Moorfield Storey
A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Esther Coles and Joseph Sullivan Revised by
Patrick Kerwin
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Manuscript Division,
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2008
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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division,
2008
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008091
Title: Moorfield Storey Papers
Span Dates: 1876-1929 ID No.: MSS41632 Creator:
Storey, Moorfield,
1845-1929 Extent: 2,500
items;
22 containers;
10.8 linear feet
Language: Collection material in
English
Repository:
Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress,
Washington, D.C. Abstract: Author, civil rights
leader, and lawyer. Correspondence, articles, lecture notes, petitions, press
releases, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly
to Storey's years as president of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and his interest in the Anti-Imperialist League.
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.
Personal Names Adams,
Charles Francis, 1835-1915. Borah,
William Edgar, 1865-1940. Hughes,
Charles Evans, 1862-1948. Johnson,
James Weldon, 1871-1938. King,
Judson, 1872-1958. McAdoo,
William Gibbs, 1863-1941. Ovington,
Mary White, 1865-1951. Spingarn,
Joel Elias, 1875-1939. Storey,
Moorfield, 1845-1929. Sutherland, George, 1862-1942. Taft,
William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930. White,
Walter Francis, 1893-1955. Wickersham, George W. (George Woodward), 1858-1936.
Organizations Anti-Imperialist League (Boston, Mass.) National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Subjects Anti-imperialist
movements. Civil rights.
Locations Philippines--Foreign relations--United States. United
States--Foreign relations--Philippines.
Related Names Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
1803-1882. Papers of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Occupations Authors. Civil rights
leaders. Lawyers.
Provenance: The papers of Moorfield Storey, author, civil rights leader, and
lawyer, were deposited in the Library of Congress in 1930 and 1931 by his son,
Richard C. Storey. In 1967 photocopies of selected Storey correspondence from a
private collection were donated to the Library by Flint Kellogg.
Processing History:The papers of Moorfield Storey were arranged and described in 1981.
The collection was expanded and revised in 1996, and additions and revisions
were made to the finding aid in 2008.
Copyright Status:The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Moorfield
Storey 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, Moorfield Storey Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Date |
Event |
1845, Mar. 19 |
Born, Roxbury, Mass. |
1866 |
A.B., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. |
1866-1867 |
Attended Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. |
1867-1869 |
Secretary to Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner |
1869 |
A.M., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Admitted to Massachusetts bar
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1870 |
Married Gertrude Cutts |
1871 |
Entered private law practice, Boston, Mass. |
1873-1879 |
Editor,
American Law Review |
1877-1910 |
Member, Board of Overseers, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
(Served 1877-1878 and 1892-1910)
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1896 |
President, American Bar Association |
1898-1901 |
President, Massachusetts Reform Club |
1905 |
Vice president, National Civil Service Reform
Association President, Anti-Imperialist League
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1909-1913 |
President, Bar Association of the City of Boston,
Mass.
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1910-1929 |
President, NAACP |
1913-1914 |
President, Massachusetts Bar Association |
1926 |
Coauthored with Marcial P. Lichauco,
The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States,
1898-1925. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926
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1929, Oct. 24 |
Died, Lincoln, Mass. |
The papers of Moorfield Storey (1845-1929) span the years 1876-1929
and include letters received and a few copies of letters sent, scrapbooks,
articles, lecture notes, petitions, press releases, newspaper clippings,
photographs, and miscellaneous papers. Only a small part of Storey's career is
represented in the collection. Documented in the papers are his interest in the
Anti-Imperialist League, which opposed United States ownership of the
Philippine Islands, and his support of minority groups, shown in his service as
president of the NAACP from 1910 to 1929 and his leadership of the opposition
to excluding African-Americans from freshman dormitories at Harvard College in
1922-1923. The papers are organized into the following series:
General
Correspondence,
Subject
File,
Writings,
and
Miscellany.
The
Subject
File includes typed excerpts from the diary of Fiske Warren, paper
manufacturer and associate of Storey's in the Anti-Imperialist League, relating
principally to United States foreign policy toward the Philippines between 1903
and 1907. The file relating to Edward Brown concerns efforts by the Harvard
Medical College to deny Brown residence in university housing.
Of particular interest among the
Writings
series is Ralph Waldo Emerson's journal, "Wo--Liberty." The journal, once
presumed lost, contains excerpts from two of Emerson's speeches and partial
drafts of other speeches, essays, poems, and quotations on the history of
liberty and higher law. The journal was used by Storey while preparing lectures
for the commemoration in 1903 of the centenary of Emerson's birth. A fuller
explanation of the journal, its contents, and its use by Storey is contained in
"Emerson and Moorfield Storey: A Lost Journal Found," by John C. Broderick,
American Literature, v. 38 (May 1966).
