Joseph P. Kennedy (#136) - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

An Inventory of His Personal Papers
1888-1974
In the John F. Kennedy Library
National Archives and Records Administration

Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Function and Use
Collection Overview
List of Series
Series Description

Administrative Information

Abstract
Papers 1888-1974
Father of President Kennedy, banker, financier, diplomat. Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-1937); Chairman, Maritime Commission (1937); Ambassador to Great Britain (1938-1940). Personal, family, business and diplomatic papers.

Access
Under the terms of the deed of gift, access to this collection is “by permission only.” The deed establishes a donor committee to review and approve all matters relating to the processing of the collection and the opening of the papers for scholarly review. The committee has approved instructions for applying for access and a uniform “Request for Access” to be submitted by applicants for access. Forms attached.

Usage Restrictions
According to the deed of gift signed November 21, 1995, all copyright in these materials that was held by the donors at the time of donation has been assigned to the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation until November 21, 2020 when the Library Foundation will be free to transfer and assign any then-valid intellectual property rights (including any copyrights) in these materials to the United States of America for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

Copyright
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excesses of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law. The copyright law extends its protection to unpublished works from the moment of creation in a tangible form. Direct your questions concerning copyright to the reference staff. All copies from this collection are made on distinctively colored paper and bear the following statement on each page:

THE JOSEPH P. KENNEDY PAPERS COLLECTION. This copy is for the sole use of [Name of researcher] and shall not be reproduced, copied, or shared with any other person without the prior written consent of the Joseph P. Kennedy Papers Donor Committee and/or the copyright holder.

Provenance
Deeded to the National Archives and Records Administration by the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Foundation of Washington, District of Columbia, in November 1995. Received from Rose Kennedy, August 1975 (Acc. 1976-006); January 1976 (Acc. 1976-20); September 1976 (Acc. 1976-044); from Stephen Smith, March 1977 (Acc. 1977-15); from Patricia Kennedy Lawford, April 1977 (Acc. 1977-20); from Rose Kennedy, May 1977 (Acc. 1977-21); from Stephen Smith, May 1977 (Acc. 1977-23); from Rose Kennedy and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, June 1977 (Acc. 1977-29); from Rose Kennedy, June 1977 (Acc. 1977-032), May 1977 (Acc. 1977-040), July 1977 (Acc. 1977-041) and October 1978 (Acc. 1979-02); from Patricia Kennedy Lawford, May 1980 (Acc. 1980-10); from Rose Kennedy, September 1986 and May 1987 (Acc. 1987-021); from the John F. Kennedy Library Corporation, January 1995 (Acc. 1995-23); from the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Foundation, November 1996 (Acc. 1997-02); through Amanda Smith from Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises storage, February 2002 (Acc. 2002-310); and from Edward Kennedy, July 2002 (Acc. 2002-361) and May 2004 (Acc. 2004-82).

Extent
About 124,725 items (343 linear feet)

Classified Items Withdrawn
Selected folders may contain withdrawal sheets where documents containing national security classified information were removed from this collection.

Withdrawn Items
Selected folders may contain withdrawal sheets where documents, in accordance with the donor's deed of gift, were removed from the collection. These include documents which may be used to injure or harass any living person. All withdrawn documents have been placed under seal and upon request the Kennedy Library will review any material which has been closed for a period of not less than two years for the purpose of opening items which no longer require restrictions. Researchers should consult the reference staff to obtain the appropriate form(s).

Items Separated
Items separated include oversize items (OVZ-136), oversize printed materials (PM-136), oversize volumes of books and ledgers (SV-136), and pictures (P-136). A separation sheet has been inserted in the appropriate file describing the item and giving a reference number. To see oversize material, please ask the reference archivist for assistance.

Date Opened
August 2000-March 2004.

Processed by
Megan F. Desnoyers

Encoded by
James M. Roth

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The Personal Papers of Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969)

Biographical Note

Early Years

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 6, 1888, Joseph Patrick Kennedy was the son of Mary Hickey and Patrick Joseph Kennedy, an important figure in the Irish community of Boston. Familiarly known as "P.J.", Patrick J. Kennedy had risen from common laborer to highly successful businessman, and was eventually instrumental in the organization of two different Boston financial institutions, the Columbia Trust Company and the Sumner Savings Bank. Early on, Patrick J. Kennedy had also entered politics, and Joseph, his first child, was born during "P.J."'s third term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Patrick J. Kennedy also served in the Massachusetts Senate, but his enduring political power was in the unofficial capacity of a "ward boss" who held sway in the East Boston Ward 2 for more than thirty years.

Young Joseph grew up in East Boston and attended Catholic schools until the eighth grade when his family enrolled him in Boston Latin School, a college preparatory academy in the Boston Public School system. Despite an aptitude for mathematics, Joseph P. Kennedy's academic record at Boston Latin was mediocre at best. Nonetheless, he found favor with teachers and was popular with fellow students, who elected him class president during his senior year. Upon graduating from Boston Latin in 1908, he entered Harvard University, where he earned his B.A. in 1912. In the fall of 1912, Kennedy procured the position of assistant state bank examiner for Massachusetts, the first step in a career in finance that would bring him great wealth.

In his last years at Harvard and as he embarked upon his career, Joseph P. Kennedy began in earnest to court Rose Fitzgerald, daughter of Boston Mayor John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald. As the scions of important and influential men, the two had grown up in the same circles, and had even spent a summer vacation together when they were children. In their adolescent years, Joseph Kennedy started accompanying Rose to dances and parties; he would later say that he was "never seriously interested in anyone else." But after Rose Fitzgerald's debut in society and Kennedy's graduation, the courtship became more firmly established. The couple was married on October 7, 1914 and after a two-week honeymoon, they settled in the Boston suburb of Brookline. Their first son, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., was born on July 28, 1915 while Rose Kennedy was staying at a summer cottage in Hull, Massachusetts.

Business Beginnings

In the meantime, Joseph Kennedy had taken a significant business step. Columbia Trust, the bank his father had helped start, was ailing and its stockholders were on the verge of selling out. Sensing an opportunity, the younger Kennedy sought and obtained the backing to purchase a controlling interest, becoming, according to the press, the youngest bank president in the country, at twenty-five. As head of Columbia Trust, Kennedy worked hard to cultivate connections both high and low, maintaining good relations with his working class client base but always seeking new links to Boston's business elite. His entry into that circle was confirmed by his election to the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Electric Company, New England's leading public utility at the time. He was named to the Board on May 29, 1917, the same day his second child, John Fitzgerald, was born.

Even apart from his election to the Board, however, Kennedy's connections were beginning to pay off. In 1917, fellow Board member Guy Currier, a prominent Boston lawyer and counsel for Bethlehem Steel, recommended Kennedy to Bethlehem chief executive Charles M. Schwab for the position of assistant general manager at the company's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. Already one of the largest shipyards in the country, Fore River was booming with orders as a result of the United States' entry into World War I, and a companion yard was being built at nearby Squantum. Kennedy's close supervision would keep this work under control. It was during his tenure at Fore River that Kennedy would first meet – and sometimes clash with – Franklin D. Roosevelt, then assistant secretary of the Navy.

By the time the War entered its final months, the weight of work at Fore River had pushed Kennedy to exhaustion, which was compounded by worry over Rose who was expecting in the midst of the deadly Spanish flu epidemic that was proving a particular threat to pregnant women. But Rose safely gave birth to her first daughter Rosemary on September 13, 1918, and within a couple of months the war had ended and the flu had subsided. Observing the inevitable peacetime slackening of pace at Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Kennedy realized that there would not be the same challenges and, more importantly, prospects with the company. He determined to return to finance, and cast about for the best option. He found it in the person of Galen Stone, an associate from the Massachusetts Electric Company Board and a partner at the brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone and Company. With Stone as mentor, Joseph Kennedy absorbed the precepts and practicalities of the stock market, increasingly investing his own capital. Setbacks occurred, but Kennedy's progress – and success – were notable. When Stone retired at the beginning of 1923, Kennedy decided to move on. He left the firm of Hayden, Stone – though not the physical address – and established himself in his own right as "Joseph P. Kennedy, Banker," offering a range of financial services based on the knowledge and skills he had developed working with Galen Stone. For the next three years, on his own behalf and that of others, Kennedy would undertake a series of business ventures that would make him a wealthy man, with a net worth of 2 million dollars.

Making Movies

Kennedy's next career step appears, at first sight, like a radical departure. In 1926, engineering a deal to buy the company Film Booking Offices, he stepped fully into the still-new and burgeoning movie industry. But as with most of Kennedy's business moves, the decision had long roots and was the result of careful observation. As early as 1919, Kennedy had purchased the Maine and New Hampshire Theatres Company, a small chain of New England movie houses. His experience with the chain showed him the promise of the movie business but also that the real money was being made in production rather than distribution. His first connection with FBO was through Hayden, Stone, which had been approached by a British firm that held a controlling interest in the Robertson-Cole Company, the parent organization for FBO. Dissatisfied with the money-losing habits of Robertson-Cole/FBO, its British owners looked to Hayden, Stone for help in finding a buyer in the United States. Because of his interest in the film industry, the project was assigned to Joseph Kennedy, who was also retained as a financial advisor to Robertson-Cole. Although he was unsuccessful in finding a buyer, his position with Robertson-Cole/FBO gave Kennedy further insight into the movie business and fueled in him the ambition to purchase the company himself. But it was not until the summer of 1925 that Kennedy could put together an offer, in a consortium that included Guy Currier, Louis Kirstein, head of the Boston chain of Filene's department stores, and even his own father-in-law, "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald. The million-dollar offer was turned down flatly as insufficient; yet a little more than six months later, the British owners, perhaps finally discouraged by the many ways FBO found to lose money, suddenly chose to accept the bid.

Joseph Kennedy represented a new and coming thing for Hollywood. Moviemaking had always been a business, and often a cutthroat one at that, but its newness had worked against it, encouraging lax business practices and deterring stable investment. When he took over FBO, Kennedy brought both the stability and the expertise of an established businessman. With the creation of a finance company, Cinema Credits Corporation, Kennedy could tap into his many contacts in the financial world. At the same time he enforced a fiscal discipline on FBO that was new to the company and, indeed, Hollywood in general.

Marking his new position as movie mogul, Kennedy made a major move personally, taking his family from Boston to the New York suburb of Riverdale. The family had doubled in size. Three more girls had followed Rosemary – Kathleen (February 20, 1920), Eunice (July 10 1921), and Patricia (May 6, 1924) – before a third boy, Robert, was born on November 20, 1925. Another girl, Jean (February 20, 1928) would be born not long after the family settled in New York. In later years, Kennedy would state that the social constraints on his Irish Catholic family in Yankee-dominated Boston had motivated the move, but at least as much of a factor was Kennedy's need to enter a broader, more varied business arena now that his own interests had widened and enlarged.

For the most part, Kennedy spent 1926, his first year as a studio owner, getting FBO on a sound business footing. He did undertake an advantageous side venture, arranging for a series of lectures at Harvard, subsequently turned into a book, on the history of film, to be given by some of the most notable names in Hollywood. These men, many of whom had little organized education beyond elementary school, were immensely flattered by the invitation to speak at one of the great universities of the country. Despite Harvardites who grumbled at a connection with anything so disreputable as the movies, the university also benefited, not least from a sizable donation by Kennedy to help set up a film library. As the recipient of gratitude from all sides, Kennedy profited most of all, gaining an introduction to and the confidence of some of the most powerful men in the film industry.

In the fall of 1927, Kennedy began in earnest his efforts to advance his position in Hollywood by approaching David Sarnoff, head of Radio Corporation of America. As the developer of Photophone, a sound system for the new "talkies," RCA needed to forge a connection with Hollywood to sell its product. At the same time Kennedy knew that he needed to compete in the new market of sound films and to do so he would have to have access to a technology that was not proprietary, which was the case with Warner Brothers' Vitaphone, the most successful sound process to date. The corporate alliance between FBO and RCA was cemented with the purchase by FBO of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain, which would provide the venues for Photophone process pictures. In the meantime, Kennedy's success with FBO had been noticed, and he was invited in to perform the same kind of corporate turnaround, first for Pathé-DeMille, a production company that already had an uneasy affiliation with KAO, though Kennedy's role was independent, and then with First National. As a condition of his work, Kennedy demanded absolute power in the companies, and in fact wound up in control of Pathé, but the requirement did not sit well with the board of First National, which ultimately dispensed with his services. Still, for a brief period of time in 1928, Joseph P. Kennedy was the de facto head of four different companies.

The degree of vertical integration represented by the FBO-KAO combination suggested to observers an imminent merger, especially because of the connection KAO already had with the production company Pathé-DeMille. The deal that eventually developed involved the purchase by RCA of a major stakeholding in KAO to complement the majority holding it already had in FBO. Pathé for the moment remained outside of the compact, and Kennedy continued to run that company. What emerged in late 1928 was the holding company Radio-Keith-Orpheum, which became a subsidiary of RCA. The prime movers in the merger, Kennedy and Sarnoff and their investors, profited handsomely although there were complaints from smaller and less well-connected shareholders.

Despite these abundant and complex business interests, Kennedy did not ignore opportunities to engage in independent production. As early as 1923 he had arranged a personal corporation to manage the film career of FBO cowboy star Fred Thomson. But his most important independent work was with Gloria Swanson, one of the biggest stars of the silent era. Kennedy met Swanson in late 1927 when the actor was in considerable financial difficulties because of a disastrous attempt at self production under the aegis of United Artists Corporation, difficulties she aggravated with her extravagant lifestyle. Kennedy took over Swanson's personal and professional finances, creating Gloria Productions to oversee her filmmaking opportunities. In early 1928, Kennedy hired director Erich von Stroheim to direct Swanson in a lavish film designed to restore her somewhat dimmed star power. Although the film, Queen Kelly, was never completed, Kennedy and Swanson produced two other films, including Swanson's first talking feature, “The Trespasser” before ending their business relationship in 1930.

Nineteen thirty also saw Joseph P. Kennedy extricating himself from his other Hollywood commitments. From a personal sense of foreboding and on the advice of trusted associates, Kennedy had already divested himself of virtually all of his stock holdings, including the stock he held in Pathé, before the October 1929 crash. He would spend the next year sounding out potential buyers for the company, culminating in a sale to RKO, which already had business connections to Pathé that it had inherited from KAO.

Politics and Government

Kennedy’s lengthy foray into Hollywood had brought him a large and significantly liquid fortune that allowed him to continue his investments in real estate, notably his personal homes in Hyannis Port and Palm Beach, as well as a share in the Hialeah race track in Miami, even as he was scaling back his activities in Hollywood and the stock market. But at the beginning of the 1930s, the real focus of Kennedy’s energies became politics. As a successful businessman, Kennedy’s expected allegiance would have been to Hoover and the Republicans in the 1932 election, but the breadth and depth of the Depression had shaken Kennedy’s faith in Republican solutions. Believing that a change to the system was necessary to preserve the system, and willing to accept the toll on his own personal wealth that might be involved, Kennedy threw his personal and financial support behind Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidential campaign. He rode on Roosevelt’s campaign train and by some accounts his intercession brought about the support of powerful newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

In 1933, with the election won and Roosevelt inaugurated, Kennedy took a trip to Europe with James Roosevelt, the new President’s son. The end of Prohibition had been implicit in Roosevelt’s election, and Kennedy saw in it a new business possibility. While in England he obtained rights to become the U.S. agent for Haig & Haig Ltd., John Dewar and Sons, Ltd. and Gordon's Dry Gin Company Ltd. When Prohibition officially ended, with the ratification of the 21st amendment, Kennedy and his company, Somerset Importers, were poised to take advantage of the country’s rehabilitated thirst with an enormous stockpile of liquor imports. But Kennedy was not satisfied with business success; his work on the campaign had whetted his political ambitions and it was a source of disappointment that Roosevelt had not yet found a place for him in his administration. That changed in July 1934, when Roosevelt appointed Kennedy chair of the newly created Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Despite widespread qualms about the appointment of an ex-speculator to an influential regulatory position, Kennedy’s tenure proved to be just the start necessary for the new agency. Kennedy knew the business community and understood the business practices he was charged with policing. Though he had been appointed for a five-year term, Kennedy resigned from the SEC in September 1935, believing that he had accomplished what he needed to do.

From the end of 1935 through 1936, Kennedy acted as a consultant in business and government. After a six-week tour of Europe in the fall of 1935, he reported to Roosevelt on the European economic situation. He followed up that work with a more formalized stint as a paid advisor to David Sarnoff of R.C.A., which had suffered dangerous setbacks in the early Depression years. Kennedy also returned briefly to the movie industry, preparing a business review at the request of Paramount Pictures.

The 1936 presidential campaign brought Kennedy back into politics. Roosevelt sought his help on the campaign, and Kennedy responded with his book I'm for Roosevelt , which he had published and made sure was widely distributed. Written with the help of his friend, New York Times columnist Arthur Krock, the book presented arguments for why businessmen should support Roosevelt and the New Deal, told from the perspective of Kennedy’s own personal endorsement. The book had significant impact in the business community and after his re-election, Roosevelt appointed Kennedy chair of the United States Maritime Commission. Created by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the Commission was expected to rejuvenate America's merchant shipping industry, which was crippled by an outdated fleet and a difficult labor situation. Kennedy spent only ten months at the Commission. In early December 1937, Roosevelt named Kennedy the new ambassador to the Court of St. James, the United States’ representative to Great Britain. Kennedy officially resigned from the Maritime Commission in February 1938.

In many respects the ambassadorship represented the pinnacle of Joseph P. Kennedy’s personal success. Accompanied by his wife and children, now numbering nine since the birth in 1932 of the fourth son and last child, Edward M. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy was greeted with enthusiasm by the British public, and for a while Kennedy and his family were popular celebrities in England. But Kennedy’s tenure as ambassador soon ran into difficulty. European tensions were already running high when he arrived in 1938, and Kennedy’s personal aversion to war put him firmly in the appeasement camp, a position that was losing favor in Britain. When war broke out in 1939, Kennedy’s firm and outspoken commitment to U.S. neutrality put him increasingly at odds with the British Government, and eventually his own. Kennedy ultimately resigned in November 1940.

The War and Its Aftermath

The advent of war brought much grief and tragic loss to the family of which Joseph Kennedy was justly proud and for which he had worked so hard. Kennedy’s two eldest sons served in the Navy, Joe, Jr. as a pilot and John as the commander of torpedo boat PT-109. In August 1943, John was badly injured and narrowly escaped death in an attack on his boat by a Japanese destroyer. A little more than a year later, on August 12 1944, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was killed when his plane, packed with explosives for a top-secret bombing raid, exploded over southeast England. Only a month afterwards, the second Kennedy daughter Kathleen lost her husband of just four months, William John Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, killed in action in Belgium. Kathleen herself would die a few years later in a plane crash near Sainte-Bauzille, France while traveling with her intended second husband.

As the war ended, Kennedy continued with his business interests, but became more focused on real estate; even as he was divesting himself of Somerset Importers, in one of his most inspired investments, he purchased and renovated the enormous Merchandise Mart building in Chicago, which grew to become a cornerstone of his wealth. In addition he began serious, organized philanthropic activities, largely through the recently founded Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Foundation. Most importantly, Kennedy turned his energies to the careers of his remaining sons, especially his second son, John, convincing him to run in 1946 for the Massachusetts’ eleventh congressional district. John F. Kennedy won that election and went on to serve three terms (1947-1952) in the House of Representatives and two terms (1952-1960) in the U.S. Senate before his election as President of the United States in 1960. Joseph Kennedy also worked to advance the political careers of his younger sons, Robert and Edward, who would both become U.S. Senators.

On Dec. 19, 1961, Joseph Kennedy suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body and left him barely able to communicate, although his intellect was unimpaired. In this condition he lived another eight years, enduring through the assassinations of his sons John and Robert. Joseph P. Kennedy’s health deteriorated from further strokes and heart attacks, until on November 18, 1969, he died in his Hyannis Port, Massachusetts home at the age of 81.

Function and Use
Papers created by Joseph P. Kennedy--and members of his staff--in his capacity as a banker, financier, philanthropist, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-1937), Chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1937), and Ambassador to Great Britain (1938-1940).

Collection Overview
The Personal Papers of Joseph P. Kennedy document his life as banker, financier, movie producer, diplomat and father to nine children. The collection is arranged into twelve series, roughly organized chronologically by the positions Kennedy held, including his business ventures in banking, real estate and finance, movie producer, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, and ambassador to Great Britain. Other series document Kennedy family life, including Kennedy’s time after his ambassadorship and the political campaigns of his two sons, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

The first series, Family, documents family correspondence and contains material about individual family members. This material was collected from throughout the papers by Library staff. This series consists of two subseries: Correspondence and Subject Files. The Correspondence series contains letters between immediate members of the Kennedy family, including spouses and grandchildren. Of note are Rose Kennedy’s “round robin” letters, which kept the large and scattered family in touch. The Family Subject Files contain material specifically related to each family member. The files are arranged in birth order. The Subject Files include material from John C. Dowd, Inc., Advertising, hired by Kennedy, to write press releases, plan publicity, and collect news clippings about the family.

The Early Correspondence series contains fragmentary files of Kennedy’s personal, business and extended family correspondence, describing business deals, stock purchases, and initial acquaintances with individuals who appear throughout the later correspondence series. There is material about Kennedy’s father, Patrick Joseph Kennedy, his final illness and death. The series also documents early donations by the Kennedy family to different types of charities, including the Catholic Church, children’s hospitals and schools, and Harvard University.

The Business and Finance series contains information about Kennedy’s early employment in the banking and investment sectors, as well as his later business ventures, securities trading, and general financial records. Arranged into nine subseries, the files include information on Columbia Trust Company; Bethlehem Shipbuilding: Fore River Plant; Columbia Advertising Company; Somerset Importers, the American agent to sell Haig & Haig Scots Whisky, Gordon’s Gins, Dewar’s Scotch Whiskey, King William IV Scotch Whisky, and Riondo Puerto Rico Rum in the United States; Merchandise Mart, an office building in Chicago that Kennedy rented to a mixture of retail stores and offices; Kennedy’s Investments and Finances, including general banking and financial records, securities, taxes, real estate, and insurance. Materials related to Kennedy’s business and financial dealings are largely closed to research due to privacy issues.

The Movie Industry series documents Kennedy's involvement in the film industry. Although the series spans the years 1919 to 1957, the bulk of the material dates from 1920 to 1932. As Kennedy's involvement in the movie industry was varied and extensive, the material has been organized into seven subseries representing his major film enterprises: Robertson-Cole/F.B.O.; Fred Thomson Productions; Gloria Swanson; Pathé/R.K.O.; Cinema Credits Corporation; Paramount Pictures; and General Files.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt and Politics series documents the relationship between Kennedy and Roosevelt, as well as Kennedy’s other political activities. The series is arranged into three subseries: Correspondence; Campaigning for Roosevelt; and News Clippings and Scrapbooks.

The Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission series consists of material related to Kennedy's position as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is arranged into three subseries: Correspondence, Speeches, and News Clippings.

The Chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission series consists of material related to Kennedy's tenure as chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission. The series is arranged into four subseries: Outgoing Letters; Correspondence; Speeches, Articles, and Reports; and News Clippings and Scrapbooks.

The bulk of the collection is found in U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain series. It consists of material related to Kennedy's position as ambassador to Great Britain, and is arranged into eleven subseries: Appointments and Diary; Correspondence; Diplomatic Memoir; Speeches; Subject File; Dispatches; Incoming Press Materials; British Broadcasting Corporation Broadcasts; News Clippings, Scrapbooks, and Magazine Articles; Ambassador Bingham Files; and English Newspapers. The complexity of the collection is documented within the correspondence series as it was handled by numerous offices in London and New York. The correspondence series also includes public opinion mail, labeled the “OOO” file, as well as Kennedy assistant Edward E. Moore’s files. The Diplomatic Memoir contains files created by researchers and ghostwriters Elizabeth P. Walsh and James Landis, and later Jim Fayne and Paul Mallon, in collaboration with Kennedy. The memoir details Kennedy’s activities as ambassador to England, focusing on his experience during World War II, and draws on materials from diary entries, correspondence, memos and other secondary sources. Much of the Subject Files, originally labeled “#2”, concern World War II and the impact of the war on particular areas. The Ambassadorial Dispatches consist of a variety of different telegrams between the U.S. Embassy in London, the Department of State in Washington, D.C., and U.S. Embassies in other countries. The Press Materials consist of press releases and news reports from The National Defense Advisory Commission, Teletypes, and Public Opinion News Service. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Broadcasts contain digests of BBC news programs from around the world. Ambassador Robert Bingham Files are a fragment of Robert Bingham’s social and business files while serving as ambassador to Great Britain, prior to Kennedy.

The Private Citizen series documents the period after Kennedy resigned as ambassador to Great Britain (November 1940) and ends with his death (November 1969). Most of the material comes before Kennedy’s 1961 stroke. Of note are the drafts of the book The Surrender of King Leopold (1950), written by Kennedy, with ghostwriters James M. Landis and Elizabeth P. Walsh; Kennedy’s speeches; his work on the two Hoover Commissions (Commissions on the Organization of the Executive Branch) and a Massachusetts Department of Commerce. Also of note throughout the correspondence are references to John F. Kennedy’s various campaigns.

In addition to Kennedy’s Private Citizen correspondence, there are two separate series document the campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. The John F. Kennedy Campaign series concerns John Kennedy’s 1946 congressional campaign, 1952 Senate campaign against Henry Cabot Lodge, 1958 Senate re-election campaign, and 1960 presidential campaign. The Robert F. Kennedy Campaign series concerns Robert Kennedy’s New York campaign for Senate against Senator Kenneth Keating and his 1968 presidential campaign.

The books consist of bound volumes of published transcripts of House of Commons Parliamentary Debates, opera librettos, government publications, and fiction and non-fiction books.

