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The Wallace correspondence at Iowa is arranged chronologically. Large quantities of similar letters are also held at the Library of Congress and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library. With the help of a grant from the National Historical Publications Commission, all three collections were microfilmed in a single chronological order in the early 1970s. At the end of the project, a printed index to the microform editions was published by the Libraries:
The Wallace Papers : an index to the microfilm editions of the Henry A. Wallace papers in the University of Iowa Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (Iowa City: University of Iowa Libraries, 1975). Copies of this two-volume work are held in the Main Library Reference Collection and in Special Collections (all with call number FOLIO Z6616.W27 I633). Copies of the work may be borrowed from the Libraries (as can be the microfilms themselves); copies also remain available for purchase.
Forematter to The Wallace Papers includes the following information:
Identification of Correspondents
Among the names appearing frequently in the Henry A. Wallace Papers are several who will not be familiar to most users of the index. Mary A. Huss was Wallace's secretary at Wallace's Farmer and during his government service. Mabel A. Cooney, Mildred M. Eaton, and Harold H. Young were among other secretaries and assistants in the 1940s. The relative appearing most frequently in the index is Henry A. Wallace's uncle, Daniel A. Wallace, of Minnesota.
The names of Henry A. Wallace himself (HAW) and 23 others appearing most often in the index have been replaced by initials in all positions. These other names are:
Raymond F. Baker RFB
Louis H. Bean LHB
Earl N. Bressman ENB
George M. Darrow GMD
Paul de Kruif PdK
Laurence Duggan LD
Mildred M. Eaton MME
Fred W. Henshaw FWH
Curtice N. Hitchcock CNH
Cordell Hull CH
Mary A. Huss MAH
Jake S. More JSM
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. HM
Donald R. Murphy DRM
Donald M. Nelson DMN
Milo Perkins MP
Nelson A. Rockefeller NAR
Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR
Ross R. Salmon RRS
Harry S Truman HST
Daniel A. Wallace DAW
Sumner Welles SW
Harold H. Young HHY
The word "from" has been abbreviated as "fr" in the index. Anonymous, illegible, pseudonymous, and unknown correspondents have been replaced in the index by the words "Anonymous" and "Unknown." Multiple correspondents have been entered individually; pairs or larger numbers of writers or recipients of letters have usually had separate index entries made for each name; in a few instances the first name to appear in the salutation or signature is indexed, or the best-known names in either position. Some obscure names and names of spouses have, therefore, been deleted from index entries for multiple correspondents. "Et al" has been used in such entries to indicate many deletions. Two or more letters or copies of letters from a writer to the same recipient on the same day are separately indexed. Government agencies appearing as correspondents are preceded by the name of the government, as in "Iowa State Income Tax Division" and "US Board of Economic Warfare." Most titles of address have been deleted, except for "Mrs." with initials or a husband's first name. A few religious and other titles were retained for otherwise incomplete names. Some women, including Helen Gahagan Douglas, are entered under both their maiden and married names, following the example of each letter indexed. Information not found on the documents has sometimes been supplied by the indexers. An effort has been made to print Chinese, Spanish, and other foreign-language names in correct form, but the user of the index may find that some misreadings have been made or some diacritical marks omitted. In an indexing project of this size there are doubtless other errors and omissions of which the user must beware and for which the editor accepts responsibility.
Dates
The dates of many letters, telegrams, postcards, and memorandums in the Henry A. Wallace Papers are approximate, incomplete, uncertain, or unknown. In the date column, approximate and uncertain dates are followed by "'" Incomplete dates are given as far as they are known, as in "1948" or "1941 My." Unknown dates, where the indexers were unable to determine the year of a document, are represented by "ND" or, when the month and day are known but the year is not, by, for example, "ND Ap 3."
The months have been abbreviated as follows:
January Ja
February Fe
March Mr
April Ap
May My
June Je
July JI
August Ag
September Se
October Oc
November No
December De
A Final Note
An unpublished index of slips for each personal and corporate name found in the texts of the correspondence in the three Wallace microfilm editions is available for consultation in the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa Libraries. There is a brief published Guide to a Microfilm Edition of the Henry A. Wallace Papers at The University of Iowa (Iowa City, 1974).
Box Contents List
Series III: Box 1
1888 – 1929
Series III: Box 2
January – October 25, 1930
Series III: Box 3
October 27, 1930 – January 31, 1931
Series III: Box 4
February 1, 1931 – May 15, 1931
Series III: Box 5
May 16, 1931– July 31, 1931
Series III: Box 6
August 1, 1931 – October 31, 1931
Series III: Box 7
October 28, 1931 – January 24, 1932
Series III: Box 8
January 25, 1932 – March 31, 1932
Series III: Box 9
April 1, 1932 – June 30, 1932
Series III: Box 10
July 1, 1932 – September 30, 1932
Series III: Box 11
October 1, 1932 – November 18, 1932
Series III: Box 12
November 19, 1932 – January 19, 1933
Series III: Box 13
January 20, 1933 – September 1934
Series III: Box 14
October 1934 – September 1936
Series III: Box 15
October 1936 – December 1939
Series III: Box 16
January 1940 – July 1941
Series III: Box 17
August 1941 – August 1942
Series III: Box 18
September 1942 – May 1943
Series III: Box 19
June 1943 – December 1943
Series III: Box 20
January 1944 – June 23, 1944
Series III: Box 21
June 24, 1944 – January 10, 1945
Series III: Box 22
January 11, 1945 – January 26, 1945
Series III: Box 23
January 26, 1945 – January 31, 1945
Series III: Box 24
January 30, 1945 – February 8, 1945
Series III: Box 25
February 9, 1945 – February 24, 1945
Series III: Box 26
February 25, 1945 – March 19, 1945
Series III: Box 27
March 21, 1945 – April 21, 1945
Series III: Box 28
May 1, 1945 – July 16, 1945
Series III: Box 29
July 17, 1945 – October 15, 1945
Series III: Box 30
October 16, 1945 – December 17, 1945
Series III: Box 31
January 2, 1946 – April 3, 1946
Series III: Box 32
April 14, 1946 – July 9, 1946
Series III: Box 33
July 10, 1946 – December 1946
Series III: Box 34
January 1947 – April 1947
Series III: Box 35
October 1947 – June 1948
Series III: Box 36
July 1948 – May 1949
Series III: Box 37
June 1949 – September 1950
Series III: Box 38
August 1, 1950 – June 1951
Series III: Box 39
July 1951 – December 1952
Series III: Box 40
January 1953 – September 1954
Series III: Box 41
October 1954 – April 1956
Series III: Box 42
May 1956 – March 1958
Series III: Box 43
April 1958 – April 1961
Series III: Box 44
May 1961 – January 1963
Series III: Box 45
February 1963 – April 1964
Series III: Box 46
March 1964 – December 1964
Series III: Box 47
January 1965 – July 1965
Series III: Box 48
August 1965 – 1966 + undated material
Correspondence Supplement. These are included in The Papers of Henry Agard Wallace.
Series III: Box S1
1917 – 1927
Series III: Box S2
1928 – February 1930
Series III: Box S3
March 1930 – March 1931
Series III: Box S4
April 1931 – August 1932
Series III: Box S5
September 1932 – 1964
Note: The Scheduled and Telephone Conversations are NOT included in The Wallace Papers.
Series III: Box S6
Schedules (Reel 64)
Daily Schedules 1945 – 1946
Trip Schedules 1941 – 1946
Series III: Box S7
Telephone Conversations (Reel 65) 1945
Telephone Conversations (Reel 66) 1946