Scope and Content Note
The papers of Frederick Kenelm Nielsen (1879-1963) span the years 1881-1961, with the bulk of the material originating between 1900 and 1956. The collection includes general and official correspondence, interdepartmental correspondence, orders, press releases, minutes of meetings, reports, memoranda, articles, book reviews, legal files, speeches, financial papers, maps, photographs, printed matter, near-print material, and memorabilia. The collection is organized into four series: Chronological File , General File , Miscellany , and Oversize .
The correspondence and memoranda dominate the collection and are concerned primarily with American relations with England, Egypt, Mexico, and Turkey. Other topics of prominence include claims arbitration, the Monetary and Economic Conference of 1933, and Nielsen's service as solicitor for the State Department, 1920-1922. Included also is some material relating to Nielsen's service as plenipotentiary delegate from the United States at an international conference on the governance of Spitzbergen Island (Norway) in 1914, and to his service at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Treated as well are his legal and teaching careers, World War I experience, and personal life.
Correspondents include Chandler P. Anderson, Edwin Borchard, Milton E. Cornelius, B. M. English, George Augustus Finch, Green Haywood Hackworth, Manley O. Hudson, Cordell Hull, Bert L. Hunt, C. J. B. Hurst, Philip C. Jessup, John J. McDonald, Julian William Mack, John Bassett Moore, Robert Edwin Olds, Russell H. Robbins, L. S. Rowe, David A. Salmon, James Brown Scott, G. Howland Shaw, Dallas S. Townsend, George Grafton Wilson, and Lester Hood Woolsey. There are a few letters from Bernard M. Baruch, Bainbridge Colby, Boaz Long, and Roscoe Pound.