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Livingston T. Merchant Papers, circa 1944-1972 (bulk 1954-1968): Inventory
MC095
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Summary Information
- Creator:
- Merchant, Livingston T. (Livingston Tallmadge), 1903-1976.
- Title and dates:
- Livingston T. Merchant Papers, circa 1944-1972 (bulk 1954-1968)
- Abstract:
- Livingston T. Merchant was a diplomat and high-ranking government official. This collection consists of Merchant’s papers, including correspondence, articles, notes, speeches, statements, interviews, clippings, printed matter, and personal papers.
- Size:
- 14.70 cubic feet (26 boxes, 3 cartons)
- Call number:
- MC095
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Public Policy Papers.
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA - Language(s) of material:
- English.
- Storage note:
- This collection is stored onsite at the Mudd Manuscript Library.
Description
Consists of papers of Merchant (Princeton Class of 1926)--correspondence, articles (mostly in printed sources), notes, speeches, statements, interviews, clippings, printed matter, and personal papers--primarily relating to his various positions as a diplomat at the American embassies in Paris (1945) and Nanking, China (1948), assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs (1949), U.S. representative on the NATO Council in Paris (1952), assistant secretary of state for European affairs (1953-1956, 1958-1959), under secretary of state (1960-1961), and ambassador to Canada (1956-1958, 1961-1962). Included is material concerning summit conferences in Berlin (1954), Geneva (1955), and Paris (1960), relations with China and Japan, and American-Canadian relations during President Kennedy's administration, as well as letters and reviews about the book Neighbors Taken for Granted (1966), edited by Merchant.
Arrangement
This is an unprocessed collection and remains in its original arrangement.
Organized into the following series:
- Series I. Correspondence and Related Material, 1944-1968
- Series II. Articles and Notes, 1951, 1959-1967
- Series III. Speeches, Statements, Interviews, etc., 1944-1967
- Series IV. Speech Material
- Series V. Clippings, 1958-1967
- Series VI. Financial Records
- Series VII. Memorabilia
- Series VIII. Photographs; Biographical Material
- Series IX. Printed Material, 1951-1972
- Series X. Personal Books
Access and Use
Access
Collection is open for research use.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Curator of the Public Policy Papers. Any copyright vested in 1998 Princeton University Library has passed to Princeton University; researchers are responsible for determining any other copyright questions.
Processing and Other Information
Processing Information
This is an unprocessed collection. The contents list provided is a preliminary inventory.
Descriptive Rules Used
Finding aid content adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
Encoding
Machine-readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Techbooks and Cristela García-Spitz on December 23, 2006.
Finding aid written in English.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Livingston T. Merchant Papers, Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Subject Headings
These materials have been indexed in the Princeton University Library online catalog using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- Ambassadors -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
- Arbitration, International -- 20th century.
- Congresses and conventions -- Berlin (Germany) -- 20th century.
- Congresses and conventions -- France -- Paris -- 20th century.
- Congresses and conventions -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- 20th century.
- Canada -- Foreign relations -- United States -- 20th century.
- China -- Foreign relations -- United States -- 20th century.
- East Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States -- 20th century.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Canada -- 20th century.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- China -- 20th century.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- East Asia -- 20th century.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-
- Articles.
- Clippings.
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.
- Speeches.
- Diplomats -- United States -- 20th century.
