Correspondence, speeches, writings, personal and office files, legal memoranda, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Washington's service in the U.S. Dept. of Justice Office of the Attorney General and as chief of U.S. lend-lease operations in Iran and head of the American economic mission in Iraq during World War II. Subjects include the labor conditions of coal miners, price controls, congressional investigations of subversives, resident aliens and national security, the 1942 trial of Nazi saboteurs, and treatment of German war criminals. Includes drafts of Washington's book Corporate Executives' Compensation (1942) and writings by others chiefly on legal topics. Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Tom C. Clark, Livingston L. Short, Edward R. Stettinius, Robert S. Stevens, and Harry S. Truman.