Over half of the collection consists of printed speeches and articles
by Storey and pamphlets, journals, and congressional documents and reports
collected by Storey for his book coauthored with Marcial P. Lichauco,
The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States,
1898-1925.
Storey's service as secretary to Massachusetts Senator Charles
Sumner, during which he participated in the attempt to impeach President Andrew
Johnson, and his presidency of the American Bar Association are not documented
in the collection.
Among Storey's correspondents are Charles Francis Adams, William E.
Borah, Charles Evans Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Judson King, William Gibbs
McAdoo, Mary White Ovington, Joel E. Spingarn, George Sutherland, William
Howard Taft, Walter White, and George W. Wickersham.
This collection is arranged in four series:
Container |
Series |
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BOX 1-2
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Mostly letters received. |
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Arranged chronologically. |
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BOX 2-4
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Correspondence, press releases, photocopies of letters, typed
copies of diary entries, speeches, articles, reports, and minutes.
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Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically
therein.
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BOX 5
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Articles and notes containing drafts of articles, petitions,
letters to the editor, lectures, and other writings by Storey and others. Also
includes a holograph journal of Ralph Waldo Emerson together with notes and
printed matter extracted from the collection's scrapbooks which relate to
Emerson and the journal.
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein
chronologically.
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BOX 6
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Photographs and printed matter, including newspaper clippings,
pamphlets, and scrapbooks.
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically by
month therein.
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Container |
Contents |
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BOX 1-2
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General Correspondence,
1897-1929
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Mostly letters received. |
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Arranged chronologically. |
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BOX 1
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1897-1904
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(10
folders)
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BOX 2
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1905-1929
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(7
folders)
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BOX 2-4
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Subject File,
1903-1929
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Correspondence, press releases, photocopies of letters, typed
copies of diary entries, speeches, articles, reports, and minutes.
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Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically
therein.
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BOX 2
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Anti-lynching |
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BOX 2
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Correpsondence,
1910-1929
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(6
folders)
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BOX 3
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NAACP Board of Directors
meetings
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BOX 3
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Minutes,
1918-1929
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BOX 3
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Reports,
1918-1929
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(2
folders)
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BOX 3
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Press releases |
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BOX 3
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1918-1928
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(6
folders)
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BOX 4
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1929
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(2
folders)
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BOX 4
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Speeches and articles,
1912-1926, n.d.
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BOX 4
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Brown, Edward,
1905-1906
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BOX 4
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Haiti and Santo Domingo,
1921-1927, n.d.
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(4
folders)
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BOX 4
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Harvard College, Cambridge,
Mass., dormitories,
1922-1923
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BOX 4
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Mexican Commission,
1916
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BOX 4
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Miscellaneous,
1903, 1919, n.d.
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BOX 4
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Philippines, diary of Fiske
Warren,
1903-1907
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BOX 5
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Writings,
1847-1929
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Articles and notes containing drafts of articles, petitions,
letters to the editor, lectures, and other writings by Storey and others. Also
includes a holograph journal of Ralph Waldo Emerson together with notes and
printed matter extracted from the collection's scrapbooks which relate to
Emerson and the journal.
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein
chronologically.
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BOX 5
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Articles and notes by Storey,
1902-1929, n.d.
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(4 folders)
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BOX 5
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
1847-1914
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BOX 5
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Journal,
"WO--Liberty"
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BOX 5
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Notes |
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BOX 6
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Miscellany,
1876-1927
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Photographs and printed matter, including newspaper clippings,
pamphlets, and scrapbooks.
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically by
month therein.
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BOX 6
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Photographs,
n.d.
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BOX 6
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Printed matter,
1876-1927, n.d.
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BOX 6
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Newspaper clippings,
1899-1927
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(12
folders)
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BOX 7
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Pamphlets, etc. |
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BOX 7
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1882-1907
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(8
folders)
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BOX 8
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1908-1911
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(7
folders)
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BOX 9
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1912-1913
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(7
folders)
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BOX 10
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1913-1915
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(7
folders)
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BOX 11
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1915-1917
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(7
folders)
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BOX 12
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1917-1918
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(6
folders)
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BOX 13
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1918
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(7
folders)
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BOX 14
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1919
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(5
folders)
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BOX 15
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1919-1920
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(5
folders)
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BOX 16
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1920-1922
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(6
folders)
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BOX 17
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1922-1924
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(7
folders)
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BOX 18
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1925-1926
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(5
folders)
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BOX 19
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1927-1929, n.d.
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(7
folders)
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BOX 20
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Undated
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(4
folders)
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BOX 21
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Scrapbooks |
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BOX 21
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Vol. 1,
1876-1886
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BOX 21
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Vol. 2,
1896-1899
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BOX 22
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Vol. 3,
1901-1907
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BOX 22
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Vol. 4,
1905-1909
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