Scope and Content Note
The papers of Arthur Stanley Riggs (1879-1952) span the years 1929-1952, with the bulk of the material between 1949 and 1951. The major portion of the collection concerns his unpublished book, “Drake of the Seven Seas,” relating to Sir Francis Drake, and consists of the manuscript of this book, correspondence, drafts, notes, bibliography, positive and negative photographs, maps, newspaper clippings, and printed matter. Some of the notes are typed on letters received by Riggs.
Prominent correspondents include Ricardo J. Alfaro, Herbert Eugene Bolton, George T. Bye, Helen M. Cam, Jacob Canter, David Laurance Chambers, Oscar Cucurullo, Julio F. Guillén y Tato, John A. Hamilton, E. Newton Harvey, Roy de S. Horn, Leonard B. Loeb, Ramón Lugo Lovatón, William Hardy McNeill, Hans Portack, Gonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo, Stephen C. Rowan, John F. Stevens, Earl O. Titus, and Arthur E. Young.