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Correspondence with Interchemical corporation regarding the atomic bomb. Correspondents include General Avery Andrews (personal). Throughout the "A" folders there are letters and pamphlets about tourism in Arizona.

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"An Engineering Interpretation of the Economic and Financial Aspects of American Industry, Volume IV, The Rubber Industry," and "Volume III, The Light Metal Industries, Aluminum, Magnesium," authored by the George S. Armstrong and Co, Inc. Overall folder indicates Harbord's reluctance to get involved in the war on the level of decision-making or giving advice.

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Letter regarding WWI and the current state of affairs in Europe from an Oscar Anderson who served with Harbord in WWI, dated October 7, 1940. News about an article on his book "Belleau Wood" in Goodhousekeeping magazine, October 1923. Correspondence with Mr. Louis Allis regarding improvements to military training programs as well as regarding a conversation about a corps of experts that a president could consult with in times of emergency.

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Documents related to Armenia--a document from 1919 resent in 1938, correspondence about a trip to Australia and Southeast Asia, correspondence relating to Mrs. Harbord's death on May 29, 1937.

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Ongoing correspondence with Eleanor Abrams who compiles his war books. Correspondence with the New York Times regarding General MacArthur. Correspondence with Buffalo Bill Memorial Association.

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Correspondence with W.W. Atterbury regarding a secret visit to the U.S. made by General Petain, correspondence regarding the Appropriation Acts for the Army and Navy passed by Congress in 1931. Correspondents include Mr. Quinton Adams, General John H. Agnew.

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Correspondence with War Department, Bureau of Insular Affairs, regarding the Philippines, correspondence with and about the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway System. Correspondents include United States Department of the Interior, Indian Field Service, Edward Allen.

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War Department correspondence, Headquarters of the General of the Armies giving notice of Pershing's return to the states from France, lists of names of the outstanding generals in WWI requested by the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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Correspondents include General G.H.M. Yagramonte, The New York Times, General Henry T. Allen

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Letter from Howard Angus regarding his mention of Harbord for the vice-presidency, aspirations for the presidency/Secretary of War dated August 1924, offers to buy real estate, correspondence with the War Department, copy of an Immigration Bill from 1923, correspondence regarding General Pershing. Correspondents include Henry T. Allen, Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord, General W.H. Arthur, General W.W. Atterbury.

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Correspondence mentioning the Philippines, letter regarding Harbord's support of General Petain after the war dated November 16, 1945.

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Telegram regarding Mrs. Harbord's death.

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Document from the National Acceptance Corporation asking for customers to boycott Germany, correspondence with the U.S. House of Representative.

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Correspondence with the French military, correspondence regarding the Philippines, correspondence regarding military medals and honors.

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Many references to Pershing. Confidential War Department correspondence.

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Contains personal correspondence with and regarding the Baroness Isabelle de la Bouillerie, who sued her own family for making false charge to the German occupation and later to the French Provisional Government. She was imprisoned for a year.

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Includes pamphlet, "An Intelligent and Unbiased Discussion of the Cotton Situation" produced by the Neely Bowen Company, Southern Farms and Plantations

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Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 76th Congress, First Session.

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American Petroleum Institute pamphlet, "The Future of Free Enterprise." War Department correspondence, booklet entitled, "Generals and Lieutenant Generals in the United States Army."

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Booklet from the U.S. Indian School, Indian Vocational School, Phoenix, Arizona, 1925: "Ten Years: 1915-1925, Selected Editorials from the Native American.

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Brentano's Bookstore Advertising and Communications. Sensitive War Department Correspondence.

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A Chrysler Corporation booklet entitled, "Assembly Lines of Defense," 1941.

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French newspapers-- "France-Amerique du Nord", clippings from the New York Sun regarding the war (February 20, 1942), dying and illness of close friends in the military, memorandum on the European Union Question and America, by Richard Coudentiore Kalergi, President of the Pan-European Union, New York, 1945, Copy of "Declaration of European Independence," issued by the Pan-American Conference in New York on Wednesday, March 14, 1945.

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Co-ordination of European Nationalities Preliminary Draft Report of the Committee on Nationalities of the Pan-European Conference, "Peace Aims as War Weapons," by Count Richard N. Coudenhare-Katergi, President of the Pan European Union

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Copy of journal "Common Sense," October 1941, copy of the magazine, "The Valve World," May-June 9141

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Letter from Honorable Frederick R. Coudert: "If the English-speaking people cannot agree among themselves, at least in time of world crisis when the fate of civilizations may hinge upon keeping the peace, everything else would appear futile." Correspondents include William Durward Connor regarding the term "liberal" and Republican politics (over the course of several letters). Anti-socialist propaganda: "Save California From the Nuts," "Wake up California! Americanism or Communism?" Invitation to view Park Avenue property, complete with advertisement booklet, Fruits of Liberalism and Socialist Pamphlet, Pamphlet: "Humanity on the March": "these older minds do not realize that Humanity is on the march; these older eyes cannot see how the forces of radio and motion pictures and press have released human minds from the corrals of orthodoxy, and started the masses into a mental trek that leads to a new world." Letterhead from Hotel St. Regis, New York.

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Reviews of General Pershing's book on World War I. Correspondence with L. Cole regarding the recent Republican loss of the presidency in 1932. Letter from Major General Malin Craig, regarding the 1932 Republican National Convention and the repeal of the 18th Amendment, letter from Honorable FB Connelly regarding Republican National Convention, and regarding the death of Chief Plenty Coos who is mentioned in previous correspondence.

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Letterhead from Chicago World's Fair, 1933, Illustrated prospectus of a book called RURAL SPORTS, 1930, a New Year's greeting print with a riding theme.

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Letter from a Senator Connelly telling Harbord about the death of a Native American White-Man-Who-Runs-Him, who was the last of the men who rode with Custer and his men down the Valley of the Big Horn on June 6, 1876. Newspaper clipping of FB Connelly, Harbord, and Plenty Coos when the General was made a member of the Crow tribe and was the name "War Eagle." Lots of correspondence regarding the Plenty Coos ceremony including a copy of the remarks Harbord made at the ceremony dedicating some personal land of Plenty Coos to public use. Letterhead from The Biltmore Hotel.

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Correspondence with General W.D. Connor regarding Harbord's role on the board to investigate the Air Services.

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Letterhead of an upcoming book from what appears to be an army colleague, "My Philippine Remembrances"

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Harbord's thoughts on the pending war in Europe

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Letter from Harbord's secretary to Madame Despecher, his previous secretary, revealing some of the respect she had for Harbord before he died. Correspondence with General Adelbert de Chambrun regarding the difficult situation in France post-war.

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Comments about the "recuperative power of the French" postwar. Souvenir booklet commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Dominican Republic. Letter written in dialect about a "black boy" being shorted in pay.

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Booklet, "Diesel, The Modern Power" published by General Motors Corporation. Letter to Ruth Davidson talking about "practice in blackouts," air raid drills in Kansas City during the war and fuel oil shortage and ration card. A denial from the Office of the General of the Armies of a request to have a letter forwarded to unoccupied France. Letter reminiscing in a very informal way about the war-- from Erle P. Dudley. Note from a tailor indicating a wartime shortage of woolens. Harbord's view on Charles Lindbergh's cross-Atlantic flight.

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The Dunn Survey Forecast of the Presidential Election 1940; also Harbord's current worries about wanting to write to friends in France in 1940 but worrying that the letter could fall into German hands: "How can one write to friends in the unoccupied area under the Vichy government, and feel confident that the letter will not be censored?"

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Letter from Colonel R.A. Duckworth-Ford regarding the world situation and Europe, outlining reasons why Britain found itself in the losing position in 1938.

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Copy of an article in the Manila Daily Bulleting, "Families of Filipino Soldiers Enjoy Higher Standard of Living;" description of the Belleau Woods where Harbord fought in WWI and the need to preserve the woods with a monument.

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Advertising booklet for "The New Solid Porcelain De Luxe General Electric Refrigerators;" booklet on "Forestry in the Pacific Northwest;" "Bonne Annee" handmade holiday card

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This note pertains to all "G" folders:

Correspondents include President of the University of the South in Tennessee; I.D. Graham, Professor of Agriculture in Kansas; Harbord's third cousin Catherine Guthrie, moving to NYC from Chicago and looking for work in radio; Mr. Geary, working in Japan, who discusses his divorce in lurid detail (1933); Mr. Gooch, asking Harbord to invest in a Philippine timber company, which Harbord declines (1933); Mrs. Mary Brent Gurovtits in Manila (December 24, 1924).