List of Series			Date Opened
Series 1. Family, 1888-1973			Opened 8/2000-2/2004
	1.1. Family Correspondence, 1923-1968		Opened 8/2000, 11/2003
	1.2. Family Subject Files, 1888-1973		Opened 8/2000, 3/2003, 11/2003-12/2003, 2/2004
		1.2.1. Joseph P. Kennedy, 1888-1969 1.2.2. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1925-1973 1.2.3. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., 1924-1962 1.2.4. John F. Kennedy, 1929-1963 1.2.5. Rosemary Kennedy, 1931-1958 1.2.6. Kathleen Kennedy Hartington, 1933-1948 1.2.7. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1930-1963 1.2.8. Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 1933-1954 1.2.9. Robert F. Kennedy, 1934-1968 1.2.10. Jean Kennedy Smith,1936-1956 1.2.11. Edward M. Kennedy, 1936-1965
Series 2. Early Correspondence, 1890-1967			Opened 8/2000-9/2003
Series 3. Business and Finance, 1894-1974			Opened 9/2000-2/2004
	3.1. Columbia Trust Company, 1914-1919
	3.2. Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Fore River Plant, 1917-1919
	3.3. Columbia Advertising Company, 1923-1928
	3.4. Somerset Importers, 1933-1946
	3.5. Merchandise Mart, 1945-1974
	3.6. Investments and Finances, 1894-1965
		3.6.1. General Banking and Financial Records 3.6.2. Securities 3.6.3. Taxes 3.6.4. Subject Files 3.6.5. Real Estate
	3.7. General Business, 1917-1961
		3.7.1. Subject Files 3.7.2. Staff Files
	3.8. Insurance, 1914-1971
	3.9. Estate, 1961-1974
Series 4. Movie Industry, 1919-1957			Opened 3/2003- 2/2004
	4.1. Robertson-Cole/F.B.O., 1920-1932
	4.2. Fred Thomson Productions, 1927-1947
	4.3. Gloria Swanson, 1921-1957
		4.3.1. Gloria Swanson Personal, 1921-1930 4.3.2. Gloria Swanson Productions, 1925-1930 4.3.3. Gloria Productions, 1927-1957
	4.4. Pathe/R.K.O., 1927-1935
	4.5. Cinema Credits Corporation, 1926-1943
	4.6. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 1936-1937
	4.7. General, 1919-1954
Series 5. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Politics, 1932-1960 Opened 8/2002-2/2004
	5.1. Correspondence, 1932-1960
	5.2. Campaigning, 1932-1937
		5.2.1. Campaign Train, 1932 5.2.2. I’m for Roosevelt, 1936 5.2.3. Speeches and Articles, 1936-1937
	5.3. News Clippings and Scrapbooks, 1935-1952
Series 6. Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 1927-1940 Opened 9/2000-2/2004
	6.1. Correspondence, 1934-1935
		6.1.1. Outgoing Letters, 1934-1935 6.1.2. Personal Correspondent File, 1934-1935
	6.2. Speeches, Articles and Reports, 1934-1937
	6.3. News Clippings and Scrapbooks, 1927-1940
Series 7. Chairman, U.S. Maritime Commission, 1937-1938			Opened 8/2000-3/2004
	7.1. Outgoing Letters, 1937-1938
	7.2. Correspondence, 1937-1938
	7.3. Speeches, Articles and Reports, 1937-1938
	7.4. News Clippings and Scrapbooks, 1937-1938
Series 8. U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1931-1951			Opened 8/2000-4/2004
	8.1. Appointments and Diary, 1938-1951
	8.2. Correspondence, 1938-1940
		8.2.1. Correspondent File, London, 1938-1940 8.2.2. Subject File, London, 1938-1940 8.2.3. Edward E. Moore File, 1938-1940 8.2.4. London Public Opinion Mail (OOO File), 1938-1941 8.2.5. Correspondent File, New York, 1938-1940
	8.3. Diplomatic Memoir
	8.4. Speeches, 1938-1940
	8.5. Subject File, 1937-1944 (bulk dates 1938-1940)
	8.6. Dispatches, 1938-1940
	8.7. Incoming Press Materials, 1939-1940
	8.8. British Broadcasting Corporation Broadcasts, 1939-1940
	8.9. Clippings, Scrapbooks, and Magazines, 1934-1940
	8.10. Ambassador Robert Bingham Files, 1931-1937
	8.11. English Newspapers
Series 9. Private Citizen, 1940-1969			Opened 4/2003-9/2003
	9.1. Correspondence, 1940-1969
		9.1.1. Correspondent File, 1940-1969 9.1.2. Subject File, 1940-1969
	9.2. Speeches, 1940-1953
	9.3. Writings, 1940-1959
	9.4. Subject File
	9.5. News Clippings, 1940-1969
Series 10. John F. Kennedy Campaigns, 1946-1960			Opened 1/03, 2-3/2004
	10.1. Congressional and Senate Campaigns, 1946, 1952, 1958
	10.2. Presidential Campaign, 1960
Series 11. Robert F. Kennedy Campaigns, 1964-1968			Opened 1/2003
	11.1. Senate Campaign, 1964
	11.2. Presidential Campaign, 1968
Series 12. Books			Opened 9/2003

Series Description

Series 1. Family, 1888-1973.
Opened 8/2000-2/2004

Series 1.1. Family Correspondence, 1923-1968.
Opened 8/2000, 3/2003, 11/2003-12/2003, 2/2004
About 2000 items.
Arrangement: chronological.

This series contains correspondence between immediate members of the Kennedy family, including spouses and grandchildren. Types of correspondence include letters, notes, telegrams, and postcards. Of particular note are Rose Kennedy’s “round robin” letters, which kept the large and scattered family in touch.

Researchers should note this material was artificially arranged by Library staff from throughout the papers. Joseph P. Kennedy’s files did not contain specific folders on his family. Whenever possible, Library staff have estimated dates for undated letters and filed the items in the appropriate chronological files. Estimated dates are marked in brackets at the upper right corner of the documents. Undated letters whose dates could not be estimated are arranged by author at the end of the chronological files, and, in some cases, are further separated by subject. The “Undated: Miscellaneous” file contains letters from multiple authors or unknown authors, as well as unidentified fragments of letters. Due to the value and fragility of the originals, photocopies have been made for research use. A small number of items remain closed under deed restrictions. Correspondence with members of the Kennedy extended family, such as Rose Kennedy’s parents or Joseph Kennedy’s sister, will be found throughout the collection under the person’s name or in Series 1.2. Family Subject Files. See also Series 1.2. Family Subject Files for additional correspondence with spouses prior to marriage as well as correspondence with non-family members.

Box 1	1923-1937 (14 folders)
Box 2	1938-1942 (6 folders) 1943
		January-October (5 folders)
Box 3		November-December
	1944-1949 (11 folders)
Box 4	1950-1962 (12 folders) 1964, 1968 Undated
		Joseph P. Kennedy
Box 5		Rose F. Kennedy Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
			School, c. 1929-1940 World War II, c. 1942-1944 Miscellaneous
		John F. Kennedy
			Canterbury, c. 1930-1931 Choate, c. 1931-1935 Harvard, c. 1936-1940 World War II, c. 1943 Congress, c. 1946-1960 Miscellaneous
		Jacqueline B. Kennedy Rosemary Kennedy Kathleen Kennedy Hartington
			School, c. 1933-1937 England, c. 1943-1948 Miscellaneous
		Eunice Kennedy Shriver R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. Patricia Kennedy Lawford Robert F. Kennedy
			Portsmouth Priory, c. 1939-1942 Milton Academy, c. 1942-1943 Navy, c. 1943-1946 Miscellaneous
		Ethel Skakel Kennedy Jean Kennedy Smith Edward M. Kennedy Joan Bennett Kennedy Grandchildren
	Miscellaneous

Series 1.2. Family Subject Files, 1888-1973.
Opened 8/2000, 3/2003, 11/2003, 12/2003, 2/2004
About 6600 items.
Arrangement: in birth order by name of family member.

The Family Subject File is arranged into eleven subseries based on birth order: 1.2.1. Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969); 1.2.2. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890-1995); 1.2.3. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (1915-1944); 1.2.4. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963); 1.2.5. Rosemary Kennedy (1918- ); 1.2.6. Kathleen Kennedy Hartington (1920-1948); 1.2.7. Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921- ); 1.2.8. Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924- ); 1.2.9. Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968); 1.2.10. Jean Kennedy Smith (1928- ); and 1.2.11. Edward M. Kennedy (1932- ). Several series contain material from John C. Dowd, Inc., Advertising, hired by the Kennedy family to write press releases, plan publicity, and collect news clippings about the family.

Researchers should note this material was arranged by Library staff from throughout the papers. Joseph P. Kennedy’s files did not contain these specific folders on his family. For correspondence among immediate family members, see Series 1.1. Family Correspondence .

Series 1.2.1. Joseph P. Kennedy, 1888-1969.
Opened 11/2003
About 50 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series contains items relating to Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969) that did not fit elsewhere in the collection. All material related to Kennedy's health is closed. “News clippings” contains biographical articles and overviews of Kennedy’s entire life, with most news clippings found in news clippings and scrapbooks series throughout the collection. For additional material relating to Kennedy’s death, see Series 3.9. Business and Finance: Estate .

Box 6	Biographies Birth certificate Boston Latin School Calling cards Death, 1969 Draft card, 1917-1918 Harvard Athletic Association award, 1911 Harvard souvenir programs, 1913-1922 Health, 1920-1960 Miscellaneous items News clippings
		Biographical articles “Joseph P. Kennedy: His Life and Times,” 1964 (3 folders)
	Photographs

Series 1.2.2. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1925-1973.
Opened 8/2000, 12/2003
About 2800 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series contains material produced by or about Rose F. Kennedy (1890-1994) including financial papers, bills and receipts, diaries, scrapbooks, itineraries, lists and inventories, deeds, speeches, press releases, news clippings, and magazine articles. Subjects covered include Kennedy homes in Bronxville, New York; Palm Beach, Florida; Hyannisport, Massachusetts, and Maryland; Rose Kennedy's trips to Europe and South Africa; her time in London as wife of the American ambassador; donations she made; restoration of John F. Kennedy's birthplace in Brookline, Massachusetts; her involvement in John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign; and general educational material relating to her children. Correspondence is filed in several categories. "Correspondence series, 1934, 1953-1960" is an incomplete series that was found intact in the collection. "Non-family correspondence" is Rose Kennedy’s general correspondence from throughout the collection. A large portion of the series consists of extensive material about Kennedy residences, including information on household expenses, bills, staffing, interior decorating, deeds, leases, property values, construction, and repairs. Researchers interested in family homes should also consult Series 3.5. Business and Finance: Merchandise Mart and Series 9.1.2. Private Citizen Correspondence Subject File, 1940-1969 .

Box 6	Anniversary (25 ^th ), 1939 Biographies Bronxville House
		Construction/repairs
			1928-1930 1938-1940
		Sale/donation, 1940-1941 Staff, 1940
	Children's education, 1930-1941 and undated (2 folders) Donation of Choate sound equipment, 1932 Christmas lists, 1947-1955 Correspondence
		Congratulations
			1960 presidential election (2 folders)
Box 7			Ambassadorial appointment, 1937 Becoming papal countess, 1951-1952 (2 folders)
		Correspondence, 1934, 1953-1960
			A B Burke, Mrs. Charles (Margaret) [Joseph P. Kennedy’s sister] C Charities Connelly, Mrs. George (Loretta) [Joseph P. Kennedy’s sister] Convents (2 folders) E F Moore, E.E. Miss Murphy
		Get well
			Re: Joseph P. Kennedy, 1961-1962 (2 folders) Rose F. Kennedy, March-April 1962 (2 folders)
		Lectures, 1954-1959 Non-family correspondence
			1925-1938
Box 8			1939-1973 (6 folders) Undated (2 folders)
		On behalf of Rose Kennedy, 1939-1951 With parents [John F. Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald]
	Deigman, David (chauffeur) Diaries
		1934-1935 Loose notes and observations Miscellaneous writings (1-2 of 4 folders)
Box 9		Miscellaneous writings (3-4 of 4 folders) National Diary 1941
	Donations
		1940-1953 (6 folders) 1961
	Family timeline, 1952 Health Household matters/expenses (Hyannisport and Palm Beach)
		1947: August-September 1947: November-December (2 folders) 1948: January-March (3 folders)
Box 10		1948: April-July (4 folders) 1961-1963 (3 folders) Payroll Book, 1961 Deductions, 1951-1958 Employees’ record, 1966-1970
	Housewares
		China, correspondence and bills, 1940-1961 Silver, correspondence and inventory, 1936-1959
	Hyannisport house
		Booklist Boundary dispute, 1943-1945 Correspondence
			1949-1954
Box 11			1955-1963 (3 folders)
		Decorating
			Correspondence, 1927-1960 (3 folders) Merchandise Mart, 1961-1963 Schemes/samples
		Deeds, leases, and plans Elevator, 1962 Landscaping Renovations, 1948 (2 folders) Miscellaneous material
	Insurance for jewelry and furs, 1939-1940 Interior decorating, 1929-1940 Jewelry, 1936-1948 John F. Kennedy Birthplace
		Dedication as national historic site
Box 12		Restoration: correspondence and documentation (5 folders)
	Miscellaneous items (3 folders) News clippings and articles
		About Rose Kennedy About Kennedy family Collected by Rose Kennedy (2 folders)
Box 13	Palm Beach house
		Correspondence re: household affairs, 1936-1960 (2 folders) Property value, 1942 Renovation estimates, 1934 Swimming pool tile, 1961
	Perfume, 1959-1960 Photographs
		Family Miscellaneous
	Scrapbooks about Rose Kennedy
		Personal scrapbook, London 1938 (5 folders) 1938-1939 (2 folders) 1951-1954
	Scrapbooks about Kennedy family
		1908-1957
		Box 14 1960-1962
	Speeches Store credits/debits Trips
		Europe, 1938-1939
			Bon voyage telegrams Correspondence
		Europe, March 1951 Paris, August 1937 South Africa, 1939 South America, 1941 Travel lists, 1957-1959, undated
	Washington house: bills and receipts, 1937-1938 (5 folders)

Series 1.2.3. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., 1924-1962.
Opened 12/2003
About 900 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series consists of material relating to or belonging to Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (1915-1944) gathered from throughout the collection. It contains correspondence, school material, speeches, articles, drafts, naval records, news clippings, and condolence material to his family upon his death. Topics covered include his education at Choate and Harvard, his trip to Spain in spring 1939, the 1940 Democratic convention, his naval career, his death in August 1944, and the launch of the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr . For material on the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, see Series 9.4. Private Citizen: Subjects: Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation.

Box 15	American Embassy, 1938-1940 "Attack on the Townsend Plan" (speech), 1938-1940 Correspondence
		E.E. Moore Extended family Non-family, 1924-1944 (4 folders) Re: Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
	Death of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
		Condolence mail, 1944-1945
			General (6 folders) Dignitaries (2 folders)
Box 16			Acknowledgements (3 folders)
		Correspondence with military re: death, 1944-1945 Ensign Simpson report of last mission, 1944 Eulogies/memorials by family members Mass cards (2 folders) Memorials, 1944-1949 Military awards, 1944-1945 News clippings
			1944-1945 (2 folders) 1961-1962 Re: Navy Cross, 1944-1945
		Will, 1942-1944
	Democratic National Convention, 1940 Diaries, 1933-1934 (2 folders) Dowd Advertising publicity material
Box 17	Education
		Early schooling/Choate, 1930-1933 Harvard, 1934-1940
	European Trip, 1938-1939 Finances Invitations Miscellaneous items Navy records, 1941-1945
		Correspondence and loose items Documentation of naval missions and correspondence (3 folders) Enlisted service jacket Miscellaneous correspondence re: rank, leave, transfer and duty (2 folders) Officer fitness report jacket Officer's miscellaneous correspondence and orders jacket Officer's selection board jacket (2 folders)
	Photographs Spain, 1939
		Correspondence
			Re: Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., in Spain Re: publication of Spain material
		36 letters, 1939: February 10-April 4 (2 folders)
Box 18		"Dear Dad: An Ambassador's Son Writes from Spain" drafts (2 folders) Interviews 1-3 Interviews 4-7 Interviews 8-9 “Casado’s Autobiography” "Trip to Spain" "Collapse of Loyalist Spain" "Second Period: Council of National Defense under Casada and Basteriro" "Third Power/Part Negotiations for Peace" “ Summary” Miscellaneous short writings Notes Miscellaneous
	USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr ., 1945
		Commissioning of USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr . Correspondence Launch: invitations and RSVPs (1 of 4 folders)
Box 19		Launch: invitations and RSVPs (2-4 of 4 folders)

Series 1.2.4. John F. Kennedy, 1929-1963.
Opened 3/2003, 12/2003
About 475 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject, then chronological by year.

This series consists of material relating to or belonging to John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) gathered from throughout the collection. It contains personal correspondence, office correspondence, school material and report cards, speeches, articles, drafts, news clippings and financial material. Topics covered include John Kennedy's health, his education at Choate, Harvard and Stanford, material on his article Why England Slept , his naval career and PT 109, Profiles in Courage , various articles and speeches, his wedding to Jaqueline Lee Bouvier in September 1953, and his inauguration as president in January 1961. The folders titled "Non- family Correspondence" contain correspondence between John Kennedy and non-family members and include business, personal and financial material. The "Office Correspondence" folder contains correspondence from members of his office, including secretaries and staffers, about business and political matters and date mostly from his time in Congress. The material from Choate is extensive and includes report cards, quarterly reports and correspondence with the headmaster and assistant headmaster. The "Health" folder contains all major correspondence discussing John Kennedy's health from throughout the Joseph P. Kennedy Papers, including correspondence with doctors and Choate staff. It has been physically separated out of the order and placed in box 21. Items about John Kennedy’s health may not be photocopied.

See Series 10. John F. Kennedy Campaigns for further information on 1946-1960 campaigns. Further material on John Kennedy's early years will be found in the Kennedy Library’s John F. Kennedy Papers: Personal Papers and John F. Kennedy Papers: Pre-Presidential Papers.

Box 19	American Embassy, 1938-1940 Articles by John Kennedy
		Disarmament ("Let’s Try an Experiment in Peace"), 1945 Political Letters General, 1950s
	Books:
		Thesis/ Why England Slept , 1940 Profiles in Courage
	Boston Birthday Book, 29 May 1961 Correspondence
		E.E. Moore Non-family, 1932-1961, undated (3 folders) Office, 1948-1961 Re: John F. Kennedy
	Death (1 of 3 folders)
Box 20	Death (2-3 of 3 folders) Education
		Early schooling, 1929-1930 Choate, 1931-1935 (2 folders) Harvard, 1936-1940 Yale Law School, 1940 Stanford, 1940
	Finances
		General First National City Bank, 1959 (13 folders) (Closed) Mercantile Trust Company statements, 1959 (Closed) Taxes, 1946-1956
	Inauguration, January 1961
		Invitations and plans News clippings and articles (3 folders)
	Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Box 21	Health (No photocopying permitted)
Box 22	Letters from the public about John Kennedy, 1957-1961, 1963 (7 folders) Miscellaneous items Navy
		Navy/PT 109 Letters about John Kennedy in the Navy/PT 109 (2 folders)
	News clippings, articles and publicity:
		Dowd publicity material General (1 of 9 folders)
Box 23		General (2-9 of 9 folders)
	Photographs Real estate, 1954 Scrapbooks:
		1947 (2 folders)
Box 24		January 1948-December 1951 (4 folders) May-September 1952 (3 folders) 1953-1954
Box 25		1955-1956
	Senate staff and schedules, 1958 Speeches and remarks (2 folders) Wedding, 1953
		Dowd publicity material
			General (4 folders) Engagement (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 26			Engagement (3 of 3 folders)
		Gifts (2 folders) Guest lists and planning

Series 1.2.5. Rosemary Kennedy, 1931-1958.
Opened 12/2003
About 200 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series consists of material relating to or belonging to Rosemary Kennedy (1918- ) found in Joseph Kennedy's papers, including bills, correspondence, and news clippings. Topical subjects cover information on Rosemary Kennedy’s health and her education. Due to deed restrictions, much of this material is closed.

Box 26

Bills, 1945, 1948
Correspondence, 1931-1958
Education, 1930-1940
Health, 1923-1949
Miscellaneous items
News clippings

Series 1.2.6. Kathleen Kennedy Hartington, 1933-1948.
Opened 12/2003
About 100 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series consists of material relating to or belonging to Kathleen Kennedy, Marchioness of Hartington, (1920-1948) found in Joseph Kennedy's papers, including correspondence between Kathleen and non-family members, correspondence about Kathleen, a series of short articles written by Kathleen on notable people for the Washington Times-Herald , scrapbooks, Red Cross material, estate material and limited condolence mail.

Box 26	Condolence mail lists Correspondence
		Extended family Non-family, 1936-1947 Re: Kathleen Kennedy, 1933-1945
	Death: Joseph P. Kennedy note, 1948 "Did You Happen to See…" newspaper articles for Times-Herald , 1942-1943 Education, 1938-1940 Estate
		Estate ledger Taxes/estate materials (3 folders)
	“Impressions of the Coronation of Pope Pius XII,” 1939 Miscellaneous News clippings Photographs Red Cross material, 1944-1946 Scrapbooks:
		May 1948 (Lady Hartington) (1 of 2 folders)
Box 27		May 1948 (Lady Hartington) (2 of 2 folders) Personal scrapbook

Series 1.2.7. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1930-1963.
Opened 11/2003
About 400 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series consists of material relating to or belonging to Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921- ) found in Joseph P. Kennedy's papers, including correspondence, school material, remarks and speeches, bills and receipts, lists, itineraries, writings and newsclippings. Subjects covered include Eunice’s and Jean's trip to Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East in 1951, articles and interviews written about the trip, speeches and remarks by Eunice Kennedy, many on the subject of mental retardation and social reform, and Eunice's wedding to Sargent Shriver, including photographs, guests lists and news coverage. For material on Eunice Kennedy Shriver's involvement with the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, see Series 9.4. Private Citizen: Subject File: Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation. For additional Sargent Shriver correspondence, see Series 3.5. Business and Finance: Merchandise Mart and Series 9.1.1. Private Citizen: Correspondence File .

Box 27	Articles by Eunice Kennedy Shriver Biographies Correspondence
		E.E. Moore Non-family, 1940-1961 Re: Eunice Kennedy
	Education, 1930-1938 Horse, 1947 Miscellaneous items News clippings
		Eunice Kennedy Shriver Sargent Shriver
	Photographs Scrapbook, 1946-1956 Speeches and remarks, 1947-1963, undated Trip with Jean, 1951
		Correspondence Writings
Box 28	Wedding, 1953
		Clothes Dowd publicity material (3 folders) Engagement Gifts (4 folders) Guest lists and planning (5 folders) Honeymoon News clippings Photography (2 folders)

Series 1.2.8. Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 1933-1957.
Opened 11/2003
About 250 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series consists of material relating to or belonging to Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924- ) found in Joseph P. Kennedy's papers and includes correspondence, school material, newsclippings and articles and material documenting Patricia's wedding to Peter Lawford, including invitations, guest lists and photographs. There is a small index card catalog box (Box 30) of invitations and announcements that has been separated from the folder labeled “Invitations and announcements” to preserve the original order and arrangement of the papers.

Box 29	Articles about Patricia Kennedy Correspondence
		E.E. Moore, 1935 Non-family, 1939-1961 Re: Patricia, 1933-1954
	Education, 1936-1944 Miscellaneous Peter Lawford country club membership, 1957 Wedding, 1954
		Dowd publicity material Gifts Guest lists and planning (2 folders) Invitations and announcements Photographs Press and publicity
Box 30	(index card catalog) Index card catalog: invitations and announcements

Series 1.2.9. Robert F. Kennedy, 1934-1968.
Opened 12/2003
About 500 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series consists of material relating to or produced by Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) found in Joseph P. Kennedy's papers including correspondence, school material, speeches, articles, drafts, photographs, trip diaries, wedding material, newsclippings, press releases, and funeral and memorial material. Subjects covered include Robert Kennedy's education at Portsmouth Priory school, Milton Academy, Harvard University, and the University of Virginia Law School, his stamp collection, various articles he wrote, his marriage to Ethel Skakel in 1950, his work as Senate Counsel in the 1950s and Senator from New York in the 1960s, and trips to Europe and the Middle East in 1949 and the central Asia region of the Soviet Union in 1955 with Justice William O. Douglas. Material from the 1955 trip includes multiple copies of a diary kept by Robert Kennedy, photographs, drafts of lectures and articles completed by Kennedy after the trip, and news clippings about the trip. For material on Kennedy's campaigns for the Senate and the Presidency, see Series 11. Robert F. Kennedy Campaigns . For further material on Robert F. Kennedy's career as attorney general and senator from New York, see the Robert F. Kennedy Papers at the Kennedy Library.

Box 29	Articles by Robert F. Kennedy, 1948-1968 Biographies Correspondence
		E. E. Moore, 1934 Ethel Skakel Kennedy Justice Silverman re-election campaign, 1966 Non-family:
			1941-1952 1966
		Re: Robert F. Kennedy, 1936-1960
	Education
		Early schooling, 1937-1938 Portsmouth Priory School, 1939-1940
Box 31		Milton Academy, 1942 Harvard, 1945-1947 University of Virginia Law School essays
	Funeral/Memorial Miscellaneous items News clippings and articles
		About Robert F. Kennedy (5 folders) About Ethel Skakel Kennedy
	Photographs Press releases, 1967-1968 (2 folders) Scrapbook, 1948-1956 (2 folders) Senate Counsel, 1950s Senate invitations and schedule, 1965
Box 32	Stamp collection, 1935-1948 Trips
		Europe/Middle East, 1948 Europe/Middle East, 1949
			Articles by Robert F. Kennedy Diary
		Soviet Union, 1955
			Articles by Robert F. Kennedy Clippings about the Soviet Union Diary Vol. I (5 folders) Diary pages (loose) and research material Lecture drafts Lists of lecture slides News clippings Photographs
	Wedding, 1950
		Guest lists and planning (2 folders) Honeymoon plans News clippings
	World War II enlistment, 1943-1944

Series 1.2.10. Jean Kennedy Smith, 1936-1956.
Opened 11/2003
About 500 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series consists of material relating to or produced by Jean Kennedy Smith (1928- ) found in Joseph P. Kennedy's papers, including correspondence, report cards, material related to Jean's work at Merchandise Mart, an article by Jean Kennedy entitled "Museum on the Evolution of Religion and Atheism" and material documenting her wedding to Stephen Smith including announcements, invitations, guest lists, planning material and news clippings. For material on Jean and Eunice's trip to Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East in 1951, along with subsequent writings, see Series 1.2.7. Eunice Kennedy Shriver . For further material on the Merchandise Mart, see Series 3.5. Merchandise Mart .