Browse other finding aids related to the following terms:
- American history/20th century
- American politics and government
- Cold War
- Diplomacy
- East Asian studies
- European history
Contents List
I. Correspondence and Related Material: 1944-1968
Labouisse, Henry R., Jr., 1944
Box 1 Labouisse, Henry R., Jr., 1945
Box 1 Re Rosenman Mission, 1945
Box 1 Re Germany, 1946
Box 1 Labouisse, Henry R., Jr., 1946
Box 1 Miscellaneous, 1946
Box 1 Acheson, Dean, 1947
Box 1 Re Genealogy, 1947
Box 1 Re Miscellaneous, 1947
Box 1 Re Princeton University, 1948
Box 1 Re China, Japan and the Far East, 1948-1951
Box 1 “Excerpt from Nanking Letter”, 1949
Box 1 Re Princeton University, 1951
Box 1 Re Churchill, Winston, 1952
Box 1 Re Ismay, Lord, 1952
Box 1 Notes: Re
Box 1 (1) Churchill, Winston
Box 1 (2) Ismay, Lord
Box 1 Perkins, George W., 1952
Box 1 Re Miscellaneous, 1952
Box 1 Truman, Harry S., 1952
Box 1 Re Bermuda Conference, 1953
Box 1 Re China, 1953
Box 1 Miscellaneous, 1953
Box 1 Re NATO, 1953
Box 1 Re Princeton University, 1953
Box 1 Re Berlin Conference (February-March), 1954
Box 2 Re Dobrynin, Anatoli, F., 1954
Box 2 Dulles, John Foster, 1954
Box 2 Re Geneva Conference: Indochina, 1954
Box 2 Re London Nine-Power Conference, 1954
Box 2 Re Miscellaneous, 1954
Box 2 Re NATO, 1954
Box 2 Re Austrian State Treaty, 1955
Box 2 Re Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1955
Box 2 Re Geneva Conference [Summit], 1955
Includes “Recollections of the Summit Conference-, Geneva 1955,” by Livingston T. Merchant.
Box 2 Re Miscellaneous, 1955
Box 2 Re NATO, 1955
Box 2 Re Paris Fifteen-Power Conference, 1955
Box 2 Re Princeton University, 1955
Box 2 Achilles, Theodore C., 1956
Box 2 Re Appointment: Ambassador to Canada, 1956
Box 2 Bruce, David, 1956
Box 2 Butterworth, W. Walton, 1956
Box 2 Re Canada, 1956
Box 2 Conant, James B., 1956
Box 2 Dodds, Harold W., 1956
Box 2 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1956
Box 2 Gruenther, Alfred M., 1956
Box 2 Merchant, Livingston T., Jr., 1956
Box 2 Re Miscellaneous, 1956
Box 2 Persons, Wilton B., 1956
Box 2 Re Princeton University, 1956
Box 2 Romulo, Carlos P., 1956
Box 2 Smut, Alexander, 1956
Box 2 Re Canada, 1957
Box 2 Re China, 1957
Box 2 Dulles, Allen W., 1957
Box 2 Re North Pole - Trip, 1957
Box 2 Re Tallmadge, Benjamin, 1957
(Ancestor of Livingston T. Merchant, 1754-1835, During the period of the American Revolution)
Box 2 Re Awards, 1958
Box 3 Burgess, W. Ranoldph, 1958
Box 3 Re Canada, 1958
Box 3 Re Conferences Attended, (1953-1958)
Box 3 Re Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1958
Box 3 Re Dulles, John Foster, 1958
Box 3 Re Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1958
Includes visit to Canada, July 1958
Box 3 Hoover, J. Edgar, 1958
Box 3 Lippmann, Walter, 1958
Box 3 Merchant, Mrs. Livingston T., 1958
(Merchant, Elizabeth Stiles, Wife of Livingston T. Merchant)
Box 3 Re NATO Meeting, November-December 1958
Box 3 Taylor, Maxwell D., 1958
Box 3 Re Appointment: Undersecretary of State For Political Affairs, 1959
Box 3 Re Berlin, 1959
Box 3 Brentano, Heinrich von, 1959
Box 3 Caffery, Jefferson, 1959
Box 3 Re Canada, 1959
Box 3 Carpenter, I.W., Jr., 1959
Box 3 Re Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1959
Box 3 Dulles, John Foster, 1959
Box 3 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1959
Box 4 Eisenhower, Dwight D. - Trip to Europe, August 26-September 5, 1959
Includes handwritten notes by Livingston T. Merchant.
