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The Microfilm Edition of the Henry A. Wallace Papers
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Collection Dates: 1900-1965

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Acquisition and Processing Information: The Microform Edition of the Henry A. Wallace Papers was created in the early 1970s with support from the National Historical Publications Commission.

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The Microfilm Edition of the Henry A. Wallace Papers included all Wallace correspondence in the collections of the University of Iowa Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library at the time of the project -- the early 1970s.  Selected additional materials were included. Earl M. Rogers was the project editor and Leslie W. Dunlap the project director. The following description reproduces a pamphlet, "Guide to a Microfilm Edition of the Henry A. Wallace Papers at the Univeristy of Iowa" (1974).

 

For correspondence added after publication of the Microfilm Edition, see  the main correspondence page.

Box Contents List

Microfilm Reel Notes

 

Correspondence

 

Reel 1 (1888-April 1929) - Correspondents include Chester C. Davis, L. C. Dune, John M. Evvard, Clifford V. Gregory, Samuel R. Guard. Charles Hearst. William Hirth, Herbert Hoover, Raymond M. Hughes, Carl E. Ladd, H. E. Miles, M. L. Mosher, Edwin G. Nourse, Nils Olsen, John Jones Smith, Daniel A. Wallace, and Clyde W. Warburton. Subjects include Wallaces' Farmer, hybrid corn, hog prices, grain marketing, and livestock marketing.

 

Reel 2 (May 1929-June 1930) - Correspondents include O. S. Bowman, Chester C. Davis, Tage Ellinger, Samuel R. Guard, Gilbert N. Haugen, William Hirth, Fred W. Lehmann, Jr., H. E. Miles, Burton M. Peck, George N. Peek, John Jones Smith, and Henry C. Taylor. Subjects include speaking invitations. European trip, cornstalks as wood substitute (Davis and Peek brothers), weather statis­tics, and Foreman Agricultural Service.

 

Reel 3 (July-October 1930) - Correspondents include Albert G. Black, O. S. Bowman, Earl N. Bressman, H. C. M. Case, Leonard K. Elmhirst, John M. Evvard, H. E. Miles, John S. Nollen. Leland Olds, Nils Olsen, and Daniel A. Wallace. Subjects include Wallaces' Farmer, drought, International Con­ference of Agricultural Economists at Cornell University, George W. Russell (AE) lecture tour, weather cycles, speaking invita­tions, Collins Farms Company, hybrid corn, swine breeding, American farmers in Russia, and Federal Farm Board.

 

Reel 4 (November 1930-January 8, 1931) - Correspondents include Earl N. Bressman, H. C. M. Case, Tage Ellinger, Clifford V. Gregory, William Hirth, Lowell Hoit, Mark Hyde, H. H. Kildee, H. E. Miles, George H. Shull, John Jones Smith, and Henry C. Taylor. Subjects include Federal Farm Board, Wallaces’ Farmer on farm economic conditions and farm practices, hybrid corn, livestock prices, grain juices, and the Depression.

 

Reel 5 (January 9-February 17, 1931) - Correspondents include E. F. Ferrin and Daniel McKee. Subjects include Wallaces’ Farmer, monetary policy, speaking invitations, hybrid corn, weather cycles, and planetary positions.

 

Reel 6 (February 18-April 24, 1931) - Correspondents include William Hirth. Lowell Hoit, Harold D. Hughes, Mark Hyde, Daniel McKee, Edwin C. Nourse, Henry C. Taylor, Dan W. Turner, and Charles B. Wing. Subjects include Wallaces' Farmer, hybrid corn, and speaking invitations.

 

Reel 7 (April 25-June 21, 1931) - Correspondents include Newton D. Baker, William E. Borah, O. S. Bowman, Joseph S. Davis, Clark M. Eichelberger, Julien N. Friant, Clifford V. Gregory, Mark Hyde, Alexander Legge, Dan­iel McKee, George N. Peek, Dana J. Tinnes, and George F. War­ren. Subjects include Wallaces' Farmer, hybrid corn, Federal Farm Board, and monetary policy.

 

Reel 8 (June 22-August 20, 1931) - Correspondents include Albert G. Black, John D. Black, O. S. Bowman, O. B. Burtness, E. A. Duddy, Clifford V. Gregory, Lowell Hoit, Daniel McKee, Gifford Pinchot, and Dana J. Tinnes. Subjects include federal land banks, Wallaces' Farmer, monetary policy, and speaking invitations.