Box 33	Biography Correspondence
		E.E. Moore, 1939 Non-family, 1940-1961 Re: Jean Kennedy
	Education, 1936-1937 Miscellaneous items News clippings
		About Jean Kennedy Smith About Stephen E. Smith
	Scrapbook, 1952, 1955 Wedding, 1956
		3x5 announcement cards Guest lists and planning (3 folders) Honeymoon Invitations Press and publicity Replies to invitations (2 folders)

Series 1.2.11. Edward M. Kennedy, 1936-1965.
Opened 12/2003
About 400 items
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series consists of material relating to or belonging to Edward Moore Kennedy (1932- ) found in Joseph Kennedy’s papers, including correspondence, diaries, articles and drafts, research material, memoranda, schedules, news clippings, and school related material. Subjects covered include Edward Kennedy's education, multiple trips to Europe, his wedding to Joan Bennett on November 29, 1958, articles about Northern Africa, and his 1962 Senate campaign.

Box 33	Articles by Edward M. Kennedy
		General, 1965 On Northern Africa:
			Drafts (2 folders) Research notes and news clippings
	Correspondence
		Non-family Re: Edward M. Kennedy
Box 34	Education, 1936-1953 European trip diary, 1950 European trip, June 1951 Miscellaneous News clippings Scrapbook, 1953-1962 (2 folders) Senate campaign
		Schedules, 1961-1962 Memoranda from John F. Kraft, 1962
	Wedding, 1958
		Guest lists and planning (2 folders) Press Replies to invitations

Series 2. Early Correspondence, 1890-1967 (bulk dates 1918-1939).
Opened 8/2000, 9/2000, 1/2001, 9/2003.
About 800 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical then chronological.

This series contains fragmentary correspondence files of Joseph P. Kennedy’s personal, business and extended family correspondence that describe events such as business deals, stock purchases, and initial acquaintances with individuals who appear throughout the later correspondence series. Correspondents include Lord Beaverbrook, Georges Benda, John Borden, Boston Latin School graduates, Sherman Bowles, Tom Bragg, Crosby Yacht Building staff, Christoper J. Dunphy, Boston mayor and father-in-law John F. Fitzgerald, Harvard University staff and graduates, William Randolph Hearst, Sidney Kent, Boston mayor Andrew Peters, Henry Taylor, Richard Teeling, Chester Wardwell of Patterson, Wylde & Windeler Insurance, Cora Weston, and Henry Young of the Globe Theater. There is information about Kennedy’s father Patrick Joseph Kennedy, his final illness and death including deeds, wills, condolence mail, and hospital and funeral expenses. The series documents early donations by the Kennedy family to different types of charities, including the Catholic Church, children’s hospitals and schools, and Harvard University.

Box 35	Bath and Tennis Club, Palm Beach, 1937, 1939 Beaverbrook, Lord Maxwell, 1925, 1935 Benda, Georges, 1925 Borden, John, 1924 Boston Latin, 1920-1937 Bowles, Sherman, 1924 Bragg, Tom, 1923-1924 Bronxville school children, 1934 T. G. Buckley Co., 1925 Christmas cards, 1914, undated Clubs, 1920-1932 Connelly, George W., 1932-1937 [Joseph P. Kennedy’s brother-in-law] Crosby Yacht Building, 1932 Donations
		General, 1920-1936 Catholic Church, 1920-1936 Children, 1922-1930 Harvard, 1920-1936 Hospitals, 1920-1935 Schools, 1921-1936
	Dunphy, Christopher J., 1918-1930 Fitzgerald, John F., 1918-1967 [“Honey Fitz,” Rose F. Kennedy’s father] Harrison's Reports (P.S. Harrison), 1928 Harvard, 1922-1936 Hearst, William Randolph, 1932-1935 Kennedy, Patrick J. [Joseph P. Kennedy’s father]
		Biographies City of Boston Voting Precincts , 1895 Correspondence, 1903-1925, undated
Box 36		Condolence mail, May-July 1929 Funeral, 1929 Hospital and funeral receipts, 1929 Miscellaneous items Newspaper clippings
			1890-1899 (2 folders) 1929
		Patrick J. Kennedy School, 1933 Requiescat, 1937 Will, 1929-1930
	Kent, Sidney, 1927-1936 Membership cards, 1920, 1925 New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1920-1921 Peters, Andrew, 1920 Quincy Chamber of Commerce, 1920 Rolls-Royce, 1930 Schanz, J., 1921-1923, 1930 Schnitzer, Joe, 1928 Seaview Golf Club, 1930 Taylor, Henry, 1918-1922 Teeling, Richard [Charlestown Trust Co.], 1922 Theater Guild, 1927-1930 Trips abroad, 1925-1926 Wardwell, Chester [Patterson, Wylde & Windeler Insurance], 1923 Weston, Cora, 1919, 1921 Young, Henry [Globe Theater], 1922 1914 1918-1923 (4 folders) 1925 1927-1929
Box 37	1930-1936 (4 folders) Undated

Series 3. Business and Finance, 1894-1974 (bulk dates 1914-1974).
Opened 9/2003, 2/2004.
About 10,050 items.

This artificial series contains information about Joseph P. Kennedy’s early employment in the banking and investment sectors, as well as his later business ventures, securities trading, and general financial records. For information on Kennedy’s involvement in the movie industry, see Series 4. Movie Industry . Within each series, material is arranged largely by topic and type. When there is overlap between folders and locations, cross references have been given in the series description. In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed and closed. This includes personal financial information in many cases, as well as income tax information, which is closed per Internal Revenue Service instructions.

Series 3.1. Columbia Trust Company, 1914-1947.
About 250 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical, then chronological.

In 1914, Kennedy averted a takeover of the Columbia Trust Company, which his father had co-founded, and became president of the Columbia Trust Company bank. While Kennedy did not remain at Columbia Trust for many years, the institution seems to have remained his primary bank for both personal and professional business throughout his early career. Although he resigned as president in 1917, Kennedy still participated in the management of Columbia Trust through at least the next decade. Alfred Wellington was the treasurer of the bank.

The bulk of this series consists of correspondence, however, there are also checks, loan and mortgage documents, legal documents, and financial reports. Much of the correspondence is with treasurer Ethel Turner, who had been Kennedy’s secretary during his tenure as president of the bank and was later promoted to treasurer. She continued, almost exclusively, to facilitate his and his staff’s day-to-day banking needs for many years. Other correspondents include bank officials Alfred Wellington and later Andrew Porter. Topics of letters run the gamut from personal to family to business finances and investments to discussions of stocks, loans, and mortgages, bank management, and financial advice. Most financial records are closed according to deed restrictions. See Series 3.6. Investments and Finances for additional general financial and banking records as well as investment material.

Box 37	Act to Incorporate and By-laws, undated Correspondence
		1917-1920 1921 1922-1923 1924 1925 1930-1937 1940-1947
	Financial reports, 1922-1925, undated Kennedy, Mary A., 1921, 1927 Loan lists, 1924 Loan and mortgage documents, 1915-1926 (with gaps) Notes payable and receivable, 1919-1939 Reports on the Condition of the Columbia Trust Company, 1918, 1923 Stock, 1915-1932 (with gaps) Stockbroker, 1914-1917 Taxes, 1941, undated Miscellaneous, 1915-1942 (with gaps)

Series 3.2. Bethlehem Shipbuilding: Fore River Plant, 1917-1921.
About 100 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical, then chronological.

In October 1917, Kennedy accepted a job as assistant manager at the Bethlehem Steel Fore River Plant, which was booming with the demands of World War I. Seven months after the end of the war, Kennedy resigned and returned to the finance business, accepting a job as stock manager at the Boston firm of Hayden, Stone and Company.

The records contained in this series are mostly personal in nature and not very comprehensive regarding Bethlehem Shipbuilding’s Fore River Plant in Quincy, Massachusetts. Topics include his appointment and resignation and his appeals for exemption from the draft. The majority of the substantive papers concern the Fore River baseball team, which played against men from other plants in the Bethlehem Steel League. Kennedy was in charge of organizing the team and keeping track of game schedules and players’ eligibility. Kennedy resigned from Fore River on June 30, 1919 although correspondence extends beyond this date due to a controversy over the managers’ termination of his contract to run the plant’s restaurant. A few items are closed according to deed restrictions.

Box 37	Correspondence
		General, 1917-1921 Re: Draft, 1918
	Fore River Baseball Correspondence, 1918-1919 General, 1918, undated

Series 3.3. Columbia Advertising Company, 1923-1928.
About 175 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical, then chronological.

This series consists of material relating to The Columbia Advertising Company, a business venture Joseph P. Kennedy created after leaving Hayden, Stone and Company. The business specialized in “theatrical scenic advertising” and arranged for customers’ advertisements to be painted onto backdrops for the entertainment acts before movies screenings. Most of the letters are business reports from Stephen E. Fitzgibbon, president of the company and a partner in many of Kennedy’s ventures during the 1920s. There are also letters from John M. Slattery, a field agent who traveled to negotiate accounts and oversee installation of the advertisements. Topics of correspondence include clients, accounts, and sales strategies. Some meeting minutes and financial records are also included.

Box 37	Association and incorporation, 1923 Billing statements, 1924 Correspondence
		1923 1924 1925
	Meeting minutes, 1923-1928

Series 3.4. Somerset Importers, 1933-1946.
About 900 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical, then chronological.

This series consists of material related to Somerset Importers, the American agent to sell Haig & Haig Scots Whisky, Gordon’s Gins, Dewar’s Scotch Whiskey, King William IV Scotch Whisky, and Riondo Puerto Rico Rum in the United States. On the eve of the repeal of Prohibition, Kennedy obtained contracts to import several brands of alcohol into the United States during a trip to England in 1933. The majority of the correspondence is incoming mail from Edward (Ted) J. O’Leary, the president of Somerset, who kept Kennedy constantly updated on the state of business by discussing prices, advertising, markets, profits, and the competition. Weekly financial and sales reports allowed Kennedy to closely track the company’s condition. Financial reports include weekly Sales and Billing Reports and Business Reports, and monthly or quarterly Balance Sheets, Advertising Reports, and Operating Statements, which together provide a view of the company’s financial standing for the period of 1937 to 1945. Legal papers consist of business contracts and proposals. Report and Accounts are company audits. The contents of the Sales and Billings folders were removed from a binder, and the figures in these reports are recorded in number of cases as opposed to single bottles or dollar figures. Oversized items have been separated, and some financial material has been closed according to deed restrictions; withdrawal sheets mark these changes.

Box 38	Audits, 1936, 1938, 1945 Correspondence
		1934-1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941-1943 1944-1945 Undated
	Employee benefits, 1941-1943 (2 folders) Financial reports
		1937 1938
Box 39		1939 1940
			February-June July-October
		1942-1946
	Interstate Distributing Corp./McCarthy Case, 1933-1935 Legal papers, 1939-1944 Memoranda, 1935-1946 Miscellaneous financial records Sales and billings binder, 1937-194[5] (5 folders) Scotch Importers Ltd., 1938

Series 3.5. Merchandise Mart, 1945-1974.
About 425 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical, then chronological.

In 1945, Kennedy bought the Merchandise Mart from Marshall Field and Company. At the time, the Mart was the largest privately owned office building in the world. Kennedy rented the space to a mixture of retail stores and offices, building an image of the Mart as a sophisticated shopping mecca and a modern-day marvel through advertising campaigns and guided tours of the building.

This series consists of material related to Merchandise Mart, an office building in Chicago that Joseph P. Kennedy rented to a mixture of retail stores and offices. While Kennedy did not manage the Mart personally, his files contain periodic reports from his general managers, which often concerned leases, tenants, income and expenses, and remodeling and structural improvements to the building. Correspondents include General Manager Wallace O. Ollman, Director of Public Relations Michael V. O’Connell, Comptrollers E.C. Moeloth and Howard E. Otto, and Assistant General Manager R. Sargent Shriver. For additional Shriver correspondence, see Series 1.1. Family Correspondence and Series 9.1.1. Private Citizen Correspondent File . Besides correspondence, there are financial records of expenses and leases, and a wealth of publicity material. This includes publicity for exhibits and events; the Merchandise Mart Reporter , a short-lived newsletter; news clippings; and press releases. Oversized items have been separated, and some financial material has been closed according to deed restrictions; withdrawal sheets mark these changes.

Box 40	Annuity and Pension Plan
		General (9 folders; 4 open folders) Amendment, 1950-1953 Changes, 1950-1951 Equitable Group Annuity, 1945-1950 Other miscellaneous plans, 1943-1947 Taxes, 1945-1948 Treasury Department approvals, 1946-1962
	Correspondence
		1945-1946 1947 (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 41		1947 (3 of 3 folders) 1948 (3 folders) 1951 (2 folders) 1957-1963, undated
	Event publicity
		“Good Companions” exhibit, 1951 “Good Design” exhibit, 1951 Guided tours, 1947-1948, 1951 “Home Furnishings” events, 1948, 1957 “Men’s and Boys’ Wear Market”, n.d. Merchants of America Hall of Fame, 1953 Store publicity, general, 1946, 1949, 1951
	Finances
		Government leases, 1946-1951 Miscellaneous reports, 1946-1966 (bulk dates 1948, 1951)
Box 42		Owners Agency Account
			1964-1967 1968-1971 1972-1974
		Paul E. Murphy Agent Account, 1961-1963 Tenant notices, 1951 U. S. Government receivables, 1948
	Industry comparison reports, 1946-1947 Legal documents, 1945, 1948 Memoranda, 1946, 1948, 1951 Merchandise Mart Reporter , 1948 News clippings, 1945-1955 (2 folders) News releases, 1951 Operating Committee meeting minutes, 1948 Miscellaneous papers

Series 3.6. Investments and Finances, 1894-1965 (bulk dates 1915-1963).
About 4600 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical, then chronological.

The Investments and Finance series often contains personal and/or family financial information alongside business finances because that was how Kennedy or his staff appears to have managed and organized his money and investments. It is difficult to attempt to distinguish between these categories in most cases. This series is arranged into five subseries: Series 3.6.1. General Banking and Financial Records; Series 3.6.2. Securities; Series 3.6.3. Taxes; Series 3.6.4. Subject Files; and Series 3.6.5. Real Estate. In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents concerning detailed personal finances have been removed and closed. This restriction affects a large portion of this series.

Series 3.6.1. General Banking and Financial Records.
About 450 items.
Arrangement: alphabetically by type or subject, then chronologically.

This series contains account statements, balance sheets, cash books, correspondence, checks, deposit stubs, and receipts relating to Kennedy’s banking and general finances. The monthly account statements include reports on all of his financial assets and liabilities (bank accounts, family expenses, investments, and businesses), and give a comprehensive view of his assets and liabilities from 1932 to 1935. The cash books detail deposits and withdrawals from several of his main accounts and include a brokerage journal from his time as an independent stockbroker. The cash books also record his foreign bank accounts from his time as an ambassador. These ledgers are oversized. Most of this series is closed due to deed restrictions on the release of financial information. For additional banking records and correspondence, see Series 3.1. Columbia Trust Company and Series 8.2.1. Ambassadorial Correspondence File: National City Bank of New York .

Box 42	Account statements
		Trial balances
			1926-1929 Notes, undated
		December 1931-December 1933 February 1934-December 1935 October 31, 1944 Miscellaneous, 1940-1946
	Bronxville Trust Company, 1940 Cash books
		1926 Trust, 1926-1931 Brokerage Journal (January 1932 to July 1934) and Cash Book (1932 to 1936) “December 1925 thru December 1931” “For the Years 1937 – 1938 – 1939” [December 1936-December 1939] Foreign Accounts, 1938-1940 “General Journals and Ledgers for the Following Years: 1932-1936, inclusive”
	Chase National Bank
		Correspondence, 1920-1921 Statements and financial papers, 1920-1921
	Commercial National Bank and Trust Company of New York, 1932, 1940 First National Bank in Palm Beach
		Checks, 1931 Monthly checking statements, 1931
	Loans, 1915-1933 National City Bank of New York
		Correspondence, 1933-1948 Deposit receipts
			Bank by mail, 1939 Securities proceeds, 1939 Disposition of Securities, 1939 Temporary Safekeeping receipts, 1948
	Notes payable and receivable, 1921-1936, 1943 Office inventories, undated Reconciliations of bank statements
		Atlantic National Bank of Palm Beach, 1955 Bank of Palm Beach and Trust Company, 1955-1960 Hyannis Trust Company, 1955-1960
	Miscellaneous financial papers

Series 3.6.2. Securities.
About 8375 items.
Arrangement: alphabetically by type, then chronologically.

This series contains account statements, correspondence, legal documents, and receipts relating to Kennedy’s investments in securities (stocks, bonds, and treasury bills). The bulk of the material is receipts from buying or selling securities for Kennedy’s various personal and family accounts. Account statements, showing securities holdings and transactions, were largely kept in original order and then arranged according to brokerage company. Correspondence in this series relates to general investment issues such as Kennedy’s holdings, stock tips, dividends, and trading. Securities receipts tracking buying and selling stocks and bonds form the bulk of this series and are most complete for the 1930s and 1950s. Due to the number of these receipts, they have not been sorted or organized except by year. A group of receipts from 1930-1933 were arranged alphabetically by stock/bond name; that order has been maintained. This series is closed entirely according to deed restrictions.

Box 42	Correspondence
		1918-1934 1935-1961
	Legal documents
		General, 1941, 1950, undated Stock certificates, 1931 Stock purchase agreement: Cinema Credits Corp., Fred Thomson Productions, Somerset Importers, 1946 Stock transfer certificates, undated (2 folders)
	Receipts and statements
		Joseph P. Kennedy
			Account statements
				Bache and Company, 1947-1948 Halle and Stieglitz
					Daily, 1932 Memos, 1932 Monthly, 1932-1933
				Palmer and Company, 1930 Redmond and Company
					1933 (2 folders) 1934-1935 1938, 1940
				Richard J. Buck and Company, 1957-1959 Shelby Cullom Davis and Company, 1947
			Receipts
				1928 1929 1930 1930-1933 (63 folders, alphabetical by stock name) 1936-1952 (bulk dates 1950-1952) 1953-1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960
		1926 Trusts
			1923-45 1948 1949 1951-1960 (22 folders)
		1936 Trusts, 1948-1960 (15 folders) 1949 Trusts, 1954-1960 1953 Trusts, 1956-1960 1956 Trusts, 1959-1960 Children, 1950-1957 (2 folders) Hyannis Corporation, 1953-1960 Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation
			1945-1946 1949 1951-1960 (7 folders)
		Ken Industries, 1953-1960 Rose F. Kennedy
			1931-1933, 1937 1943-1944, 1949-1951 1953-1956 1957-1960
		Miscellaneous

Series 3.6.3. Taxes.
About 1135 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series contains material related to income taxes on Kennedy’s personal assets, companies, and investments, as well as some material relating to taxes on his employees’ wages. Arrangement is according to tax form type or number, and government level (i.e. federal, state, or local taxes). Most of this series is closed under deed restrictions on the release of personal financial information, and by instructions of the originating agency, the IRS. See also Series 1.2.4. Family Subject Files: John F. Kennedy: Taxes .

Box 42	Federal forms 1096 and 1099, 1948-1963
		1926 Trusts 1936 Trusts Joseph P. Kennedy Rose F. Kennedy Other trusts and corporations
	Federal form W-4 (employees), 1948-1952 Federal Withholding Tax Returns, 1938-1951
		1926 Trusts 1936 Trusts Joseph P. Kennedy
	Local taxes
		Hyannisport, 1948 Palm Beach, 1948-1949
	New York State Information Returns, 1948-1963
		1926 Trusts 1936 Trusts Joseph P. Kennedy Rose F. Kennedy Other trusts and corporations
	New York State Tax Adjustments, 1939-1943 New York State Unemployment Insurance Returns, 1936-1952
		1926 Trusts Joseph P. Kennedy Rose F. Kennedy
	Miscellaneous

Series 3.6.4. Subject Files.
About 410 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject, then type, then chronological.

These miscellaneous original subject files relate to Kennedy’s investments and finances. Some date from Kennedy’s work as an independent banker and stockbroker in the 1920s and 1930s. This series also contains material collected for two court cases, as well as correspondence about certain investments and accounts, and company publications most likely collected by Joseph P. Kennedy for research purposes. Kennedy collected news clippings, company reports, and announcements to keep tabs on the stability of companies he invested in and to research potential investments; however, the presence of a certain company’s report here does not necessarily indicate that he held its stock. The Yellow Cab incident is also documented here in two folders of telegrams and correspondence between Kennedy and the company’s owners. As a favor to a friend, Kennedy helped thwart a buyout of the company’s stock by secretly manipulating the stock prices to increase and decrease seemingly at random in April 1924. See also Series 3.7.1. Business and Finance: General Business: Subject Files .

Box 42	1926 Trust, 1932-1948 (2 folders) 1928 Income tax return dispute
		Correspondence, 1930-1935 Legal documents, 1926, 1933, Undated U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals publications, 1933
	Brooklyn Manhattan Transit, 1932-1937 Company publications, 1917-1961 (1-3 of 5 folders)
Box 43	Company publications, 1917-1961 (4-5 of 5 folders) Hazel-Atlas Glass Company, 1936-1937 Hialeah Race Track, 1944-1960 North-South Company v. Joseph P. Kennedy, 1932-1933 Sime Silverman Estates, 1931-1936 Technical Securities Corporation, 1942 Utilities, 1935-1937 Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company
		Correspondence, 1924 General, 1923-1926

Series 3.6.5. Real Estate.
About 200 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by type or subject, then chronological.

This small series consists of material related to Kennedy’s investment in real estate. It is not comprehensive. Of note is the New England Land Company ledgers and the rent register which detail finances relating to Kennedy’s properties. A small group of general correspondence relates to various real estate dealings. Correspondence with John J. Reynolds, one of Kennedy’s real estate brokers and owner of a real estate management company, is more detailed. For additional Reynolds correspondence, see Series 3.5. Business and Finance: Merchandise Mart , and Series 9.1.1. Private Citizen: Correspondent File . The “Proposals” folder contains letters offering or suggesting other real estate investments, most of which Kennedy seems to have refused. As an independent banker, Kennedy seems to have dealt with real estate, especially leases and mortgages, fairly often, as seen from the legal documents. Most of the buildings Kennedy owned or leased seem to be in New York City, although he showed interest in property in other cities.

Box 43	Correspondence, 1923-1965 Detroit, undated Fenway Building Trust, 1914, 1917 John J. Reynolds, 1943-1949 Legal documents, 1915-1947 Mary J. Fitzgerald property, 1931, 1946 New England Land Company
		Buffalo, New York, 1894-1933
Box 44		Cash book, 1894-1948
	New York City property: Statements of operations, 1943-1947 (closed) Newark, 1949 Proposals, 1918-1960 Real Estate Board of New York publications, 1960-1964 Rental Register, 1946-1947 Shaker Company (Cleveland) Miscellaneous

Series 3.7. General Business, 1917-1961.

This series contains a wide variety of material relating to Kennedy’s general business dealings; his various jobs, companies and business ventures; and jobs/companies about which this archives does not have much material. The material has been arranged into two subseries: Subject Files and Staff Files. Files on Kennedy’s staff and associates not affiliated specifically with only one of Kennedy’s businesses or appointments can be found here.

Series 3.7.1. Subject Files.
About 625 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by type or subject, then chronological.

This series contains correspondence, reports, financial papers, legal documents, publications, news clippings, and other assorted documents relating to Kennedy’s general business issues and smaller companies, as well as companies Kennedy may have been thinking about buying. In some cases, there is no explanation of Kennedy’s involvement or role in a certain business; thus the inclusion of a file here rather than in the subject files of the investment series is somewhat arbitrary. Please see Series 3.6.4. Investment Subject Files . Located in this series are letters offering Kennedy opportunities to invest or buy a company are contained in the Business and Investment Proposals files. Many of these offers Kennedy turned down, or there is no evidence of his response. Other files seem to represent business opportunities Kennedy was researching, but often with the outcome that he decided not to undertake the venture. The general correspondence file contains letters not related to a specific business or discussing general business issues and trends. Also of note are the Hearst Newspapers correspondence files from when Kennedy was hired to reorganize the nearly bankrupt company.

Box 44	Boston Morris Plan, 1919-1922 Brennan Corporation, 1923 Business and investment proposals
		1918-1937 1941-1945 1946-1950 1951-1952 1957-1960 and undated
Box 45	Check Guarantee Company of America, 1924 Coca-Cola, 1943, 1950-1952 (2 folders) Congressional Hearing Publications, 1945, 1960-1961 Corporate data, undated Correspondence
		Brush, Matthew C., 1922-1925 General
			1917-1925 1928-1937 1941-1961, undated
		List, 1918-1931 Thayer, Eugene, 1920-1922
	Hayden, Stone and Company, 1920-1923 Hearst Newspapers
		February 1937-July 1937 August 1937-January 1938
Box 46	Howard Johnson Company, 1936-1939 Hyannis Corporation Limited, 1932-1935 Louis Sherry Incorporated / The Savarins Incorporated
		Louis Sherry Audits and Appraisals, 1948 Louis Sherry Finances, 1938-1950 Notes, 1947-1948 and undated The Savarins Finances, 1938-1948
	News clippings, 1945-1961 Old Colony Trust Company, 1925 Miscellaneous

Series 3.7.2. Staff Files.
About 1485 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by person or subject, then chronological.