Topics include railroad development; Frank E. Gannett book on American constitution (1946) which stoked fears of communism; Harbord's Japanese servants throwing a "domestic insurrection in our own house"; tourism info for hotels and vacations; pamphlets on Japanese-American relations (1933); Sales inquiries asking Harbord to buy books and houses, which he declines; letter from an angry Red Cross nurse widow, who hadn't gotten her husband's benefits (July 1928); promotional material for Lookout Mountain estates in Georgia/Tennessee; a transcript from a court case in which Harbord testified regarding Louis T. Grant, who had been accused of embezzling 11 bottles of liquor from the government (1927); materials from the engineering-economics foundation in Beacon Hill; a letter from Floyd Gibbons at the Chicago Tribune, April 14, 1924. describing his time in Timbuktu; pamphlets from the American Committee for the Independence of Armenia decrying the Lausanne Treaty; Report, "The Senate Should Reject the Turkish Treaty;" leaflet, "The Wall Street Journal in its Beginnings" Broad & Wall 1923, with photographs and maps; pamphlet by the President of the American Federation of Labor, "From Politics to Industry", arguing against the government's role in regulating industry; additional info about pro-Armenia, anti-Turkey positions, from Jan 1923.

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This note pertains to all "H" folders:

Topics include notifications of Harbord's death on August 20, 1947; "The Motion Picture in a World at War" from the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (1942), discussing role of movies in politics and society; correspondence about a magazine meant to "teach" Filipinos to be American; Problems with Japanese servants; Coca Cola shareholders' report (1934); letters discussing Philippine Independence with Conrad Hatheway; catalogue of Interlachen Arabian Stud (horses) [Harbord bought one; Halim], with focus on breeding principles; Roosevelt Memorial Association pamphlet, 1928, from Hermann Hagedorn; a poster of a Chinese mythological figure (1927); letters from Harbord's secretary, Mary Millea, updating him to office affairs at RCA while he's out of office; letter December 14,1923 discussing Russian Relief Exposition; letter May 15th, 1943 from Bernadine Higinbotham expressing anger towards Japanese following Pearl Harbor; 1940 correspondence about the presidential election; letters discussing the Tennessee Valley Authority and the New Deal, war, Depression, etc.; 1937 "artistic lighting" catalogue from Rudolf Wendel, Inc.; Report dated December 16, 1935 on the Republican National Committee meeting with discussion of women's suffrage; letter from a civil engineer, with a proposed sketch of the New York Bay and Delaware River canal; November 14, 1928 pamphlet from Lucky Strike about how smoking is not injurious; September 5, 1944 anti-communist, pro-advertising pamphlet about lobbying government for pro-capitalist policies; 1943 pamphlet against "European collectivism" and the capital gains tax containing rhetoric about a free America that rests on unchecked capitalism; addresses by the speakers at annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute; Oct. 22, 1937 pamphlet on how University of Oregon & Wellesley College should use their East Asian studies departments to broker peace between Japan and China, written by Commissioner to the far East for the New York World's Fair; Jan. 1936 letter from Harbord about how the U.S. should be governing the Philippines; February 2, 1937 circular on "The United States of America Incorporated Under the Laws of God and the Constitution of the United States," an anti-socialism and anti-taxation argument; January 17, 1936 pamphlet on "The Permanent Bases of Japanese Foreign Policy" from the consulate general of Japan; pamphlet on the 1936 Buenos Aires peace conference.

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This note pertains to all "I-J" folders:

Includes May 1931 memo from Javits & Javits law office about the I.D.C., International Development Corporation, for national corporations (U.S. and others) to invest in economically weaker countries and try to establish an "equilibrium" between them; November 1943 pamphlet from the National Safety Council on the "War on Accidents" about businesses trying to cut down on a loss of manpower; income taxes and insurance papers; September 20, 1944 anti-inflation bulletin.

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This note pertains to all "K" folders

Topics include the Manhattan Republican Flambeau Club (1939); letter November 3, 1938 from General Charles Keller discussing impact of radio and Orson Welles broadcast; letter Oct 23 1938 describing Harbord's recent trip to Philippines, Australia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia, Bandoeng; letters discussing terminal illness of Harbord's wife; photographs of Harbord's cousin Ida Knapp; issues with Japanese servants.

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Booklets on "survey of race relations"

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Harbord's birth certificate; railroad routes and schedules

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This note pertains to all "American Red Cross" folders. Harbord was chairman; folders include copies of addresses/speeches given and photos of 1942 speech at Red Cross Pearl Harbor Memorial.