Box 4 Feis, Herbert, 1959
Box 4 Foster, William C., 1959
Box 4 Re Geneva Conference of Foreign Ministers, 1959
Box 4 Gerhardt, H.A., 1959
Box 5 Re Germany, 1959
Box 5 Herter, Christian, 1959
Box 5 Re Hofstra College, Honorary Degree conferred upon Livingston T. Merchant, June 1959
Box 5 Gray, Gordon, 1959
Box 5 Hughes, John C., 1959
Box 5 Javits, Jacob K., 1959
Box 5 Johnson, U. Alexis, 1959
Box 5 Re Khrushchev, Nikita - Eisenhower, Dwight D. - Meeting, Camp David, September 26-27, 1959
Box 5 Lloyd, Selwyn, 1959
Box 5 MacArthur, Douglas, II, 1959
Box 5 Re Meetings and Receptions, April 1959
Box 5 Re Middle East, 1959
Box 5 Mikoyan, Anastas - Visit to Washington, D.C., January 16-17, 1959
Includes handwritten notes by Livingston T. Merchant of conversations by Dulles, John Foster; Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Mikoyan, Anastas; Nixon, Richard M., etc.
Box 5 Re Miscellaneous, 1959
Box 5 Re Molotov, V.M., 1959
Box 5 Moreno, Miguel J., Jr., 1959
Box 5 Re Nixon, Richard M., 1959
Box 5 Re Pahlevi, Mohammed Riza, Shah of Iran, 1959
Box 5 Re Panama, 1959
Box 5 Robertson, Walter S., 1959
Box 5 Re Soviet Union: “Thoughts on the Presentation of the Western Position at the Prospective Conference this Spring with the Soviets”, February 6, 1959
Box 5 Strauss, Lewis, 1959
Box 5 Thompson, Llewellyn, 1959
Box 5 Re Trip: London, Paris, Bonn., February 3-8, 1959
Includes handwritten notebook by Livingston T. Merchant.
Box 5 Re United Nations General Assembly, 1959
Box 5 Walmsley, Walter N., 1959
Box 5 Wiley, Alexander, 1959
Box 5 Yeh, George K.C., 1959
Box 5 Re Berlin, 1960
Box 6 Bohlen, Charles E., 1960
Box 6 Bruce, David, 1960
Box 6 Burton, Curtis, Jr., 1960
Box 6 Re Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) Meeting, Tehran, Iran, April 28-30, 1960
Box 6 Re Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1960
Box 6 Re de Gaulle, Charles, 1960
Box 6 Re Disarmament, 1960
Box 6 Re Dulles, John Foster, 1960
Box 6 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1960
Box 6 Re Gates, Thomas S., 1960
Box 6 Re Herter, Christian, 1960
Box 6 Re Iran, 1960
Box 6 Re Khrushchev, Nikita, 1960
Box 6 Re McCone, John A., 1960
Box 6 Re Macmillan, Harold, 1960
Box 6 Merchant, Mary T., 1960
Box 6 Re Middle East Trip, April 26-May 6, 1960
Box 6 Re Miscellaneous, 1960
Box 6 Morse, Wayne, 1960
Box 6 Re NATO, Ministerial Meeting, 1960
Box 7 Istanbul, Turkey, May 2-4, 1960
(Livingston T. Merchant, Senior Adviser)
Box 7 Re NATO Paris, December, 1960
Box 7 Nixon, Richard M., 1960
Box 7 Re Nuclear Test Ban, 1960
Box 7 Re Office: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1960
Box 7 Re Pahlav, Mohammed Rizh, Shah of Iran, 1960
Box 7 Re Princeton University Honorary Degree conferred upon Livingston T. Merchant, June 14, 1960
Box 7 Rusk, Dean, 1960
Box 7 Re Soviet Union, 1960
Box 7 Re “Sprague Committee” Report for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960
Box 7 Re Summit Conference, Meeting of Chiefs of State and Heads of Government, Paris, May 1960
Includes handwritten notes by Livingston T. Merchant.
