Series 3: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1877-1941
Conditions Governing Access
The papers of William H. Taft are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Scope and Content Note
Chiefly incoming correspondence, together with related material, and some outgoing correspondence, particularly during Taft's secretary of war period, Yale period, and Supreme Court period. Only six boxes of general correspondence are included for his presidential years. A few scattered letters and notes in Taft's own handwriting plus holographs and typescripts are included in this series, as well as retained copies of letters written by Taft after the letterbook system was abandoned in 1921.
Dates
- Creation: 1877-1941
Access and Restrictions
The papers of William H. Taft are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Container Range
Reel: 28-319
Part of the Manuscript Division Repository
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