This series consists of correspondence and records from Kennedy’s staff and associates whose service spanned more than one of his ventures, including Edward E. Moore, Kennedy’s longtime assistant, C.J. Scollard, Joseph Sheehan, Edward C. Jordan, M. G. Woodward, and James A. Fayne. C. J. Scollard’s correspondence in this series comes from his time as Kennedy’s secretary. Scollard was also involved in other business ventures, mostly notably Pathé, and more of his correspondence can be found in Series 4: Movie Industry . Joseph Sheehan was an associate of Kennedy’s from SEC through the Maritime Commission. The files on Bache and Co., a Wall Street stock brokerage firm, relate to M. G. Woodward (Kennedy’s accountant), Edward C. Jordan, and James A. Fayne, who all served as limited partners in the firm at various times during the early 1950s. These three men worked in Kennedy’s office and dealt primarily with his finances. Correspondence files of the staff at Kennedy’s New York office deal with general business issues, especially banking, in Kennedy’s later business career. Correspondents include M. G. Woodward, Paul E. Murphy, Frank Bedell, Edward C. Jordan, John J. Ford, and Thomas Walsh. For additional correspondence between Kennedy and the New York office, see Series 6. Securities and Exchange Commission ; Series 7. Maritime Commission ; and Series 8.2.5. Ambassadorial Correspondence: Correspondent File, New York, 1938-1940 .

Box 46	Bache and Co.
		Financial statements, 1950-1952 Partnership papers, 1950-1952
	Fayne, James A. (closed)
		#1 account, 1945-1956 Special account (securities), 1951 Notes receivable, 1951-1953
	Jordan, E. C. (closed)
		Notes receivable, 1952 Special account, 1952-1953
	Moore, Edward E.
		Banking records, December 1931-May 1932 (3 folders) Bills and receipts, 1932 Check registers, 1931-1933 (2 folders)
Box 47		Correspondence, 1920-1936 Financial documents, 1928-1934 News clippings, c. 1929-1935 Miscellaneous
	New York Office correspondence
		1951-1954 (3 folders) 1957-1960
	Scollard, Clinton J., 1930-1931 Sheehan, Joseph R., 1936 Woodward, M. G. (closed)
		#1 account, 1950-1952 Notes receivable, 1950-1952

Series 3.8. Insurance, 1914-1971.
About 1200 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject, then chronological.

This series consists of property appraisals, balance sheets, payment receipts, insurance documents, and correspondence relating to insurance purchased by Kennedy. Except for the general file and the appraisals, the files relate specifically to life insurance policies. For other types of insurance, such as personal property, see Series 1.2.2. Family Subject Files: Rose F. Kennedy and Series 8.2.2. Ambassadorial Correspondence: Subject File . Appraisals of the Kennedy houses are arranged by location of property, then chronologically. Several appraisals had relating correspondence attached, which is now filed in the same folder. This series is entirely closed according to deed restrictions on the release of personal financial information.

Box 47	General, 1922-1970 (with gaps) Kennedy, Joseph P.
		Balance Sheets, 1948-1967 Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, 1920, 1923 Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1919-1929, 1949-1969 New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1917-1949, 1954-1969 Payments, 1969-1970 State Mutual Life Assurance Company, 1915-1930, 1949-1950, 1954-1969 Miscellaneous, 1937-1942
	Kresel, Isidor J.
		General, 1933-1937 Aetna Life Insurance Company, 1933-1937 Balance Sheets, 1933-1937 Equitable Life Assurance Society, 1933-1937 (3 folders) Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1933-1937 New York Life Insurance Company, 1933-1937 (2 folders) Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1934-1937 Prudential Insurance Company, 1933-1937 Union Central Life Insurance Company, 1914-1937 (2 folders)
	Other Policies
		Blue Cross, 1970-1971 Equitable Life Insurance Society, 1965-1969 John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1951, 1970
	Property Appraisal Reports
		Bronxville, New York
			Buildings, 1929 Residence Furnishings, 1938
		Hyannisport, Massachusetts
			November 18, 1961 (2 folders) February 13, 1970 Vacant land, February 13, 1970 December 3, 1970 (2 folders)
		Palm Beach, Florida
			March 14, 1962 April 15, 1970 January 29, 1971

Series 3.9. Estate, 1961-1974.
About 950 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series consists of correspondence, originals and copies of legal documents, and miscellaneous related items generated by those individuals overseeing the execution and distribution of Joseph P. Kennedy’s estate after his death on November 18, 1969. The files also contain financial records compiled by his staff starting after his stroke in 1961. In large part, the estate files have retained their original organization and titles, except for “Finances” and “Residency,” which were unlabelled. A majority of the correspondence is between Senator Edward M. Kennedy, executor of his father’s estate, and attorneys Neal P. Rutledge, William Peyton Marin and Carole A. Gardiner. Some legal and financial materials remain closed according to the deed of gift, and the sensitivity of legal material relating to living individuals.

Box 47

Assets, 1970
Claims filed in Florida, 1970
Correspondence, 1969-1972
Distributions to legatees, 1971-1974 (2 folders)
Final discharge of benefactor and executor responsibilities, 1972-1973
Finances, 1961-1973 (2 folders)
Florida intangible tax, 1970-1972
Florida property, 1970-1973
Massachusetts real property, 1970-1973
Orders approving payment of fees, 1971-1973
Orders to sell inventory, 1970-1971
Paid invoices, 1969-1973 (2 folders)
Residency, 1970
Rose F. Kennedy right of election, 1970
Sale of Merchandise Mart interest, 1972 (3 folders)
Surrogate’s Court New York, 1970-1971

Series 4. Movie Industry, 1919-1957 (bulk dates 1920-1932).
Opened 3/2003-2/2004.
About 8400 items (10.5 linear feet).
The Movie Industry series documents Joseph P. Kennedy's involvement in the film industry. Although the series spans the years 1919 to 1957, the bulk of the material dates from 1920 to 1932. As Kennedy's involvement in the movie industry was varied and extensive, the material has been organized into seven series representing his major film enterprises: Series 4.1. Robertson-Cole/F.B.O. (1920-1932) ; Series 4.2. Fred Thomson Productions (1927-1947) ; Series 4.3. Gloria Swanson (1921-1957 ); Series 4.4. Pathé/R.K.O. (1927-1935) ; Series 4.5. Cinema Credits Corporation (1926-1943) ; Series 4.6. Paramount Pictures (1936-1937) ; and Series 4.7. General (1919-1954) . Researchers should note that as this material was found in great disarray, it has not retained its original order or location. There is overlap between some folders and series, and when possible, cross referencing information has been given in the series description. In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed. This includes personal income tax information, closed as per directive of the Internal Revenue Service. Document withdrawal sheets have been inserted in the file where items have been removed.

Series 4.1. Robertson-Cole/F.B.O., 1920-1932.
Opened 3/2003.
About 600 items.
Arrangement: chronological by subject.

This series consists of correspondence, contracts, publicity and financial material related to Joseph P. Kennedy's involvement, purchase and presidency of the Robertson-Cole Corporation (R.C. Pictures Corporation) and Film Booking Offices (F.B.O.). There is also material from a 1926 European trip taken by Kennedy while president of F.B.O.; from the Gower Street Company, a financial corporation associated with F.B.O. founded by Kennedy and Guy Currier; and from "The Story of the Films," a Harvard lecture series coordinated and later published by Kennedy while president of F.B.O. For material detailing F.B.O.'s involvement in the creation of Radio-Keith-Orpheum (R.K.O.), see Series 4.5. Pathé/R.K.O. For material related to Kennedy's other early film pursuits, see Series 4.7. General.

Box 48	Robertson-Cole
		1920 1921 (6 folders) 1922 (2 folders) 1923 1925
	R.C. Pictures Corporation, 1926 F.B.O.
		1920-1923 1926-1929 (2 folders) 1926: European trip correspondence 1927: F.B.O. Christmas wishes 1931-1932, undated
Box 49	Gower Street Company (3 folders) Fred Stone Productions, 1919-1921 Correspondence with Gene Tunney "The Story of the Films" (6 folders) Harvard funding

Series 4.2. Fred Thomson Productions, 1927-1947.
Opened 3/2003.
About 1150 items.
Arrangement: by subject and/or type.

This series consists of correspondence, scripts, booking sheets, administrative and publicity material, and financial documents relating to Joseph P. Kennedy’s business relationship with actor Fred Thomson, specifically as embodied in Fred Thomson Productions. The bulk of the series consists of tax, contract and rental statements from Paramount-Publix for the four Kennedy-Thomson films. There is also general correspondence, administrative items and material specifically related to “Jesse James,” “Kit Carson” and “Pioneer Scout;” all films produced by Kennedy and starring Thomson. Oversize items have been filed separately with a separation sheet inserted in the appropriate file describing the item and giving a reference number. In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed. This includes personal income tax information, closed as per directive of the Internal Revenue Service. Document withdrawal sheets have been inserted in the file where items have been removed.

Box 49	General material General correspondence Minutes and resolutions Financial matters, 1927-1947 Fred Thomson cup, 1928 Consolidated Film Industries Inc. statements, 1928 Statement of Australian tax reserve, 1928
Box 50	Statement of taxes, 1928-1933 Items chargeable, 1928-1933 (2 folders) Unplayed contracts, 1928-1933 (3 folders) Statement of foreign rentals, 1928-1933 (2 folders) Weekly summary - film rental, 1927-1933 (1-2 of 7 folders)
Box 51	Weekly summary - film rental, 1928-1933 (3-7 of 7 folders) "Jesse James" (1927)
		Script Correspondence Sales/gross Exhibition licenses/censorship Publicity Photographs Articles
	"Pioneer Scout" (1928) Title "Kit Carson" (1928) General

Series 4.3. Gloria Swanson, 1921-1957.
Opened 3/2003.
About 4800 items.

This series consists of correspondence, contracts, financial material (personal and professional), scripts, administrative material, distribution statements, publicity material and photographs relating to Joseph P. Kennedy’s professional relationship with actress Gloria Swanson. After Swanson and Kennedy met in late 1927, Kennedy became deeply involved in Swanson's personal and professional finances and business affairs. The material is arranged into three subseries: Gloria Swanson Personal; Gloria Swanson Productions; and Gloria Productions, which is the most extensive and holds material related to the production company formed by Swanson, Kennedy and his associates in early 1928. In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed. This includes personal income tax information, closed as per directive of the Internal Revenue Service.

Series 4.3.1. Gloria Swanson Personal, 1921-1930.
Opened 3/2003.
About 1000 items.
Arrangement: by subject.

This series consists of material relating to Swanson's personal life and finances. It includes a marriage contract, correspondence, bills, insurance policies and material related to Swanson's personal income taxes. The bulk of the series consists of bills, receipts and insurance information. While most bills and insurance policies were paid for out of the Gloria Productions account, they are included in this series as Swanson largely considered Gloria Productions to be her personal account. For further information on Swanson's professional finances through Gloria Productions, see Series 4.3.3. Gloria Productions . In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed. This includes personal income tax information, closed under Internal Revenue Service rules.

Box 52	Bank deposits/withdrawals, 1921-1924 Swanson/Falaise marriage contract, January 27, 1925 De la Falaise, Henri Financial obligations, 1928 Statement of financial position, 1928-1930 Legal matters Warehouse storage Victor recording contract Photographs: Gloria Swanson/Charles Lindbergh Income taxes/offer of compromise (6 folders) Life insurance (3 folders) Bills/receipts (1-2 of 5 folders)
Box 53	Bills/receipts (3-5 of 5 folders) Insurance [not life] (1-6 of 8 folders)
Box 54	Insurance [not life] (7-8 of 8 folders)

Series 4.3.2. Gloria Swanson Productions, 1925-1930.
Opened 3/2003.
About 100 items.
Arrangement: by subject.

This series consists of material related to the production company formed in 1925, when Swanson joined United Artists, including correspondence, administrative and financial material and contracts. This series also contains material related to "The Love of Sunya" and "Sadie Thompson," films created by Gloria Swanson Productions and distributed by United Artists. Much of the material is dated post-1927 as Kennedy and Swanson tried to resolve the debt incurred by Swanson during the production of "Sunya" and "Sadie Thompson." After the creation of Gloria Productions in 1928, much of Gloria Swanson Productions' responsibilities were transferred to the new corporation. For further information, specifically the creation of Gloria Productions and the transfer of authority, see Series 4.3.3. Gloria Productions . In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed. This includes personal income tax information, closed as per directive of the Internal Revenue Service.

Box 54	Administrative Financial Agreement with United Artists, 1925 Contracts with Art Cinema Corp. "Sadie Thomson" (1928)
		General Contracts re: story rights
	"The Love of Sunya" (1927) Parker Suit

Series 4.3.3. Gloria Productions, 1927-1957 (bulk 1928-1932).
Opened 3/2003.
About 3600 items.
Arrangement: by subject and/or type; films chronological by date of production.

This series consists of material from the production company created at the beginning of the Swanson-Kennedy business relationship, responsible for "Queen Kelly," "The Trespasser," and "What a Widow." It includes correspondence, contracts, photographs, scripts, publicity material, memos, balance sheets, bank statements, minutes and administrative materials and distribution statements. Material related to specific films has been filed under the film title; the films are arranged in order of production. General financial information, including balance sheets and bank statements, has been filed after the film-specific material. For further information on the financial status of Gloria Productions, specifically bills, receipts and insurance payments, see the respective folders in Series 4.3.1. Gloria Swanson Personal. In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed. This includes personal income tax information, closed as per directive of the Internal Revenue Service.

Box 54	Gloria Swanson Productions gives rights to Gloria Productions Minutes/administrative (2 folders) Minute Book Vol. I (2 folders) Minute Book Vol. II Minute Books' inserts
Box 55	United Artists stock/settlement Contracts with Art Cinema Corp., 1930 (2 folders) Agreements with Pathé Studios (2 folders) Dispute with Pathé Studios, 1930-1931 (2 folders) Bank contracts Contracts re: "Clothes" Gloria Swanson contest "The Devil's Sunday" Summaries of asst. director's daily report Fingernail invention Ethel Helmsling visa extension Miscellaneous Ledger pages (loose) Early correspondence, November 1927 - February 1928
Box 56	General correspondence (6 folders) "Queen Kelly" (The Swamp) (1929) Contracts between Gloria Swanson and Gloria Productions Copyright contract Story Production notes/plans Agreements between Von Stroheim and Gloria Productions Von Stroheim and Celebrity Pictures Financial affairs
Box 57	Contracts with Bank of America (2 folders) Correspondence Publicity Music Insurance Boleslavsky Suspension of production 1957 remake and tax status "The Trespasser" (1929)
		Story Copyright Filming/camera work Correspondence (3 folders) Finances (2 folders) Foreign distribution Publicity
Box 58		Photographs Novelization Music Irving Berlin, Inc. Royalties Lawsuit, Becker vs. Berlin et al. Negative/negative insurance Consolidated Film fire Print orders/shipping
	"What A Widow" (1930)
		Script Copyright Financial Affairs Correspondence (2 folders) Foreign distribution
	Music
Box 59	Vincent Youmans Publicity Movie-Tone and volume control sheet Newspapers/reviews Contest
		Winners/contracts Expenses Insurance (2 folders)
	Consolidated Film Industries statements Negative insurance "Rock-A-Bye" Script Contract between Gloria Swanson and Gloria Productions Production costs Correspondence Production earnings Statements of profits and losses Balance sheets Receipts and disbursements (2 folders) Gloria Productions/Gloria Personal - disbursements
Box 60	Correspondence re: production costs/receipts/disbursements (2 folders) Financial telegrams (2 folders) Bills/receipts/invoices (2 folders) Payments to Pathé Studios Ledger/journal entries, 1928-1931 Journal vouchers, 1928-1931 Ledger/coast journal entries, 1928-1931 1930 Federal tax extension 1930 California tax extension Bank of Italy Vouchers, November/December 1930 Statements, 1930-1931 Bank of Italy/Bank of America Checks Account transfers/credits (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 61	Account transfers/credits (3 of 3 folders) Memorandums of discount National City Bank of New York (2 folders) United Artists Distribution statements/notices (1-8 of 19 folders)
Box 62	United Artists distribution statements/notices (9-18 of 19 folders)
Box 63	United Artists distribution statements/notices (19 of 19 folders) United Artists Corp.
		Balance Sheets
	Miscellaneous contracts (2 folders) Price, Waterhouse report, 1929

Series 4.4. Pathé/R.K.O., 1927-1935.
Opened 3/2003.
About 300 items.
Arrangement: roughly chronological by subject and type.

This series consists of correspondence, contracts, minutes, financial documents, memoranda and other material relating to Kennedy's position as "special advisor" to Pathé Studios/Pathé Exchange Inc. and the creation of Radio-Keith-Orpheum (R.K.O.), a merger of Keith-Albee-Orpheum, F.B.O. and R.C.A. facilitated by Kennedy. There is also material related to the subsequent purchase of Pathé by R.K.O. and notes and reports prepared for the Sabath Committee's 1935 Congressional investigation into this purchase. Material is arranged by subject in a rough chronological order; Pathé material is filed first, then Keith-Albee-Orpheum material, which leads to the creation of R.K.O. and all R.K.O. related material, including information on the purchase of Pathé. For further information about F.B.O. prior to and during the R.K.O. merger, see Series 4.1. Robertson-Cole/F.B.O. In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed. This includes personal income tax information, closed as per directive of the Internal Revenue Service.

Box 63	Pathé Exchange Inc., 1927-1932 Cecil B. DeMille, 1928 Pathé Exchange/Schubert theatre merger (General Amusements Corporation/Allied Prod.) (2 folders) Pathé correspondence
		General Terry Ramsye Phil Reisman
	Pathé finances Pathé stock Pathé/FBO contract re. sound studios Keith-Albee-Orpheum - General Executive committee minutes: Keith-Albee-Orpheum, 1928 Creation of RKO: RCA, Keith-Albee-Orpheum and FBO, 1927-1929 (3 folders)
Box 64	RKO-Pathé Deal (2 folders) Pathé equipment appraisal, 1930-1931 RKO Stock - Joseph P. Kennedy, 1930 RKO and Chemical Bank and Trust Company: Collateral Note Indenture, 1 July 1931 Standard Trade and Securities Services - publication Sabath Committee investigation of RKO, 1935 RKO balance sheets, 1935 RCA recapitalization plans, 2 December 1935 Miscellaneous

Series 4.5. Cinema Credits Corporation, 1926-1948.
Opened 3/2003.
About 300 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by type and subject, then chronological.

This series consists of ledgers, account information, bank statements, balance sheets, loan information and minutes from Cinema Credits Corporation, a financing corporation formed by Kennedy after purchasing F.B.O. The files largely contain financial and bank information and extend beyond Kennedy's tenure as president of F.B.O. Material is arranged by type, then by year and in some cases, by bank. For further information on Kennedy's time at F.B.O. see Series 4.1. Robertson-Cole/F.B.O. In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed. This includes personal income tax information, closed as per directive of the Internal Revenue Service.

Box 64	Account ledger
		1927 (2 folders) 1928 1929
	Asset, liability, income and expense cards
		1927 1928 1929
	Balance sheets and trial balances
		1927 1929-1931
	Bank book
		1926-1929, National Shawmut Bank of Boston 1926-1929, Old Colony Trust Company
Box 65		1943, Wilmington Trust Company
	Bank deposit receipts, 1940: National City Bank of New York Bank statements and checks
		1926: First National Bank of Boston 1927
			Bank of Italy Bowery and East River National Bank First National Bank of Boston National Shawmut Bank of Boston (2 folders) Old Colony Trust Company Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings Bank
		1928
			Bank of Italy Bowery and East River National Bank/Bank of America First National Bank of Boston Los Angeles First National Trust and Savings Bank National Shawmut Bank of Boston Old Colony Trust Company
		1929
			Bank of America Bank of Italy National Shawmut Bank of Boston First National Bank of Boston Old Colony Trust Company
	Dividends, 1940 Loans Miscellaneous accounts, 1926-1929 (2 folders) Completed Program, 1927-1928 Completed Program, 1928-1929 Minutes and resolutions, 1932-1943 Stock statements, 1937-1942 General material, 1933-1945

Series 4.6. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 1933-1942.
Opened 3/2003.
About 200 items.
Arrangement: by type.

This series consists of correspondence, drafts, reports and addenda from a financial report prepared by Joseph P. Kennedy as a special advisor to the board for Paramount pictures in 1936. Along with general information and correspondence, the series also contains a report prepared by Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount pictures. There are multiple copies of Kennedy's completed report, including a draft, draft fragments, final drafts and several numbered copies of the printed version with pencil notations. The files also contain testimony and exhibits from a court case, Miren v. Paramount et al. These documents span the years 1933-1942. Miren's suit was against several corporations, including Paramount pictures, Shubert theatres and Select theatres, but has been placed here because the majority of the material deals with Paramount. In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed. This includes personal income tax information, closed as per directive of the Internal Revenue Service.

Box 66	Miscellaneous materials 1936
		January-April May-July Early report drafts
	Correspondence, 1936, 1939 Adolph Zukor Report, 13 May 1936 Kennedy Report, 12 June 1936
		Draft Fragments of drafts Final draft
			Copy 1 (with penciled changes) Copy 2 (with penciled changes) Copy 3 (with penciled changes) Copy 4 (with penciled changes)
		Printed version
			Copy 17 (with penciled markings) Copy 18 (with penciled markings) Copy 20 Copy 23 (with penciled markings) Unnumbered copy
Box 67		Addenda
			Typed Printed
	Wiren v. Paramount et al
		General Amendment of complaint Manton trial testimony (2 folders) Testimony on Levy disbarment (2 folders) Schubert Theatre Corporation, exhibit 1 (2 folders) Bound briefs and transcripts (2 folders)

Series 4.7. General, 1919-1954.
Opened 3/2003.
About: 500 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject and/or type.

This series consists of material related to Kennedy's film pursuits that do not correspond with the previous series, including correspondence, speeches, contracts, balance sheets and administrative material. Materials relate to Kennedy's smaller film enterprises such as Hallmark Pictures, Columbia Films Inc., and the Maine and New Hampshire Theatres Company, along with two folders of correspondence representing Kennedy's early forays into the movie business. At the end of the series are several folders of general correspondence and miscellaneous items that did not appear to fit anywhere else in the series. In accordance with the donor's deed of gift, documents which would result in unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed. This includes personal income tax information, closed as per directive of the Internal Revenue Service.

Box 68	Columbia Films Inc.
		1919 1920-1925
	Correspondence
		General (2 folders) Sullivan, C. E. United Artists
	Delaware Corporation annual reports Early film correspondence
		1919-1920 1921-1922
	First National, 1928 Fox film corporation, 1931 Groton Street Corporation Hallmark Pictures, 1919-1920 Kennedy speeches/publicity Lonsdale Productions, 1943 Maine and New Hampshire Theatres Co.
		Balance Sheets, Statements of Operations
			1936 1941
Box 69			1968
		Correspondence, 1919-1953 Financial
	Motion Picture Finance Corporation, 1923 Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Orbis Mundy Realty contracts with Paramount/Publix Palace Theatre & Realty Co., 1933 Producers Distributing Corporation, 1927-1928 R.C.A. [Radio Corporation of America]
		Correspondence, 1935-1936 Letters to Stockholders, 1936 Final Report to Board of Directors, 1936
	Schochiku loan United Artists and Joseph Schenck contract, 1 May 1926 Miscellaneous

Series 5. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Politics, 1932-1960.
Opened 8/2002-2/2004.

This series documents the relationship between Joseph P. Kennedy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well as Kennedy’s other political activities. In the 1930s Kennedy began to devote his time to politics, lending both financial and personal support to Franklin Roosevelt. In September 1932, Kennedy spent several months with Roosevelt on his campaign train. During a 1933 trip to Europe with Jimmy Roosevelt (Franklin Roosevelt's son), Kennedy became involved in the import business. In July 1934, Kennedy returned to politics after Roosevelt appointed him chairman of the newly formed Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Despite widespread qualms about the appointment of an ex-speculator to an influential regulatory position, Kennedy got the SEC off to a sound start. He resigned from the SEC in September 1935. Kennedy retained his political ties to Roosevelt, providing visible support in the 1936 presidential campaign with the publication of I'm for Roosevelt . Written with the aid of New York Times columnist Arthur Krock, the book detailed Kennedy's strong support for Roosevelt and the New Deal from the prospective of the business community. The series is arranged into three subseries: Correspondence, 1932-1960 ; Campaigning for Roosevelt, 1932-1937 ; and News Clippings and Scrapbooks, 1935-1952 .

Series 5.1. Correspondence, 1932-1960 (bulk dates 1932-1936).
Opened 9/2003
About 2000 pages.
Arrangement: alphabetical.

This series consists of political and some business related correspondence comprised mostly of Joseph P. Kennedy’s interest in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s campaigns and presidency with the bulk of the correspondence dating from 1932-1936. Significant events discussed in the correspondence include the presidential campaigns of 1932 and 1936, campaigns of other Democrats around the country, and Kennedy’s trips to Europe (1935 and 1936) on behalf of Roosevelt. Folders are arranged alphabetically and persons with whom Kennedy wrote extensively are titled with the name of the correspondent or the subject, including members of the Roosevelt family, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, and White House staff member Marguerite “Missy” LeHand. Several senators, legislators and ambassadors, such as Robert W. Bingham, W.C. Bullitt, James F. Byrnes, George W. Norris, and Daniel C. Roper wrote to Kennedy regarding the president’s policies, campaigns and other political matters. Other correspondents include Irving Berlin, professor Felix Frankfurter, and several newspapermen such as Arthur Krock of The New York Times , Louis Ruppel of the Chicago Daily Times , and Robert S. Allen and Drew Pearson of The Washington Merry-Go-Round . Some correspondence relates to Kennedy’s tenures as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Maritime Commission. There may be correspondence related to Kennedy’s political speeches, articles, and his book, I’m for Roosevelt, ” that has not been separated into the other series within this series. Researchers should note that as this material was found in great disarray, it has not retained its original order or location. There is overlap between some subject correspondents within different series. Researchers should also consult Series 6.1.2. Securities and Exchange Commission: Personal Correspondent File; Series 7.2. Chairman, U.S. Maritime Commission: Correspondence ; and Series 8.2. Ambassador to Great Britain: Correspondence for further correspondence.

