William Dudley Foulke Papers (Library of Congress)

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William Dudley Foulke

A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress

Prepared by Wilhelmena B. Curry and Paul G. Sifton
Revised by Connie L. Cartledge

Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

1997

Contact information: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html

Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
Manuscript Division, 2001

2004-08-26 converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002

Diaries, Journals, Notebook, and Copybook, 1825-1872, n.d.

Family Correspondence, 1791-1934

General Correspondence, 1868-1935, n.d.

Speeches and Writings File, 1885-1928

Miscellany, ca. 1470-1952, n.d.

Title: Papers of William Dudley Foulke
Span Dates: ca. 1470-1952
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1868-1935)
ID No.: MSS21170
Creator: Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935
Extent: 2,500 items; 12 containers plus 1 oversize; 5.2 linear feet
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Manuscript Division,, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Lawyer, public official, and author from Indiana. Correspondence, diaries, journals, copybook, speeches, writings, notes, legal papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers, including a late fifteenth century fragment of the Tristram Saga obtained by Arthur Middleton Reeves on a trip to Iceland. The bulk of the collection consists of Foulke's correspondence reflecting his literary career and public service, including letters from Theodore Roosevelt discussing civil service reform, the Progressive movement, Woodrow Wilson, the World Court (Permanent Court of International Justice), and pacifism.

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

Names:
Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Cates family
Cates family--Correspondence
Faulk family
Faulk family--Correspondence
Reeve family
Reeve family--Correspondence
Shoemaker family
Shoemaker family--Correspondence
Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915--Correspondence
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935--Correspondence
Ade, George, 1866-1944--Correspondence
Adee, Alvey A. (Alvey Augustus), 1842-1924--Correspondence
Adler, Felix, 1851-1933--Correspondence
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906--Correspondence
Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927--Correspondence
Blackwell, Henry Brown, 1825-1909--Correspondence
Bonaparte, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1851-1921--Correspondence
Bowers, Claude Gernade, 1879-1958--Correspondence
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922--Correspondence
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947--Correspondence
Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931--Correspondence
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969--Correspondence
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926--Correspondence
Fairbanks, Charles W. (Charles Warren), 1852-1918--Correspondence
Fiske, John, 1842-1901--Correspondence
Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950--Correspondence
Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909--Correspondence
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902--Correspondence
Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924--Correspondence
Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932--Correspondence
Gresham, Walter Quintin, 1832-1895--Correspondence
Hammond, John Hays, 1888-1965--Correspondence
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 1837-1904--Correspondence
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901--Correspondence
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943--Correspondence
Hay, John, 1838-1905--Correspondence
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893--Correspondence
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911--Correspondence
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence
Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909--Correspondence
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910--Correspondence
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952--Correspondence
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899--Correspondence
Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937--Correspondence
Johnson, Hiram, 1866-1945--Correspondence
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931--Correspondence
Kennan, George, 1845-1924--Correspondence
La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1895-1953--Correspondence
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944--Correspondence
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909--Correspondence
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924--Correspondence
Low, Seth, 1850-1916--Correspondence
McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949--Correspondence
McKinley, William, 1843-1901--Correspondence
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914--Correspondence
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922--Correspondence
Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918--Correspondence
Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943--Correspondence
Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946--Correspondence
Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett), 1839-1902--Correspondence
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916--Correspondence
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948--Correspondence
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Correspondence
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937--Correspondence
Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941--Correspondence
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906--Correspondence
Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947--Correspondence
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908--Correspondence
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893--Correspondence
Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929--Correspondence
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930--Correspondence
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949--Correspondence
Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905--Correspondence
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915--Correspondence
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918--Correspondence
White, William Allen, 1868-1944--Correspondence
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence
Permanent Court of International Justice
Morrisson, Mary Foulke. Scrapbooks of Mary Foulke Morrison
Reeves, Arthur Middleton, 1856-1891. Papers of Arthur Middleton Reeves
Reeves, Mark E. Papers of Mark E. Reeves

Subjects:
American literature
Civil service reform
International law
Icelandic literature
Pacifism
Progressivism (United States politics)
Sagas
Egypt--Description and travel
Europe--Description and travel
Indiana--Politics and government
Palestine--Description and travel
United States--Politics and government--1865-1921
United States--Politics and government--1901-1953

Occupations:
Authors
Lawyers
Public officials

Administrative Information

Provenance:

The papers of William Dudley Foulke, lawyer, public official, and author, were given to the Library of Congress by Foulke in 1931. Additions to the papers were given to the Library by other family members from 1936 to 1968.

Processing History:

The papers of William Dudley Foulke were initially arranged and described in 1980. This register was revised in 1997.

Transfers:

Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial divisions of the Library. Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division. A map has been transferred to the Geography and Map Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the William Dudley Foulke Papers.

Copyright Status:

The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of William Dudley Foulke is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).

Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, William Dudley Foulke Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1848, Nov. 20	Born, New York, N.Y.
1869	A.B., Columbia College,New York, N.Y.
1871	LL.B., Columbia Law School,New York, N.Y.
1871-1876	Practiced law, New York, N.Y.
1872	Married Mary Taylor Reeves
1876	Moved to Richmond, Ind. Attorney, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad
1882-1886	Republican member, Indiana state senate
1885	Introduced a bill to establish Indiana civil service system; subsequently organized and became president of the Indiana Civil Service Reform Association
1886-1890	President, American Woman Suffrage Association
1887	Published . . . Slav or Saxon; a Study of the Growth and Tendencies of Russian Civilization (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 148 pp.)
1889	Ceased practicing law
1889-1890	Conducted an investigation into conditions in the federal civil service for the National Civil Service Reform League
1893	Acting chairman, woman's suffrage congress at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.
1893-1921	President, Proportional Representation League
1899	Published Life of Oliver P. Morton, Including His Important Speeches (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co. 2 vols.)
1900	Published Maya; a Story of Yucatan (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 219 pp.)
1901	Appointed member of the Civil Service Commission by President Theodore Roosevelt
1903	Published Protean Papers (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 197 pp.)
1906-1916	Editor and part owner, Evening Item, Richmond, Ind.
1910-1914	President, National Municipal League
1911	Published Dorothy Day (New York: Cosmopolitan Press. 297 pp.)
1912	Published Masterpieces of the Masters of Fiction (New York: Cosmopolitan Press. 269 pp.)
1916	Published Lyrics of War and Peace (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. 119 pp.)
1919	Published Fighting the Spoilsmen; Reminiscences of the Civil Service Reform Movement (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 348 pp.)
1922	Published A Hoosier Autobiography (New York: Oxford University Press. 252 pp.)
1923-1924	President, National Civil Service Reform League
1930	Published Lucius B. Swift, a Biography (Indianapolis: Published for the Indiana Historical Society by Bobbs-Merrill Co. 153 pp.)
1935, May 30	Died, Richmond, Ind.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of William Dudley Foulke (1848-1935) span the years ca. 1470-1952, with the majority of the papers concentrated in the period 1868-1935. The first series in the Foulke Papers, consisting of diaries and related material, 1867-1872, mainly concerns European, Egyptian, and Holy Land travels by Foulke, Arthur Middleton Reeves, and Mark E. Reeves, and a copybook kept by the Shoemaker family in 1825. The Family Correspondence series, 1791-1934, contains letters exchanged between members of the interrelated Foulke, Reeves, Cates, and Shoemaker families.

