Alexander Jeffrey McKelway papers

LC control no.	mm 82032235
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Personal name	McKelway, Alexander Jeffrey, 1866-1918. » More like this
Main title	Alexander Jeffrey McKelway papers, 1814-1942 (bulk 1900-1918).
Description	5,600 items. 9 containers. 3.4 linear feet.
Access advisory	Open to research.
Biography/History note	Clergyman, reformer, and Southern secretary of the National Child Labor Committee.
Summary	Correspondence, speeches, writings, articles, financial records, printed matter, scrapbook of obituary notices and condolence letters, and other papers relating primarily to child labor reform, particularly McKelway's role as secretary for the Southern States of the National Child Labor Committee. Other subjects include women's suffrage, prohibition, national political affairs, the Hoke Smith-Georgia Historical Association correspondence of 1917, and McKelway family matters. Family papers include boyhood letters of Benjamin Mosby McKelway and papers pertaining to the life of St. Clair McKelway. Correspondents include Carrie Chapman Catt, Josephus Daniels, Florence Kelley, Henry F. Keenan, Amos Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Roosevelt, Hoke Smith, Joseph P. Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson, the Georgia Historical Association, and Norman Hapgood, editor of Harper's Weekly.
Notes	Collection material in English. MSS32235
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011116> Index to the Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson letters within the general correspondence as well as indexes to portions of the speech, article, and book file are available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms011116.appx.pdf>
Acquisition source	Deposit, Ruth S. McKelway, 1931-1932. Converted to gift, 1947. Gift, Ruth S. McKelway, 1942.
Subjects	Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947--Correspondence. » More like this Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948--Correspondence. » More like this Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937--Correspondence. » More like this Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis), b. 1850--Correspondence. » More like this Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932--Correspondence. » More like this McKelway, Benjamin Mosby, 1895-1976--Correspondence. » More like this McKelway, St. Clair, 1845-1915. » More like this Pinchot, Amos, 1873-1944--Correspondence. » More like this Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946--Correspondence. » More like this Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Correspondence. » More like this Smith, Hoke, 1855-1931. » More like this Tumulty, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1879-1954--Correspondence. » More like this Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence. » More like this McKelway family. » More like this McKelway family--Correspondence. » More like this Georgia Historical Association. » More like this National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) » More like this Harper's weekly. » More like this Child labor--Southern States. » More like this Child labor--United States. » More like this Prohibition--United States. » More like this Women--Suffrage--United States. » More like this United States--Politics and government--1865-1933. » More like this United States--Social conditions--1865-1918. » More like this Clergy. Reformers.
Local shelving no.	0451L
Repository	Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home>
Links	Finding aid: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011116> Finding aid (PDF): <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011116.3>