Box 69	A, 1932-1936 B, 1932-1936 Berlin, Irving and Ellin, 1936 Bingham, Robert W. (Ambassador), 1935-1936 Block, Paul, 1935-1936 Boettiger, John and Anna Roosevelt, 1934-1936 Bracken, Brendan, 1936 Bullitt, W. C. (Ambassador), 1935-1936 Burns, Judge John J., 1935-1936 Byrnes, James F. (Senator), 1936
Box 70	C, 1932-1936 Campbell, Patrick T., 1933 D, 1932-1936 Democratic National Committee, 1932-1937 E, 1934, 1935 European Trip, Letters of Introduction, 1935 Falvey, C.G. 1932-1936 Farley, James A., 1936 Frankfurter, Felix, 1933 and undated Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1938-1940 G, 1932-1936 Gianinni, Arthur P., 1932-1936 H, 1932-1936 Hayes, William H, 1932-1936 Howard, Roy, 1932-1936 J, 1932-1936 Jencks, Henry A., 1936 K, 1935-1936 Krock, Arthur, 1935-1936 L, 1935-1936 LeHand, Marguerite “Missy”
		1932-1936 1937-1941 and undated
	M, 1932-1936 McCormick, Robert, 1936 "March of Time," 1936 N, 1935-1936 Norris, George W. (Senator), 1936 O, 1935-1936
Box 71	P, 1934-1936 Poole, Arthur, 1935-1937 R, 1936 Roosevelt family, 1934, 1936 Roosevelt, Eleanor 1934-1945 Roosevelt, Elliott 1934-1946 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1932-1945 Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 1949, 1960 Roosevelt, James, 1932-1960 (6 folders) Roper, Daniel C. (Secretary of Commerce), 1936 Ruppel, Louis ( Chicago Daily Times ), 1934-1936 S, 1932-1936 Swope, Gerard (General Electric), 1934-1936 Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1934-1936 T, 1935-1936 Van Horn, Peter, 1936 W, 1934-1936 “The Washington Merry-Go-Round” [Allen, Robert S. and Pearson, Drew], 1935-1936 White House, 1934-1942
Box 72	Y, 1936 Z, 1934 Unknown names, 1932-1935, undated Miscellaneous

Series 5.2. Campaigning, 1932-1937 (bulk dates 1932-1936).

This series is arranged into three categories: Series 5.2.1. Campaign Train, 1932 ; Series 5.2.2. “I’m For Roosevelt,” 1936 ; and Series 5.2.3. Speeches and Articles, 1936-1937.

Series 5.2.1. Campaign Train, 1932.
Opened 8/2002.
About 1000 pages.
Arrangement: by type of material.

This series consists of items created and collected when Kennedy accompanied Roosevelt on the presidential campaign train in the Fall of 1932. Materials include schedules, Roosevelt speeches, train assignments, as well as some campaign-related correspondence and other miscellaneous items.

Box 72	Letters, cables to Kennedy (chronological) Miscellaneous correspondence (not Kennedy) Roosevelt campaign itinerary/schedules Train and automobile assignments Roosevelt speeches
		Chronological (4 folders) Undated fragments
	Hotel receipts, expenses Blank postcards collected Map, travel brochures, etc.
Box 73	Photographs (2 folders) Miscellaneous

Series 5.2.2. I’m For Roosevelt , 1936.
Opened 1/2003.
About 1000 pages.
Arrangement: by type of material.

This series consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and other materials relating to Kennedy’s 1936 book I’m for Roosevelt . Correspondence includes lists of recipients of the book, letters acknowledging receipt of the book (arranged alphabetically), and other correspondence. “Manuscripts” contains drafts, galley proofs and page proofs of the book and editorials about the book. Manuscript materials are arranged in rough chronological order. See also the I’m for Roosevelt scrapbook located in Series 5.3. FDR and Politics: News clippings and Scrapbooks.

Box 73	Correspondence
		Address lists Acknowledgments
			A-L M-Z
		Letters: July–September, 1936 Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc.
	Manuscripts
		Early Drafts
			Cut and paste Carbon copies with edits
Box 74			Carbon copies Miscellaneous
		Staple-bound drafts
			Draft 1 Draft 2 (with edits) Draft 3 (with edits)
		Galley proofs Page proofs
			Proof 1 Proof 2
		Editorials

Series 5.2.3. Speeches and Articles, 1936-1937.
Opened 2/2003, 2/2004.
About 150 items.
Arrangement: chronological.

This series contains texts of speeches given by Kennedy in support of Roosevelt, Kennedy’s articles about an economic subject or aspects of administration policy, and texts for possible speeches or articles. Material also found with in the folders include drafts and related correspondence, some written by Kennedy, some written by others.

Box 75	“French paper,” 1936 “Shielding the Sheep,” Saturday Evening Post , January 18, 1936 “Why I am for Roosevelt,” Review of Reviews , September 1936 “The Administration and Business,” The New York Times Magazine , September 6, 1936 Radio broadcast for Roosevelt, October 5, 1936 New Deal, c. October 13, 1936 “Insurance Against Social Unrest,” The Good Neighbor League, October 16, 1936 “The New Deal and Business,” Radio broadcast, October 21, 1936 Business Men’s Tribute to President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dinner, Good Neighbor League, October 23, 1936 “Money Well Spent,” Radio broadcast, October 24, 1936 “Communism in the Campaign,” Democratic Business Men’s League of Massachusetts, October 24, 1936 Hartford speech, October 28, 1936 “Social Security,” Radio broadcast, October 29, 1936 “Social Security,” Radio broadcast, October 30, 1936 “Utilities,” [October] 1936 “Accomplishments of the Administration,” October/November 1936 Untitled, Pre-election 1936 Untitled, Post-election 1936 “I was for Roosevelt – So were 27 Million Other Americans,” Post-election 1936 “Big Business: What Now?” Saturday Evening Post , January 16, 1937
		Correspondence Research notes and related material Drafts Article and reviews
	“Notes on the Election . . ,” undated “The Public Debt,” undated “Spending,” undated

Series 5.3. News Clippings and Scrapbooks, 1935-1952 (bulk dates 1935-1937).
Opened 2/2004.
About 25 items.
Arrangement: by type, then chronologically.

This series consists of newspaper and magazine articles about Kennedy, collected by clipping services, Kennedy staff members, family members and other people. Many of the scrapbooks are oversized albums. A few are titled. A small number of loose news clippings are filed in rough chronological order. For other related scrapbooks, see Series 6.3. Securities and Exchange Commission: News Clippings and Scrapbooks ; and Series 8.9. Ambassadorial News Clippings, Scrapbooks, and Magazine Articles .

Box 76	Scrapbooks
		December 1935-December 1936 scrapbook, stamped JOSEPH P. KENNEDY I’m for Roosevelt” scrapbook, July 1936-September 1936 “President Roosevelt’s Second Inaugural,” 1937
	Loose news clippings, April 1936-May 1937, July 1947, June 1952

Series 6. Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 1927-1940.
Opened 9/2000-2/2004.

This series consists of material related to Joseph P. Kennedy's position as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is arranged, by type of material, into three subseries: Correspondence, Speeches, and News Clippings.

Series 6.1. Correspondence.

The Correspondence series consists of an outgoing letters file and a correspondence file between the Chairman and government officials, friends, extended family, and the general public. There is considerable overlap between the two files because both contain outgoing letters.

Series 6.1.1. Outgoing Letters, 1934-1935.
Opened 9/2000.
About 1500 pages.
Arrangement: chronological.

This series contains personal and official outgoing letters and cables written while Kennedy was SEC chairman. Outgoing letters can also be found in Series 6.1.2. Personal Correspondent File .

Box 76	1934
		August 8-21 August 22-30 September 5-15 September 17-28 October 1-5 October 6-11 October 12-18 October 19-31 November 1-16 November 17-30
Box 77		December 2-10 December 12-31
	1935
		January 8-16 January 19-31 February 1-16 February 18-28 March 1-16 March 18-30 April 1-15 April 16-25 April 26-30 May 1-10 May 11-18
Box 78		May 20-31 June 1-12 June 13-20 June 21-30 July 1-11 July 12-22 July 23-31 August 1-7 August 8-14 August 15-31 October

Series 6.1.2. Personal Correspondent File, 1934-1935.
Opened 6/2001, 9/2003.
About 2500 pages.
Arrangement: alphabetical by name or subject.

This series consists of correspondence received and sent while Kennedy was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Most of the material was written and received between July 1934 and October 1935. However, there are several documents written after Kennedy’s resignation. The later correspondence is usually between the former chairman and other members of his staff, many of whom still worked for the commission. Also included are letters of congratulation and those commenting on Kennedy's abrupt resignation. Notable correspondents include Arthur Krock of the New York Times, and James Landis of the SEC. In order to preserve some of the original order of the office files, several subject files (“receipts,” “Palm Beach,” etc.) have been kept in the series.

Box 79	Adare-Aylesworth Babson-Bloomer Batchelder, J.P.C. Block, Paul Bogue-Brayman Boettiger, John Boston Herald, The Boston Latin School (2 folders) Boston Post, The / Bernard Hughes Breed-Burns Brickley, Bart Bronxville Cadigan-Carroll Calder, Sir James Catholic University of America, The Chapman-Crowley Cloney, Dr. Thomas Congratulations after SEC appointment, 1934 (1 of 4 folders)
Box 80	Congratulations after SEC appointment, 1934 (2-4 of 4 folders) Connelly, Loretta and George Conry, Joseph A. Daab-Dwyer Donham, Wallace (Harvard) Early-Ewertz Eastern Airlines Entertainment Envelopes (empty) Eye Specialists Falaise-Fitzpatrick Faber and Company Farley, James A. Fayne, James A. Fisher, Robert T. Fletcher-Franklin Ford, John J. Frankfurter, Felix Gammack-Gurnett Goldsmith, Arthur J.
Box 81	Good, Dr. Frederick L. Haake-Hertz Harvard Club, New York City Hays, William H. Hickey-Hyannis Port Yacht Club Houghton, Arthur Hunt, Richard Hyannis Ickes-Ittelson Invitations
		Public Appearances, 1934 Public Appearances, 1935 Social, 1934 Social, 1935
	Jackson-Judy Keevin-Kramer Kressel, Isidor J. Krock, Arthur
Box 82	LaFarge-Lewis Landis, James M. Lieder-Luther Lippmann, Walter MacDonald-Meyer Marwood Masseur McGuire, C.E. McIntyre, Colonel M.H. Membership card Milbank-Murray Murphy, Paul Nast-Noyes O’Brien-Owens O’Leary, E.J. Packard-Purcell Palm Beach
Box 83	Phelan, James L. Photographs Rabell-Reynolds Real estate Receipts Resignation Rhoades-Ruppel Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Saperstein-Smithers Secretary’s notebook Stacey-Swope Swope, Herbert Bayard (2 folders) Takiff-Tydings Tobacco Townsend, Eleanor J. Vallee-Van Alstyne Walker-Wheeler White-Woodward

Series 6.2. Speeches, Articles, and Reports, 1934-1936 (bulk dates 1934-1935).
Opened 3/2003
About 800 items.
Arrangement: by type, then chronological.

This series contains speeches, articles, correspondence, pamphlets, and lists from Kennedy’s tenure as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The bulk of the speeches are from 1935 and deal with economic concerns and forecasts, except for a speech delivered at the Boston Latin School where Kennedy urged the students to follow the principles of character and honesty to enhance their education. Kennedy’s speech to the American Arbitration Association explains the Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934. Also included are several folders of requests for articles, invitations for Kennedy to speak, and various SEC memos, reports, and releases. Many of the folders contain correspondence relating to the enclosed speech or article.

Box 84	List of speeches Speeches
		1934
			National Press Club, Washington, July 25 “Economic Recovery in Britain and America,” undelivered, November/December
		1935
			Harvard Club, Boston, January 24 Union League Club, Chicago, February 8 (2 folders) American Arbitration Association, New York City, March 19 (2 folders) Boston Latin School: Tercentenary Dinner, April 23 (2 folders) Boston Chamber of Commerce, November 15 (2 folders) “Economic Recovery in Britain and America,” undelivered, November/December
		By other people/ Undetermined authors
Box 85	Article requests, 1934-1935 Invitations to speak
		1934: July-December 1935 : January-September (2 folders)
	J. Edward Jones v. SEC , 1935 Memoranda Miscellaneous reports, 1934-1936 Miscellaneous SEC-era documents Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 SEC press releases, March-October 1936 Staff lists

Series 6.3. News Clippings and Scrapbooks, 1927-1940 (bulk dates 1934-1935).
Opened 9/2003, 2/2004.
About 100 items.
Arrangement: by type, then chronological.

These newspaper and magazine articles about Kennedy, his family, and/or the SEC are filed by their original formats: Notebooks, Scrapbooks, and Loose news clippings . The articles were collected by clipping services, SEC or Kennedy staff, family members and other people. The articles document newspaper and magazine coverage of Kennedy’s activities as SEC chairman. The Notebooks were ring binders containing punched pages which had one clipping mounted on each page. Source and date of the article is given. Most notebooks were covered in green fabric with the dates of their contents on the spine. The pages have been moved into folders. Scrapbooks differ from the notebooks. Most of the scrapbooks are oversized albums. Some titled, others are not. Scrapbooks usually have more than one article per page. Whenever possible, scrapbooks have been kept intact. A small number of loose news clippings are filed by year. See also the “1934-1935, 1937-1940 Newspaper Photographs” scrapbook found in Series 8.9. Ambassadorial News Clippings, Scrapbooks, and Magazine Articles, 1934-1944 .

Box 85	Notebooks
		1934
			May-August September (2 folders) October
Box 86			November (2 folders) December
		1935
			January (2 folders) February (2 folders) March (2 folders) April
Box 87			May (2 folders) June July August-September
	Scrapbooks
		“Joseph P. Kennedy 1934 Clippings” – June 1934-September 1935, January-March 1936 “The Ideal Scrap Book” – July 1934-September 1935
			Enclosures: Travel souvenirs, 1936: June-August Enclosures: loose clippings, 1927, 1934-1936, 1939-1940 (2 folders)
		Blue leather scrapbook, August 1934-September 1935 Loose scrapbook pages, 1934-1936
	Loose news clippings
		1934 1935 1936-1938 and undated

Series 7. Chairman, U.S. Maritime Commission, 1937-1938.
Opened 8/2000-3/2004.

This series consists of material related to Joseph P. Kennedy's position as Chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission. The series is arranged into four subseries: Series 7.1. Outgoing Letters ; Series 7.2. Correspondence ; Series 7.3. Speeches, Articles, and Reports ; and Series 7.4. News Clippings and Scrapbooks .

Series 7.1. Outgoing Letters, 1937-1938.
Opened 8/2000.
About 500 pages.
Arrangement: chronological.

This series consists of outgoing letters arranged chronologically by Kennedy’s office staff. This series contains most of the outgoing material from Kennedy’s U. S. Maritime Commission office during his tenure as chairman. Series 7.2. Maritime Commission: Correspondence, 1937-1938 also contains outgoing letters, usually with related incoming items.

Box 87	1937
		April-June (3 folders)
Box 88		July-December (8 folders)
	1938
		January (6 folders) February

Series 7.2. Correspondence, 1937-1938.
Opened 8-9/2000, 9/2003.
About 3500 pages.
Arrangement: alphabetical.

This series contains business and personal correspondence from 1937 and early 1938, filed in alphabetically-ordered folders according to last name, name of business or organization, or, in some cases, subject. Frequent correspondents sometimes have folders titled with their full name, including Bernard Baruch, John Boettiger, Joseph Breen, James F. Byrnes, Sir James Calder, Boake Carter, Wade Chance, George and Loretta Connelly, Joseph Conway, Ralph E. Cropley, John Cudahy, Joseph Curran, John J. Daly, Ralph L. Dewey, John J. Ford, Russell W. Davenport, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur J. Goldsmith, Edward S. Greenbaum, William H. Hays, William M. Hickey, Arthur Houghton, Cordell Hull, Arthur Krock, James M. Landis, Grover Loening, William O’Brien, Drew Porter, J.W. Powell, Howard Reid, Herbert Bayard Swope, and T.J. White. In order to preserve some original order, subject folders such as “invitations,” “donations,” and “Christmas gifts,” have been kept intact. The “United States Maritime Commission inter-office correspondence” folder contains communication between Joseph P. Kennedy and members of his office staff, and correspondence between Maritime Commission secretaries.

Box 89	A B (3 folders) Baruch, Bernard Boettiger, John Breen, Joseph Byrnes, James F. C (5 folders) Calder, Sir James
Box 90	Carter, Boake (2 folders) Chance, Wade Christmas gifts The Commonweal Community Chest Fund Connelly, George and Loretta Conway, Joseph Cropley, Ralph E. (“Doc”) Cudahy, John Curran, Joseph D (3 folders) Daly, John J. Dewey, Ralph L. Dinners
Box 91	Donations E (2 folders) Editorials Essary, Fred/ Baltimore Sun F (2 folders) Ford, John J. Fortune /Russell W. Davenport Frankfurter, Felix Friedman, Leopold G (2 folders) Galeazzi, Enrico Pietro Goldsmith, Arthur J. Gourrich, Dr. Paul P. Greenbaum, Edward S.
Box 92	H (5 folders) Harvard (2 folders) Hays, William H. Hickey, William M. Houghton, Arthur Hull, Cordell I Invitations
		1937
			May-October (3 folders)
Box 93			November-December (2 folders)
		1938
			January-February
	J K (3 folders) Krock, Arthur L (2 folders) Landis, James M. Loening, Grover M (folders 1-4 of 7)
Box 94	M (folders 5-7of 7) The Milwaukee Journal N National Broadcasting Company O (2 folders) O’Brien, William P (3 folders) Palm Beach Porter, Drew Powell, J.W. Q R (3 folders)
Box 95	Reid, Howard S (4 folders) Securities and Exchange Commission Screen Actors Guild Swope, Herbert Bayard T U United States Maritime Commission inter-office correspondence United States Maritime Commission stationery V W (folders 1-2 of 4)
Box 96	W (folders 1-2 of 4) White, T.J. Y Z Illegible/Unsigned

Series 7.3. Speeches, Articles, and Reports, 1937-1938.
Opened 2/2003, 3/2004.
About 200 items.
Arrangement: chronological.

This series consists of materials on U.S. Maritime policy when Kennedy was chairman of the Maritime Commission, (March 1937-February 1938), the remainder of 1938, and when he was chairman of the International Lifeboat Racing Committee, 1937. Materials include speeches, articles, and reports by Kennedy and others, correspondence, background materials, Senate debate on Kennedy’s appointment to the Maritime Commission, Kennedy’s testimony before House and Senate committees about pending maritime legislation, and President Roosevelt’s September 14, 1937 draft proclamation forbidding transportation of arms and ammunition to China or Japan.

Box 96	List of speeches 1937
		Requests for speeches, March 12-June 27 Senate Debate on the “Eligibility of Joseph P. Kennedy for Maritime Commission,” March 22 & 25 American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., April 17 “The Federal Government and Our Merchant Marine,” National Maritime Day, Propeller Club of the U.S., May 22 (2 folders) Oglethorpe University, May 29 Fortune articles, May-August (2 folders) “What the Operation of Unified Terminals at Boston Means,” June 28 Ocean mail contract settlement reports, June 29-July 1 “The Aims of the New Merchant Marine,” by Joseph P. Kennedy, The Journal of Commerce, July 28 Miscellaneous, August-December The International Lifeboat Racing Association Review, September “The Man: Joseph P. Kennedy,” Fortune , September Draft Roosevelt proclamation forbidding transportation of arms and ammunition to China or Japan, September 14
Box 97		“Our Coast Guard and the Merchant Marine,” U.S. CGA, New London, Connecticut, September 20 “Suggestions for Message on Housing,” Kennedy to James Roosevelt, November 24 “Economic Survey of the American Merchant Marine,” November 10 (2 folders) “Aircraft and the Merchant Marine,” November 13 General Hugh S. Johnson speech, December 1 Kennedy Statement, House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, (H.R. 8532): to Amend the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, December 2 Economic Club of New York remarks [“Stop Bellyaching” speech], December 7 Kennedy Statement, Senate Commerce Committee, Senate Bill 3078, to amend the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, December 8
	1938
		“The Merchant Marine and the Pacific Coast,” Los Angeles, California, January 8 “Shipping and the Northwest,” Portland, Oregon, January 11 Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Seattle, Washington, January 12 Greater Boston Community Fund, Boston, Massachusetts, January 24 (2 folders) Dollar Steamship Lines Report, September 21 “Some Observations Regarding the Commission’s Long-range Program, Previously Adopted, for the Rehabilitation of the American Merchant Marine,” by Maritime Commissioner Max Truitt [after December 30, 1938]

Series 7.4. News Clippings and Scrapbooks, 1937-1938.
Opened 9/2003, 3/2004.
About 25 items.
Arrangement: by type, then chronological.

This series contains newspaper and magazine articles about Kennedy and his family, including clippings collected by clipping services, Maritime Commission or Kennedy staff members, family members and other people. These articles document print coverage of Kennedy’s activities as chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, his nomination as ambassador to Great Britain, and, to a certain extent, his family’s activities during the period. The Notebooks were ring binders containing punched pages with one clipping per page with a note of the source and date of the article. The clippings pages were arranged chronologically. Most of the notebooks were covered in green fabric with the dates of their contents on the spine. If the notebook was different, a color photocopy was made of its cover and the copy was placed in the notebook’s first folder. Because of preservation concerns, the notebooks have been disposed of and the pages with their mounted clippings have been moved into folders. Scrapbooks differ from the notebooks. Many are oversized albums, none are ring binders. Some are titled, others are not. Some appear to have been gifts. The scrapbooks usually have more than one article on a page. Whenever possible, the scrapbooks have been kept intact. Additional items for July 2 and July 10 are filed out of chronological order in the back of one scrapbook. Loose news clippings for 1937 are filed at the end of the series. For additional news clippings see also Series 8.9. Ambassadorial News Clippings, Scrapbooks, and Magazine Articles, 1934-1944 .

Box 98	Notebooks
		1937
			April-December (11 folders) “London [Newspaper] Clippings, December 1937”
Box 99		1938
			January-February (4 folders)
	Scrapbooks
		March-July 1937 July 1937 August-September 1937 October 1, 1937-January 19, 1938 December 1937
	Loose news clippings, 1937-1938 (2 folders)

Series 8. U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1934-1951 (bulk dates 1938-1940).

This series consists of material related to Joseph P. Kennedy's position as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The series is arranged into 13 subseries: Series 8.1.Appointments and Diary, 1938-1951; Series 8.2. Correspondence, 1938-1940; Series 8.3. Diplomatic Memoir; Series 8.4. Speeches, 1938-1940; Series 8.5. Subject File, 1937-1944; Series 8.6. Dispatches, 1938-1940; Series 8.7. Incoming Press Materials, 1939-1940; Series 8.8. British Broadcasting Corporation Broadcasts, 1939-1940; Series 8.9. News Clippings, Scrapbooks, and Magazine Articles, 1934-1944; Series 8.10. Ambassador Bingham Files, 1931-1937; Series 8.11. English Newspapers on the Czech Crisis; Series 8.12. English Newspapers on the Polish Crisis; and Series 8.13. English Newspapers on the Battle of Britain.

Series 8.1. Appointments and Diary, 1938-1951 (Bulk dates 1938-1940).
Opened 7/2002, 9/2003, 4/2004
About 1000 pages.
Arrangement: chronological.

The series begins with fragmentary records of Kennedy’s appointments for 1938 and 1939, and callers for 1938. The diary consists of typed entries summarizing important official and social conversations (with President Roosevelt, Sam Hoare, Queen Mary, Lord Halifax), trips and events (March 1939 coronation and audience with the Pope). Inserted in the diary are cards, official documents, memos, notes, Kennedy letters, and letters from other people. The diary was originally filed in three-ring binders.

Box 99	Appointment Book
		1938 Volume
			March-July September-December
		“Callers at The Chancery,” 1938
Box 100	Appointments – Daily listings
		1938: May-December 1939: February-September
	Diary
		List of Conversations with Roosevelt and Hull, 1938-1943 1938
			February-December (4 folders)
		1939
			February-December (4 folders)
		1940
			March March-Welles Mission, Kennedy Notes April-October (5 folders) November 1940-December 1941
Box 101		1942-1945 (3 folders) 1946, 1951

Series 8.2. Correspondence, 1938-1940.

This series contains the correspondence of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy and his staff to various persons and agencies. Correspondence is arranged into five categories: 8.2.1. Correspondent File, London, 1938-1940; 8.2.2. Subject File, London, 1938-1940; 8.2.3. E.E. Moore File, 1938-1940; 8.2.4. London Public Opinion Mail (OOO File), 1938-1941; and 8.2.5. Correspondent File, New York, 1938-1940.

Series 8.2.1. Correspondent File, London, 1938-1940.
Portions opened 8-9/2000, 7-10/2002, consolidated and opened, 9/2003.
About 16,000 pages.
Arrangement: alphabetical by correspondent or agency, then chronological by year.

This series contains correspondence between Kennedy and various United States government officials, British acquaintances, and friends written when he was Ambassador to Great Britain. The material consists of handwritten and typed letters, as well as telegrams and memos. Notable correspondents include Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. No distinction is made between business and personal correspondence because many of the documents contain information pertaining to both. Many letters are filed according to the person who serves as the subject of the correspondence. For further information on National City Bank of New York see also Series 3.6.1. Business and Finance: General Banking and Financial Records .

