Box 3

This collection contains material related to the libel suit, Henry Ford versus The Tribune Company, dating to 1916-1919. The suit concerned the Chicago Tribune editorial of June 23, 1916, "Ford is an Anarchist." Materials include correspondence, exhibits, and a transcript of the trial (held from May to August, 1919, in the Circuit Court of Macomb County in Mt. Clemens, Michigan).

Mainly correspondence among the lawyers but also Elinor Patterson, Whitcomb Williams (Tribune correspondent in Detroit), Frank E. Gannett, Marshall Field III (who had been in McCormick's regiment), W.H. Field, and E.S. Beck.

This collection contains material related to the libel suit, Henry Ford versus The Tribune Company, dating to 1916-1919. The suit concerned the Chicago Tribune editorial of June 23, 1916, "Ford is an Anarchist." Materials include correspondence, exhibits, and a transcript of the trial (held from May to August, 1919, in the Circuit Court of Macomb County in Mt. Clemens, Michigan).

Articles of August 9 and 12, 1919

Telegram in March with quotation from Theodore Roosevelt about pacifists. Two-page letter of May 30, 1919; 17 pages on his background at the Tribune, on Tribune policy concerning preparedness and Mexico, on its coverage of and his participation in World War I, and on his investments and relationship to International Harvester; and four additional sheets on the same.

This collection contains material related to the libel suit, Henry Ford versus The Tribune Company, dating to 1916-1919. The suit concerned the Chicago Tribune editorial of June 23, 1916, "Ford is an Anarchist." Materials include correspondence, exhibits, and a transcript of the trial (held from May to August, 1919, in the Circuit Court of Macomb County in Mt. Clemens, Michigan).

This collection contains material related to the libel suit, Henry Ford versus The Tribune Company, dating to 1916-1919. The suit concerned the Chicago Tribune editorial of June 23, 1916, "Ford is an Anarchist." Materials include correspondence, exhibits, and a transcript of the trial (held from May to August, 1919, in the Circuit Court of Macomb County in Mt. Clemens, Michigan).

This collection contains material related to the libel suit, Henry Ford versus The Tribune Company, dating to 1916-1919. The suit concerned the Chicago Tribune editorial of June 23, 1916, "Ford is an Anarchist." Materials include correspondence, exhibits, and a transcript of the trial (held from May to August, 1919, in the Circuit Court of Macomb County in Mt. Clemens, Michigan).

This collection contains material related to the libel suit, Henry Ford versus The Tribune Company, dating to 1916-1919. The suit concerned the Chicago Tribune editorial of June 23, 1916, "Ford is an Anarchist." Materials include correspondence, exhibits, and a transcript of the trial (held from May to August, 1919, in the Circuit Court of Macomb County in Mt. Clemens, Michigan).

Weymouth Kirkland's letters to Howard Ellis, mainly about depositions from soldiers who had been Ford employees; also cables and memos

Four letters from Ellis to Kirkland

Three letters from Ellis

Office correspondence about getting Ellis released from French military service in order to help with the lawsuit, involving Kirkland, R.R. McCormick, S.E. Thomason, Arthur Sears Henning, M.F. Murphy in Paris, and Frank L. Polk of the State Dept.

Four letters from Ellis to Kirkland and Floyd Shepard about same, with references to Floyd Gibbons, John McCutcheon, and Tiffany Blake; also one of January 18 enclosing an unrelated letter from William D. Fitts about Ben Ames