Box 7 Re Thompson, Llewellyn, 1960
Box 7 Re Trip to Athens, May 4-6, 1960
Box 7 Re Trip to London, August 15-165 1960
Box 7 Re Turkey, 1960
Box 7 Re U-2 Incident, 1960
Box 7 Alphand, Herve, 1961
Box 8 Re Appointment: Ambassador to Canada, 1961
Box 8 Re Appointment: Secretary of State Ad Interim, 1961
Box 8 Re Biographical Sketch, 1961
Box 8 Burke, Arleigh, 1961
Box 8 Caccia, Harold, 1961
Box 8 Case, Everett, 1961
Box 8 Re Chief of Missions Meeting, Paris, 1961
Box 8 Re Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1961
Box 8 Re Diefenbaker, John G. - Visit to the United States, 1961
Box 8 Re Dulles, John Foster, 1961
Box 8 Goheen, Robert F., 1961
Box 8 Re Itineraries and Schedules, 1961
Box 8 Re Kennedy, John F., 1961
Includes visit to Canada, May 16, 1961
Box 8 Re McCone, John, 1961
Box 8 Re Miscellaneous, 1961
Box 8 Re Pakistan-Afghanistan Trip, October 16-November 9, 1961
Box 8 Re Princeton University, 1961
Box 8 Re Rockefeller Public Service Award - Presented to Livingston T. Merchant, December 1961
Box 8 Rusk, Dean, 1961
Box 8 Re Appointment as Consultant, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1962
Box 9 Re Biographical Sketch, 1962
Box 9 Bohlen, Charles E., 1962
Box 9 Burke, Arleigh, 1962
Box 9 Case, Everett, 1962
Box 9 Re Clubs, 1962
Box 9 Re Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1962
Box 9 Dickey, John, 1962
Box 9 Diefenbaker, John G., 1962
Box 9 Dulles, Allen W., 1962
Box 9 Re Dulles, John Foster, 1962
Box 9 Eisenhower, John, 1962
Box 9 Emeny, Brooks, 1962
Box 9 Foster, William C., 1962
Box 9 Goheen, Robert F., 1962
Box 9 Herter, Christian A., 1962
Box 9 Hughes, John, 1962
Box 9 Kennedy, John F., 1962
Box 9 Kohler, Foy D., 1962
Box 9 Lippmann, Walter, 1962
Box 9 MacArthur, Douglas, II, 1962
Box 9 MacKenzie, N.A.M., 1962
Box 9 Matthews, H. Freeman, 1962
Box 9 Re Miscellaneous, 1962
Box 9 Mosely, Philip, 1962
Box 9 Parsons, J. Graham, 1962
Box 9 Re Princeton University, 1962
Box 9 Rae, Saul, 1962
Box 9 Re Retirement, 1962
Box 9 Rockefeller, John D., III, 1962
Box 9 Rusk, Dean, 1962
Box 9 Sargeant, Howland H., 1962
Box 9 Smith, Gerald C., 1962
Box 9 Strauss, Lewis, 1962
Box 9 Taylor, Maxwell D., 1962
Box 9 Thompson, Llewellyn, 1962
Box 9 Udall, Stewart, 1962
Box 9 Weicker, Lowell, 1962
Box 9 Whitney, John Hay, 1962
Box 9 Wilcox, Francis O., 1962
Box 9 Yost, Charles W., 1962
Box 9 Re Appointment: Foreign Service Officer, Consultant (WAE), 1963
Box 10 Caccia, Alexander J., 1963
Box 10 Re Clubs, 1963
Box 10 Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1963
Box 10 Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 1963
Box 10 Hearings: Subcommittee on National Security Staffing and Operations, March-December 1963
Box 10 Kennedy, John F., 1963
Box 10 Lloyd, Selwyn, 1963
Box 10 Miscellaneous, 1963
Box 10 MLF (Multilateral Force), 1963
Box 10 Re Appointment: Intermittent Consultant, Central Intelligence Agency, 1964
Box 11 Re Atlantic Unity, 1964
Box 11 Ball, George W., 1964
Box 11 Re Canada, 1964
Box 11 Re Clubs, 1964
Box 11 Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1964
Box 11 Re Dulles, John Foster, 1964
Box 11 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1964
Box 11 Eisenhower, Milton, 1964
Box 11 Invitations-Declined, 1964
Box 11 Jackson, Henry M., 1964
Box 11 MLF (Multilateral Force), 1964
Box 11 Rusk, Dean, 1964
Box 11 Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 1964
Box 11 Stassen, Harold E., 1964
Box 11 Re Appointment: Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, August 1965
Box 12 Re Canada, 1965
Includes a report entitled “Canada and the United States-Principles for Partnership” by Livingston T. Merchant and A.D.P. Heeney, June 28, 1965.