Box 101	A, 1938-1940 (5 folders) Astor, Viscountess Nancy Atherton, Ray B
		1938 (1-2 of 4 folders)
Box 102		1938 (3-4 of 4 folders) 1939-1940 (5 folders)
	Baruch, Bernard Baxter, A. Beverly Beaverbrook, Lord Maxwell Bergman, Albert
Box 103	Biddle, Anthony J. Drexel, Jr. Breen, Joseph I. Buchman, Dr. Frank Burns, John J. Byrnes, James F. C
		1938 (4 folders) 1939 (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 104		1939 (3 of 3 folders) 1940 (2 folders)
	Carter, Boake (2 folders) Castlerosse, Viscount Valentine Chamberlain, Neville Churchill, Winston Corcoran, Thomas/Benjamin Cohen Corrigan, Douglas: Autographs Covadonga, Count of/Prince Alfonso of Spain Cropley, Ralph E. (“Doc”) (1-2 of 5 folders)
Box 105	Cropley, Ralph E. (“Doc”) (3-5 of 5 folders) Cudahy, John D, 1938-1940 (7 folders) Davenport, Russell W.
Box 106	Derby, Earl of / Edward George Villiers Stanley (2 folders) E, 1938-1940 (5 folders) Eden, Anthony F, 1938-1940 (5 folders)
Box 107	Farley, James A. Fitzgerald, John F. Ford, John J. G, 1938-1940 (10 folders) Galeazzi, Enrico Pietro Globe-Mermaid Association
Box 108	Goldsmith, Arthur, Jr. Gray, David H
Box 109		1938-1939 (10 folders)
		1940 (3 folders)
	Halifax, Lord Harmon, E.L. Hays, William H. Hull, Cordell I, 1938-1940 (3 folders) Isidore, Mother Mary J, 1938-1940 (3 folders) Johnson, Herschel Jones, J. Edward K
		1938 (1 of 2 folders)
Box 110		1938 (2 of 2 folders) 1939-1940 (3 folders)
	Krock, Arthur L
		1938-1939 (6 folders)
Box 111		1940 (2 folders)
	Lamont, Thomas M
		1938 (7 folders) 1939 (1-2 of 6 folders)
Box 112		1939 (3-6 of 6 folders) 1940 (3 folders)
	Messersmith, George S. Moffat, J. Pierrepont Morgan, J.P. Murphy, Paul (2 folders)
Box 113	N, 1938-1940 (3 folders) National City Bank of New York Naylor, R.H. O, 1938-1940 (5 folders) Offie, Carmel P
		1938 (1 of 3 folders)
Box 114		1938 (2-3 of 3 folders) 1939-1940 (5 folders)
	Pearson, Drew E., / Robert Allen of the Washington Merry-Go-Round Q, 1938-1940 (3 folders) R
		1938 (3 folders) 1939 (1 of 3 folders)
Box 115		1939 (2-3 of 3 folders) 1940 (2 folders)
	Reisman, Phil Roosevelt, Franklin D. S
		1938 (4 folders) 1939 (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 116		1939 (3 of 3 folder) 1940 (3 folders)
	Sheehan, Joseph R. T, 1938-1940 (5 folders) U, 1938-1940 (3 folders) United States Lines V
		1938
Box 117		1939-1940 (2 folders)
	W, 1938-1940 (7 folders) Wales, Princess of Welles, Sumner White, Thomas Justin (2 folders) X-Y-Z
		1938
Box 118		1939-1940 (2 folders)
	Unsigned/Illegible

Series 8.2.2. Subject File, London.
Opened 1/2003, 9/2003.
About 8,000 pages.
Arrangement: alphabetical.

The Subject File material is arranged by the topic or subject the mail relates to, or the type of correspondence. Correspondence covers Kennedy’s personal and official activities. Incoming items include letters from private citizens and government employees. The embassy’s response is attached. Responses are signed by Kennedy or embassy secretaries.

Box 118	Air Raid Patrol America First Committee American Ambulance, Great Britain American News in London Papers, April-May, 1938 American Red Cross, June-July 1940 Appointment as Ambassador
		A-R S-Z
	Appointment: Copy of Ambassadorial Appointment Decree Articles for Publication Requests
		1938
			January-May May-December
		1939
			January-May June-August September-December
		1940
	Ascot House, Berroc End, 1938 Autograph Requests
		1938-1939 (3 folders)
Box 119		1940
	Boats Books British speeches, 1940 Calling cards Car Catholic University of America honorary degree, 1939 Chancery
		1938-1940 (3 folders) General
	Christmas
		1938 Gift lists
			Telegrams
		Incoming
			General 1939-1940
	Clubs
		1937 1938
			A-K
Box 120			L-Z
		1939 1940
	“Congratulations” correspondence (3 folders) Consulate General
		September 1938 February- September 1939 March-May 1940 June-July 1940 August-October 1940
	Contributions given (1 of 2 folders)
Box 121	Contributions given (2 of 2 folders) Doctors Domaine de Beaumont, Valbonne Domaine de Ranguin, Cannes Donations (2 folders) “Do We Know America?” (series of articles appearing in the Sunday Times ) Edmund Burke American Memorial Committee Empire Exhibition - Glasgow Employment requests, 1938-1940 (4 folders) English Speaking Union Entertainment expenditures, 1938
Box 122	Evacuations of Americans
		September 1939 September-October 1940
	“Fan Mail” “Farewell” letters Films (3 folders) Financial assistance requests
		1938
			February-August (2 folders)
Box 123			September-December
		1939
			January-May June-December
		1940
	Food Rationing: September 1939-February 1940 Foreign currency Genealogy, 1938-1940 (3 folders) George VI, King of England, and the Royal Family Gifts (1-3 of 6 folders)
Box 124	Gifts (4-6 of 6 folders) Grand National Steeplechase Grovsenor Square Lease Harmsworth Professorship Hole-in-One Club Hyannis Port Insurance (2 folders) Invitations by the Ambassador, 1938-1940 (2 folders) Invitations pending, 1938-1939
Box 125	Invitations received, 1938-1939 Invitations received log book, 1938-1939 Invitations to go into business Invitations to speak Invitations to write Invitations accepted and fulfilled
		1938, July- December (6 folders)
Box 126		1939
			February-July (5 folders) September-October
		1940
			March-September (2 folders)
	Invitations declined
		1938
			November-December (3 folders)
		1940
			January-May (1 of 2 folders)
Box 127			January-May (2 of 2 folders) July-September
	Invitations, Miscellaneous Items for sale, 1938-1940 (3 folders) Items and services for sale, 1938-1939 (1-3 of 4 folders)
Box 128	Items and services for sale, 1938-1939 (4 of 4 folders) Letters of introduction, 1938-1939 Magazines, correspondence with, 1938-1940 (5 folders) “March of Time” McCarthy, Charlie Motion Picture Machine “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” Munich Crisis
		1938 September (2 folders) 1939 (2 folders) 1938-1939-Services offered
Box 129	Newspapers and Miscellaneous Publications: Correspondence with
		1938, February-December (4 folders) 1939 (4 folders) 1940
	Nuns Palestine, 1938-1939
Box 130	Palm Beach (2 folders) Patronage, 1938-1940 (2 folders) Peabody Donation Fund Photograph requests, 1938-1940 (5 folders) Pilgrims, 1936-1940 Place cards Pope Pius XII
		General Coronation
Box 131	Press Real estate
		1938-1940 Miscellaneous
	Religious sentiments Rhodes Trust Royal events
		Invitations Presentations to Court Programs
	Royal Visit to U.S. [King George and Queen Elizabeth] (3 folders) Schools: Offers and promotions from (1 of 4 folders)
Box 132	Schools: Offers and promotions from (2-4 of 4 folders) Securities and Exchange Commission St. Leonard’s Travel
		Arrangements Invoices Ships
	Trips to U.S. United States Maritime Commission (3 folders) Visa applications (2 folders) Wall Hall, Watford White House Correspondents Association World’s Fair, 1939

Series 8.2.3. Edward E. Moore File, 1938-1940.
Opened 8/2000, 4/2003, 12/2003
About 2,000 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.

This series consists of the file maintained by the office of Edward E. Moore, First Secretary to Ambassador Kennedy, covering both Moore’s official work for Kennedy and his personal work on behalf of himself and/or his wife.. Correspondence is filed by the name of the correspondent, the organization the correspondence represents, the subject of the item or the type of item. Correspondents include John J. Burns, John F. Fitzgerald, John J. Ford, Arthur J. Goldsmith, Jack Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Paul Murphy, Carmel Offie, Edward O’Leary, George Pumphret, Joseph Sheehan, George Steward, and Max O. Truitt. Moore’s reply is usually included.

Box 133	A Adams-Applications Administrative circulars Archer-Shee - Automobile B (2 folders) Brinkley, B.A. Burns, John J. C Calder-Caro Calling cards (2 folders) Car insurance Carr-Cohn Connelly-Curran Cudahy, John Currie, Francis D (2 folders) Directory of newspapermen in London Donations
Box 134	E Expenses F Fitzgerald, John F., 1938-1940 and undated (2 folders) Ford, John J., May 1938-March 1940 (2 folders) G Goddard & Smith Goldsmith, Arthur J. H I Introduction, Letter of Invitations Accepted Refused J K Kennedy, John J. [“London Jack”] Kennedy, Joseph P.
		1938
Box 135		1939-1940 and undated (3 folders)
	L M (2 folders) Mc Memoranda, Special Memoranda and miscellaneous Merchandise lists Moore, Edward E.
		General (2 folders) Personal Photographs
	Murphy, Paul, and Mona Brown (1-4 of 6 folders)
Box 136	Murphy, Paul, and Mona Brown (5-6 of 6 folders) N O Offie, Carmel O’Leary, Edward P Press conferences Pumphret, George Q R S (2 folders) Sheehan, Joseph Shipments to and from London (3 folders)
Box 137	St. Moritz data, January 1939 (2 folders) Stamps Steward, George (re: King and Queen's visit to America) T Telephone lists Trips
		Correspondence Ephemera and postcards Receipts Travel information
	Truitt, Max O. Tumulty, Joseph P. U-V W Wilson, Teurs XYZ

Series 8.2.4. London Public Opinion Mail (000 File), 1938-1941.
Opened 7/2001.
About 1500 pages.
Arrangement: alphabetical or by category.

This series consists of Public Opinion Mail sent to the American Embassy in London and answered by Embassy staff and occasionally by Ambassador Kennedy. Filed by name of correspondent or categories of “unsigned” and “adverse mail.”

Box 138	Adlersberg-Bartholdus Battin-Byron Cannon-Clegg Clough-Curator Daly-Diggle Dodd-Dwyer Earl-Fife Fitzgerald-Fryer Galvin-Guernsey Hashett-Harmon Harris-Hutton Inglis-Krueger Lamb-Lyons MacBride-Mitchell
Box 139	Molloy-Noudelmann Oberste-Price Radford-Ryner Sanders-Sullivan Talbot-Vonstemborg Wakefield-Xavier Unsigned, 1938-1941 (4 folders)
Box 140	Unsigned and undated (4 folders) Adverse mail, 1940
		Abbott-Duhring Elliot-Murphy Nathan-Rothman Saunders-Worthington Unsigned

Series 8.2.5. Correspondent File, New York, 1938-1940.
Opened 8/2000-9/2000, 8/2003.
About 3,500 pages.
Arrangement: alphabetical, then chronological.

This series contains correspondence between Kennedy and various United States government officials, the general public, as well as friends and extended family. The material was written and received during Kennedy’s tenure as ambassador to Great Britain, but went through the New York office, instead of London. Many of the letters written by Kennedy originated from his Palm Beach estate while he was home visiting his family. Others were sent from Washington D.C., New York, and various domestic locations. It is important to note that Kennedy had several secretaries and assistants, the most prominent of which were Edward E. Moore and Paul E. Murphy. Many letters are written by these men on behalf of Kennedy. Moore and Murphy each have their own folders for correspondence between themselves and their boss, as well as letters from other staff members, such as Elizabeth Dunn and Mona Brown, who also have separate folders. No distinction is made between business and personal correspondence because many of the documents contain information pertaining to both. Notable correspondents included in the series are R.E. Cropley, close friend of the Roosevelt family, Arthur Krock of The New York Times , and John J. Ford of the Maine and New Hampshire Theater Company. A great deal of the correspondence is in reference to Kennedy’s radio address given October 29, 1940 over the Columbia Broadcasting System, in which he urges the re-election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. With respect to the original order imposed by Kennedy’s office staff, many letters are filed according to a particular subject or a person who is the subject of the correspondence. See also Series 8.2.1. London Correspondent File , and Series 7.2 Maritime Commission Correspondence as there is considerable overlap between the New York office and London office, and Kennedy held his Maritime Commission position directly before his ambassadorial appointment was confirmed.

Box 140	A, 1938-1940 (3 folders) B
		1938
Box 141		1939 (4 folders)
	Barry, Marion Billings, LeMoyne Brown, Mona C, 1938-1940 (4 folders) Campbell, Patrick Thomas (Scholarship fund, Boston Latin School) Chrysler New York Company Clubs Connelly, Loretta and George Cropley, Ralph E. [“Doc”]
Box 142	D, 1938-1939 (3 folders) Dewar, John A. Donations Dunn, Elizabeth E, 1938-1940 (3 folders) Eastern Airlines (2 folders) F, 1938-1940 (3 folders) Fitzgerald, John F. Ford, John J. (2 folders) Fyfe, Howard [U.S. Dispatch Agent, London] G
		1938-1939 (2 folders)
Box 143		1940 (3 folders)
	H, 1938-1939 (4 folders) Harvard University I, 1938-1940 J, 1938-1940 (3 folders) K, 1938-1939 (3 folders) Kennedy, John J. [“London” Jack] Krock, Arthur
Box 144	Kuhn, Loeb and Company Kurth, Ernest L, 1938-1939 (4 folders) Lahey Clinic M, 1938-1940 (7 folders) Moore, Edward E. (1 of 2 folders)
Box 145	Moore, Edward E. (2 of 2 folders) Murphy, Paul E. (2 folders) N, 1938-1940 (3 folders) Nixon, Robert O, 1938-1940 (3 folders) P, 1938-1939 (3 folders) Q, 1938-1940 R, 1938-1939 (4 folders) Romeike Press Clipping Bureau Roosevelt, President Franklin D.
Box 146	S, 1938-1939 (4 folders) Seymour, James [London] Spencer Trask and Company T, 1938-1940 (3 folders) Tyminsky, Louis (2 folders) U, 1939-1940 V, 1939-1940 W
		1938-1939
Box 147		1940 (3 folders)
	Waterhouse, F. A. XYZ, 1938-1940 Miscellaneous/Unsigned/Undated/Illegible

Series 8.3. Diplomatic Memoir.
Opened 3-4/2003.
About 3,400 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by type.

This series contains manuscript drafts, photographs, and research files created by ghostwriters Elizabeth P. Walsh and James Landis in collaboration with Joseph P. Kennedy. Later contributors were Jim Fayne and Paul Mallon. The Diplomatic Memoir details Kennedy’s activities as ambassador to England, focusing on his experience during WWII, and draws on materials from diary entries, correspondence, memos and other secondary sources. Final versions of drafts are divided into two sections; Final Drafts and First Drafts. The first section, Final Draft 1, contains what appear to be the most completed and refined version of chapters originally bound in folders. Final Draft 2 contains less formally organized bound drafts similar to Final Draft 1, with multiple annotations. The second section, First Drafts, is organized sequentially by chapter number. First Drafts contains multiple versions, some with pagination. Most of the material in the early drafts does not appear in Final Draft 1, however some material does correspond. Several drafts correspond to the work of a particular ghostwriter, such as “EPW” for Elizabeth P. Walsh. Other drafts are not in a sequential order, some are grouped by subject matter. Photograph files include images of Kennedy, his colleagues, family, and sites related to his time as ambassador in England. They are filed by their content and those folders are arranged alphabetically. Research files comprise the final and largest part of the series, reflecting the initial compilations of primary and secondary sources that went into the final memoir manuscript. Since several people worked to gather information, the material is organized chronologically as well as by subject. Files contain outlines, notes, summaries, clippings, and excerpts from correspondence, writings, and memos. Original folder titles and groupings have been retained to reflect the collaborative work of the memoir.

Box 147	Final Draft 1 (10 folders)
		Chapters 1-4, February-March 1938 Chapters 5-10, March-July 1938 Chapters 11-15, July-September 1938 Chapters 16-20, September-December 1938 Chapters 21-25, December 1938-April 1939 Chapters 26-30, April-June 1939
Box 148		Chapters 31-35, July-September 1939 Chapters 36-40, October 1939-March 1940 Chapters 41-45, March-June 1940 Chapters 46-52, June 1940-December 1941
	Final Draft 2 (11 folders)
		Chapters 1-4 “EPW” Chapters 5-10 “EPW’ Chapters 11-15 “EPW” Chapters 16-20, September-December 1938 Chapters 21-25, December 1938-April 1939 Chapters 26-30 “EPW” Chapters 31-35
Box 149		Chapters 36-40 “EPW” Chapters 41-45 “EPW” Chapters 46-52, June 1940 (2 folders)
	First Drafts (18 folders)
		Chapters 1-5, E. Walsh and S. McDevitt for Paul Mallon Chapters 1-7, 10 Chapters 1-13, pp. 1-157 Chapters 14-27, pp. 158-336 Chapters 15-18, 20-24, pp. 182-297
Box 150		Chapters 25-28, 30-32, pp.299-352, 367-402 Chapters 28-37, pp. 237-595 Chapters 36-39, pp. 461-536 Chapters 38-40, pp. 497-595 Chapters 41-43, pp. 596-650 Chapters 45-52 Chapters 16-20, empty folder Comments on drafts by EPW and Landis Corrections and inserts
Box 151		E. Walsh for Mr. Kennedy Inserts, Chapters 10-13 Inserts and Corrections, Chapters 1-4, 11, 13, 19 Inserts and Corrections, Chapters 45-48
	Photographs (4 folders)
		Joseph P. Kennedy Joseph P. Kennedy and others Others Scenes and interiors
	Research files (45 folders)
		1938-1939: Miscellaneous 1938-1951: Notes and comments by EPW March-September 1939 September 1939-October 1940, WWII (2 folders)
Box 152		November 1939-May 1, 1940 January 1940 May 1940 July 1940 August 1940 April-May activities, 1949-1950 Benes Memoir, The Nation , 1948 Correspondence, German documents, Chapter 44 Czech crisis ( London Times Outline) (2 folders)
Box 153		Foreign policy late 1930s Holden Diaries outline, January 1940 Kennedy in the news Langer manuscript Paul Mallon correspondence, November 1947-June 1948 Material shedding light on World War II Miscellaneous drafts, outlines, and notes Miscellaneous outlines Munich Naval escalation Nazi-Soviet documents and espionage
Box 154		Netherlands Notes, 1949-1950 Notes on book #1 Notes on book #2 Notes from diary
			April-November 1938 December 1938-January 1941
		Notes, miscellaneous readings notes Notes, readings notes by author Notes on U.S Army – pre war plans and preparations Notes on Welles, 1946 Notes re: WWII, 1940s (Germany, Russian, the Vatican) Outlines of “the book” Outline Chapters 1-40 Polish crisis, 1939 Research outlines for book Synthesis (2 folders)
Box 155		“The Book” Unfiled desk materials (2 folders) Unsorted notes, 1950s U.S. foreign policy, 1937 E.P. Walsh notes and comments

Series 8.4. Speeches, 1938-1940.
Opened 1/2003.
About 1000 pages.
Arrangement: chronological.

This series contains drafts, revisions, and multiple versions of Joseph P. Kennedy’s speeches. The folders also contain brochures, menus, schedules, seating arrangement cards, news clippings, and a small amount of correspondence relating to the speeches. The first folder contains lists and summaries of most of Kennedy’s speeches. Of note is an interview with Kennedy for Collier’s magazine. For a published reprint of Kennedy’s May 2, 1939 speech at the Annual Banquet of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorian, see Series 12.4. Books: Non-fiction, 1933-1941 .

Box 155	List and description of speeches 1938
		The Pilgrims at Clarridge’s Hotel, London, March 18 American Club, London, March 24 “The Maritime Policy of the U.S. to Great Britain,” Chamber of Shipping of the U.K., March 31 University of London dinner, May 13 Independence Day Speech, London, July 4 Luncheon Honoring Murray Silverstone, United Artists, Mayfair Hotel, July 5 Dublin Speech, July 8 Winchester Speech, London, July 12 Boston Pilgrimage, July 18 Aberdeen Speech, London, September 1 Fred Stone Broadcast, September 13 Trafalgar Day Speech, October 19
			Text and program
Box 156			Response (3 folders)
		Worcestershire Speech, October 26 American Legion Speech, November 2 Ex-Servicemen’s Exhibition, November 3 Thanksgiving Day, American Society in London, November 24 Manchester Speech, November 29 Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, December 6 “What 1912 Faces in 1938” (Undated speech or article) General correspondence
	1939
		Pilgrims’ Luncheon, March 7 Coronation of Pope Pius XII, March 13 Press Club, March 24 Edinburgh, April 17-21
			General, April 17 Edinburgh Luncheon, April 20 Receiving Degree of Doctor of Law, April 21 (2 folders)
		Defense of Freedom and Peace Luncheon, April 25 Annual Banquet of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorian, May 2 University of Manchester, May 16-17
			Honorary Degree, May 16 Founder’s Day, May 17
Box 157		University of Liverpool, May 18
			Honorary Degree (2 folders) Dinner
		Country Women of the World, May American Chamber of Commerce, London, May 22 Colston Research Society, University of Bristol, May 25 Institute of American Affairs, London, June 3 Cambridge Notes, June 6 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, June 9 Mr. Jenkins—Foreign Service of U.S., July American Society, July 4 Pilgrim’s Dinner, July 13 Thanksgiving Lunch, Nov. 23
	1940
		Extemporaneous Remarks—Correspondents’ Lunch, March 15 American Society of Engineers, April 25 Red Cross, June 20 Ambulance Ceremony, September 1 Radio Broadcast for Re-Election of Roosevelt, New York City, October 29 Interview, November 26 Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart (Off the Record), November 27

Series 8.5. Subject File, 1937-1944 (bulk dates 1938-1940).
Opened 3/2003.
About 4,500 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.

This series contains articles, press releases, pamphlets, maps, memorandums, correspondence, policy statements, statistics, and leaflets covering the period Joseph P. Kennedy was Ambassador to Great Britain from 1938 to1940, although a few items begin in 1937 and others extend into 1944. Much of the material concerns World War II and the impact of the war on particular areas. The Great Britain Command Papers are British government pamphlets that deal with official correspondence, treaties, and conventions between Great Britain and countries such as Czechoslovakia and Turkey. Other materials originated in the American Embassy in London, such as the Cabinet War Reports, which were sent by the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee to the American Embassy in London. These reports give a daily account of anti-submarine operations, attacks over Britain, battles in Italy, and aircraft casualties. The Subject File was originally labeled the “#2” file by its creator.

Box 158	Administrative circulars (2 folders) American White Papers: Alsop and Kintner Articles
		Fifth Column Dangers Hore-Belisha
	Articles and speeches (not by JPK) Association of American Correspondents in London, 1937-1939 Balkans Broadcast reports, 1940 Carter, Boake
		Column (1-2 of 5 folders)
Box 159		Column (3-5 of 5 folders) Radio bulletins, 28 February 1938-1 April 1938
	Censorship of mails, telecommunications, etc., 1939 Commerce
		Great Britain - United States U.S. - G.B. Barter Agreement, 1939
	Coughlan, Father Charles Courier Schedule Cummings, Homer: Writings
Box 160	Currency and foreign exchange Daldier, Eduard Embassy reports, May 1939 Far East France
		General Gamelin, Petain, Reynaud
	Friends of Europe Galleries German supply outlook German-Polish Crisis, 1939
		General Evacuation of U.S. citizens
Box 161	Germany
		Hitler, death of Press attacks of JPK
	Great Britain
		General Address, 1939-1940 (2 folders) Bombing of 1940 (U.S. Consular reports) Booklets about Lists of commercial treaties with foreign powers Ministry of Information Press
Box 162		Securities in the U.S.A. War economy, October 1940 (2 folders)
	Great Britain Command Papers
		Dominions and commands Czechoslovakia France, 1940 Foreign powers Germany, 1938-1939 Italy, 1939-1940 League of Nations Poland, 1939 Russia, 1941 Spain, 1940 Turkey
Box 163		United States, 1938-1944
	H Imperial Policy Group, 1939-1940 Irish situation Japan Jewish problem (3 folders) Leaflet campaigns (2 folders) London Times : Polish Crisis Mail receipts Maps (1 of 2 folders)
Box 164	Maps (2 of 2 folders) Menus N National University of Ireland Norway Office related notes Pacific Islands Photographs Political letters of Joseph P. Kennedy Press broadsides Press dispatches Press memorandum, 7 October 1940 Press releases, 1939-1940 Programs, 1938 Russia - World War II S Securities and exchange S.S. Athenia : Outlines and 1939 Trade agreement, 1938 Truitt, Max (2 folders)
Box 165	U.S. Embassy (London)
		General Air raid precautions, 1939 Commercial attaché Economic, 1938-1939 (3 folders) Economic and industrial (3 folders)
Box 166		Military attaché, 1938-1940 (2 folders) Naval attaché, 1938-1940 Reports, 1938
			General (2 folders) Paul Murphy’s file
		Reports, 1939 (2 folders) Reports, 1940 (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 167		Reports, 1940 (3 of 3 folders) Reports, 1938-1940
	U.S. Foreign Service, 1939 U.S. Maritime Commission (2 folders) U.S. representation of British interests W War - Avoidance Wheat Advisory Committee “The Week”
Box 168	World War II
		Cabinet war records, 1940
			July 29-August 18 August 19-September 7 September 8-26 September 28-October 13
		Cabinet war reports, 1940
			May 13-31 June 1-15 June 17-27 June 28-July 13 July 15-25
Box 169			July 26-August 30 August 31-October 15 October 18-November 9 November 10-December 12
		Operations Peace proposals

Series 8.6. Dispatches, 1938-1940.
Opened 9/2003.
About 4,500 pages.
Arrangement: by type, then chronological.