 

Reel 9 (August 21-October 5, 1931) - Correspondents include Albert G. Black, Samuel Crowther, Chester C. Davis, E. A. Duddy, E. D. Funk, Clifford V. Gregory, Harold D. Hughes, Frank O. Lowden, Charles Roos, Juanita Roos, George W. Russell (AE), Carl Snyder, and Ralph Snyder. Subjects include corn prices, Wallaces' Farmer, monetary con­ferences and policy, tax reform and speaking invitations.

 

Reel 10 (October 6-November 25, 1931) - Correspondents include J. W. Beatson, Arthur Capper, Edward A. Duddy, Irving Fisher, Clifford V. Gregory, Lowell Hoit, Sherman E. Johnson, Benson Y. Landis, Alexander Legge, Frank O. Lowden, George N. Peck, Gifford Pinchot, C. W. Ramseyer, Charles Roos, George W. Russell (AE), Theodore W. Schultz. Carl Snyder, and Ralph Snyder. Subjects include monetary policy, farm prices, WaIlaces’ Farmer, mysticism, and federal land banks.

 

Reel 11 (November 26-January 13. 1932) - Correspondents include J. W. Beatson, Edward L. Bornays, Albert G. Black. O. S. Bowman, Smith W. Brookhart, Edmund deS. Brunner, John R. Commons, Paul de Kruif, Edward A. Duddy, John M. Evvard, Clifford V. Gregory, H. H. Kildee, Samuel R. McKelvie, Edwin G. Nourse, Nils Olsen, Edward A. O'Neal, Clarence Poe, C. W. Ramsayer, Milo Reno, Charles Roos, Juanita Roos, and James C. Strong. Subjects include Wallaces' Farmer, monetary policy, speaking invitations, and astrology.

 

Reel 12 (January 14-February 22, 1932) - Correspondents include Edward L. Bernays, Kenyon L. Butter­field, Samuel Crowther, Mordecai Ezekiel, Harold D. Hughes, L. Edward Johndro, H. E. Miles, Edwin G. Nourse, Edward A. O'Neal, Clarence Poe. C. W. Ramseyer, and Charles Roos. Subjects include monetary policy, Wallaces' Farmer, speaking invitations, astrology, and state taxes.

 

Reel 13 (February 23-April 13, 1932) - Correspondents include Samuel Crowther, I. G. Davis, A. E. Holt, L. Edward Johndro, Edward A. O'Neal, Frank A. Pearson, Charles Roos, and Juanita Roos. Subjects include astrology, Wallaces’ Farmer, state taxes, county agents, monetary policy, and the domestic allotment plan.

 

Reel 14 (April 14-June 13, 1932) - Correspondents include O. S. Bowman, Jay N. Darling, Henry Field, Benson Y. Landis, Alexander Legge, Frank A. Pearson, and Charles Roos. Subjects include the domestic allotment plan, speaking invita­tions, the Amana Society, monetary policy, and religion.

 

Reel 15 (June 14-August, 1932) - Correspondents include A. E. Holt, L. Edward Johndro, Frank O. Lowden, H. E. Miles, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Jay J. Newlin, George N. Peck, George E. Robots, W. R. Ronald, Charles Roos, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Carl Snyder, and Alonzo E. Taylor. Subjects include monetary policy, Wallaces' Farmer, astrology, speaking invitations, cigarette advertising, and 1932 presidential campaign.

 

Reel 16 (September-October 18, 1932) - Correspondents include W. H. Dower, Clifford V. Gregory, L. Edward Johndro, Samuel McKelvie, H. E. Miles, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Clarence Poe, W. R. Ronald, Charles Roos, Henry C. Taylor, and M. L. Wilson. Subjects include Wallaces' Farmer, 1932 presidential campaign, joint-stock land banks, farm mortgages, tariff, cigarette advertis­ing, and speaking invitations.

 

Reel 17 (October 19-December 9, 1932) - Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, John D. Black, Roscoe Fertich, Henry I. Harriman, A. E. Holt, Benson Y. Landis, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Edward A. O'Neal, George N. Peek, Clarence Poe, W. R. Ronald, and Charles Roos. Subjects include 1932 presidential campaign, speaking invita­tions, tariff, advocacy of HAW as Secretary of Agriculture, pro­hibition, monetary policy, and the domestic allotment plan.

