Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, articles and other writings, notes, financial papers, annotated scrapbooks, and other papers pertaining primarily to Scruggs's service as U.S. minister to Colombia and Venezuela, and U.S. consul in China. Includes material concerning Scruggs's work as special agent and general counsel to the Venezuelan government, particularly in relation to the disputed boundary between Venezuela and Guyana (British Guiana). Correspondents include José Andrade, John Watson Foster, Francis B. Loomis, and Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl.