Scope and Content Note
The papers of Charles Moore (1855-1942) span the years 1848-1944, with the bulk of the material dated 1900-1937. The collection consists of Correspondence, letterbooks, datebooks, notes, articles, speeches, picture post cards, photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to the Plan of 1901 for Washington, D.C., the restoration of the White House in 1902-1903, the Washington, D.C., Park Commission, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, and American architecture. The papers are organized into six series: Datebook and Bound Correspondence ; General Correspondence ; White House Letters ; Speech, Article, and Book File ; Miscellany ; and Addition . Of special importance are materials reflecting Moore’s service on the Commission of Fine Arts, 1910-1937, including as chairman, that document his personal and business relations with prominent American architects and that make up the White House Letters series, 1884-1937. The book file relating to Moore’s work on Daniel Burnham includes original correspondence and other background items relating to Burnham.
Correspondents include Baron, Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood, Baroness Dorothea Mary Roby Thorpe Charnwood, Daniel Chester French, Cass Gilbert, J. J. Jusserand, William Mitchell Kendall, Charles Follen McKim, James McMillan, Frederick Law Olmsted (1870-1957), Elihu Root, and Egerton Swartout. Presidential correspondents include Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, Benjamin Harrison, Hebert Hoover, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson and their wives.