Correspondence, diaries, minutes of meetings, writings, reports, informal records and notes of negotiations, transcripts of court proceedings and other legal records, press releases, clippings, print and near-print material, maps, and other papers relating chiefly to Anderson's career in international law and official activities in the U.S. Dept of State. Includes summaries of conversations with Bernard M. Baruch, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, Elihu Root, and Woodrow Wilson. Subjects include relations between the United States and Great Britain; public and official opinion in Great Britain during World War I; the peace treaty with Germany, 1921; the League of Nations; American economic interests in the Soviet Union in the 1920s; the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922; boundary problems between Central American countries; internal problems in Nicaragua during the 1920s; and inland and international fisheries negotiations. Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Otis T. Cartwright, Charles Evans Hughes, David Starr Jordan, Philander C. Knox, Robert Lansing, Frank L. Polk, Elihu Root, James Brown Scott, and Charles Beecher Warren.