 

Reel 18 (December 10, 1932-September 1933) - Correspondents include Raymond F. Baker, Edward L. Bernays, J. M. Dowell, Frances R. Grant, Clifford V. Gregory, Louis L. Horch, Delos L. James, Benson Y. Landis, Frank O. Lowden, H. E. Miles. Donald R. Murphy, Louis Murphy, Dante M. Pierce, W. R. Ronald, Charles Roos, Juanita Roos, Edward A. Rumely, and Daniel A. Wallace. Subjects include the domestic allotment plan, speaking invita­tions, advocacy of HAW as Secretary of Agriculture, Maizewood firm, farm debts, Committee for the Nation to Rebuild Prices and Purchasing Power, Pioneer firm, USDA budget problems with Lewis Douglas, congratulations on appointment as Secre­tary of Agriculture, and Nicholas Roerich's banner of peace.

 

Reel 19 (October 1933-July 1935) - Correspondents include Paul H. Appleby, John H. Rankhead, Earl N. Bressman, E. Gil Borges, Frances R. Grant, Curtice N. Hitchcock, Louis L. Horch, Harold L. Ickes, H. G. MacMillan, Frances Perkins, Dante M. Pierce, Georges de Roerich, Nicholas Roerich, George W. Russell (A.E.), Knowles A. Ryerson, and Daniel A. Wallace. Subjects include Roerich Pact, Russian loan proposal, HAW’s books America Must Choose and New Frontiers, farm legislation, Roerich expedition, Chicago Tribune questions about HAW and his Pioneer firm, and 1934 drought.

 

Reel 20 (August 1935-January 1937) - Correspondents include Paul H. Appleby, Earl N. Bressman,  Chester C. Davis, Curtice N. Hitchcock, Louis L. Horch, Arthur Krock, Fred W. Lehmann, Jr., Donald R. Murphy, Dante M. Pierce, Frederick D. Richey, Georges de Roerich, Nicholas Roerich, and Daniel K. Wallace. Subjects include Roerich expedition, Roerich Pact, Supreme Court invalidation of AAA, Nicholas Roerich and dispute among his followers, books by HAW, HAW’s corn profits. USDA affairs, and 1936 presidential campaign.

 

Reel 21 (February 1937-June 1940) - Correspondents include Paul H. Appleby, Harriet Ashby, Newton B. Ashby, Frederick E. Biermann, Curtice N. Hitchcock, Hugh S. Johnson, John E. Kimber, Nelson G. Kraschel, Arthur Krock, James L. McCamy, George S. Messersmith, Donald R. Murphy, Will F. Riley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Daniel K. Wallace. Subjects include access to HAW by his bureau chiefs and their comments, books and articles be HAW, poultry breeding, the approach of war, Pan-American relations, rubber supplies, and the third term issue. Digital version

 

Reel 22 (July 1940-October 1941) - Correspondents include Paul H. Appleby, Manuel Avila Camacho, Louis H. Bean, Cyril Clemens, Josephus Daniels, Paul de Kruif, James M. Farley, Roswell Garst, J. C. Glover, Robert S. Harris, Curtice N. Hitchcock, Mary Huss, Nelson G. Kraschel, Fred W. Lehmann, Jr., Russell Lord, Charles E. Marsh, George S. Messersmith, Donald R. Murphy, Addison M. Parker, Milo Perkins, Will F. Riley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Daniel A. Wallace, Ruth Wijkman, and Harold H. Young. Subjects include vice-presidential nomination, memoranda from bureau chiefs on what HAW meant to them as Secretary of Agriculture, books and articles by HAW, 1940 presidential cam­paign, inaugural of Avila Camacho as President of Mexico, Pan-American relations, nutrition, and the approach of war.

 

Reel 23 (November 1941- October 1942) - Correspondents include Paul de Kruif, Edward J. Flynn, Roswell Garst, Fred W. Henshaw, Curtice N. Hitchcock, Mary Huss, Russell Lord, Charles E. Marsh, George S. Messersmith, Jake More, Donald R. Murphy, Addison M. Parker, Edwin W. Pauley, Westbrook Pegler, Milo Perkins, Will F. Riley, Daniel A. Wallace, John P. Wallace, and Harold H. Young. Subjects include the death of Clifford V. Gregory, Supply Priori­ties and Allocations Board, Board of Economic Warfare, patron­age, Martin Dies, Iowa Democratic Party finances, formal state­ments, public Health, rubber supplies, Pan-American relations, and political advice from Charles E. Marsh.

