American Bar Association Committee, 1936

This collection consists for the most part of that part of Robert R. McCormick’s business correspondence which does not relate directly to the Chicago Tribune. It includes a great deal of material on The Associated Press, The American Newspaper Publishers Association, and other organizations; The Ontario Paper Company; political matters, including McCormicks’s correspondence with U.S. presidents, senators, congressmen, etc.; his correspondence with other newspaper publishers throughout the country; various freedom of the press files; and some personal and family correspondence, as well as many other categories.

Most of the collection dates from 1927 to Colonel McCormick’s death in 1955, though a few files are from an earlier period. Two folders on James Keeley, for example, are dated 1913-1914.

Family letters are scattered throughout the collection, among them correspondence between Colonel McCormick and Joseph N. Patterson, Eleanor Medill Patterson (under New York News), and Ruth McCormick Miller (under Washington, D.C. newspapers - The Washington Times-Herald).