Box 12 Re Clubs, 1965
Box 12 Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1965
Box 12 Dix, William S., 1965
Box 12 Re Dulles, John Foster, 1965
Box 12 Humphrey, Hubert H., 1965
Box 12 Invitations-Declined, 1965
Box 12 Re Kennedy, John F., 1965
Box 12 McCone, John A., 1965
Box 12 Re Princeton University, 1965
Box 12 Rusk, Dean, 1965
Box 12 Re Vietnam, 1965
[Printed Material]
Box 12 Re World Bank, 1965
Box 12 Achilles, Theodore C., 1966
Box 12 Re Africa, 1966
Box 12 Re Appointment: Special Assistant. to the Secretary, 1966
Box 12 Re Canada, 1966
Includes correspondence regarding a book,Neighbors Taken For Granted, edited by Livingston T. Merchant.
Box 13 Re Clubs, 1966
Box 13 Re Curriculum Vitae, 1966
Box 13 Dix William S., 1966
Box 13 Re Dulles, John Foster, Oral History Project, 1966
Box 13 Re Heeney, Arnold, 1966
Box 13 Re Invitations Declined, 1966
Box 13 Lippmann, Walter, 1966
Box 13 Miscellaneous, 1966
Box 13 Re Princeton University, 1966
Box 13 Reston, James B., 1966
Box 13 Rostow, Walter, 1966
Box 13 Rusk, Dean, 1966
Box 13 Re Brezezinski, Zbigniew, 1967
Box 14 Butterworth, W. Walton, 1967
Box 14 Re China-United States Relations, 1967
Box 14 Re Clubs, 1967
Box 14 Re Columbia University, Oral History Project, 1967
Box 14 Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1967
Box 14 Re Ditchley Conference, 1967
Box 14 Dulles, John Foster, 1967
Box 14 Re Dulles, John Foster, Oral History Project, 1967
Box 14 Re Inter-American Development Bank Annual Meeting, 1967
Box 14 Re Inter-American Development Bank Annual Meeting-Board of Governors Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, September 25-29, 1967
Box 14 Re “IDA” Meetings, 1967
Box 14 Invitations-Declined, 1967
Box 14 Johnson, Lyndon D., 1967
Box 15 Norstad, Lauris, 1967
Box 15 Re Princeton University, 1967
Box 15 Sprague, Mansfield D., 1967
Box 15 Re United States-European Command: Study Group, 1967
Box 15 Re World Bank, 1967
Box 15 Re Clubs, 1968
Box 15 Re Dulles, John Foster, 1968
Box 15 Fowler, Henry H., 1968
Box 15 Re Harvard University Honorary Degree conferred upon Livingston T. Merchant, 1968
Box 15 Re Invitations - Declined, 1968
Box 15 Johnson, Lyndon B., 1968
Box 15 Miscellaneous, 1968
Box 15 Re Princeton University, 1968
Box 15 Re Retirement, 1968
Box 15 Re World Bank, 1968
Box 15 II. Articles and Notes
1951
Includes “Estimate of a Princeton Graduate Interested in the Far East”, July 19, 1951; 1955; (1957); 1959-1967
Box 16 1959-1967
Box 16 III. Speeches, Statements, Interviews, etc.
1944-1956
Box 17 1957-1960
Box 18 1961-1967; no date
Box 19 IV. Speech Material
Various Dates
(1 of 2)
Box 20 (2 of 2)
Box 21 V. Clippings
1958-1961
Box 22 1962-1967; no date
Box 23 VI. Financial Records
Various Dates
Box 24 VII. Memorabilia
Various Dates
Box 25 VIII. Photographs; Biographical Material
Various Dates
Box 26 IX. Printed Material
1951-1972
Includes Congressional Hearings
Box 27 X. Personal Books
Various Years
Includes Stamp Albums
(1 of 2)
Box 28 (2 of 2)
Box 29
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