 

Reel 24 (November 1942-July 15, 1943) - Correspondents include Eugene C. Auchter, Louis Bromfield, James F. Byrnes, Paul de Kruif, Edward J. Flynn, Fred W. Henshaw, Curtice N. Hitchcock, Mary Huss, Jesse H. Jones, Kent E. Keller, Arthur Krock, Henry R. Luce, Charles E. Marsh, George S. Messersmith, Jake More, Gabriel Pascal, Edwin W. Pauley, Milo Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Daniel A. Wallace, and Harold H. Young. Subjects include 1942 election, formal statements, Board of Eco­nomic Warfare, public health, rubber supplies, political advice from Charles E. Marsh, and controversy with Jesse H. Jones ending with abolition of Board of Economic Warfare.

 

Reel 25 (July 16, 1943-February 1944) - Correspondents include Eugene C. Auchter, Paul de Kruif, Ben Hibbs, Sidney Hillman, Mary Huss, Russell Lord, Charles E. Marsh, Jake More, Milo Perkins, Boris Pregel, Will F. Riley, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Arthur I. Saul, Daniel A. Wallace, W. W. Waymack, William Allen White, and Harold H. Young. Subjects include reactions to Board of Economic Warfare controversy, formal statements, books, articles, and speeches by HAW, political advice from Charles E. Marsh, rubber supplies, and China.

 

Reel 26 (March-July 1944) - Correspondents include Eugene C. Auchter, Carson Chang, Robert S. Harris, Sidney Hillman, Mary Huss, Russell Lord, Jake More, Donald R. Murphy, Boris Pregel, Arthur I. Saul, John Carter Vincent, and Harold H. Young. Subjects include formal statements, speeches by HAW, China-­Siberia trip, rubber supplies, book publishing, 1944 Democratic vice-presidential nomination, and nutrition.

 

Reel 27 (August 1944-January 22, 1945) - Correspondents include Eugene C. Auchter, Jo Davidson, Mary Huss, Russell Lord, Charles E. Marsh, Jake More, Donald R. Murphy, Addison M. Parker, Arthur I. Saul, Andrew J. Steiger, John Carter Vincent, and Harold H. Young. Subjects include 1944 presidential campaign, China-Siberia trip, formal statements, speeches and books by HAW, loss of vice-­presidential nomination, appointment as Secretary of Commerce, and Jesse H. Jones.

 

Reel 28 (January 23-27, 1945) - Correspondents include Ellis G. Arnall. Subjects include congratulations on appointment as Secretary of Commerce, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the George Bill to remove the Reconstruction Finance Corporation from the Commerce appointment, and Jesse H. Jones.

 

Reel 29 (January 28-31, 1945) - Correspondents include Mary Huss. Subjects include congratulations on and support for appointment as Secretary of Commerce, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the George bill to remove the Reconstruction Finance Corpora­tion from the Commerce appointment, and Jesse H. Jones.

 

Reel 30 (February 1-11, 1945) - Correspondents include James H. McGill, Donald R. Murphy and Addison M. Parker. Subjects include congratulations on and support for appointment as Secretary of Commerce, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the George Bill to remove the Reconstruction Finance Corpora­tion from the Commerce appointment, Jesse H. Jones, and speaking invitations.

 

Reel 31 (February 12-28, 1945) - Correspondents include Mary Huss, James H. McGill, and P. W. Reeves. Subjects include congratulations on and support for appointment as Secretary of Commerce.

 

Reel 32 (March 1-19, 1945) - Correspondents include Mildred M. Eaton. Subjects include congratulations on confirmation as Secretary of Commerce, HAW’s thanks for congratulations, speaking invita­tions, and Reader’s Digest article.

 

Reel 33 (March 20-April 15, 1945) - Correspondents include Paul de Kruif, Mildred M. Eaton, and Curtice N. Hitchcock.   Subjects include HAW’s thanks for congratulations and Department of Commerce affairs (inventions, job requests, employment plans, governmental regulatory problems, and foreign trade).