The largest and most important series in the papers is the General Correspondence of William Dudley Foulke. Dated from 1868 to 1935, Foulke's correspondence reflects his public and literary careers. Of particular interest are letters from Theodore Roosevelt discussing civil service reform, the Progressive Movement, Woodrow Wilson, the World Court, pacifism, and other topics. There is also a large number of letters from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. Among Foulke's other correspondents are Charles Francis Adams, Jane Addams, George Ade, Alvey A. Adee, Felix Adler, Susan B. Anthony, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Henry Brown Blackwell, Charles J. Bonaparte, Claude Gernade Bowers, Viscount James Bryce, Nicholas Murray Butler, Richard Henry Dana, Max Eastman, Charles William Eliot, Charles W. Fairbanks, John Fiske, James Rudolph Garfield, Richard Watson Gilder, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, Samuel Gompers, Lady Gregory, Walter Quintin Gresham, John Hays Hammond, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Benjamin Harrison, Albert Bushnell Hart, John Hay, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Herbert Hoover, O. O. Howard, Julia Ward Howe, Harold L. Ickes, Robert Green Ingersoll, J. Franklin Jameson, Hiram Johnson, David Starr Jordan, George Kennan, Robert M. La Follette, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Henry Charles Lea, Henry Cabot Lodge, Seth Low, Samuel S. McClure, William McKinley, S. Weir Mitchell, Thomas Nelson Page, Walter Hines Page, William Lyon Phelps, Gifford Pinchot, Thomas Reed, James Whitcomb Riley, Elihu Root, Charles Edward Russell, Carl Schurz, Albert Shaw, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Lucy Stone, Moorfield Storey, William H. Taft, Oswald Garrison Villard, Lew Wallace, Booker T. Washington, Andrew Dickson White, William Allen White, and Woodrow Wilson.

The Subject File and the Speeches and Writings File include a variety of material related principally to state and federal civil service reform. The Financial Papers and the Miscellany series consist of family items including two scrapbooks kept by Foulke's daughter, Mary Foulke Morrisson. The final item in the papers is a late fifteenth century fragment of the Tristram Saga obtained by Arthur Middleton Reeves on a trip to Iceland.

Organization of the Papers

The collection is arranged in eight series:

Diaries, Journals, Notebook, and Copybook, 1825-1872, n.d.
Family Correspondence, 1791-1934
General Correspondence, 1868-1935, n.d.
Subject File, 1886-1931, n.d.
Speeches and Writings File, 1885-1928
Financial Papers, 1745-1868
Miscellany, ca. 1470-1952, n.d.
Oversize, ca. 1470-ca. 1500

Description of Series

Container	Series


BOX 1	Diaries, Journals, Notebook, and Copybook, 1825-1872, n.d.
		Diaries, journals, notebook, and copybook kept by William Dudley Foulke, Mark E. Reeves, Arthur Middleton Reeves, and the Shoemaker family.
		Arranged chronologically by type of material.

BOX 2	Family Correspondence, 1791-1934
		Letters exchanged among members of the Foulke, Reeves, and Shoemaker families.
		Arranged chronologically.

BOX 3-8	General Correspondence, 1868-1935, n.d.
		Incoming and outgoing correspondence of Foulke.
		Arranged chronologically.

BOX 9-10	Subject File, 1886-1931, n.d.
		Manuscripts, clippings, and other material relating to the Civil Service Reform League, the Ku Klux Klan, and Prohibition.
		Arranged alphabetically by topic.

BOX 10	Speeches and Writings File, 1885-1928
		Manuscript and printed copies of speeches, articles, and notes by Foulke.
		Arranged alphabetically by title.

BOX 11	Financial Papers, 1745-1868
		Abstracts of titles, indentures, and miscellaneous papers.
		Arranged by type of material and chronologically therein.

BOX 12	Miscellany, ca. 1470-1952, n.d.
		Printed matter, newspaper clippings, certificates, and two scrapbooks kept by Mary Foulke Morrisson.
		Arranged by type of material.

BOX OV 1	Oversize, ca. 1470-ca. 1500
		Fragment of the Tristram Saga.

Container List

Container	Contents


BOX 1	Diaries, Journals, Notebook, and Copybook, 1825-1872, n.d.
		Diaries, journals, notebook, and copybook kept by William Dudley Foulke, Mark E. Reeves, Arthur Middleton Reeves, and the Shoemaker family.
		Arranged chronologically by type of material.

