from Washington - 1942
• The Cabin - 1944
• The Farmer Takes a Hand - 1952
• Ethics in Business Society, with Douglass Cater - 1954
• The Ragged Edge - 1955
• Eisenhower, Captive Hero - 1958

As a leading American journalist he has received many awards, among them the Sigma Delta Chi award as the best Washington correspondent in 1944, and the award for journalism granted by the University of Missouri. Marquis Childs is married, and has a son and daughter, both grown.

The Childs Papers are organized in five series: Correspondence; Writings and Speeches; Interviews, Notes, and Other Research Files; St. Louis Post-Dispatch Files; and Miscellany. The collection was arranged originally in 1959 (in Box 1-6); additional materials received after that date were arranged separately in August 1965 (in Box 7-27) and second group of additions arranged in December 1965 (in Box 28-29). These three parts of the collection are all listed in a single intellectual order in the Container List which follows this narrative.

Each part of the collection contains chronological files of correspondence. The first sequence consists of approximately 3000 letters of which one third is general correspondence, one third is Childs' correspondence with his agents and publishers, and one third deals with Childs' organizational activities particularly the Austen Riggs Center for psychiatric treatment and research, the Episcopal Church, and the Gridiron Club (of which Childs was president in 1957). General correspondence includes letters from many people of prominence (see index in Appendix 1); letters from readers; some letters from admirers and friends and some concerning newspaper work and writing. Childs' own letters are generally brief and businesslike. They seldom reveal his own political thinking; rare exceptions are letters of Jan. 13 and 15, 1954.

The correspondence in Sequence 2 also includes exchanges with publishers and agents, letters from readers (with comments on the airline subsidy lobby in 1948 and on the John Birch Society and other right-wing groups in 1959), and correspondence with noteworthy political and other public persons (see index in Appendix 1). There is a small amount of personal correspondence, most of which occurs late in 1945 and 1946 and relates to Childs' son, Henry Prentiss, and efforts to gain his re-admission to college following naval service. In addition, there are scattered letters concerning Childs' affiliations with various organizations and boards, especially the Gridiron Club and Nieman Foundation for Journalism (Harvard).

Special items of interest are letters, 1946 Oct.-1947 Jan., concerning the alleged assertion by Karl Mundt that Childs was “pink”; letters, 1949 May-June, concerning statements by Fulton Lewis, Jr., that Childs had Communist leanings; and letters, 1950 Nov.-1951 March, concerning the affair with Miner College (Washington, D.C.) in which Childs, Pearl Buck, and Max Lerner were barred from the college's conference because of alleged Communist leanings.

There are scattered letters concerning the political situations in Europe and the United States, such as the one from Bill Matthews in Berlin (1947, July 2); from Bob Fleming of the Milwaukee Journal (1951, May 15); and from William Evjue of the Madison Capital Times (1951, June 20) concerning developments in the McCarthy situation; from Joseph P. McMurray (1951, Mar. 22) concerning FHA housing; and eleven letters (1960, July 4-Sept. 21) from W. W. Stevens in Rio de Janiero concerning the political situation in South America, especially local views and opinions of the U.S.A.

In addition to correspondence with well-known persons listed in the Appendix, single letters of possible special interest include:

• 1944, Feb. 21, “Confidential Memorandum for B.H.R.,” from Childs gives general comments on the war, appraisals of opposing strength and possible course of the war. [B.H.R. refers to Ben Reese, managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.]
• 1951, Feb. 1, Childs' letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities refuting charges against Childs concerning his association with Communist organizations.
• 1957, Apr. 2, letter from Cass Canfield of Harper's Publishing Company suggesting that Childs do a book on John F. Kennedy. Kennedy's reservations are mentioned. On July 1, 1958, Kennedy's editor, Evan Thomas, re-opened the subject.
• 1960, Oct. 26, Childs' letter recommending Clifton Daniel for membership in the Century Association.