 

Reel 34 (April 16-May, 1945) - Correspondents include Mildred M. Eaton, Curtice N. Hitch­cock, and Boris Pregel. Subjects include HAW's thanks for congratulations and department of Commerce affairs, Small Business Advisory Committee, and the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

 

Reel 35 (June-July 21, 1945) - Correspondents include Mildred M. Eaton, Curtice N. Hitchcock, and Andrew J. Steiger. Subjects include Department of Commerce affairs, Surplus Property Board, Reader's Digest article, and HAW's books Sixty Million Jobs and Soviet Asia Mission.

 

Reel 36 (July 23-September 1945) - Correspondents include Mildred M. Eaton, Curtice N. Hitchcock. and Alexander Sachs. Subjects include Department of Commerce affairs, Sixty Million Jobs, atomic bomb, speaking invitations, and Farvue Farm.

 

Reel 37 (October-November 21, 1945) - Correspondents include Paul de Kruif, Mildred M. Eaton, and Alexander Sachs. Subjects include Department of Commerce affairs, Sixty Million Jobs, requests for release from military service, atomic energy, speaking invitations, and Farvue Farm.

 

Reel 38 (November 23, 1945-January 1946) - Correspondents include Mildred M. Eaton, Boris Pregel, and Harry S Truman. Subjects include Department of Commerce affairs, Business Advisory Council, speaking invitations, film version of Sixty Million Jobs, and Farvue Farm (including gladiolus and poultry orders).

 

Reel 39 (February-April 3, 1946) - Correspondents include Bruce Catton, Homer Croy, Paul de Kruif, Mildred M. Eaton, Curtice N. Hitchcock, Andrew J. Steiger, Harry S Truman, and Daniel A. Wallace. Subjects include Department of Commerce affairs, speaking invi­tations, Farvue Farm (including gladiolus, poultry, and straw­berry orders), early corn breeding, Soviet Asia Mission, and world food shortage.

 

Reel 40 (April 4-May 1946) - Correspondents include Joseph Alsop, Mildred M. Eaton, and Daniel A. Wallace. Subjects include Department of Commerce affairs, speaking invitations, world food shortage, continuation of Office of Price Administration, atomic energy legislation, Kiplinger Washington Newsletter attack on Secretary of Commerce, and the little pigs story.

 

Reel 41 (June-August 8, 1946) - Correspondents include Mildred M. Eaton. Fred W. Lehmann, Jr., Boris Pregel, and Harry S Truman. Subjects include Department of Commerce affairs, speaking invitations, world food shortage, Soviet Asia Mission, liberal po­litical activity, Office of Price Administration, and National Science Foundation bill.

 

Reel 42 (August 9, 1946-January 1947) - Correspondents include Anita McCormick Blaine, Paul de Kruif, Mildred M. Eaton, Albert Einstein. Bernard L. Gladieux, Fred W. Lehmann, Jr., Kingsley Martin, Boris Pregel, M. W. Thatcher, and Harold H. Young.

Subjects include Department of Commerce affairs, speaking invi­tations, Mexican trip, Madison Square Garden speech, resigna­tion as Secretary of Commerce, and The New Republic.

 

Reel 43 (February-April, 1947) - Correspondents include Kingsley Martin, Michael Straight, and    Harold H. Young. Subjects include European trip and opposition to Truman doctrine.

 

Reel 44 (May 1947-May 1948) - Correspondents include George V. Darrow, Lewis C. Frank, Jr., Robert W. Kenny, Donald R. Murphy, Boris Pregel, Harold H. Young, and Konni Zilliacus. Subjects include Progressive Citizens of America, Palestine trip, requests for exit visas for Russian wives of American citizens, 1948 presidential campaign, and death of HAW’s mother.

 

Reel 45 (June 1948- March 1949) - Correspondents include Anita McCormick Blaine, Mabel A. Cooney, James S. Crutchfield, Lewis C. Frank, Jr., Samuel V. Goodman, and Boris Pregel. Subjects include 1948 presidential campaign, foreign policy, Progressive Party, plant breeding, Lysenko controversy, and criticism of the Roman Catholic Church.

 

Reel 46 (April 1949-July 1950) - Correspondents include C. B. Baldwin, Anita McCormick Blaine, James S. Crutchfield, Walter Freedman, and Alexander Panyushkin. Subjects include plant and poultry breeding, Progressive Party, foreign policy, North Atlantic Pact, congressional hearings on uranium shipments to Russia, and Korean War.