BOX 1		Diaries

			1867, William Dudley Foulke

			1871-1872, Mark E. Reeves

			Undated, Arthur Middleton Reeves

		Journals, Arthur Middleton Reeves, 1871-1872
			(2 vols.)

		Notebook, n.d., Arthur Middleton Reeves

		Copybook, 1825, Shoemaker family

BOX 2	Family Correspondence, 1791-1934
		Letters exchanged among members of the Foulke, Reeves, and Shoemaker families.
		Arranged chronologically.

BOX 2		1791-1831, 1838-1889, 1914-1934
			(6 folders)

BOX 3-8	General Correspondence, 1868-1935, n.d.
		Incoming and outgoing correspondence of Foulke.
		Arranged chronologically.

BOX 3		1868-1902
			(19 folders)

BOX 4		8 Jan. 1903-16 Nov. 1915
			(26 folders)

BOX 5		17 Nov. 1915-28 Aug. 1918
			(18 folders)

BOX 6		Sept. 1918-Aug. 1923
			(17 folders)

BOX 7		Sept. 1923-Sept. 1927
			(14 folders)

BOX 8		Oct. 1927-Nov. 1935, n.d.
			(15 folders)

BOX 9-10	Subject File, 1886-1931, n.d.
		Manuscripts, clippings, and other material relating to the Civil Service Reform League, the Ku Klux Klan, and Prohibition.
		Arranged alphabetically by topic.

BOX 9		Civil Service Reform League, 1886-1931, n.d.
			(10 folders)

BOX 10		Ku Klux Klan, 1922-1924

		Prohibition, 1923-1931

BOX 10	Speeches and Writings File, 1885-1928
		Manuscript and printed copies of speeches, articles, and notes by Foulke.
		Arranged alphabetically by title.

BOX 10		"Abstaining From Political Activity," 1918

		"Calumnies in Washington and Roosevelt in Chicago," n.d.

		"City Government by Experts Under the Competitive System," 1915

		"Civil Service Reform," 1885-1889
			(2 folders)

		Civil Service Reform League annual address, 1923

		"The Federal Civil Service Act Must Not Be Repealed," 1927

		"Good Government," 1907

		"Indiana Civil Service Reform Association," 1889

		"The Influence of Civil Service Reform," 1893

		Interview with Calvin Coolidge, 1923

		"Political Life," 1928

		"A Proposed Act Providing an Employment System for the Federal Service of the United States Embodying Modern Conceptions of Public Personnel Administration," 1927

		"A Reform Administration," 1888

		"Removal of Civil Service Employees," 1912

		"Some of the Defective and Unconstitutional Provisions of Mr. Telford's Proposed Federal Employment Act," 1928

		"Spoils System Still an Active Factor," 1923

		"Theodore Roosevelt," 1915

		"What Have Civil Service Reformers a Right to Expect From the Republican Party?" 1889

BOX 11	Financial Papers, 1745-1868
		Abstracts of titles, indentures, and miscellaneous papers.
		Arranged by type of material and chronologically therein.

BOX 11		Abstracts of title, 1745-1823

		Indentures, 1793-1826
			(3 folders)

		Miscellaneous papers, 1801-1868

BOX 12	Miscellany, ca. 1470-1952, n.d.
		Printed matter, newspaper clippings, certificates, and two scrapbooks kept by Mary Foulke Morrisson.
		Arranged by type of material.

BOX 12		Printed matter, 1866-1952

		Clippings, 1884-1928

		Certificates, 1837

		Scrapbooks, Mary Foulke Morrisson, 1925-1952, n.d.

		Tristram Saga, ca. 1470-ca. 1500 See Oversize

BOX OV 1	Oversize, ca. 1470-ca. 1500
		Fragment of the Tristram Saga.

BOX OV 1		Tristram Saga, ca. 1470-ca. 1500