Scope and Content Note
The papers of Roland Sletor Morris (1874-1945) span the years 1910-1943. The collection contains correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, intelligence reports, speeches, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Morris's service as ambassador to Japan (1917-1921) and to his special missions to Siberia (1918-1919). Included are typewritten copies of a translation of a diary of a Japanese mission to the United States (1860) and official telegrams exchanged with Secretary of State Robert Lansing, as well as material pertaining to the Allied intervenion in Siberia, 1918-1920. Also in the collection are papers pertaining to Morris's work as a professor of international law at the University of Pennsylvania. Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Robert Lansing, Breckinridge Long, Vance McCormick, Leo S. Rowe, and Woodrow Wilson.