There is also correspondence in Sequence 2 between Childs and the following: Clinton P. Anderson, Pat Arnold, Hale Boggs, Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen, Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown, Harry Byrd, James F. Byrne, Clifford Cass, Roy Cohn, J. Lawton Collins, John Sherman Cooper, Jay N. (“Ding”) Darling, Douglas Dillon, James A. Farley, Dorothy Canfield Fischer, James Forrestal, Orville Freeman, Albert Core, James C. Hagerty, Mark Hatfield, Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., Quincy Howe, Robert M. Hutchins, James E. Jackson, Jacob Javits, Kenneth Keating, Ethel and Robert Kennedy, William F. Knowland, Alf M. Landon, Frank Lausche, Herbert Lehman, Isaac Don Levine, Clare Booth Luce, Brien McMahon, Maury Maverick, Jr., Karl Mundt, Richard L. Neuberger, Lauris Norstad, John O'Hara, Nathan Pusey, Nelson Rockefeller, Elmo Roper, Carl Sandburg, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., William Scranton, George Smather, Edward Stanley, David Susskind, Raymond Gram Swing, Stuart Symington, Jerry Voohis, Theodore H. White, and G. Mennen Williams.

The Writings and Speeches series includes articles, book reviews, addresses and lectures, radio broadcast scripts, and material concerning books and other long works, both published and unpublished. Again some of these materials were present in each of the three parts of the collection. Some of the subjects in Sequence 2 include Robert S. Kerr, Eisenhower and the Pentagon, the Republicans in the 1946 election, India, curtailment of freedom of the press, speech, and religion, rural electrical cooperatives, Franklin Roosevelt, and Walter Lippmann, Sweden, and Elmer Davis. Sequence 3 contains an address for the 1962 Workshop on Liberal Arts Education, an excerpt from a talk on “managed news,” the draft of an introduction for a book on the powers of the Presidency, and an excerpt from a talk on the inadequacies of education in underdeveloped countries. The radio scripts include programs for ABC (1950), substitutions for Raymond Gram Swing (1946), Washington Spotlight (1950-1952, and Washington Story (1945?). The “Lectures” folder contains typescripts of seven lectures on freedom of the press, American foreign policy, and American politics. Though one folder of clippings of newspaper articles is present, most clippings originally in the collection were not retained because the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Washington Post contain most of Childs' syndicated articles and are available on microfilm in the Historical Society Library.

Interviews, Notes, and Other Research Files include in “General” an interview with Governor Alfred Landon (ca. 1936), report of a conversation with Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 7, 1944, interviews with Winston Churchill (ca. June 18, 1943) and Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy (post 1952), and an interview with Childs (Jan. 8, 1958) by Donald Shaughnessy about Roosevelt.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Files are arranged chronologically. Because many of the memos would have been entirely meaningless if they were not left clipped together, items were separated only when they had some meaning standing alone. For example, if a series of letters and answers came up, these were usually separated, but if a series of memos concerning the development of a story occurred, they were left together, and were arranged according to the date on the top piece. So, a “piece” can consist of a single letter, telegram, memo, or note, or after 1952, a sheet from the teletype on which items are typed in series; or it can consist of a group of memos, memos and letters, memos and teletype sheets clipped together.

Childs is directly concerned in about 10-15 percent of them. Most of the time, items are written by or to Raymond P. Brandt, head of the Washington Bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch until 1961, and Benjamin Reese, an editor of the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis. Files relating to Childs appear mainly in the period 1938-1941 in connection with a controversy arising from the fact that some Americans were selling oil to the Nazis through Mexico. Childs eventually filed suit against Senator Guffey who was involved in the matter.

