Scope and Content Note
The papers of Harry Neptune Sargent (1866-1946) span the years 1917-1920 and include correspondence, drafts, maps, research notes, and photographs concerning Sargent’s unpublished history of American participation in World War I, “America’s Part in the Great War: What the Americans Accomplished, and How Their Expeditionary Force in France Was Organized, Equipped, and Maintained.”
Sargent, a British Army officer who was chief of the British Mission Headquarters, Services of Supply, American Expeditionary Force in Europe, attempted unsuccessfully to interest publishers in his manuscript. The papers include solicitations to publishers, Sargent’s credentials, and successive annotated drafts of his manuscript. Also included is correspondence from General James G. Harbord concerning the veracity of Sargent’s account and notes by Brigadier General Fox Conner concerning the American Expeditionary Force.