The Ambassadorial Dispatches series consists of a variety of different telegrams between the U.S. Embassy in London, the Department of State in Washington, D.C., and U.S. Embassies in other countries. The dispatches are described as Outgoing and Incoming from the perspective of the Embassy in London, i.e. Outgoing Dispatches originated at the U.S. Embassy in London and were sent to the Department of State. The dispatches focus on a variety of subjects including economic agreements and trade commissions, the reactions by British officials and citizens to world events, the question of resettling refugees from Europe, and the perspective of the British press to certain events.

Box 169	Outgoing Dispatches (U.S. London Embassy to Department of State), 1938
		March 1-4 March 15-31 April (2 folders) May 1-14
Box 170		May 16-31 June July 1-14 July 15-30 August (2 folders) September (3 folders) October 1-15 October 17-31 November
Box 171		December
	Incoming Dispatches (Department of State to U.S. London Embassy), 1938
		March-December (9 folders)
	Incoming and Outgoing Dispatches (U.S. London Embassy and other embassies), 1938
		March-August (3 folders) September 2-22
Box 172		September 23-30 October-December (2 folders)
	Outgoing Dispatches (U.S. London Embassy to Department of State), 1939
		January 3-14 January 16-31 February (2 folders) March 1-18 March 20-31 April 3-29 (2 folders) May 1-6
Box 173		May 8-31 (2 folders) June (2 folders) July (2 folders) September 1-20 (5 folders)
Box 174		September 21-30 (2 folders)
	Incoming Dispatches (Department of State to U.S. London Embassy), 1939
		January-September (10 folders)
Box 175	Incoming and Outgoing Dispatches (U.S. London Embassy and other embassies), 1939
		January-April (4 folders) May 17-June 30 (2 folders)
	September 1939
		Outgoing Personal Telegrams Incoming Personal Telegrams Outgoing Telegrams from Individuals and Foreign Posts Incoming Telegrams from Individuals and Foreign Posts Outgoing Telegrams from Berlin Incoming Telegrams from Berlin
	Outgoing Dispatches (U.S. London Embassy to Department of State), 1940
		July 1-5
Box 176		July 6-August 31 (9 folders) September 2-23 (3 folders)
Box 177		September 24-October 21 (4 folders)

Series 8.7. Incoming Press Materials, 1939-1940.
Opened 3/2003
About 2,200 pages.
Arrangement: chronological by type.

This series contains press releases and news reports from three distinct groups: The National Defense Advisory Commission, Teletypes, and Public Opinion News Service. The National Defense Advisory Commission (a branch of the United States government) press releases announce American military contracts, expenditures, and the roles of Americans during the war that America had not yet entered. Press releases are filed in reverse chronological order. Teletypes report events that occurred in the British government and in Europe, and appear to be from an unidentified British wire service. The Public Opinion News Service press releases contain reports and polls from the American Institute of Public Opinion headed by George Gallup. Researchers should note that the Public Opinion News Service press releases are oversize materials and have been filed separately. Please refer to the number listed on the separation sheet.

Box 177	National Defense Advisory Commission Press Releases, 1940
		November 18-December 6 (2 folders) November 13-14 November 1-9 October 21-31 (2 folders) October 17-22
Box 178		August 26-October 16 (4 folders) August 5-24 July 29-August 2 June 3-July 26
	Teletypes, 1939
		September 1 (2 folders)
Box 179		September 2 (2 folders) September 4-5 (4 folders) September 8-11 (3 folders) September 16 Undated
	Public Opinion News (oversize)
		1939
			May 1-July 3 September 13-December 31
		1940
			January 3-February 18 February 21-May 13

Series 8.8. British Broadcasting Corporation Broadcasts, 1939-1940.
Opened 1/2003
About 5000 pages.
Arrangement: chronological by type.

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Broadcasts, 1939-1940, contain digests of BBC news programs from around the world and a letter describing an earlier arrangement of the material. There are two digests that were produced daily at 12 noon and 3:30 p.m. or at 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Most of the 1940 digests include a summary version. There is also a small section of Radio bulletins between May and October 1940; the bulletins are described as “White House Press Releases” in the letter in folder 1, but it is unclear who is sending the bulletins and if they are BBC-related or not.

Box 180	Correspondence describing the arrangement of broadcasts Digest of News Bulletins from Foreign Stations , 1939
		September 28-October 7 (7 folders)
Box 181		October 7-10 (2 folders)
	Daily Digest of Foreign Broadcasts , November 1939-February 1940
		November 11-17 (5 folders)
Box 182		November 17-24 (7 folders)
Box 183		November 24-December 1 (7 folders)
Box 184		December 1-8 (7 folders)
Box 185		December 8-15 (7 folders)
Box 186		December 15-22 (7 folders)
Box 187		December 22-January 2 (8 folders)
Box 188		January 28-February 3 (6 folders)
Box 189		February 3-6 (3 folders)
	Radio bulletins, 1940
		May-June July August September October

Series 8.9. Clippings, Scrapbooks, and Magazines, 1934-1944 (bulk 1938-1940).
Opened 9/2003, 2/2004
Approximately items (??)
Arrangement: by type, then chronological.

These newspaper and magazine articles about the Kennedys are filed by their original formats: notebooks, scrapbooks, magazine articles, and loose clippings. Items within each type were usually filed by the collector in date order. Any arrangement other than chronological is noted in the description. The newspaper and magazine articles were collected by clipping services, Embassy or Kennedy staff members, family members and other people. The articles document newspaper and magazine coverage of Kennedy’s activities as American ambassador to Great Britain and his family’s activities during the ambassadorial period. For January-March 1938 there is some overlap with clippings in series 7.4. Maritime Commission News Clippings and Scrapbooks, April 1937-February 1938. The notebooks are ring binders containing punched pages with one clipping to a page with a note of the source and date of the article. The clippings pages are arranged chronologically. Most of the notebooks were covered in green fabric with the dates of their contents on the spine. If the notebook was different, a color photocopy was made of its cover and the copy was placed in the notebook’s first folder. Because of preservation concerns, the notebooks have been disposed of and the pages with their mounted clippings have been moved into folders. The folders are titled as the notebook was. Many of the scrapbooks are oversized albums and none are three ring binders. Some of the scrapbooks are titled, others are not. Some appear to have been gifts. The scrapbooks often contain more than one article on a page. Whenever possible, the scrapbooks have been kept intact. Magazine articles come from magazines saved by staff or the Kennedy family. The magazines were found loose throughout the papers. They have been arranged chronologically. A small number of loose news clippings are filed by year. None of these clippings or articles was attached to another item in the collection. Attachments remain with their related attachments. Scrapbooks, magazine articles and loose news clippings about a specific family member have been filed in Series 1.2. Family: Subject Files under that person’s name.

Box 190	“London Clippings”
		Bound
			1938 (9 folders)
Box 191			1939 (2 folders) 1940:
				January-May August-October
		Unbound, October 1939-November 1940 (3 folders)
Box 192	Notebooks
		1938
			March-April (7 folders) May (1 of 3 folders)
Box 193			May (2-3 of 3 folders) June 1-20 (3 folders) June 21-24 (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 194			June 21-24 (3 of 3 folders) June 25-30 (2 folders) July 1-14 (3 folders) July-August (1 of 3 folders)
Box 195			July-August (2-3 of 3 folders) September-October (4 folders) October (1 of 2 folders)
Box 196			October (2 of 2 folders) November-December (5 folders)
Box 197		1939:
			January-February (4 folders) March-April (1-3 of 4 folders)
Box 198			March-April (4 of 4 folders) May-June (4 folders) July-September (1 of 4 folders)
Box 199			July-September (2-4 of 4 folders) September-November (4 folders)
Box 200			December (4 folders) December 1939-February 1940 (1-2 of 4 folders)
Box 201			December 1939-February 1940 (3-4 of 4 folders)
		1940:
			February-March (4 folders)
Box 202			April-August (5 folders) September-October (1 of 5 folders)
Box 203			September-October (2-5 of 5 folders) October (3 folders)
Box 204			November 1-5 (4 folders) November 6-15 (1-3 of 4 folders)
Box 205			November 6-15 (4 of 4 folders) November 16-30 (4 folders) November-December (1 of 2 folders)
Box 206			November-December (2 of 2 folders) December (4 folders)
	Scrapbooks
		1934-1935, 1937-1940
			Newspaper photographs scrapbook
		1938
			January – Kennedy’s nomination as ambassador to Great Britain Scrapbook of articles collected by a clipping service
		1939
			January 1939-January 1940 1939-1944 - Kennedy Family scrapbooks and loose clippings
		1940
			February-June
	Magazine articles, 1938-1940 (3 folders)
Box 207	Loose news clippings
		1938-1939 (6 folders) 1940 (1-2 of 14 folders)
Box 208		1940 (3-8 of 14 folders)
Box 209		1940 (9-14 of 14 folders) Undated

Series 8.10. Ambassador Robert Bingham Files, 1931-1937.
Opened 9/2003
About 1,500 pages.
Arrangement: alphabetical by type, then chronologically.

This series contains appointment books, invitations, and other correspondence documenting Robert Bingham’s social and business activities while serving as ambassador to Great Britain. Invitations accepted and declined by Bingham make up the bulk of the material. Other forms of correspondence include patronage and autograph requests, letters of thanks, and club membership invitations. Additionally, this series includes one folder containing three speeches by Bingham, one given before the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, one at the American Society Dinner, and the last before the English-Speaking Union Garden Party. It is not known why this fragment of Bingham’s papers was in the Joseph Kennedy Papers.

Box 210	Appointment book
		1935 1937
	Autograph requests, 1933-35 Club membership correspondence, 1933 Invitations accepted
		1935 1936 1937
	Invitations declined
		1935
			January-July (3 folders)
Box 211			August-December
		1936 (4 folders) 1937
			January-March
Box 212			April-December (3 folders)
	Invitations pending, 1937 Invitations sent out, 1935 Memos, 1937 Patronage, 1935-1937 (3 folders) Speeches, 1936 Thank you letters for gifts, 1931-1937

Series 8.11. English Newspapers, 1938-1940.
Opened 9/2003
About 450 items.
Arrangement: chronological

These newspapers cover the period of the Czech Crisis from August to October of 1938, the Polish Crisis from August to December of 1939, and the Battle of Britain from July to August of 1940. The newspapers are English in origin and are either daily or weekly editions. The newspapers include the following: The Times, Daily Sketch, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, The Evening News, The Star, The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Graphic, Sunday Pictorial , and the News Chronicle .

Box 212	Czech Crisis
		August 1-September 14, 1938 September 15-20, 1938 September 21-25, 1938 September 26-29, 1938 September 30-October 4, 1938 October 5-10, 1938
	Polish Crisis
		August 24-October 1, 1939 October 2-8, 1939 October 9-14, 1939 October 15-19, 1939 October 20-23, 1939 October 24-31, 1939 November-December, 1939
	Battle of Britain
		July 7-21, 1940 July 22-August 3, 1940 August 4-17, 1940

Series 9. Private Citizen, 1940-1969.
Opened 4/2003-9/2003
About 26,432 items.

This series documents the period after Kennedy resigned as ambassador to Great Britain (November 1940) and ends with his death (November 1969). It contains letters, telegrams, scrapbooks, speeches, writings, and information Kennedy collected throughout the 1940s and 1950s on domestic and foreign policy, business, politics, and charities. Most of the material comes before Kennedy’s 1961 stroke. See specific series for further descriptions. See also Series 8.1. Ambassadorial Appointments and Diary, 1938-1951 and Series 8.5. Ambassadorial Subject File, 1937-1944 (bulk dates 1938-1940).

Series 9.1. Correspondence, 1940-1969.
Opened 9/2003

The correspondence is arranged into two subseries: a Correspondent File and a Subject File. The Correspondent File includes correspondence commenting on campaigns, finances, foreign policy, health, and invitations. Much of the material consists of requests for financial help and public response to Kennedy’s speeches, interviews, writings, business transactions, and radio broadcasts. The Subject File consists of correspondence pertaining to a particular event, institution, or genre (e.g. “Get well” letters) rather than a specific individual. It includes numerous requests for assistance, invitations, and donations to various charities, individuals, and institutions, as well as Kennedy’s responses. As a private citizen, much of the correspondence involves domestic matters, such as Christmas lists, magazine subscriptions, and bills for the Kennedy homes in Palm Beach and Hyannisport. All ambassadorial period material has been removed to Series 8.2.1. Ambassadorial Correspondence and material relating to larger business ventures is in Series 3. Business and Finance.

Series 9.1.1. Correspondent File, 1940-1969.
Opened 9/2003
About 10,800 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical, thereunder chronologically.

The Correspondent File contains correspondence between Kennedy and individuals such as Lord Beaverbrook, Richard Cardinal Cushing, John Ford, Count Enrico Galeazzi, Herbert Hoover, Arthur Houghton, Timothy McInerny, Judge Francis Morrissey, Paul Murphy, Pope Pius XII, Francis Cardinal Spellman, and Adlai Stevenson. Folders are titled by the person’s name for frequent and prominent correspondents, or under the first letter of the correspondent’s last name. Filing is not consistent so researchers should check in the general alphabet as well in folders titled with people’s names. Items within folders are not arranged in exact chronological order.

Box 212	A
		1940-1941 (2 folders)
Box 213		1942-1963 (4 folders)
	B
		1941 (5 folders) 1942-1958 (1-2 of 5 folders)
Box 214		1942-1958 (3-5 of 5 folders) 1959-1963 (3 folders)
	Ball, Gertrude, 1959-1960 Beaverbrook, Lord Maxwell, 1941-1961 and undated (3 folders)
Box 215	Boettiger, John and Anna Roosevelt, 1941-1949 Brickley, Bart A., 1941-1959 (2 folders) Bruce, Mrs. John (Marie), 1947-1960 Burke, Margaret, 1941-1959, undated Burns, John J., 1941-1946 C
		1940-1944 (7 folders)
Box 216		1945-1963 (7 folders)
	Calder, Sir James, 1944-1960 Cavanaugh, John, 1941-1963 Churchill, Winston and Pam, 1944, 1948, 1965 Connelly, George and Loretta
		1945-1951
Box 217		1952-1963
	Conway, Joseph F. Cropley, Ralph E. [“Doc”], 1941-1942 (2 folders) Cushing, Cardinal Richard
		1946-1953 1955-1961 (3 folders)
	Cushing Charity Fund Game, 1959 D
		1940-1949 (4 folders)
Box 218		1950-1963 (4 folders)
	Dabb, Hyatt, 1940-1954 Dallas, Rita, 1966-1968 Davies, Marion, 1950-1961 DesRosiers, Janet, 1951-1963 Dineen, Joseph, 1944-1958 Douglas, Justice William O., 1946-1961 Dowd, John C., 1941-1961 Downey, Morton, 1946-1958 Dunning, Phillip, 1940-1961 E
		1940-1943
Box 219		1944-1963 (3 folders)
	F, 1940-1963 (6 folders) Fayne, James
		1941-1952 (1-2 of 4 folders)
Box 220		1941-1952 (3-4 of 4 folders) 1954-1970
	Fitzgerald, Cornelius, 1940-1957 Fitzgerald, John F. [“Honey Fitz”], 1941-1945 Ford, John, 1940-1962 (4 folders) G
		1940-1941 (1 of 3 folders)
Box 221		1940-1941 (2-3 of 3 folders) 1942-1962 (5 folders)
	Galeazzi, Count Enrico
		1944-1955 (2 folders) 1956-1959 (1 of 3 folders)
Box 222		1956-1959 (2-3 of 3 folders) 1960-1961
	Gargan, Ann and children, 1945-1960 Gargan, Joseph, 1942-1943 Gowen, Franklin, 1941-1960 Green, Abel, 1949-1952 H
		1940-1941 (4 folders)
Box 223		1942-1963 (10 folders)
	Halifax, Lord Edward, 1941-1943 Hall, Fitzgerald, 1941-1944 Hays, Will H., 1941-1954 Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 1940-1961 (2 folders)
Box 224	Hillman, William, 1947 (re: Furness and Shigemitsu) Hoffman, Irving, 1951-1963 Hoover, Herbert, 1941-1962 Hoover, J. Edgar, 1953-1961 Houghton, Arthur, 1941-1960 (4 folders) I, 1941-1961 J, 1940-1960 (3 folders)
Box 225	Johnson, Lyndon B., 1956-1960 Jordan, Edward C., 1951 Jordan, Dr. Sara, 1941-1958 K, 1940-1962 (7 folders) Kane, Joseph L. [Cousin]
		1942-1944 (2 folders)
Box 226		1945-1949
	Kennedy, John Joseph [“London Jack”] Kennedy, Joseph P.
		1950-1955 (3 folders) January-June 1951 (2 folders) July-December 1951 (2 folders) European trip, April 1951 Letters from Special interests [misc. corres., notes] (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 227		Special interests (3 of 3 folders)
	Kornitzer, Bela, 1951 Kressel, Isidor J., 1947-1948 Krock, Arthur, 1940-1960 (2 folders) L, 1940-1964 (8 folders)
Box 228	Lahey, Dr. Frank H., 1942-1960 Lawson, Majorie, 1958-1959 Lindbergh, Charles, 1954 Loeb, William, 1958-1959 Luce, Henry and Clare Boothe, 1941-1957 M
		1941-1955 (7 folders) 1946-1955 (1 of 4 folders)
Box 229		1946-1955 (2-4 of 4 folders) 1956-1963 (3 folders)
	Mallon, Paul, 1945-1949 Marianelli, Luigi, 1960 Marin, William Peyton Mc
		1940-1943 (3 folders) 1944-1961 (1 of 2 folders)
Box 230		1944-1961 (2 of 2 folders)
	McCormack, John W., 1940-1953 McInerny, Timothy A., 1940-1955 (2 folders) Meade, Devon, 1951 Miscellaneous, 1941-1962
Box 231	Moore, Edward E., 1950-1954 Morrissey, Judge Francis X., 1950-1960 (2 folders) Murphy, Paul 1941-1954 (2 folders) N, 1941-1961 (3 folders)
Box 232	O, 1940-1963 (5 folders) O’Hare, Marie, 1948 Ordway, Lucius, 1940-1960 P
Box 233		1940-1959 (5 folders)
		1960-1961
	Palmer, Paul, 1943-1960 Poole, Arthur B., 1942-1958 Pope Pius XII, 1955-1956 Porter, Andrew J., 1943-1951 Q, 1941-1960 R
		1941-1959 (7 folders)
Box 234		1960-1963
	Regan, Phil, 1960-1961 Reismann, Phil, 1941-1961 Reynolds, John J. (real estate), 1943-1961 Robinson, Augustus, 1944-1961 Robinson, Fredrick, 1949-1957 Rosenbloom, Carroll, 1953-1957 Rosslyn, Tony (Earl of Rosslyn), 1944-1961 Royal, John (NBC), 1941-1963 S
		1940-1943 (1-4 of 6 folders)
Box 235		1940-1943 (5-6 of 6 folders) 1944-1958 (5 folders) 1959-1963 (1 of 2 folders)
Box 236		1959-1963 (2 of 2 folders)
	Seymour, James: Divorce case Shannon, Barry, 1944-1945 (2 folders) Shriver, Robert Sargent, 1956-1962 Spellman, Francis Cardinal
		1941-1960 (4 folders) “The Road to Victory”
Box 237	Stevenson, Adlai E. T, 1941-1961 (5 folders) Travell, Janet, 1958-1960 Truitt, Max, 1941-1956 Truman, Harry, 1950 U, 1941-1957 V, 1941-1962 (2 folders) W
		1940-1941 (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 238		1940-1941 (3 of 3 folders) 1942-1963 (5 folders)
	Walker, Dr. J.A.H., 1960 Walsh, Elizabeth (Betty), 1946-1953 Walsh, Thomas J., 1951-1959 Wheeler, John, 1943-1952 White, Tom, 1942-1948 Willy, Edna and Wilford, 1946-1959 Woods, Jim, 1955-1961
Box 239	Woodward, M.G., 1950-1951 Woodward, Thomas, 1942-1960 Wright, Bishop John (of Worcester, MA), 1950-1959 XYZ, 1941-1963

Series 9.1.2. Subject File, 1940-1969.
Opened 9/2003
About 4,800 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.

The Subject File includes numerous requests for assistance, invitations, and donations to various charities, individuals, and institutions, as well as Kennedy’s responses. As a private citizen, much of the correspondence involves domestic matters, such as Christmas lists, magazine subscriptions, and bills. A large section of the correspondence centers on clothing, travel arrangements, and several projects such as St. Mary’s Hospital and fundraising for the University of Notre Dame. There is also material related to Allen Farm.

Box 239	Address lists, 1940s Airplane, 1957-1958 Allen farm, 1942-1949 (4 folders) Automobiles, 1952-1959 Banks, 1947-1951 Birthday, 1957-1962 (3 folders)
Box 240	Boston Latin School, 1945-1962 Bretton Woods, 1944-1945 Bronxville Home for Exceptional Children, 1952-1953 ( see Series 9.4.: Subject File: JPK, Jr. Foundation ) Catholic War Veterans, 1945-1947 (see Cardinal Spellman ) Charitable Irish Society, 1943 Charities, 1949-1950 (4 folders) ( see also Donations) Charity letters, 1944-1958 (2 folders) ( see also Charities, and Donations ) Chase Studios, 1948-1949 Choate School Fund, 1944-1956 Christmas
		1940
Box 241		1950-1959 (4 folders)
	Christmas lists, 1940 (see also Donations ) Christmas lists of gifts, 1948-1954 Christmas thank you letters Donations
		1941-1945 (1-3 of 4 folders)
Box 242		1941-1945 (4 of 4 folders) 1946-1963 (9 folders)
Box 243	Don Orione Rest Home, 1953-1958 (see Series 9.4 ., folders Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation ) Easter greetings Eastern Airlines, 1951 Employment (3 folders) Europe, 1954-1962 (9 folders)
Box 244	Form letters, 1960-1963 Furniture, 1958-1959 Get well wishes
		December 1961 1962 (1-6 of 9 folders)
Box 245		1962 (7-9 of 9 folders) 1963 Undated Lists of senders, 1961-1962 VIP telegrams, 1961-1962
	Hyannisport, 1941-1942 Inaugural Gala, 1961 Insurance for historical documents, 1964-1975 Investments, 1951 Invitations
		1941-1948 (4 folders)
Box 246		1949-1961 (9 folders)
Box 247		1961-January 1962 (2 folders)
	Job requests Kennedy, Joseph P.: Name cards Knights of Malta, 1941-1951 (2 folders) Lake Tahoe, 1959 Letters of congratulations, support, books, gifts, masses received (4 folders)
Box 248	Lincoln Warehouse, 1945-1951 London bills, 1942-1944 Magazines, 1941 Manhattanville College, 1945-1960 Maritime Commission, U.S. The Marlin [yacht], 1957-1965 (2 folders) Manuscript sent to Kennedy, 1962 Meat inventory Miscellaneous (2 folders) Miscellaneous political, 1958-1960
Box 249	Miscellaneous requests: favors, interviews, offers, etc. (3 folders) Navy League, 1951 Notre Dame, University of
		1941-1951 (6 folders)
Box 250		1951-1960 (4 folders)
	Board of Trustees Publications, 1946-1951 (3 folders) Oglethorpe University, 1937-1943 Palm Beach, 1941-1960 (3 folders)
Box 251	Park Foundation, 1951 (2 folders) Passports Pocketbooks, 1957-1959 Poems, proverbs, jokes, prayers, 1960-1961 Recommendation letters, 1942-1943 Requests and thanks for assistance, 1943-1961 (2 folders) Requests for writing, 1961 Shea Collection Somerset Theatre St. Mary’s Hospital, 1942-1959 Standard Times , 1960-1961 Storage
Box 252	Subscriptions, 1940-1963 (2 folders) Suggestions, ideas, projects, 1961 Sulka: A. Sulka and Co., 1959-1961 Tailors, 1961-1962 (3 folders) Television set, RCA, 1956-1960 Thank you letters and notes, 1941-1960 (3 folders) Tickets, 1943-1951 Travel arrangements, 1948 Trusts Washington correspondence, 1941-1949 Washington, White House, 1960-1961 (2 folders) Who’s Who description for Kennedy, 1944-1959

Series 9.2. Speeches, 1940-1956.
Opened 9/2003
About 360 items.
Arrangement: chronological.

This series contains drafts, revisions, published speeches, memoranda, notes, research, programs, interviews, journal articles, and correspondence relating to speeches from Kennedy’s resignation as ambassador to Great Britain in 1940 until 1953. Much of the material concerns Kennedy’s views on international relations, the role of the United States in World War II, and the post-war period from the point of view of a concerned citizen. Other speeches include addresses for university commencements, youth groups, alumni societies, commerce and development organizations, and Catholic Church conferences. Correspondence in this series includes letters asking Kennedy to speak, arranging details of speaking events, and commenting on speeches. In addition, there are materials of unidentified and undated origins. For a published reprint of Kennedy’s September 24, 1947 speech at the Buffalo Centennial Eucharistic Congress, see Series 12.4. Books: Non-fiction, 1933-1941 .