 

Reel 47 (August 1950- January 1951) - Correspondents include C. B. Baldwin, Nicholas D. Cheronis, James S. Crutchfield, Alfred Kohlberg, Arthur Krock, Donald G. Lothrop. Curtis D. MacDougall, A. J. Muste, Claude D. Pepper, and Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Subjects include Korean War, Progressive Party, HAW’s resigna­tion from the Progressive Party, and proposed article by Alfred Kohlberg.

 

Reel 48 (February 1951-August 1952) - Correspondents include Dean Albertson, Joseph Alsop, Walter Freedman, Henry Hazlitt, Daniel James, Arthur Krock, Suzanne La Follette, Donald G. Lothrop, Curtis D. MacDougall, George H. Maines, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, and Daniel A. Wallace. Subjects include uranium shipments to Russia, The Freeman, Magadan (Siberian prison camp), 1944 China trip, September 21, 1945, cabinet meeting on atomic bomb, and genetics (corn, gladiolus, poultry, and strawberry breeding).

 

Reel 49 (September 1952-May 1954) - Correspondents include Dean Albertson, Raymond F. Baker, Simon Casady, James S. Crutchfield, Milton S. Eisenhower, Homer Ferguson, Arthur Krock, Curtis D. MacDougall, George H. Maines, Milo Perkins, Maurice S. Sheehy, and Daniel A. Wallace. Subjects include 1952 presidential campaign, Communist charges, genetics (corn, gladiolus, and poultry breeding, DNA, and blood types), and flexible farm price supports.

 

Reel 50 (June 1954-March 1956) - Correspondents include Dean Albertson, Clinton P. Anderson, Raymond F. Baker, Nicholas D. Cheronis, Morris Cohen, Bern Dibner, Theodosius Dubzhansky, L. C. Dunn, Zvi Griliches, and James G. Horsfall. Subjects include genetics (corn and poultry breeding and blood types), farm programs, political career, and Charolais cattle.

 

Reel 51 (April 1956-March 1958) - Correspondents include Edgar Anderson, Raymond F. Baker, Ezra Taft Benson, Morris Cohen, Dwight D. Eisenhower. V. B. Hamilton, L. Fredric Hough, Atherton Lee, Russell Lord, Harri­son E. Salisbury, Donald H. Scott, and Adlai E. Stevenson. Subjects include gladiolus, corn, strawberries, hybrid swine, Charolais cattle, Life article, HAW and William L. Brown's book Corn and Its Early Fathers, and 1956 presidential campaign.

 

Reel 52 (April 1958-April 1961) - Correspondents include Edgar Anderson, Marcus Bach, Raymond F. Baker, Leo M. Cherne, Cyril Clemens, Thomas K. Cowden, Jay N. Darling, George M. Darrow, Paul de Kruif, Mordecai Ezekiel, O. D. Foster, Roswell Garst, Leon Henderson, M. L. Mosher, Donald R. Murphy, Drew Pearson, Lincoln C. Pettit, Donald H. Scott, George L. Slate, Henry C. Taylor, and A. F. Yeager. Subjects include strawberries, corn, 1958 European trip on plant breeding, farm programs, 1960 presidential campaign, and edit­ing HAW's diary.

 

Reel 53 (May 1961-January 1963) - Correspondents include Paul H. Appleby, Gladys L. Baker, Allan G. Bogue, George M. Darrow, Philip M. Hauser, Vivian Lee, Donald R. Murphy, Donald H. Scott, George L. Slate, and Henry ­C. Taylor. Subjects include strawberries, editing HAW's diary, Dean Albert­son biography of Claude R. Wickard, and Caribbean agricultural development.

 

Reel 54 (February 1963-July 1964) - Correspondents include Royce S. Bringhurst, Cyril Clemens, George M. Darrow, Robert W. Dudley, Tom G. Dyer, Walton C. Galinat, Victor E. Green, Jr., Irving E. Melhus, George H. Mickey, Donald R. Murphy, Cabell Phillips, Federico Poey, Wilson Popenoe, George L. Slate, and Henry C. Taylor. Subjects include Caribbean and Central American agricultural development, strawberries, gladiolus, editing HAW's diary, 1964 Guatemalan trip, Dominican Republic, and centennial of West High School, Des Moines.