From 1941 to 1946, the files are concerned primarily with World War II, in all its phases. There are a few items from Post-Dispatch men overseas. There follow, in normal sequence, groups of materials on the main stories in the news for next years: Deteriorating Russian-American relations, European recovery, the Korean War, and Senator McCarthy. There is a great deal of material on national elections from 1940 on, concerned primarily with the physical arrangements a newspaper must make to cover such events. There is much on the obtaining of hotel space and space on the convention floor, but little on what actually happened. All though the files are materials on stories of interest in Missouri or the St. Louis area.

The final series of Miscellany contains two photos of Childs taken with John Dorsey of Wayne State University in 1964; business papers including statements of payment for Childs' syndicated newspaper column and lists of newspapers carrying the column, expense accounts, and contracts; copies of Fulton Lewis' broadcasts concerning Childs, and memorabilia and other items of primarily biographical interest.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Marquis Childs, Washington, D.C., 1959-1965.

Processing Information

Processed by Margaret Hafstad, 1959; and by Janice O'Connell, August and December 1965.

U.S. Mss 20AF	Series: Correspondence
	Sequence 1
Box   1	1919, 1926-1949
Box   2	1950-1953 April
Box   3	1953 May-December
Box   4	1954-1959
	Sequence 2
Box   7	1944-1948
Box   8	1949-1950
Box   9	1951
Box   10	1952 Jan.-Aug.
Box   11	1952 Sept.-1959 Aug.
Box   12	1959 Sept.-1960 Sept. 9
Box   13	1960 Sept. 12-1961 July
Box   14	1961 Aug.-1962 Nov.
Box   15	1961 Aug.-1962 Nov.
Box   16	1964
	Sequence 3
Box   28	1930, 1953-1954, 1958-1963
Box   29	1964-1965
	Series: Writings and Speeches	⇧
	Articles, Book Reviews, and Speeches
Box   5	Sequence 1 (articles and speeches), 1933-1958
	Sequence 2 (includes book reviews)
Box   17	1945-1950
Box   18	1959, 1961-1964
Box   29	Sequence 3 (articles and speeches), 1962, 1965
Box   4	Book reviews, 1936-1953
Box   20	Clippings of articles by Childs, 1933-1958
Box   17	Lectures, 1945-1952, 1963
Box   5	News dispatches filed from Poland and Russia for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tape 276A No.   1	Partial speech at 42nd annual journalism banquet re: freedom and responsibility of the press, 1951 May 4
Tape 412A No.   1	“The Press and the Presidency,” WHDH-TV, Boston, 1965, May 16
No.   2	“America-1975,” panel discussion at U.S. Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, 1965
U.S. Mss 20AF	Radio Scripts
Box   5	Sequence 1, 1950-1953
Box   17	Sequence 2, 1945-1952
	Books and Plays
Box   6	America's Economic Supremacy introduction
Box   5	Eisenhower, Captive Hero annotated typescript and review
Box   6	Ethics in Business Society manuscript
	The Peacemaker
Box   18	Early draft, carbon copy of draft, partial copy of final draft, fragments and notes
Tape 275A No.   1	Interview with Childs re his novel on the Bob Luce program, “In Print,” 1961 Sept.
U.S. Mss 20AF Box   6	Sweden—the Middle Way partial proof and review
Box   18	“Washington Hostess,” unpublished book manuscript
Box   18	Unfinished book manuscript concerning Washington newspaper life
Box   6	Unfinished novel
Box   18	Unpublished play on miscegenation manuscript, n.d.
	Series: Interviews, Notes, and Other Research Files	⇧
	Interviews
Box   4	General, 1936-1958
Box   18	Interview with John F. Kennedy, 1963 March 30
	Notes and memoranda
Box   4	Sequence 1
Box   18	Sequence 2
Box   6	Notebook of penciled notes on cooperatives, farm subsidies, CIO activities, and various other topics
Box   6	Notebook from visit to Soviet Union, 1958
Box   20	Kennedy press releases, 1962, Oct. 18-21
	Series: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Files	⇧
Box   21	1932, June 3; 1934-1941 June 24
Box   22	1941 June 25-1943
Box   23	1944-1946 Oct. 21
Box   24	1946 Oct. 23-1949 April 5
Box   25	1949 April 11-1951 June 1
Box   26	1951 June 1-1954
Box   27	1955-1960; n.d.
	Series: Miscellany	⇧
Box   29	Photos and Memorabilia
Box   19	Business Papers, 1944-1959
Box   4	Contracts for books, artiiicles, and speeches, 1934-1953
Box   6	Accounts and statements showing royalties on Childs' books
Box   18	Interview by Carl Bode with Childs on H. L. Mencken, 1964 July
Box   20	Miscellaneous notes, memoranda, and other biographical information

