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BOX 1-3 |
Family Correspondence, 1906-1955
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Letters between Edson and members of his family. |
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Arranged according to family relationship and therein chronologically. |
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BOX 1 |
Letters to sister and parents |
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1906-1913, Chester,
Vt. |
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5 July 1916-24 Mar. 1917,
Mexican border |
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Sept. 1917-Mar. 1918
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Parris Island, S. C. |
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Quantico, Va. |
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Apr.-Sept 1918, Quantico,
Va. |
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Oct.-Dec. 1918, France |
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(2 folders) |
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Jan. 1920-Dec. 1921
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Quantico, Va. |
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New Orleans, La. |
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Pensacola, Fla. |
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Mar. 1922-Oct. 1923
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Pensacola, Fla. |
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Quantico, Va. |
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Guam |
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Nov. 1923-Feb. 1923
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Guam |
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Finland |
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BOX 2 |
Dec. 1927-Aug. 1929,
Nicaragua |
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Puerto Cabezas |
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Poteca |
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Sept. 1929-June 1937
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Philadelphia, Pa. |
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Parris Island, S.C. |
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Quantico, Va. |
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July 1937-May 1939, Shanghai,
China |
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Apr. 1942-Oct. 1945, San
Francisco, Calif. |
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Dec. 1945-July 1947, Washington,
D.C. |
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Letters to wife (Ethel),
1927-1955
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Dec. 1927-Aug. 1929, Nicaragua |
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(3 folders) |
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Sept.-Nov. 1937, Shanghai,
China |
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April, 1942-Sept. 1955
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(4 folders) |
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Letters from wife |
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1927-1929
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(3 folders) |
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BOX 3 |
1929-1937
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(2 folders) |
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Letters from sons |
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Merritt A. Edson, Jr., Oct. 1937-June
1951
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Herbert R. Edson,
1941-1955
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Letters from mother, Lelia Davis Edson, 14
Nov. 1917 and 31 Jul 1947
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BOX 3-4 |
Private Materials, 1940-1955
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Diaries, appointment books, poems, speech notes and quotations. |
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Arranged by type of material. |
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BOX 3 |
Diaries, 1940-1941
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Appointment books,
1945-1955
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BOX 4 |
Copied poems |
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Notes for speeches |
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Favorite quotations |
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BOX 4-8 |
Personal Correspondence Files, 1931-1947
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Correspondence and notes relating to military service. |
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Arranged chronologically. |
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BOX 4 |
1931-1935 (captain) |
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1936-1939 (major) |
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1940-1942 (lieutenant
colonel) |
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1941-1943 (colonel) |
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(3 folders) |
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BOX 5 |
1943-1944 (colonel) |
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1943-1947 (general) |
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Notes on Tarawa |
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Correspondence |
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1943-1944
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1944-1945, strictly personal |
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(3 folders) |
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BOX 6 |
1945
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Official business |
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Thomas, Gerald C. |
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Jan.-Apr. 1946
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BOX 7 |
Jan. 1946-Jan. 1947
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Feb.-Dec. 1946, National
Rifle Association |
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Apr.-Aug. 1946
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BOX 8 |
June-Oct. 1946
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Nov. 1946-Jan. 1947
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BOX 8-9 |
Private Correspondence, 1940-1955
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Correspondence. |
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Arranged in two parts, the first alphabetically by name of correspondent and the
second by type of correspondence. |
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BOX 8 |
Cates, Clifton B.,
1949-1953
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Connors, Mary E. (personal secretary),
June 1947
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Douglas, Paul H.,
1949-1950
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Corbin, C. James,
1940-1950
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Emerson, Lee E.,
1948-1951
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Gibson, E. W.,
1946-1952
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Hoover, J. Edgar,
1950-1951
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Johnson, Robert W.,
1952-1954
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Krulak, Victor H.,
1944-1951
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Lawrence, David,
1949-1951
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Lee, Frances C.,
1948-1953
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Ryan, Robert H.,
1951-1952
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Shepard, Lemuel C.,
1947-1955
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Thomas, Gerald C.,
1943-1951
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Vandegrift, A. A.,
1943-1949
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Venn, Diggory, Aug.-Nov.
1947
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Walt, Lewis W.,
1948-1953
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Wilson, Charles Erwin,
1955
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BOX 9 |
Miscellaneous private correspondence |
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(2 folders) |
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Letters regretting Edson's retirement,
June-Sept. 1947
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Letters wishing General Edson speedy
recovery, Oct.-Nov. 1949
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National Rifle Association of America,
leadership of; politics prior to Edson's appointment as executive director,
1947-1951
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Letters of congratulations, regrets on Edson's
move from director of Vermont Public Safety |
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Letters of condolence to wife,
1955
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Sympathy |
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Eulogies |
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BOX 10-14 |
Unification File,
1945-1947
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Correspondence, notes, and printed material relating to the reorganization of the
nation’s defense forces and universal military training after World War II. |
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Arranged by type of material. |
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BOX 10 |
Unification, 1945
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BOX 11 |
Unification, 1946-1951
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Source and reference material |
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BOX 12 |
Clippings |
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(5 folders) |
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BOX 13 |
Correspondence |
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Committee on Expenditures |
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Eberstadt, Ferdinad |
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Flanders, Ralph E. |
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Gayle, Gordon |
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Heinl, R. D., Jr. |
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Hittle, J. D. |
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