Lehman
Special Correspondence Digitization Project
This
project entailed the digitization,
item-level description
and publication to the
Web of the Herbert H.
Lehman Special Correspondence
Series. The project's
purpose was to provide
enhanced public access
to important research
material about Herbert
H. Lehman, the history
of New York, and the political,
economic and social history
of the United States between
1895 and 1963.
The
personal and reference
material in the "Special
Correspondence" series
includes autograph letters
from Herbert Lehman's
parents and many biographical
documents. One folder
is of special interest
as it outlines his college
career in a series
of letters from his older
brother Arthur Lehman
written between 1895 and
1899. Gift of Mrs. Richard
Bernhard, 1966.
The
correspondence with two
of Herbert Lehman's biographers,
Allan Nevins and William
V. Shannon, contains valuable
additions to their research
files which are in the
library of the collection
There is also excellent material concerning
United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
in this file, particularly a series of
letters from Herbert Lehman to Mrs. Lehman
written while he was on overseas missions,
and a brief history of UNRRA by Commander
Sir Robert Jackson, Deputy Director-Ge
neral, which gives a fine outline of
the work of the organization.
The special file now also includes correspondence
with the most important people who were
connected with Herbert Lehman's career. It
contains the correspondence with Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman which
was not mounted in albums (listing of
mounted material). It also contains the
complete correspondence with Presidents
Herbert C. Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson,
and with Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
There is a large correspondence with
Eleanor Roosevelt and a number of letters
of Lady Bird Johnson. It should be noted
that the Kennedy, Johnson, and Humphrey
files date from the time when all three
men were colleagues of Herbert Lehman
in the United States Senate.
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