Part 1, Selected Correspondence in Sequence 1:

• Adamic, Louis:  Mar. 5, 1934

• Allen, Robert S.:  [ca. Sept. 15, 1927]

• Barton, Bruce:  Oct. 15, 1936

• Baruch, Bernard M.:  June 27, 1944

• Benson, Ezra Taft:  Mar. 4, 1957

• Benton, William:  Aug. 9, 1950

• Bonnet, Henri:  July 3, 1950

• Bowers, Claude G.:  Nov. 8, 1937; Feb. 12, 1938; Aug. 20, 1941; Apr. 10, 1944

• Bowles, Chester:  Feb. 27, 1952; Feb. 2, 1954

• Boyd, Julian P.:  May 13 and 22, 1957

• Bromfield, Louis:  Mar. 31, 1952

• [Brownell?], Herbert:  Feb. 25, 1957

• Butler, Paul M.:  July 27, 1956

• Byrnes, James F.:  June 12, 1946

• Clay, Lucius D.:  Feb. 26, 1957

• Douglas, Paul H.:  June 28, 1933; Sept. 20, 1933; Jan. 24, 1934

• Douglas, William O.:  Oct. 6, 1953

• Dulles, John Foster:  Oct. 9, 1958

• Einstein, Albert:  Aug. 10, 1950

• Farley, James A.:  Mar. 5, 1957

• Frankfurter, Felix:  Mar. 3, 1919; Mar. 28, 1939; Dec. 22, 1949; Feb. 1, 1957

• Frederick, John T.:  Exchange of letters, 1928-1930

• Fulbright, John W.:  June 12, 1953

• Ghosh, Sudhir:  Dec. 18, 1953

• Gore, Albert:  Feb. 6, 1954; Feb. 20, 1959

• Gruenther, Alfred:  Feb. 25, [1957]

• Harriman, W. Averell:  Jan. 16, 1953

• Hill, Lister:  Mar. 27, 1952; Feb. 7, 1953; June 29, 1959

• Hoover, Herbert:  Feb. 7, 1957

• Hoover, J. Edgar:  Nov. 21 and Dec. 24, 1947; Dec. 14 and 20, 1950; Feb. 16 Apr. 10, 1951; Mar. 13, 1952

• Humphrey, George:  Feb. 27, 1957

• Humphrey, Hubert H.:  Sept. 28, 1953; Jan. 4, 1956; July 27, 1959

• Johnson, Lyndon:  Jan. 28, 1953; Feb. 26, 1957; Jan. 29, 1959

• Kennedy, Joseph P.:  May 20, 1957

• Knowland, William T.:  Mar. 9, 1957

• La Follette, Philip F.:  Oct. 9 and 16, 1930

• Lehman, Herbert:  June 3, 1953

• Leiserson, Mrs. William M.:  May 19, 1953

• Lodge, Henry Cabot:  Jan. 31, Feb. 26, and Dec. 9, 1957

• Luce, Clare Boothe:  June 22, 1944

• Mencken, Henry L.:  Letters to, Apr. 14 and May 8, 1926

• Morse, Wayne:  Jan. 16 and July 8, 1959

• Neihardt, John G.:  Oct. 7, 1930; Sept. 8, 1933

• Nixon, Richard:  Feb. 11, 1957

• Rayburn, Sam:  Nov. 28, 1956

• Robertson, Walter S.:  Exchange of letters, 1958-1959

• Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.:  June 15, 1953

• Stassen, Harold E.:  Mar. 4, 1957

• Stevenson, Adlai:  Jan. and Feb., 1957

• Strauss, Lewis L.:  June 30, 1953

• Swing, Raymond Gram:  July 30, [1950]

