Contents

Collection Summary

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement of the Records

Selected Search Terms

Correspondence, 1950-1964

Essay Contests, 1940-1944

American Foreign Service Association Records

A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress

Prepared by Manuscript Division Staff

2009

Scope and Content Note

The records of the American Foreign Service Association span the years 1940-1964 and consist of editorial correspondence, articles, memoranda, editorials, essays, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printed matter pertaining to the publication of the American Foreign Service Journal issued in Washington, D.C., by the American Foreign Service Association, also known as the Foreign Service Association.

The Correspondence series features letters with foreign service officers of all ranks, State Department officials, publishing houses, advertisers, and contributors. Correspondents include Ellis Ormsbee Briggs, Gordon Alexander Craig, Francis Colt De Wolf, Robert H. Estabrook, George F. Kennan, Lewis Rubenstein, Robert Peet Skinner, Henry Serrano Villard, James Russell Wiggins, and Henry M. Wriston.

The Essay Contests series relates to writing contests sponsored by the association in 1940 and 1944. The contest in 1940 asked officers to describe unusual or amusing events and incidents they had witnessed or an experience of an extraordinary or dramatic character. Essays in 1944 were submitted under the title "Suggestions for Improving the Foreign Service and Its Administration to Meet Its War and Postwar Responsibilities."

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Selected Search Terms

People

• Briggs, Ellis, 1899-1976--Correspondence.
• Craig, Gordon Alexander, 1913- --Correspondence.
• De Wolf, Francis Colt, 1894- --Correspondence.
• Estabrook, Robert H.--Correspondence.
• Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005.
• Rubenstein, Lewis W. (Lewis William), 1908- --Correspondence.
• Skinner, Robert Peet, 1866-1960--Correspondence.
• Villard, Henry Serrano, 1900- --Correspondence.
• Wiggins, James Russell, 1903-2000--Correspondence.
• Wriston, Henry M. (Henry Merritt), 1889-1978--Correspondence.

Organizations

• American Foreign Service Association.

Subjects

• Diplomatic and consular service, American--Periodicals.
• Diplomatic and consular service, American.

Titles

• American foreign service journal.

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Arrangement of the Records

This collection is arranged in two series:

• Correspondence, 1950-1964
• Essay Contests, 1940-1944

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Container List

Correspondence, 1950-1964

Editorial correspondence including comments, essays, articles, editorials, memoranda, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and photographs.

Arranged in an alphabetical file for 1950-1962 and a chronological file for 1962-1964.

Alphabetical, 1950-1962

A-B (14 folders)

C-E (11 folders)

E-H (11 folders)

H-L (14 folders)

L-N (14 folders)

O-R (11 folders)

R-S (11 folders)

S (8 folders)(8 folders)

T-W (14 folders)

W-Z (6 folders)

Chronological, 1962-1964 (12 folders)

Essay Contests, 1940-1944

Essays submitted for publication by foreign service officers as part of writing contests in 1940 and 1944, together with correspondence, memoranda, editorial sheets, and other material.

Arranged by year of contest.

1940 (4 folders)

1944 (7 folders)(12 folders)