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100 1 $aChoate, Joseph Hodges,$d1832-1917.
245 00 $aJoseph Hodges Choate papers,$f1745-1929$g(bulk 1852-1917).
300 $a11,000$fitems.
300 $a40$fcontainers, plus$a1$foversize.
300 $a16$flinear feet.
351 $aArranged in 9 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1745-1926; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1847-1919; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1899-1905; Series 4: Subject File, 1852-1918; Series 5: Legal File, 1853-1916; Series 6: Addresses, 1852-1917; Series 7: Miscellany, 1848-1917; Series 8: Scrapbooks and Albums, 1864-1929; and Series 9: Oversize, 1848-1917.
506 0 $aOpen to research.
520 8 $aCorrespondence, letterbooks, addresses, lectures, legal memoranda, scrapbooks, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Choate's service as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, law practice in New York, N.Y., student days at Harvard University, and charitable work in New York; and to Choate family affairs. Documents his service as delegate to the International Peace Conference at the Hague, Netherlands, in 1907; chairman of the New York committee for the 1917 reception of British and French commissions headed by Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour, René Viviani, and Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre; and service as president of the New York State Constitutional Convention, 1894. Also documents his association with the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.; and his work with Harvard University alumni. Subjects include the American Bar Association; Open Door policy of the U.S. in the Far East; Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901; treaties of 1900 and 1901 negotiated by U.S. secretary of state John Hay and the British ambassador to the U.S., Baron Julian Pauncefote, pertaining to an interoceanic canal in Central America; the Algeciras Conference of 1906 concerning relations between France and Morocco; the Alaska boundary dispute; and Union League of America.
520 8 $aFamily correspondents include his parents, George F. Choate and Margaret Manning Choate; his brother and sister, William Gardner Choate and Caroline Choate; his wife, Caroline Sterling Choate; and their daughter, Mabel Choate. Other correspondents include Charles Francis Adams; Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour; James M. Beck; James Bryce, Viscount Bryce; John R. Carter; Grover Cleveland; George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; Charles William Eliot; William Maxwell Evarts; John Watson Foster; F.V. Greene; John Hay; Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne; Edwin T. Morgan; Henry K. Oliver; William Phillips; Robert S. Rantoul; Whitelaw Reid; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root; William V. Rowe; Thomas Henry Sanderson, Baron Sanderson; William H. Taft; Sir George Otta Trevelyan; Henry White; Woodrow Wilson; and Lothrop Withington.
541 $cDeposit,$aMabel Choate,$d1930-1931.
541 $cConverted to gift,$d1946.
541 $cPurchase,$d1981.
545 0 $aLawyer, author, and diplomat.
546 $aCollection material in English.
555 8 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034.
600 10 $aAdams, Charles Francis,$d1835-1915$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBalfour, Arthur James Balfour,$cEarl of,$d1848-1930.
600 10 $aBalfour, Arthur James Balfour,$cEarl of,$d1848-1930$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBeck, James M.$q(James Montgomery),$d1861-1936$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBryce, James Bryce,$cViscount,$d1838-1922$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCarter, John R.$q(John Ridgely),$d1862-1944$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aChoate, Caroline,$d1834-1889$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aChoate, Caroline Sterling$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aChoate, George F.$q(George Francis),$d1822-1888$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aChoate, Mabel,$d1870-1958$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aChoate, Margaret Manning$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aChoate, William Gardner,$d1830-1920$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCleveland, Grover,$d1837-1908$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCurzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon,$cMarquess,$d1859-1925.
600 10 $aEliot, Charles William,$d1834-1926$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aEvarts, William Maxwell,$d1818-1901$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFoster, John Watson,$d1836-1917$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aGreene, F. V.$q(Francis Vinton),$d1850-1921$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHay, John,$d1838-1905.
600 10 $aHay, John,$d1838-1905$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aJoffre, Joseph Jacques Césaire,$d1852-1931.
600 10 $aLansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice,$cMarquess of,$d1845-1927$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMorgan, Edwin T.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aOliver, Henry K.$q(Henry Kemble),$d1800-1885$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPauncefote, Julian,$cBaron,$d1828-1902.
600 10 $aPhillips, William,$d1878-1968$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRantoul, Robert S.$q(Robert Samuel),$d1832-1922$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aReid, Whitelaw,$d1837-1912$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRoosevelt, Theodore,$d1858-1919$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRoot, Elihu,$d1845-1937$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRowe, William V.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSanderson, Thomas Henry Sanderson,$cBaron,$d1841-1923$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aTaft, William H.$q(William Howard),$d1857-1930$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aTrevelyan, George Otta,$cSir,$d1838-1928$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aViviani, René,$d1863-1925.
600 10 $aWhite, Henry,$d1850-1927$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWilson, Woodrow,$d1856-1924$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWithington, Lothrop,$d1856-1915$vCorrespondence.
600 30 $aChoate family.
610 10 $aNew York (State).$bConstitutional Convention$d(1894)
610 20 $aAmerican Bar Association.
610 20 $aAmerican Museum of Natural History.
610 20 $aHarvard University$xStudents.
610 20 $aMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
610 20 $aUnion League of America.
611 20 $aAlgeciras Conference$d(1906 :$cAlgeciras, Spain)
611 20 $aInternational Peace Conference.
650 0 $aCanals$zCentral America.
650 0 $aCanals, Interoceanic.
650 0 $aCharities$zNew York (State)
650 0 $aDiplomatic and consular service, American$zGreat Britain.
650 00 $aEastern question (Far East)
650 0 $aPractice of law$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918.
651 0 $aAlaska$xBoundaries$zCanada.
651 0 $aCanada$xBoundaries$zAlaska.
651 0 $aChina$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$yBoxer Rebellion, 1899-1901.
651 0 $aFrance$xForeign relations$zMorocco.
651 0 $aFrance$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
610 10 $aGreat Britain.$tTreaties, etc.$gUnited States,$d1900 Feb. 5.
610 10 $aGreat Britain.$tTreaties, etc.$gUnited States,$d1901 Nov. 18.
651 0 $aMorocco$xForeign relations$zFrance.
651 0 $aMorocco$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aNew York (State)$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zChina.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zFrance.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain.
656 7 $aAuthors.$2itoamc
656 7 $aDiplomats.$2itoamc
656 7 $aLawyers.$2itoamc
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
856 4 $3Finding aid$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034
856 4 $3Finding aid (PDF)$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011034.3