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Includes US Navy photographs

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Map of Carlsbad Cavern, NM

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Harbord belonged to the National Committee against the Prepayment of the Bonus, which opposed the early payout (1932) of the 1924 veteran bonus of $1000 (redeemable in 1945); he supported Hoover's veto of Bonus Bill and opposed the Bonus Marchers/Army

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Includes pamphlets and correspondence about allegations against Federal Council of Churches of communism, socialism, and pacifism (considered anti-patriotism).

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There is correspondence from Theodore Roosevelt in several "National Republican Club" folders.

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Harbord was not actually a board member; correspondence was in response to a misprinting

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Includes seating charts/maps of Madison Square Garden in 1933

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Note for all "Memberships-Etc." folders: the "Memberships-Etc." category is spread across boxes 29, 30, and 33, reflecting the original order.

Most correspondence is soliciting Harbord's donation or name as founder/member (to which he mostly declines). Frequent and notable correspondents include Colonel Edward Olmstead; Major Muller; Trinity College; Major General M.W. Ireland.

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Includes American Social Hygiene Association (pamphlet on sex education); material on The Adventure Society.

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Second Division Memorial Fund was originally 4 separate sections: Second Division Memorial Fund, Second Division Memorial Fund (Originals sent to Miss Mulkins), Second Division for Miss Kay, Replies to Contributions to Second Division Memorial Fund. Includes documents pertaining to funding and building of monument; photos of memorial; design plans; donation records and solicitation.

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Notable correspondents include Edward J. Nally (VP and general manager of American Marconi Company; first president of RCA); National Geographic Society; Rauf Orbay (Ottoman naval officer, Turkish statesman and diplomat).

Subjects discussed include Harbord's role as chairman of RCA; real estate market in Washington; health issues; National Council of the Citizens Committee for a National War Service Act; books; vacation to Rancho Santa Fe; domestic life in Rye; bonds; and Domestic help (the "servant problem").

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Notable correspondents include Basil O'Connor (American lawyer. In cooperation with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt he started two foundations for the rehabilitation of polio patients and the research on polio prevention and treatment. From 1944 to 1949 he was chairman and president of the American Red Cross and from 1945 to 1950 he was chairman of the League of Red Cross Societies). Letters discuss Harbord's poor health, plans to visit Death Valley, Hiroshima, and Servants.

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Letters discuss Mrs. Harbord's neuritis, servants, diet and fitness plan, the War Report, General of the Armies Bill, and women marines. A letter to "Dear Aunt Kate" [Mrs. T.W.Orendorff] dated March 22, 1944: "I hope your young neighbor boy who calls you 'Dear Aunt Kate' from somewhere out in the Pacific will make good on that killing of a Jap and a German and send you their scalps".

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Notable correspondents include James Walker Tufts (entrepreneur); Major General John F. O'Ryan (a New York City attorney, politician, government official and military officer. He served as commander of the 27th Division during World War I. He later served as a member of the New York State Transit Commission and as New York City Police Commissioner. During World War II he was New York State Civil Defense Director). Letters discuss girl home makers, the Emma Harbord Memorial, the Army Relief Society, the Seabord Railway, servants, Wrigley's chewing gum being "hit by the war," WAAC and WAVE, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second Airborne Division. There are also pamphlets for hotels in North Carolina and Florida.

Letter to Mary Louise 12/8/1942: "The two servants are Japanese, as you know, and while we have great confidence in them there are, beyond question, a few people in our neighborhood at Rye who seem to resent our keeping them. They comply with the law and are, as far as their behavior is concerned, better Americans than some of the people who criticize their presence--paying income taxes, having a bank account, and all those things which good citizens are supposed to do."

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Topics include Roosevelt and WWII. There is a calendar from Oberlin College.

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Notable correspondents include R. Nagai, Minister of Communications (Tokyo, Japan). Interesting letterheads include The Philippine Club, New York World's Fair 1939 Incorporated and The Square Table Club. Letters discuss Harbord's Second Marriage to Mrs. Anne Lee Brown, China, Japan, the Disabled Veterans Convention, and Harbord's travel plans (to Tokyo).

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Letters discuss Emma Harbord's hospital treatment, detective stories, the Hoover Administration and the Philippine Defense Bill.

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Includes Mr. and Mrs. Harbord's passports and identification information.

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This note pertains to all "photographs" folders. Contents include solicitation for copies of photos; photo session; photo retouch; photo autographs; falsified photo scandal including Hoover FBI letter. Many duplicate headshots of Harbord in uniform and at RCA events.

