The papers, which consist of correspondence, memoranda, and writings, are most useful for the documentation which they provide for Hamilton's activities during World War II. Most of the collection consists of detailed MEMORANDA of daily activity and informational requests issued by Hamilton during his work as Chief of the Night Bureau with the War Department Public Relations Department from May 1941 to January 1942. This period is further illuminated by a letter describing the White House press room on December 7, 1941. Also included with the small amount of professional CORRESPONDENCE are two letters describing the selection of the Pulitzer Prize winners in 1934. Hamilton's MAGAZINE WRITINGS consist of two photocopied scrapbooks of articles written for Business Week from 1943 to 1946. Among this material, his eyewitness coverage of an atomic bomb test in a May 4, 1946, article is particularly noteworthy. PRESS DISPATCHES consist of stories cabled to the London Daily Mail and the Indian Daily Mail in 1924 and include his scoop of the Japanese withdrawal from the League of Nations.
Also includes letters written to his wife, Mathilde “Til” during World War II, mainly regarding his experiences as news editor in the War Department, and a recording from 1986 with a humorous account of his life as a world correspondent and a money-making proposal to save old villages.