 

Reel 55 (August 1964-1966 and undated) - Correspondents include Gladys L. Baker, Joseph Belsky, W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., Royce S. Bringhurst, Cyril Clemens, George M. Darrow, Robert W. Dudley, Tom G. Dyer, Roswell Garst, Victor E. Green, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, George H. Mickey, Donald R. Murphy, Federico Poey, Wilson Popenoe, George L. Slate, Henry C. Taylor, Ilo B. Wallace, and Max Wolf. Subjects include centennial of West High School, Des Moines, Caribbean and Central American agricultural development, Dominican Republic, 1965 Caribbean trip, strawberries, day lilies, editing HAW's diary, sinus and tonsil condition, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

 

 

Correspondence Supplement

 

Reel 56 (1912-1928) - Correspondents include Raymond F. Baker, Earl N. Bressman, Earle Houghton, Harold D. Hughes, Donald F. Jones, and Stuart N. Smith. Subjects include corn breeding.

 

Reel 57 (1929-April 1930) - Correspondents include Raymond F. Baker, Hubert D. Goodale, Herbert K. Hayes, Earle Houghton, Donald F. Jones, C. W. Knox, Jay J. Newlin, Leste Pfister, Frederick D. Richey, Joe L. Robinson, Ross R. Salmon, and Stuart N. Smith. Subjects include corn and poultry breeding, corn drier construc­tion, and Wallace genealogy.

 

Reel 58 (1930-November 1931) - Correspondents include Raymond F. Baker, Roswell Garst , Hubert D. Goodale, Earle Houghton, Harold D. Hughes, Donald F. Jones, C. W. Knox, Paul C. Mangelsdorf. Earl E. May, Jay J. Newlin, Frederick D. Richey, Ross R. Salmon, Stuart N. Smith, and A. G. Thurman. Subjects include corn and poultry breeding, corn drier construc­tion, and monetary policy.

 

Reel 59 (December 1931-1964) - Correspondents include Raymond F. Baker, John M. Evvard, Roswell Garst, C. W. Knox, Frederick D. Richey, Charles Roos, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Ross R. Salmon. Subjects include corn and poultry breeding, the domestic allot­ment plan, and Board of Economic Warfare.

 

 

Appointment Books

 

Reel 60 (1933-1935) - There are two appointment books for 1933 on this reel. They partially overlap in coverage of time. 1934 and 1935 are in one book each. Loose sheets were microfilmed as they appeared in this and the following three reels.

 

Reel 61 (1936-1939) - There are four books, one for each year, on this reel.

 

Reel 62 (1940-1942) - There are three books, one for each year, on this reel.

 

Reel 63 (1943-1945) - There are three books, one for each year, on this reel. In the appointment book for 1945, the last entry appears on the page for May 26.

 

Schedules

 

Reel 64 (Daily Schedules, March 2, 1945-September 20, 1946; Trip Schedules, 1941-1946) - The typed daily schedules continue the coverage of the appointment books, with some overlap in early 1945, from Wallace's swearing in as Secretary of Commerce to his resignation from that position. The typed trip schedules are those found in a separate section of the Wallace Papers. Other trip schedules for the above and other years may be found among the correspond­ence microfilmed in reels 1-59.

 

 

Telephone Conversations

 

Reel 65 (ca. March 22-December 29, 1945); Reel 66 (January 2­-September 20, 1946) - These two reels include notes of telephone conversations in Wallace's office while he was Secretary of Commerce. Notes of occasional earlier telephone conversations while Wallace was in government service, 1933-1945, were not kept separate and may be found among the correspondence microfilmed in reels 1-59.

 

Miscellaneous

 

Reel 67 (1934-1965) includes several manuscripts of several pages each, by Henry A. Wallace, in his handwriting, and with titles supplied by him. Documents by Wallace and others include "Abstract of Conversation with Mr. John Maynard Keynes," 1936; statements on the Board of Economic Warfare and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, June-July, 1943; a list of Wallace delegates, August 11, 1944; "Miscellaneous Recollections of the Interment Train, April 14-15, 1945" ( Roosevelt funeral); cabinet meeting papers, August-September, 1945; "Korea, Trygvie Lie and the Progressive Party from July 6 to 12, 1950"; personnel information on certain former USDA attorneys, economists, and others, 1951 (?); "The Last [Truman] Cabinet Dinner, December 4, 1952, The End of an Era"; Wallace's notes on private meeting with Ezra Taft Benson, discussion with Marquis Childs, and Gridiron Dinner, Washington, D.C., December 8, 1956; Wallace's notes on Truman Committee 21st Anniversary Dinner, February 13, 1962; "Truman's 80th Birthday Celebration, May 8” (Truman Committee, 23rd Anniversary Dinner, 1964); and "Amateur Growing of Strawberries from Seed" (1965?).