• Symington, Stuart:  Jan. 30, 1959

• Taylor, Maxwell D.:  Nov. 28, 1956; Feb. 18, 1959

• Thomas, Norman:  Sept. 9, 1936

• Truman, Harry S.:  Nov. 26, 1956

• Vandenberg, Arthur H.:  July 28, 1949

• Warren, Earl:  Nov. 16, 1956

• Welles, Sumner:  Dec. 29, 1938; June 23, 1944; Jan. 22, 1945

• Willkie, Wendell:  Jan. 17, Apr. 11, June 14, Sept. 6, 1944

• Youngdahl, Luther:  Mar. 20, 1952

Part 2, Selected Correspondence in Sequence 2:

• Acheson, Dean:  1946, Nov. 14; 1946, Dec. 18; 1949, July 19; 1949, Aug. 10.

• Baruch, Bernard M.:  1944, Mar. 9; 1945, Aug. 25; 1946, Feb. 18;1946, Apr. 7; 1946, Nov. 7; 1949, Apr. 4; 1949, Apr. 15;1950, Apr. 21; 1950, Apr. 25;1950, May 10; 1951, Feb. 5; 1960, Feb. 8; 1960, Sept. 26.

• Benton, William:  1946, June 17; 1946, July 22; 1958, Mar. 6; 1958, Sept. 22; 1960, Jan. 15; 1960, Jan. 18; 1960, Feb. 1; 1960, Apr. 1; 1960, Aug. 19; 1960, Sept. 12; 1964, Jan. 28.

• Bowles, Chester:  1946, May 10; 1946, May 13; 1952, Mar. 13; 1953, Feb. 2; 1961, Feb. 28; 1961, Mar. 23; 1963, Nov. 1; 1963, Dec. 7; 1964, Feb. 27.

• Bradley, Omar:  1951, May 28; 1951, Oct. 6.

• Conant, James B.:  1949, Feb. 12; 1949, Apr. 20; 1949, Apr. 21; 1949, May 2; 1950, Feb. 14.

• Davis, Elmer:  1951, Sept. 9.

• Dewey, Thomas E.:  1950, May 2; 1952, June 24.

• Douglas, Paul H.:  1951, July 25; 1952, Mar. 12; 1963, Mar. 1; 1964, Aug. 14

• Douglas, William O.:  1952, Feb. 6; 1961, Apr. 17; 1961, Apr. 18.

• Eaton, Cyrus:  1960, Feb. 11; 1961, Apr. 3.

• Evjue, William T.:  1951, June 20.

• Fulbright, J. William:  1946, Dec. 31; 1948, Jan. 13; 1949, July 1.

• Galbraith, John Kenneth:  1961, Aug. 5.

• Goldwater, Barry:  1961, Mar. 17.

• Hammarskjold, Dag:  1960, Feb. 6.

• Humphrey, Hubert:  1950, May 31; 1950, June 1; 1961, Sept. 23; 1963, Dec. 6; 1964, Jan. 24; 1964, May 5; 1964, June 19.

• Ickes, Harold:  1945, Oct. 11; 1948, Nov. 12.

• Johnson, Lyndon:  1953, May 1; 1957, Mar. 4.

• Kaltenborn, Hans V.:  1946, Nov. 15.

• Kastenmeier, Robert W.:  1960, Jan. 15.

