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Correspondence, diaries, writings, subject files, and other papers relating chiefly to Bonsal's career as a journalist and as foreign correspondent for the New York Herald and New York Times. Documents his role as confidential interpreter for President Woodrow Wilson and Edward Mandell House at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919-1920, and as secretary of the U.S. Legation, Tokyo, Japan, 1895. Subjects include Japanese culture, customs, politics, and relations with the United States; the Spanish-American War, especially in Cuba and the Philippines; the Santiago Campaign, Cuba, in 1898; Mexican president Porfirio Díaz and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920; the American-Mexican Joint Commission, 1916; American ambassador Henry Lane Wilson's views on Mexico; World War I; national political affairs; Otto Fürst von Bismarck, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, and other contemporaries; Bonsal's friendship with House, Georges Clemenceau, and Hendrik Willem Van Loon; literature; and Bonsal's travels. Correspondents include James Truslow Adams, Newton Diehl Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, James Stuart Douglas, Arthur Hugh Frazier, Hugh Gibson, Francis Burton Harrison, Edward Mandell House, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, and Henry Lane Wilson.
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Correspondence, World War, 1914-1918, Literature, Social life and customs, American newspapers, Politics and government, Peace, American-Mexican Joint Commission, Campaigns, Voyages and travels, United States. Legation (Japan), Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920), New York herald, Santiago Campaign, 1898, New York times, Spanish-American War, 1898, United States, Foreign relations, HistoryPeople
Newton Diehl Baker (1871-1937), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), Arthur Hugh Frazier (b. 1868), James Stuart Douglas (1868-1949), Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965), Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1872-1961), Otto Bismarck Fürst von (1815-1898), Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1944), Francis Burton Harrison (1873-1957), Henry Lane Wilson (1857-1932), Edward Mandell House (1858-1938), James Truslow Adams (1878-1949), Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915), Hugh Gibson (1883-1954), Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)Places
United States, New York (State), New York, Cuba, Japan, Philippines, MexicoTimes
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Open to research.
Gift, Philip W. Bonsal and Dudley B. Bonsal, 1972-1974.
Journalist and foreign correspondent.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012117
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