Scope and Content Note
The papers of Mark Sullivan (1874-1952) span the years 1900-1935, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1919-1935. The collection consists mainly of correspondence and writings and is organized into three series: Correspondence , Subject File , Book and Article File , and Miscellany . Included is material relating to Sullivan's wife, Marie Buchanan Sullivan.
Special correspondence on social as well as political affairs consists of letters to and from Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, and Calvin Coolidge. General correspondence relates mainly to Sullivan’s syndicated newspaper columns. General correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Edward William Bok, William Edgar Borah, William Jennings Bryan, Henry Seidel Canby, Whitney Darrow, Cary T. Grayson, Amy Loveman, Christopher Morley, Ellery Sedgwick, and Ida M. Tarbell. The correspondence of Marie Buchanan Sullivan includes letters from William Jennings Bryan, Ethel Roosevelt Derby, Florence Kling Harding, and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
The Subject File focuses on the Conference on the Limitation of Armament in Washington, 1921-1922, and highway and automobile safety. The bulk of the collection consists of drafts and galley proofs of Sullivan’s Our Times; The United States, 1900-1925.