• Kefauver, Estes:  1947, May 3; 1948, June 2; 1951, July 24; 1951, Mar. 31; 1960, Feb. 9; 1960, Apr. 12; 1960, Sept. 14; 1961, Apr. 20; 1962, May 25; 1963, Aug. 2.

• Kennedy, John F.:  1953, Mar. 19; 1958, Mar. 5; 1960, Feb. 20.

• La Follette, Philip F.:  1947, Jan. 2; 1947, Jan. 15.

• Lewis, Fulton, Jr.:  1949, May 27.

• Lie, Trygve:  1950, June 7.

• Lilienthal, David E.:  1948, June 14; 1960, Jan. 13.

• Lodge, Henry Cabot:  1950, Mar. 2; 1953, Feb. 4; 1960, Mar. 25; 1962, Jan. 5; 1963, May 31; 1963, June 5.

• McCarran, Pat:  1953, Mar. 2.

• McCormack, John:  1947, May 9; 1961, July 6; 1961, Aug. 4.

• Morgan, Edward P.:  1960, Mar. 7.

• Morse, Wayne:  1948, Jan. 28; 1950, Jan. 12.

• Murrow, Edward R.:  1961, Mar. 16; 1961, Apr. 13.

• Nelson, Gaylord:  1961, Mar. 19; 1961, Mar. 25.

• Niebuhr, Reinhold:  1959, Jan. 15; 1959, Jan. 22; 1959, Feb. 25.

• Nixon, Richard:  1958, Jan. 17; 1960, Sept. 26; 1964, June 14.

• Proxmire, William:  1961, Mar. 29; 1961, July 26.

• Reuss, Henry S.:  1961, Jan. 3.

• Ribicoff, Abraham:  1950, Mar. 23; 1950, May 4; 1960, Aug. 29.

• Rickenbacker, E. V.:  1948, Apr. 21.

• Romulo, Carlos P.:  1952, Apr. 15.

• Rubin, Morris H.:  1951, June 22; 1952, Sept. 16.

• Rusk, Dean:  1960, Apr. 21; 1961, Mar. 22; 1961, Sept. 25.

• Shriver, Sargent:  1963, Jan. 17.

• Stevenson, Adlai:  1951, Aug. 4; 1952, Jan. 30; 1952, Feb. 21; 1952, Apr. 19; 1952. Apr. 26; 1952, Aug. 2; 1952, Dec. 7; 1958, Mar. 17; 1958, Sept. 16; 1959, Oct. 5; 1959, Oct. 21; 1960, June 1; 1960, June 15; 1960, Nov. 28; 1961, Mar. 2; 1961, Sept. 27.

• Truman, Harry S.:  1950, July 11.

• Vandenberg, Arthur:  1949, Aug. 5.

• Warren, Earl:  1961, Feb. 6; 1964, Mar. 30.

• Welles, Sumner:  1945, Aug. 31; 1945, Sept. 19.

• Wiley, Alexander:  1947, Jan. 31.

Part 3, Selected Correspondence in Sequence 3:

• Eliot, T. S. (transcript):  1930 Aug. 8

• Humphrey, Hubert:  1965 April 14

• McCormack, John:  1961 July 22

• Menshikov, Mikhail A.:  1958 April 10

• Rusk, Dean:  1963, April 3

• Stevenson, Adlai:  1963 April 12 and 22, May 9

Part 4, Selected Correspondence in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Files:

• Cohn, Roy:  1953 April 2

• Dulles, John Foster:  1944 May 4 and Nov. 21

• Eaton, Cyrus (to Richard Baumhoff):  1949 Nov. 19

• Hagerty, James (to Raymond P. Brandt and to Childs):  1959 April 29, Aug. 12, Nov. 6

• Proxmire, William (to Raymond P. Brandt):  1959 March 10

• Symington, Stuart:  1959 Sept. 3 and 9

• Taft, Robert (to Raymond P. Brandt):  1951 March 5

• Willkie, Wendell:  1944 May 10