Description of the Papers

 

The principal collection of the papers of Henry Agard Wallace, farm editor, plant breeder, businessman, Secretary of Agriculture, Vice President, Secretary of Commerce, and, in 1948, presidential candidate, is in the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. The Henry A. Wallace Papers were donated over a period of years to the University of Iowa Libraries by the Wallace family, by Donald R. Murphy, Wallace's successor as editor of Wallaces' Farmer, and by many other friends, associates, and correspondents.

 

The Papers consist of letters, telegrams, postcards, speeches, appointment books, schedules, notes of telephone conversations, memoranda, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, books, magazines, articles, bulletins, theses, photographs, speech recordings, and other material. The microfilm edition of the Henry A. Wallace Papers at The University of Iowa, 1888-1966, contains the correspondence (with attachments and enclosures), appointment books, schedules, telephone conversations, and miscellaneous papers (especially memoranda), each in chronological order. Letters found and received during microfilming are in a correspondence supplement of four reels at the end of the basic correspondence sequence. Letters and telegrams include carbon copies and photocopies.

 

Microfilm targets include chronological divisions (usually by month), enclosures and attachments (filmed immediately after the covering letters), intentional duplicate exposures, incomplete documents, etc. Departures from a strict chronological sequence include 1945 letters inadvertently placed in 1946 and 1946 letters placed in 1945. Dates and correspondents' names supplied during editing are in brackets. Number and letter codes penciled at the top of many documents were employed in a discarded notation scheme. Circled numbers on the backs of some documents were used to indicate the subject files from which they came. All formerly classified documents in the Henry A. Wallace Papers at The University of Iowa have now been declassified. Such documents were not marked as declassified at the time of filming.

 

Use and Availability of the Microfilm

 

Literary property rights in the letters of Henry A. Wallace at the University of Iowa Libraries have been assigned by the Wallace heirs to the University Libraries. Requests for permission to pub­lish any portion of these unpublished documents must be addressed to the Head of the Special Collections Department, who will review the quotations or documents in question, in consulta­tion with representatives of the Wallace family when appropri­ate. Among the Wallace Papers are, of course, hundreds of in-coming letters addressed to Henry A. Wallace from other corre­spondents, and under common law, the literary rights in these unpublished manuscripts, including the right of first publication, are retained in perpetuity by the author of each manuscript, unless such rights have been otherwise assigned, regardless of the ownership of the physical manuscript. For this reason, per­mission to quote for publication in whole or in part from any unpublished manuscript material must normally be secured from the author or his or her heirs.

 

Documents in the microfilm edition should be cited as being in the Henry A. Wallace Papers, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, with correspondents' names and elates and with reel and frame numbers.

The microfilm edition of the Henry A. Wallace Papers may be used at the University of Iowa Libraries, borrowed through interlibrary loan, or purchased (request current price per reel or for the complete set of 67 reels).

  

Locations of Other Wallace Papers

The Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries, contains papers of Henry A. Wallace's grandfather, Henry Wallace (1836-1916); father Henry Cantwell Wallace (1866-1924); and uncle, Daniel Alden Wallace (1878-1954). It also has the Edward L. and Frederick H. Schapsmeier Collection on Henry A. Wallace, the Progressive Party (founded 1948) Records, and the Lewis C. Frank. Jr., Papers. Wallace papers at Iowa not in the microfilm edition include an extensive file of his speeches, 19[33-1964.

 

Henry A. Wallace papers are also at the Libran of Congress. 1934-1944, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1941-1945. The University of Iowa Libraries have prepared a joint index to the microfilm editions of Wallace papers at The University of Iowa, the Library of Congress, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library published in 1974.

 

Other locations of Wallace papers are the National Archives (including Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Commerce), Columbia University, and the Department of Special Collections. Iowa State University Library, Ames. The papers of many of his agricultural, political, and scientific associates contain Henry A. Wallace correspondence.