Box 253	Speaking invitations and requests
		1940-1941 (4 folders) 1945
	Lists and descriptions of speeches 1941
		“Kennedy Urges America to Arm to Stay Out of War,” Radio address, January 18 (3 folders) “Experiences in London,” Oglethorpe University Commencement Address, May 24
			Speech Text Correspondence, February 1-June 18
Box 254		Notre Dame University Commencement Address, June 1
			Speech Research materials and notes (3 folders)
		“Our Doctor,” Tribute to Dr. Sara Jordan
	1942
		Holograph of Undelivered Speech Jacksonville Naval Air Station Commencement, May 5
	1943
		“Do Not Despair America,” Oglethorpe University Commencement Address, May 29
	1944
		National Maritime Day Address, Boston, May 22
			Speech text (4 folders) Correspondence, March-June
Box 255		Annual Dinner of the American Gastroenterological Assoc., Chicago, June 12 (2 folders)
	1945
		“What Price Bretton Woods?” March 8 Statement, Night of President Roosevelt’s Death, April 12 “Action Today for Boston’s Tomorrow,” Greater Boston Development Committee, Boston, April 17 Catholic War Veterans, Inc., New York, June 20 The Special Commission Relative to Establishing a State Department of Commerce, Boston, July 3 Massachusetts Maritime Academy Commencement Address, Hyannis, July 29 “In the Public Interest,” Interview given to James J. Delaney, August 19 “The Dignity of American Citizenship,” Greater New York Councils, Boy Scouts of America, Garden City, NY, October 6 Convention of State Federation of Labor, Cambridge, October 27 Youth Conference, New York, November 14 Harvard Varsity Club, Cambridge, November 28 “Today’s Challenge to American Business,” Economic Club of Chicago, December 5 “America Never Lost a War, Nor Won a Conference,” 1945
	1946
		Chicago Junior Association of Commerce, May 18 Colby College Commencement, June 17 “What’s Ahead for Rhode Island,” Providence, October 30 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner, October National Association of Bedding Manufacturers, Chicago, November 21
Box 256	1947
		Round Table Discussion with Arthur Krock, New York Times, March 12 “Kennedy Urges U.S. to Clarify Policy,” Interview with New York Times, May 18 Buffalo Centennial Eucharistic Congress, Working Men - Sectional Meeting, Buffalo, September 24
			Speech text Correspondence, August 16-September 19
		Knights of Columbus 50 ^th Anniversary, Cambridge, October 23 Manhattanville College, December Freedom Train, Boston, December 19 State of National Foreign Policy, Congressional Record , December 24
	1948
		Second Annual Dinner, Chicago Floor Covering Association, Chicago, January 7 Merchants and Manufacturers Club, Chicago, March 9 Interview with Robert S. Allen, June 12 “A Marshall Plan for the Americas,” Article for PIC , October
	1949
		Harvard Business School Finance Club, Boston, December 2
	1950
		Milton Academy Commencement, June 10 “An American Foreign Policy for Americans,” University of Virginia Law School Forum, Charlottesville, December 12
			Memoranda, notes, research, etc. for, December 1-12 Speech text (2 folders) Letters to the Editor, December 13-28 Q & A with Arthur Krock, December 27 Distribution lists and correspondence logistics, December 13, 1950-January 17, 1951
Box 257			Correspondence, December 1950-April 1951, A-Z and unsigned (8 folders)
		“War is Not Inevitable,” 1950
Box 258	1951
		The Great Debate-Follow-up to University of Virginia Speech, January-May
			Duke University Project on, January-March Speech, January Summary and follow-up Speech, undated Questions of Providence Evening Journal , Undated Q & A on foreign policy, Undated Memo, notes, research, clippings, etc., October 1950-April 1951 (5 folders)
		Harmonie Club, New York, February 3 (2 folders) “The Fallacy of ‘Enforcing’ World Peace,” March 14 Radio Broadcast (WABC & WJZ), Interview by Igor Cassini (“Cholly Knickerbocker”), April 12 Response to MacArthur’s Farewell Address to Congress, April
Box 259		“Our Foreign Policy, Its Casualties and Prospects,” Economic Club, Chicago, December 17
			Speech text (3 folders) Correspondence, November 11, 1951-February 13, 1952 Correspondence with Marshall Field, December 26, 1951-January 14, 1952
	1952
		Death of King George, NBC News Broadcast, Boston, February 13 Boston Latin School Association Annual Fall Meeting of the Alumni, November 24
	1953
		Merchants of America, June 30
	1956
		“A Foreign Policy for America,” April/May
	Miscellaneous and undated speeches (1 of 2 folders)
Box 260	Miscellaneous and undated speeches (2 of 2 folders) Speeches by others (4 folders)

Series 9.3. Writings, 1940-1959.
Opened 4/2003
About 470 items.
Arrangement: by subject and type.

This series consists of drafts of the book The Surrender of King Leopold and associated research materials and articles. The items relating to King Leopold include three copies of the book The Surrender of King Leopold, copies of the Keyes-Gort correspondence, maps, the Star of the Grand Cross Decoration given to Kennedy, and personal correspondence of Kennedy, James M. Landis, and Elizabeth P. Walsh. The correspondence relates to the book, general subjects, requests and thanks for copies, notes, news clippings, distribution lists, and published articles about the book. Articles are organized chronologically and contain copies of published articles and support materials; including drafts, notes and correspondence. Most articles are published, though some unpublished material is included.

Box 260	The Surrender of King Leopold
		Corrected copy First printing Second printing Keyes to Gort Corrections by B. Walsh Publisher Proofs Drafts
Box 261		Maps Research materials
			Handwritten notes Typewritten and handwritten notes Articles Newspaper clippings The London Gazette Pamphlets
		Star of the Grand Cross Decoration and letter from King Leopold to Joseph P. Kennedy Personal correspondence
			Joseph P. Kennedy James M. Landis Elizabeth P. Walsh
		Register of copyright letter Requests for and thanks (5 folders) Distribution lists Published articles
Box 262	Articles
		“State Pride Loyalty Pay Big Dividends,” Boston Herald , January 27, 1946 “The U.S. and the World,” Life , March 18, 1946 (3 folders) Draft of Life article and rejection letter, January 10, 1947 “America at the Crossroads,” New York Journal-America , May 25, 1947 Correspondence regarding “America at the Crossroads,” June-July 1947 “No More Henry Fords,” American Affairs Journal , July 1947 “A Marshall Plan for the Americas,” PIC , October 1948 Published letter regarding The Churchill Memoirs, New York Times ; September 26, 1948 Drafts and notes for Life article, 1948 “Joseph P. Kennedy replies: A Communication to the Editors,” Chicago Sun Times ; January 18, 1952 Article and notes on hemispheric self-sufficiency, [1953?] Miscellaneous (2 folders) Miscellaneous notations (regarding writing articles) – Post ambassadorial “The Administration and Business – There Should be No Antagonism,” New York Times Magazine , undated Unpublished proposed articles
	Writings by others

Series 9.4. Subject File.
Opened 9/2003
About 5, 400 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.

The Subject File consists of articles, publications, research materials, inventories, lists, and ephemera. Unlike Series 9.1.2., these materials do not contain significant amounts of correspondence. The Subject File includes information on individual countries, persons, and domestic issues as well as substantial reports, articles, and publications concerning post-World War II foreign and domestic policy and practices. The section on the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation is the most detailed and several folders are devoted to the Foundation’s donations, publicity, and research. Kennedy also served on the first and second Hoover Commissions (known as the Commissions on the Organization of the Executive Branch) and, at the request of Governor Maurice Tobin, Kennedy studied the feasibility of establishing a department of commerce within Massachusetts. Subject file material also illustrates Kennedy’s involvement in White House remodeling and decoration.

Box 263	Algeria Americans for Democratic Action, 1953-1954 Articles Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence, 1956 Carter, Boake, 1941-1943 (2 folders) Catholic War Veterans, 1945-1948 Chicago redevelopment Close, Upton, broadcasts, November 1944-May 1945 Communism Congressional publications, 1947-1951
Box 264	Eisenhower, Dwight D. Foreign and domestic affairs, 1955-1956 Foreign policy, 1942-1949, 1953, 1954 (5 folders) Harvard University, 1951 Hoover Commission [Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of Government]
		1948-1949 (3 folders) Second Hoover Commission, 1953
Box 265		Second Hoover Commission, 1954-1956 (3 folders) Agency admissions, 1953 Applications and questionnaires, 1940, 1951-1954 Hoover, Herbert: conversation with, December 18, 1957 Practice and procedure, 1949-1953 Correspondence, 1953-1956
	Indochina situation, 1953-1954 Inflation International Monetary Fund (2 folders) Inventories
		Back closet, cigars, perfume Furniture, clothing, liquor
Box 266		Lincoln Warehouse, Miss Meade’s apartment, etc. (2 folders)
	Israel, from Interiors , August 1950 Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, 1945-1956 (6 folders)
Box 267	Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, 1957-1959 (12 folders)
Box 268	Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, 1960 (6 folders)
		Dedication, 1949 Directory Dowd Publicity, 1954-1955 Financial records, 1966-1972 Guaranty survey, 1943-1944 Michigan State University Police Community Relations Program, 1967 “Mister President” Benefit, September 25, 1962
			Committees (2 folders)
Box 269		“Americana” ball and luncheon invitations, 1961
Box 270			Contributions Final guest lists General correspondence Hostesses and hosts Invitations Orchestra Party at British Embassy Progress reports Programs Publicity Reservations (2 folders) Sponsors Theatre
		Publicity, Fundraising, Board of Trustees, 1963-1969 (3 folders)
Box 271		Research (6 folders) Scholarships School for Exceptional Children, 1951-1954 Skating Rink, 1957 Special Olympics, 1964-1968 Speech ideas, 1962
	Letters burnt in plane crash, 1955 MacArthur, General Douglas, 1954
Box 272	Marshall Plan, 1947-1948 Massachusetts Department of Commerce
		Articles Correspondence (4 folders) New England industry Reports (1-3 of 5 folders)
Box 273		Reports (4-5 of 5 folders) Schedules
	Miscellaneous (3 folders) Model of Basilica of Saint Peter Morgenthau Diaries, 1947
Box 274	New York World Fair reports, 1939-1941 Order of the Holy Sepulchre Photographs Politics Pope John XXIII Post-World War II
		Economy (3 folders) Foreign relations, 1942-1955 (3 folders)
Box 275		Outlook for American shipping, 1946 (2 folders) Publications (2 folders) Shipping, Fortune MS, 1944 Taxation (2 folders)
	Queen Elizabeth, 1941 Railroads - John A. Hastings
Box 276	Russia (2 folders) Sarnoff, David, 1945-1947 Securities and Exchange Commission, 1953-1956 White House
		Antiques and paintings Swimming pool, 1962
	Yalta Agreement, 1954-1955

Series 9.5. News Clippings, 1940-1969.
Opened 9/2003
Approximately 4,200 items.
Arrangement: chronological.

News clippings collected and saved in a variety of formats by Kennedy, his family, or his staff document his activities and those of his family from 1940 until his death in 1969. Clippings from the notebooks were originally located in large green binders with the title and/or date on its binding. Due to preservation concerns, these binders have been disposed of and the material has been moved into folders, which now reflect the title and date span of the original notebooks. Some notebooks held a month’s worth of clippings, while the contents of others spanned years. Each clipping is attached to a separate page, which notes the source and date of the article. Additionally, there are loose news clippings and every issue of the Daily Herald (British) from February 1, 1945 to July 22, 1946. Other clippings originally housed in green binders can be found in Series 8.9. Ambassadorial News Clippings, Scrapbooks, and Magazine Articles, 1938-1944 (bulk dates 1938-1940).

Box 276	Notebooks
		1940: August-1946: December (1-3 of 4 folders)
Box 277		1940: August-1946: December (4 of 4 folders) 1940: December 1-8 (4 folders) 1941
			January 1-19 (1 of 3 folders)
Box 278			January 1-19 (2-3 of 3 folders) January 20-21 (4 folders)
Box 279			January 22-24 (4 folders) January 25-31 (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 280			January 25-31 (3 of 3 folders) February-June (3 folders)
		1942 (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 281		1942 (3 of 3 folders) 1942: April-1943: March (2 folders) 1943: January-December (2 folders) 1945
			January-July (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 282			January-July (3 of 3 folders) August-December (6 folders)
Box 283		1946 (7 folders)
Box 284		1947 (4 folders) 1948: January-November (3 folders)
Box 285		1949: January-December 1950
			February-November December (2 folders)
		1950: December-1951: March
			“NATO Clippings” (1-3 of 4 folders)
Box 286			“NATO Clippings” (4 of 4 folders) “Reactions to Major Speeches” (2 folders)
		1950: December-1951: April: “Germany” (3 folders) 1951: January-December 1951: August-1952: October
Box 287		1952: January-February (2 folders) 1953: January-November 1954: April-September 1955: June-December 1956: February-1957: December 1958: January-1959: December Undated pages
	Loose news clippings
		1941-1960s (4 folders) Undated
	Newspapers: Daily Herald [British]
		February 1, 1945-October 18, 1945 October 19, 1945-July 22, 1946

Series 10. John F. Kennedy Campaigns, 1946-1960.

Series 10.1. Congressional and Senate Campaigns, 1946, 1952, 1958.
Opened 1/2003, 2/2004, 3/2004
About 2,220 items.
Arrangement: chronological by campaign, thereunder alphabetical by subject.

This series contains correspondence, articles, speeches, notes, and other material concerning John F. Kennedy’s 1946 congressional campaign, 1952 Senate campaign against Henry Cabot Lodge, and 1958 re-election campaign. There is a very small amount of material on John Kennedy’s 1946 congressional campaign. Most of the material is from John Kennedy’s 1952 Senate campaign. It includes Kennedy and Democratic Party campaign material, literature, correspondence, schedules, research on Henry Cabot Lodge’s voting record and campaign strategy, editorials, and John Kennedy’s speeches and policies. A smaller amount of material at the end of the series documents John Kennedy’s 1958 re-election campaign, and includes correspondence and transcripts of television advertisements.

Box 288	Congressional campaign, 1946 Senate campaign, 1952
		Campaign administration
			Schedules Correspondence (7 folders) Financial John Kennedy record (1-2 of 3 folders)
Box 289			John Kennedy record (3 of 3)
		Campaign literature
			John Kennedy (3 folders) Democratic National Committee (DNC)
		Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1952
			Campaign literature (2 folders) Research on Lodge (2 folders)
Box 290			Lodge record (5 folders)
		Speeches (by John F. Kennedy)
			Italian Peace Treaty, August 21, 1951 Defense of Western Europe, August 21, 1951 Middle East, November 19, 1951 Campaign
				April 23, 1951-August 15, 1952 Undated
Box 291		Issues research materials
			Articles Civil rights Clippings for John Kennedy Clippings for Lodge Contributions Coughlan, Ralph Editorial comment Economic policy Foreign policy
				General
Box 292				Korea NATO
			Joseph Kennedy’s interview with General MacArthur Labor and social welfare Massachusetts McCarthy Military Miscellaneous News Newspaper cuts, 1952 “Nixon Affair” Party platforms and candidates Political opinion – Boston Speeches
				Convention Eisenhower (2 folders)
Box 293				Stevenson Truman
	Senate campaign, 1958

Series 10.2. Presidential Campaign, 1960.
Opened 1/2003 and 2/2004
About 80 items.
Arrangement: by type.

This series consists of articles, correspondence, schedules, and statistics about John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign. There are three schedules and various kinds of statistics such as ballots, 1928 voting information, and a memorandum detailing property values. Also contains two sheets of small campaign pins and several magazine articles.

Box 293	Articles Correspondence Democratic National Convention [Notes from a meeting in Palm Beach], 4 April 1959 Miscellaneous News clippings Rose Kennedy itineraries Schedules Statistics
Box 294	Inauguration invitation lists, 1961

Series 11. Robert F. Kennedy Campaigns, 1964-1968.

Series 11.1. Senate Campaign, 1964.
Opened 1/2003
About 2,000 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.

This series contains advertisements, articles, press releases, registration forms, lists, news clippings, and correspondence about Robert Kennedy’s New York campaign for Senate against Senator Kenneth Keating. Most of the material is correspondence, especially about contributions. Also included is research on Senator Keating, surveys of opinion and voting tendencies in New York, invitations and telegrams, and texts of Robert Kennedy speeches including a question and answer session with students.

Box 295	Advertisements Articles, 1957-1964 Campaign releases (3 folders) Correspondence
		General Contributions
			A-G (1-3 of 8 folders)
Box 296			A-G (4-8 of 8 folders) H-Z (1-6 of 11 folders)
Box 297			H-Z (7-11 of 11 folders)
		Invitations Telegrams Bellino, Carmine Gomperte, Henry Guthman, Ed Haddad, Bill Kraft, John Perrini, Joe
Box 298		Smith, Stephen (7 folders)
	Debates Democratic National Committee
		Campaign Manual Lists
Box 299		Registration Research State by State Fact Book (3 folders)
	Keating
		“Myth of Keating’s liberalism” (4 folders) Record (3 folders)
Box 300	Labor Lists, miscellaneous News clippings
		Bellino-Kenney-Keating (6 folders)
Box 301		Daily (2 folders) August-September 1964 (3 folders) October-November 1964 (2 folders)
	New York State Senatorial Campaign Robert Kennedy opposition literature Schedules
Box 302	Speeches
		Senator Pastore September 15-October 6 (2 folders)
	“Survey of the Senate Race in New York” Tabloid and telephone campaign United Labor Committee (2 folders) Vice-presidential information

Series 11.2. Presidential Campaign, 1968.
Opened 1/2003
About 500 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by type.

This series contains general correspondence, information about contributions, templates for fundraising, articles about the campaign, and invitation lists. There are also telegrams inviting people to the requiem mass for Robert Kennedy on June 8, 1968.

Box 302	Articles Budget sheets Campaign literature Correspondence
		Celebrity Bulletin Citizen’s Research Group Contributions Corporate checks returned Convention Requiem Mass
Box 303	Donations and contributions General (2 folders) Independent Citizens for a New Constitution, Inc. Invitation list (2 folders) Insurance Kennedy for President Committee New York State Constitutional Convention Speeches Telephone proposal

Series 12. Books.
Opened 9/2003
About 150 items.
Arrangement: by type.

This series consists of books found within the Joseph P. Kennedy Papers. They are arranged by type of material: Parliamentary Debates, Opera Librettos, Government Publications, Non-fiction, Fiction, and Miscellaneous. Parliamentary Debates consists of bound volumes of published transcripts of House of Commons Parliamentary Debates under the title Official Report Fifth Series Parliamentary Debates, Commons with the year of the debates and a volume number. Several of the volumes have tabs with handwritten notations in an unknown hand marking specific pages. They are arranged numerically by volume number. To see a volume, cite as listed below. Opera Librettos were collected by Joseph P. Kennedy. They were published by Fred Rullman Inc. between 1893 and 1932, and are from both the Metropolitan Opera House and the Chicago Civic Opera Company. The operas are in their original language and in English. They are arranged chronologically by their copyright dates. Government Publications consists of books and pamphlets published by the federal government collected by Joseph P. Kennedy. Many of the books are transcripts from congressional hearings, many may relate to Kennedy’s work with the SEC. They are arranged chronologically by their publication date. Non-fiction books range widely in subject matter and authorship and were either collected by Joseph P. Kennedy or given to him. Many of the books have inscriptions to Kennedy on the first page, and some have tabs marking certain pages and underlined portions. Fiction books were collected by Joseph P. Kennedy or given to him. Some have inscriptions to Kennedy on the first page. Miscellaneous publications consists of items that did not fit in with any other materials. It includes two volumes of a three volume series, The History of ‘The Times,’ and other published materials which may have been of professional or private interest to Kennedy.

Parliamentary Debates
	1937-1938
		Vol. 332. February 21-March 11 Vol. 333. March 14-April 1 Vol. 334. April 4-14 Vol. 335. April 26-May 13 Vol. 336. May 16-June 3 Vol. 337. June 14-July 1 Vol. 338. July 4-29 Vol. 339. September 28-October 6 Vol. 340. November 1-4
	1938-1939
		Vol. 343. January 31-February 17 Vol. 344. February 20-March 10 Vol. 345. March 13-April 6 Vol. 346. April 13-May 5 Vol. 347. May 8-26 Vol. 354. General Index Vol. 355. November 28-December 14
	1939-1940
		Vol. 356. January 16 to February 1 Vol. 357. Feb. 6 to Mar. 1 Vol. 358. Mar. 4 to Mar. 21 Vol. 360. Apr. 23 to May 13 Vol. 361. May 21 to June 13 Vol. 362. June 18 to July 11 Vol. 363. July 16 to Aug. 1 Vol. 364. Aug.6 to Aug. 22 Vol. 365. Sept. 5 to Nov. 20
	1940-1941
		Vol. 368. Jan. 21 to Feb. 13 Vol. 369. Feb. 18 to Mar. 13 Vol. 370. Mar. 18 to Apr. 10 Vol. 371. Apr. 22 to May 29 Vol. 372. June 10 to July 3 Vol. 375. General Index
	1941-1942
		Vol. 376. Nov. 12 to Dec. 19
	1942-1943
		Vol. 385. Nov. 11 to Dec. 17 Vol. 386. Jan. 19 to Feb. 18 Vol. 387. Feb. 23 to Mar. 25 Vol. 388. Mar. 30 to Apr. 22 Vol. 389. May 4 to May 27 Vol. 390. June 1 to July 8 Vol. 391. July 18 to Aug. 5 Vol. 392. Sept. 21 to Oct. 21 Vol. 393. Oct. 26 to Nov. 23 Vol. 394. General Index Vol. 395. Nov. 24 to Dec. 17
	1943-1944
		Vol. 396. Jan. 18 to Feb. 11 Vol. 397. Feb. 15 to Mar. 10 Vol. 398. Mar. 14 to Apr. 6 Vol. 399. Apr. 18 to May 12 Vol. 400. May 16 to June 16 Vol. 401. June 20 to July 14 Vol. 402. July 18 to Aug. 3 Vol. 403. Sept. 26 to Oct. 20 Vol. 404. Oct. 24 to Nov. 23 Vol. 405. General Index Vol. 406. Nov. 29 to Dec. 21
	1946-1947
		Vol. 435. Mar. 17 to Apr. 3 Vol. 436. Apr. 15 to May 3 Vol. 437. May 5 to May 23 Vol. 438. June 3 to June 20 Vol. 439. June 23 to July 11 Vol. 440. July 14 to July 25 Vol. 441. July 28 to Oct. 20 Vol. 442. General Index
	1947-1948
		Vol. 443. Oct. 21 to Nov. 7 Vol. 444. Nov. 10 to Nov. 28 Vol. 445. Dec. 1 to Dec. 19 Vol. 446. Jan. 20 to Feb. 6 Vol. 447. Feb. 9 to Feb. 27 Vol. 448. Mar. 1 to Mar. 25 Vol. 449. Apr. 6 to Apr. 23 Vol. 450. Apr. 26 to May 14 Vol. 451. May 25 to June 11 Vol. 452. June 14 to July 2 Vol. 453. July 5 to July 16
Box 304	Opera Librettos
		1893-1912 1919-1927 1928-1932 Undated (3 folders)
Box 305	Government Publications
		Money Trust Investigation: Investigation of Financial and Monetary Conditions in the U.S. before the 63rd Congress, Subcommittee on Banking and Currency, 1913: Volumes 1-2. Hearings: Stock Exchange Practices: Committee on Banking and Currency , U.S. Senate
			S. Res. 84: April 11, 12, 18, 21, and 22, 1932 S. Res. 84: April 23, 26, May 19, 20, 21, and June 3, 1932
		Congressional Directory: 74 ^th Congress, 2 ^nd Session , April 1936 Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce: 1937 Congressional Directory: 75 ^th Congress, 1 ^st Session , March 1937
Box 306		Hearings: Gasoline and Fuel-Oil Shortage: Special Committee to Investigate gasoline and fuel-oil shortages , U.S. Senate S. Res. 156
			Aug 28-29, September 3-5, 8-10, 1941 October 1-2, 1941
		Additional Report of the Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program , January 15, 1942 Hearings: Conversion of Small Business Enterprises to War Production: Committee on Banking and Currency, U.S. Senate S. 2250, Feb 17-19, 24, 26 and March 4, 1942 Hearings: Problems of American Small Business: Special Committee to Study and Survey Problems of Small Business Enterprises , U.S. Senate S. Res. 298
			September 29, 1942 December 3-4 and 7, 1942
		Small Business Problems: Pooling for Production, 1942 Hearings: Problems of American Small Business: Special Committee to Study and Survey Problems of Small Business Enterprises , U.S. Senate S. Res. 298, January 13, 1943 Small Business Problems: The Federal Agencies and Small Business , March 8, 1942 Hearings: To Establish a Civilian Supply Administration: Committee on Banking and Currency , U.S. Senate S. 885, March 14-25, 30-31, April 1-2, 6-8, 13-15, 1943 Congressional Directory : 78 ^th Congress, 1st Session, May 1943
	Non-fiction
		Bare Hands and Stone Walls: Some Recollections of a Side-Line Reformer by Charles Edward Russell, 1933 Why, When and Where: The Consecration of Samuel Seabury by J. Wilkinson, 1934
Box 307		President Trujillo: His Work and the Dominican Republic by Lawrence de Besault, 1936 Federal Taxes on Estates, Trusts, and Gifts 1936-1937 by Robert H. Montgomery Railways of Thirty Nations: Government versus Private Ownership by P. Harvey Middleton, 1937 False Security: The Betrayal of the American Investor by Bernard J. Reis, 1937 The White House Gang by Earle Looker, 1937
Box 308		The Rainbow of Sorrow by Rt. Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, 1938 Federal Income Tax Handbook,1938-1939 by Robert H. Montgomery, C.P.A. Christmas Eve in a Balkan Heart by Stoyan Pribichevich, 1939 The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian, edited by LL. Wyn Griffith, 1939 The First Commission of H.M.S. Calliope by Captain E.W. Swan, 1939 Hambros Bank Ltd. 1839-1939 by Mr. R. Olaf Hambro Lectures for Bankers and Business Executives by Captain William McKee, 1940 Youth Guidance by Killian J. Hennrich, O.F.M, 1941
Box 309		The Life of Sir Thomas More by Cresace More, 1941 Buffalo Centennial Eucharistic Congress, September 22-25, 1947 edited. by the Historical Committee of the Buffalo Centennial Eucharistic Congress, 1948 (2 copies)
	Fiction