Scope and Contents

Personal bills and receipts, interspersed with minor diplomatic correspondence such as thank-you letters, letters of introduction, etc.

Abstract

Business, diplomatic and personal correspondence of Robert S. McCormick, grain dealer and later diplomat in Austria, Russia and France

Abstract

This collection covers for the most part Robert Sanderson McCormick's diplomatic careers in Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Paris. These papers will be of value to scholars interested in business history of the 1870s and 1880s, and in diplomatic conditions and negotiations of the period 1901-1907. Of particular interest are papers relating to the Russo-Japanese war, which afford glimpses of the political, diplomatic and social conditions of the times.

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Records of financial transactions involving R.S. McCormick (grain dealer, later diplomat in Austria, Russia and France), and family

Abstract This scrapbook contains calling cards, invitations, admission tickets, menus, social correspondence, programs of musical performances and similar materials on paper collected during Robert Sanderson McCormick's term as Secretary to the American Legation to London. These materials illustrate the interactions that McCormick and his wife, Katharine Medill McCormick, had with members of the British and foreign royalty and nobility, and other leading persons present in London at the time. The...