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This note pertains to all "PO-PY" folders. Regular correspondents: Colonel Arthur Poillon; Captain S. T. Polk; Captain Popenos; Colonel Puyol; Mrs. Porter. Common contents consist of speeches (addresses), publications, letters received, biographical sketch of Harbord, book contract, pamphlets.

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Address containing first-hand accounts of Harbord's experiences in the war, delivered to The Army War College, Washington, D.C. On April 6, 1939. "A Chief of Staff in the Theater of Operations"

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Radio broadcast transcripts, "Observations Around the Pacific III, China, Japan and Manchoukuo, September 13, 1938," "Observations Around the Pacific II, The Philippines," on September 6, 1938.

Broadcast on the Red Cross, over Radio WEAF, 6:00 p.m., November 17, 1938: "The Red Cross is Here," firsthand accounts of the hurricane that hit New York City in 1930

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Memorial address broadcast over station WJZ and the NBC Blue Network by on behalf of Newton Baker, Secretary of War during WWI, Sunday evening, January 2, 1938, Imperial Hotel

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Address broadcast over WJZ by General James G. Harbord, Chairman of New York Chapter American Red Cross, November 11, 1937, dealing with the devastating floods in Mississippi in 1936 and Red Cross response

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Letters discuss economic conditions of the Philippine Islands and Harbord's address to volunteers of the Red Cross; also includes booklet, "The Constitution of the United States of America, and What it Contains," meant to be an educational pamphlet; Boy Scout ephemera, and Harbord's address to the Boy Scouts; and ephemera from Cody, Wyoming.

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Includes address, "Military Training as Preparation for Citizenship"

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Letters discuss Mrs. Harbord's illness and the New Deal; includes many Invitations to attend/speak at lectures, symposia, society dinners, and other gatherings. Also includes copy of Labor: National Weekly Newspaper Owned and Edited by the Railroad Workers of America.

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Includes copy of "Again we dream while clouds gather"-- address made at Town Hall January 3, 1935 to NY Chamber of Commerce, Committee On National Defense.

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Includes copy of Harbord's "The Story of the Roosevelt Division." Of note is letter from Harbord to E. Edwin Goldwasser, Greater New York Campaign of the United Jewish appeal, dated May 10, 1934: "I have your letter of May 8 requesting a statement endorsing your campaign to raise $1,200,000 for the relief of the Jews of Germany. Inasmuch as I doubt the advisability of initiating such a campaign at a time when there are so many other demands being made on the citizens of this country, I would prefer not to make any statement in this connection."

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Includes Harbord's address at Annual Meeting of Philippine Club, December 16th, 1933. Also includes biographical material.

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Includes list of "Officers of the Army"

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Includes 25th anniversary of the Mental Hygiene Movement, with pamphlet - "A Mind that Found Itself."

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Includes propaganda on Communism/Combatting communists; Harbord's introduction for the broadcast series, "When Mr. Baker Made War;" biographical material; copy of the American Legion Monthly.

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Includes letters from Philippines President Manuel Quezon discussing social and racial attitudes toward Filipinos ["natives"].

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Includes letter to Celia Reber discussing difficulty of getting servants and a report on the Conference on Public Relations sponsored by National Association of Manufacturers.

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Includes pamphlets on "The Crisis and the Political Parties," "A Primer of Capitalism Illustrated," and "American Liberty League." Also includes sympathy letters regarding the death of Mrs. Harbord.

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Includes correspondence regarding the Hoover campaign.

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This note pertains to all Republican Campaign Correspondence. Includes letters and documents relating to Harbord's work with the Union league, such as his invitations to Paramount Pictures executives to participate in the Hoover Campaign; a comprehensive campaign pamphlet for Hoover; a national "Who's Who" poll for Hoover; "Hoovergrams" for mailing in contributions to his campaign, and two photos of him inundated by them; and a copy of the Kourier Magazine by the Ku Klux Klan, noted with thanks by Harbord.

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This note pertains to all "SE-SO" folders. Letters discuss General Motors Strike; books and newspaper articles; Eisenhower; foreign policies of the New Deal government; President Roosevelt; life insurance; Civil Penalties Bill; anti-trust laws; Consumers' Goods Industries Committee; WWII; Eastman Kodak Co.; the Equal Rights Amendment; estate planning; television; the Securities Act; regional plan proposals for the improvement of Westchester County; West Point; and golf. Also includes pamphlets on "International 'New Dealism,'" "An Appraisal of the Public Utility Act of 1935, and "Problems under the Security Exchange Act."