Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1865, Mar. 29 | Born, Baltimore, Md. |
| circa 1878-1882 | Student, St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H. |
| 1882-circa 1883 | Auditor at Heidelberg and Vienna universities, Heidelberg, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, earning certificates in German and Italian literature |
| 1885-1900 | Special correspondent for New York Herald in Bulgarian-Serbian War (1885), Morocco (1889), Macedonian uprising (1890), Sino-Japanese War (1895), and Cuba and the Spanish-American War (1897-1900) |
| 1893-1897 | Secretary of legation and chargé d'affaires, Peking, China, Madrid, Spain, Tokyo, Japan, and Korea |
| 1894 | Published Morocco as It Is. London: W. H. Allen |
| 1897 | Published The Real Condition of Cuba To-day. New York: Harper |
| 1899 | Published The Fight for Santiago. New York: Doubleday & McClure |
| 1900 | Married Henrietta Fairfax Morris Published The Golden Horseshoe. New York: Macmillan |
| 1900-1910 | Traveled in China, the Philippines, Russia, Japan, the Balkans, the West Indies, South America, and Mexico |
| 1910-1911 | Correspondent for the New York Times in Mexico |
| 1912 | Published The American Mediterranean. New York: Moffat, Yard Published Edward Fitzgerald Beale. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| 1913 | Secretary to the governor-general of the Philippines |
| 1914 | Commissioner of public utilities, the Philippines |
| 1915 | Special mission in Mexico Accompanied German General Paul von Hindenberg's army on the eastern front as a reporter |
| 1916-1917 | Adviser, American-Mexican Joint Commission |
| 1917-1918 | Major on duty, Army War College, Washington, D.C., and with the American Expeditionary Force, France |
| 1918 | Representative at the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities, Paris, France |
| 1919 | Lieutenant colonel attached to American Mission to the Peace Conference, Inter-Allied Mission to Austro-Hungary and the Balkan States, and special mission to Germany and Bohemia |
| 1920-circa 1923 | Columnist, Baltimore Sun |
| 1937 | Published Heyday in a Vanished World. New York: W. W. Norton |
| 1944 | Published Unfinished Business. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran |
| 1945 | Pulitzer Prize for Unfinished Business Published When the French Were Here. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran |
| 1946 | Published Suitors and Suppliants. New York: Prentice-Hall |
| 1951, June 8 | Died, Washington, D.C. |